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We have recently introduced in paper I an extension of the Ruffini-Arg\"uelles-Rueda (RAR) model for the distribution of DM in galaxies, by including for escape of particle effects. Being built upon self-gravitating fermions at finite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 C. R. Argüelles , A. Krut , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

We use N-body simulations to examine the effects of mass outflows on the density profiles of cold dark matter (CDM) halos surrounding dwarf galaxies. In particular, we investigate the consequences of supernova-driven winds that expel a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Julio F. Navarro , Vincent R. Eke , Carlos S. Frenk

We present new constraints on the density profiles of dark matter (DM) halos in seven nearby dwarf galaxies from measurements of their integrated stellar light and gas kinematics. The gas kinematics of low mass galaxies frequently suggest…

We have recently shown that the 3-parameter density-profile model from Prugniel & Simien provides a better fit to simulated, galaxy- and cluster-sized, dark matter halos than an NFW-like model with arbitrary inner profile slope gamma (Paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 Alister W. Graham , David Merritt , Ben Moore , Juerg Diemand , Balsa Terzic

We derive relations between the effective radii $R_{\rm{eff}}$ of galaxies and the virial radii $R_{200c}$ of their dark matter halos over the redshift range $0 < z < 3$. For galaxies, we use the measured sizes from deep images taken with…

Dark matter (DM) halos of Sc-Im and dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies satisfy scaling laws: halos in lower-luminosity galaxies have smaller core radii, higher central densities, and smaller velocity dispersions. These results are based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 John Kormendy , K. C. Freeman

The properties of substructure in galaxy clusters, exquisitely probed by gravitational lensing, offer a stringent test of dark matter (DM) models. Combining strong- and weak-lensing data for massive clusters, we map their total mass --…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Priyamvada Natarajan , Barry T. Chiang , Isaque Dutra

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 model the mass distributions of 40 high surface brightness spiral galaxies inside their optical radii, deriving parameters of mass models by matching the predicted velocities to observed velocity maps. We use constant mass-to-light disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric I. Barnes , J. A. Sellwood , Arthur Kosowsky

We examine the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from dark matter annihilation in the six most promising dwarf spheroidal (dSph) satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. We use recently-measured velocity dispersion profiles to provide a…

We study shapes and alignments of 45 dark matter (DM) haloes and their brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) using a sample of 39 massive clusters from Hubble Frontier Field (HFF), Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Taizo Okabe , Masamune Oguri , Sébastien Peirani , Yasushi Suto , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Takahiro Nishimichi

The rotation curve of the Milky Way is commonly used to estimate the local dark matter density $\rho_{{\rm DM},\odot}$. However, the estimates are subject to the choice of the distribution of baryons needed in this type of studies. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 P. F. de Salas , K. Malhan , K. Freese , K. Hattori , M. Valluri

We present a non-parametric reconstruction of the rotation curves (RC) for 88 spiral galaxies under the LOESS+SIMEX technique. In order to compare methods we also perform the parametric approach assuming core and cuspy dark matter (DM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Lizbeth M. Fernández-Hernández , Ariadna Montiel , Mario A. Rodríguez-Meza

We use self-similarity in N-body simulations of scale-free models to test for resolution dependence in the mass function and two-point correlation functions of dark matter halos. We use 1024$^3$ particle simulations performed with ABACUS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-22 M. Leroy , L. Garrison , D. Eisenstein , M. Joyce , S. Maleubre

Numerous observations have shown that the dark matter halo surface density, defined as the product of core radius and halo central density of cored dark matter haloes is nearly constant and independent of galaxy mass over a whole slew of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Sujit K. Dalui , Shantanu Desai

Observed kinematical data of 40 Local Group (LG) members are used to derive the dark matter halo mass of such galaxies. Haloes are selected from the theoretically expected LG mass function and two different density profiles are assumed, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris B. Brook , Arianna Di Cintio

Dark matter-dominated cluster-scale halos act as an important cosmological probe and provide a key testing ground for structure formation theory. Focusing on their mass profiles, we have carried out (gravity-only) simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Suman Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Alexey Vikhlinin

An accurate knowledge of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way is of crucial importance for galaxy formation studies and current searches for particle dark matter. In this paper we set new dynamical constraints on the Galactic dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-03 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco , Gianfranco Bertone

N-body simulations were conducted of pairs of galaxies with a 3:1 mass ratio on parabolic orbits, in order to quantify the effect of dynamical friction. The effects of varying the ratio of the dark matter halo size to the distance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Roger E. Bartlett , Jane C. Charlton

Dark-matter halos grown in cosmological simulations appear to have central NFW-like density cusps with mean values of $d\log\rho/d\log r \approx -1$, and some dispersion, which is generally parametrized by the varying index $\alpha$ in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Jens Hjorth , Liliya L. R. Williams , Radosław Wojtak , Michael McLaughlin