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The failure of standard cosmolocical models in accounting for the statistics of dwarf satellites and the rotation curve of gas-rich dwarf galaxies in detail has led us to examine whether earlier non-equilibrium models of dwarf spheroidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Klessen , HongSheng Zhao

It is now, generally, believed that the presence of some form of dark matter is essential to explain the flat rotation curves of galaxies, and anomalous large velocities of galaxies in the clusters and superclusters. This dark matter turns…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mofazzal Azam

Dark stars are compact massive objects, described by Einstein gravitational field equations with matter. The type we consider possesses no event horizon, instead, there is a deep gravitational well with a very strong redshift factor.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Igor Nikitin

Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies are dominated by dark matter, and their rotation curves thus reflect their dark matter distribution. Recent high-resolution rotation curves suggest that their dark matter mass-density distributions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bosma , S. S. McGaugh

The rotation velocity profiles of galaxies (rotation curves) remain unexpectedly flat at large distances, where visible matter alone should make the rotation velocity decrease with radius. Conventionally, this requires a large amount of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Kento Kamada

Numerical simulations within a cold dark matter (DM) cosmology form halos whose density profiles have a steep inner slope (`cusp'), yet observations of galaxies often point towards a flat central `core'. We develop a convolutional mixture…

We present an analysis of the central cusp slopes and core parameters of early-type galaxies using a large database of surface brightness profiles obtained from Hubble Space Telescope observations. We examine the relation between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Swara Ravindranath , Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko

The abundance of dark matter satellites and subhalos, the existence of density cusps at the centers of dark matter halos, and problems producing realistic disk galaxies in simulations are issues that have raised concerns about the viability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Joel R. Primack

We present mass models for the dark matter component of seven dwarf galaxies taken from "The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey" (THINGS) and compare these with those from numerical Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) simulations. The THINGS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Se-Heon Oh , W. J. G. de Blok , Elias Brinks , Fabian Walter , Robert C. Kennicutt

Dark matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have steep, cuspy inner density profiles, while observations of dwarf galaxies find a range of inner slopes that are often much shallower. There is debate whether this discrepancy…

The galaxy correlation function serves as a fundamental tool for studying cosmology, galaxy formation, and the nature of dark matter. It is well established that more massive, redder and more compact galaxies tend to have stronger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ziwen Zhang , Yangyao Chen , Yu Rong , Huiyuan Wang , Houjun Mo , Xiong Luo , Hao Li

The five globular clusters (GCs) of the Fornax dSph are puzzling for two reasons; the mass in GCs is high with respect to the galaxy's old stellar mass, and their survival and large distance (> 1 kpc) is at odds with naive expectations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Gigi Y. C. Leung , Ryan Leaman , Glenn van de Ven , Giuseppina Battaglia

We show that Fermi repulsion can lead to cored density profiles in dwarf galaxies for sub-keV fermionic dark matter. We treat the dark matter as a quasi-degenerate self-gravitating Fermi gas and calculate its density profile assuming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Lisa Randall , Jakub Scholtz , James Unwin

Dwarf galaxies have long been recognised as important testing grounds for models of dark matter. For instance, it is here where the cusp-core problem is most apparent. In this work we select two dwarf galaxy samples: LITTLE THINGS and dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Geoff Beck

Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models struggle to match the observations at galactic scales. The tension can be reduced either by dramatic baryonic feedback effects or by modifying the particle physics of CDM. Here, we consider an ultra-light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Erminia Calabrese , David N. Spergel

Sand, Treu, & Ellis (2002) have measured the central density profile of cluster MS2137-23 with gravitational lensing and velocity dispersion and removed the stellar contribution with a reasonable M/L. The resulting dark matter distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amr El-Zant , Yehuda Hoffman , Joel Primack , Francoise Combes , Isaac Shlosman

Dwarf galaxies have a wide variety of structures, such as dark matter (DM) distribution, stellar-to-halo mass ratio, and stellar density. Recent high-resolution simulations have shown a variety of stellar-to-halo mass ratios for dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Katsuhiro Kaneko , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai , Michiko S. Fujii

The dark energy plus cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model has been a demonstrably successful framework for predicting and explaining the large-scale structure of Universe and its evolution with time. Yet on length scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

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 discuss various aspects of the inner structure formation in virialized dark matter (DM) halos that form as primordial density inhomogeneities evolve in the cosmological standard model. The main focus is on the study of central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-04 A. G. Doroshkevich , V. N. Lukash , E. V. Mikheeva