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N-body simulations have revealed a wealth of information about dark matter halos however their results are largely empirical. Using analytic means, we attempt to shed light on simulation results by generalizing the self-similar secondary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 Phillip Zukin , Edmund Bertschinger

Context. The shapes of dark matter halos can be used to constrain the fundamental properties of dark matter. In standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmologies, halos are typically triaxial, with a preference for prolate configurations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 C. Giocoli , G. Despali , L. Moscardini , M. Meneghetti , R. K. Sheth , A. Pillepich , M. Vogelsberger

We investigate the formation and evolution of satellite galaxies using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of a Milky Way(MW)-like system, focussing on the best resolved examples, analogous to the classical MW satellites.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Owen H. Parry , Vincent R. Eke , Carlos S. Frenk , Takashi Okamoto

We investigate the structure of cold dark matter halos using advanced models of spherical collapse and accretion in an expanding Universe. These base on solving time-dependent equations for the moments of the phase-space distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Lapi , A. Cavaliere

We show that the mass of a dark matter halo can be inferred from the dynamical status of its satellite galaxies. Using 9 dark-matter simulations of halos like the Milky Way (MW), we find that the present-day substructures in each halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Zhao-Zhou Li , Y. P. Jing , Yong-Zhong Qian , Zhen Yuan , Dong-Hai Zhao

In this paper, we analyse in detail the mass-accretion histories and structural properties of dark haloes in high-resolution N-body simulations. Modeling the density distribution in individual haloes with the NFW profile, we find, for all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Donghai Zhao , Houjun Mo , Yipeng Jing , Gerhard Boerner

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers

We perform a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way (MW)--like system, which includes a realistic Large Magellanic Cloud analog, using a large differential elastic dark matter self-interaction cross section that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

High resolution N-body simulations have all but converged on a common empirical form for the shape of the density profiles of halos, but the full understanding of the underlying physics of halo formation has eluded them so far. We…

We investigate the effect of an assembly history on the evolution of dark matter (DM) halos of 10^{12} Msun/h using Constrained Realizations of random Gaussian fields. Five different realizations of a DM halo with distinct merging histories…

The multicomponent dark matter model with self-scattering and inter-conversions of species into one another is an alternative dark matter paradigm that is capable of resolving the long-standing problems of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Keita Todoroki , Mikhail V. Medvedev

Extremely light bosonic wave dark matter ($\psi$DM) is an emerging dark matter candidate contesting the conventional cold dark matter paradigm and a model subject to intense scrutiny of late. This work for the first time reports testable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 James H. H. Chan , Hsi-Yu Schive , Shing-Kwong Wong , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst

We investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben Moore , Sebastiano Ghigna , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

In this paper we examine the effect of the formation and evolution of the disk galaxy on the distribution of dark halo matter. We have made simulations of isolated dark matter (DM) halo and two component (DM + baryons). N-body technique was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Khoperskov , B. M. Shustov , A. V. Khoperskov

In cold dark matter cosmological models, structures form and grow by merging of smaller units. Numerical simulations have shown that such merging is incomplete; the inner cores of halos survive and orbit as "subhalos" within their hosts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Diemand , M. Kuhlen , P. Madau , M. Zemp , B. Moore , D. Potter , J. Stadel

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model successfully explains large-scale structure formation, but challenges remain at smaller scales, leading to interest in Warm Dark Matter (WDM) as an alternative. The abundance of Milky Way subhalos depends on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Mizuki Ono , Takashi Okamoto , Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama

A nonrelativistic quantum theory of dark matter particles in a spherical halo is developed by using a new asymmetric equation, which is complementary to the Schr\"odinger equation. The theory predicts that each dark matter halo has its core…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Z. E. Musielak

We compare the dark matter halos' structural parameters derived for four Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies to those of subhalos found in cosmological $N$-body simulations. We confirm that estimates of the mass at a single fixed radius are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Maarten A. Breddels , Carlos Vera-Ciro , Amina Helmi

Dissipative dark matter, where dark matter particle properties closely resemble familiar baryonic matter, is considered. Mirror dark matter, which arises from an isomorphic hidden sector, is a specific and theoretically constrained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 R. Foot

The observed surface densities of dark matter halos are known to follow a simple scaling law, ranging from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters, with a weak dependence on their virial mass. Here we point out that this can not only be used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Torsten Bringmann , Anastasia Sokolenko