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We use the semi-analytical approach to analyze gravitational lensing of quasars by dark halos in various cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies, in order to determine the sensitivity of the prediction probabilities of images separations to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing properties of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) halos, focusing on the magnification properties near radial critical curves (CCs). Using simulated lenses we compute magnification maps for a range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 J. M. Palencia , Paloma Morilla , Sung Kei Li , J. M. Diego , Amruth Alfred , Thomas J. Broadhurst , B. J. Kavanagh , Jeremy Lim

We propose a novel use of high-redshift galaxies, discovered in deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fields around strong lensing clusters. These fields probe small comoving volumes (about 1000 cubic Mpc) at high magnification ({\mu} > 10),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-15 Fabio Pacucci , Andrei Mesinger , Zoltan Haiman

Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter halos leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of mass $m\sim 10^{-22}\text{ eV}$, suppresses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Mona Dentler , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Alex Laguë , Keir K. Rogers , Daniel Grin

While the $\Lambda$CDM model succeeds on large scales, its validity on smaller scales remains uncertain. Recent works suggest that non-halo dark matter structures, such as filaments and walls, could significantly influence gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Baptiste Jego , Giulia Despali , Tamara Richardson , Jens Stücker

Till today, the nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains elusive despite all our efforts. This missing matter of the universe has not been observed by the already operating DM direct-detection experiments, but we can infer its gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-10 M. Vikiaris , V. Petousis , M. Veselsky , Ch. C. Moustakidis

According to the current concordance cosmological model, the dark matter (DM) particles are collision-less and produce self-gravitating structures with a central cusp which, generally, is not observed. The observed density tends to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-06 Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Angel R. Plastino , Ignacio Trujillo

Core formation and runaway core collapse in models with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) significantly alter the central density profiles of collapsed halos. Using a forward modeling inference framework with simulated datasets, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 Daniel Gilman , Jo Bovy , Tommaso Treu , Anna Nierenberg , Simon Birrer , Andrew Benson , Omid Sameie

Observations of strong gravitational lensing, stellar kinematics, and larger-scale tracers enable accurate measures of the distribution of dark matter (DM) and baryons in massive early-type galaxies (ETGs). While such techniques have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-25 Andrew B. Newman , Richard S. Ellis , Tommaso Treu

The central densities of dark matter (DM) halos are much lower than predicted in cold DM models of structure formation. Confirmation that they have cores with a finite central density would allow us to rule out many popular types of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sellwood

We present a framework for dark matter (DM) halo formation based on a kinetic theory of self-gravitating fermions together with a solid connection to thermodynamics. Based on maximum entropy arguments, this approach predicts a most likely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 A. Krut , C. R. Argüelles , P. -H. Chavanis

If modified gravity holds, but the weak lensing analysis is done in the standard way, one finds that dark matter halos have peculiar shapes, not following the standard Navarro-Frenk-White profiles, and are fully predictable from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-20 Michal Bílek

We investigate how central black holes (BHs) inhabited in galactic dark halos could affect strong gravitational lensing. The distribution of integral lensing probability with image separations are calculated for quasars of redshift 1.5 by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Da-Ming Chen

The newly established luminosity functions of high-z galaxies at $4 \lesssim z \lesssim 10$ can provide a stringent check on dark matter models that aim to explain the core properties of dwarf galaxies. The cores of dwarf spheroidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst , Kuan-Wei Huang

The Galactic Center region is expected to host the largest density of Dark Matter (DM) particles within the Milky Way. Then a relatively large gamma-ray signal would be expected from the possible DM particles annihilation (or decay). We are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Vincenzo Vitale , Aldo Morselli

There are two observations of galaxies that can offer some insight into the nature of the dark matter (DM), namely the rotation curves and the gravitational lensing. While the first one can be studied using the Newtonian limit, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-21 Dario Nunez , Alma X. Gonzalez Morales , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Tonatiuh Matos

A defining prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model is the existence of a very large population of low-mass haloes. This population is absent in models in which the dark matter particle is warm (WDM). These alternatives…

Dark matter (DM) with a mass below a few keV must have a phase space distribution that differs substantially from the Standard Model particle thermal phase space: otherwise, it will free stream out of cosmic structures as they form. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-09 Marcela Carena , Nina M. Coyle , Ying-Ying Li , Samuel D. McDermott , Yuhsin Tsai

In this work we study the possibility of modeling the dark matter content in galaxies as a core-halo model consisting of self-gravitating, self-interacting fermions. For the core of the halo, the dark matter fermions are degenerate, while…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Fabian Hernandez-Gutierrez , Juan Barranco

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu