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Cosmological N-body simulations have been a major tool of theorists for decades, yet many of the numerical issues that these simulations face are still unexplored. This paper measures numerical biases in these large, dark matter-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Philip Mansfield , Camille Avestruz

We study the diversity of the density profiles of dark matter halos based on a large set of high-resolution cosmological simulations of 256^3 particles. The cosmological models include four scale-free models and three representative cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing

The Cold Dark Matter paradigm successfully explains many phenomena on scales larger than galaxies, but seems to predict galaxy halos which are more centrally concentrated and have a lumpier substructure than observed. Endowing cosmic dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

Spherical density profiles and specific angular momentum profiles of Dark Matter halos found in cosmological N-body simulations have been measured extensively. The distribution of the total angular momentum of dark matter halos is also used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Tom Abel , Rupert C. Croft , Lars Hernquist

Dark-matter halos are the scaffolding around which galaxies and clusters are built. They form when the gravitational instability of primordial density fluctuations causes regions which are denser than average to slow their cosmic expansion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro

We present a method to numerically estimate the densities of a discretely sampled data based on binary space partitioning tree. We start with a root node containing all the particles and then recursively divide each node into two nodes each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sanjib Sharma , Matthias Steinmetz

In the absence of the physical understanding of the phenomenon, different empirical laws have been used as approximation for distribution of dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. We suggest a new profile which is not empirical…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic

Recently there has been a lot of attention focussed on a virialized halo-based approach to understanding the properties of the matter and galaxy power spectrum. A key ingredient in this model is the number and distribution of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin White , Lars Hernquist , Volker Springel

There is strong evidence that cosmological N-body simulations dominated by Warm Dark Matter (WDM) contain spurious or unphysical haloes, most readily apparent as regularly spaced low-mass haloes strung along filaments. We show that spurious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Chris Power , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Danail Obreschkow , Alexander Hobbs , Geraint F. Lewis

Much recent discussion about dark matter has been centered on two seemingly independent problems: the abundance of substructure in dark matter halos, and the cuspiness of the halos' inner density profile. We explore possible connections…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chung-Pei Ma , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos in which they form. The advent of large galaxy surveys as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker

The gravitationally-driven evolution of cold dark matter dominates the formation of structure in the Universe over a wide range of length scales. While the longest scales can be treated by perturbation theory, a fully quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katrin Heitmann , Paul M. Ricker , Michael S. Warren , Salman Habib

It is a well-known fact that the gravitational effect of dark matter in galaxies is only noticeable when the orbital accelerations drop below $a_0 \simeq 2\times 10^{-8}$ cm s$^{-1}$ (Milgrom's Law). This peculiarity of the dynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-08 L. Acedo

We propose a solution of the cusp problem in framework of the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. To do this we describe the linear and nonlinear periods of halo formation by the entropy function of dark matter particles. This approach allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 E. Mikheeva , A. Doroshkevich , V. Lukash

Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by Garc\'ia et al. [R. Garc\'ia et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Tristen Shields , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo , Aakanksha Adya , Calvin Osinga , Ze'ev Vladimir

I propose a modification of the spherical infall model for the evolution of density fluctuations with initially Gaussian probability distribution and scale-free power spectra. I introduce a generalized form of the initial density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ewa L. Lokas

A better understanding of the formation of mass structures in the universe can be obtained by determining the amount and distribution of dark and luminous matter in spiral galaxies. To investigate such matters a sample of 12 galaxies, most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Roelof Bottema , Jose Luis G. Pestana

Using a set of high-resolution simulations we study the statistical correlation of dark matter halo properties with the large-scale environment. We consider halo populations split into four Cosmic Web (CW) elements: voids, walls, filaments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard T. Jones

We obtain more straightforwardly some features of dark matter distribution in the halos of galaxies by considering the spherically symmetric space-time, which satisfies the flat rotational curve condition, and the geometric equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-21 Ugur Camci

How much dark matter is there in the universe and where is it located? These are two of the most fundamental questions in cosmology. We use in this paper optical and x-ray mass determinations of galaxies, groups, and clusters of galaxies to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Neta A. Bahcall , Lori M. Lubin , Victoria Dorman