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In two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with inter-species interactions, mass segregation arises naturally from collisional relaxation, enhancing central densities and gravothermal evolution. We demonstrate that models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Daneng Yang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Siyuan Hou , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

We review theories of dark matter (DM) beyond the collisionless paradigm, known as self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), and their observable implications for astrophysical structure in the Universe. Self-interactions are motivated, in part,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

We use the rotation curves of a sample of dark matter dominated dwarf and low-surface brightness (LSB) late-type galaxies to study their radial mass distributions. We find that the shape of the rotation curves is remarkably similar for all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , James S. Bullock , Joel R. Primack

Recent observations in galaxies and clusters indicate dark matter density profiles exhibit core-like structures which contradict to the numerical simulation results of collisionless cold dark matter. The idea of self-interacting cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Man Ho Chan

We use hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to test the differences between cold and self-interacting dark matter models (CDM and SIDM) in the mass range of massive galaxies ($10^{12}M_{\odot}h^{-1}<M<10^{13.5}M_{\odot}h^{-1}$). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Claudio Mastromarino , Giulia Despali , Lauro Moscardini , Andrew Robertson , Massimo Meneghetti , Matteo Maturi

We introduce the TangoSIDM project, a suite of cosmological simulations of structure formation in a $\Lambda$-Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) universe. TangoSIDM explores the impact of large dark matter (DM) scattering cross sections…

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) offers the potential to mitigate some of the discrepancies between simulated cold dark matter (CDM) and observed galactic properties. We introduce a physically motivated SIDM model to understand the…

We use cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to consistently compare the assembly of dwarf galaxies in both $\Lambda$ dominated, Cold (CDM) and Self--Interacting (SIDM) dark matter models. The SIDM model adopts a constant cross section of 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-28 A. Bastidas Fry , F. Governato , A. Pontzen , T. Quinn , M. Tremmel , L. Anderson , H. Menon , A. M. Brooks , J. Wadsley

We present results from N-body simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) subhalos, which could host ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies, inside a Milky-Way-like main halo. We find that high-concentration subhalos are driven to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Felix Kahlhoefer , Manoj Kaplinghat , Tracy R. Slatyer , Chih-Liang Wu

Dissipative dark matter, where dark matter particles interact with a massless (or very light) boson, is studied. Such dark matter can arise in simple hidden sector gauge models, including those featuring an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge symmetry,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Foot

Recently, Meneghetti et al. reported an excess of small-scale gravitational lenses in galaxy clusters. We study its implications for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), compared with standard cold dark matter (CDM). We design controlled…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is a well-motivated extension of cold dark matter that can modify halo structure on galactic and group scales while remaining consistent with large-scale structure. However, practical SIDM work often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Nalin Dhiman

We present a suite of FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of isolated field dwarf galaxies, all with masses of $M_\mathrm{halo} \approx 10^{10}\,$M$_\odot$ at $z=0$, across a range of dark matter models. For the first time, we compare…

Mass models of a sample of 171 low- and high-surface brightness galaxies are presented in the context of the cold dark matter (CDM) theory using the NFW dark matter halo density distribution to extract a new concentration-viral mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Hosein Haghi , Aziz Khodadadi , Amir Ghari , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Pavel Kroupa

We use the Cluster-EAGLE (C-EAGLE) hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the effects of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on galaxies as they fall into clusters. We find that SIDM galaxies follow similar orbits to their Cold Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Ellen L. Sirks , Kyle A. Oman , Andrew Robertson , Richard Massey , Carlos Frenk

We present a comparison of halo properties in cosmological simulations of collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) for a range of dark matter cross sections. We find, in agreement with various authors,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Romeel Davé , David N. Spergel , Paul J. Steinhardt , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We study the evolution of Hernquist profile ``galaxies'' in the presence of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), where the properties of the dark matter can be parameterized by one number, sigma-hat = sigma M/a^2 for a halo of mass M and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 C. S. Kochanek , Martin White

The core-cusp problem remains as a challenging discrepancy between observations and simulations in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model for the formation of galaxies. The problem is that $\Lambda$CDM simulations predict a steep power-law mass…

We combine the isothermal Jeans model and the model of adiabatic halo contraction into a simple semi-analytic procedure for computing the density profile of self-interacting dark-matter (SIDM) haloes with the gravitational influence from…

We study evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) subhalos in the Milky Way (MW) tidal field. The interaction between the subhalos and the MW's tides lead to more diverse dark matter distribution in the inner region, compared to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Omid Sameie , Hai-Bo Yu , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesus Zavala