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We explore the dynamical restrictions on the structure of dark matter halos through a study of cosmological self-similar gravitational collapse solutions. A fluid approach to the collisionless dynamics of dark matter is developed and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study evolution of single subhaloes with their masses of $\sim10^9 M_\odot$ in a Milky-Way-sized host halo for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. We perform dark-matter-only N-body simulations of dynamical evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Okamoto , Shin'ichiro Ando

Surprisingly compact substructures in galaxies and galaxy clusters, but also field halos, have been observed by gravitational lensing. They could be difficult to explain with collisionless dark matter (DM). To explain those objects, recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Yashraj Patil , Moritz S. Fischer

Recent analysis on the stellar kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies has put a stringent upper limit on the self-scattering cross section of dark matter, i.e., $\sigma/m<{\cal O}(0.1)\,{\rm cm^2/g}$ at the scattering velocity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Ayuki Kamada , Hee Jung Kim

Self-interacting dark matter is known as one of the most appropriate candidates for dark matter. Due to its excellent success in removing many astrophysical problems, particularly in small scale structure, studying this model has taken on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-29 Mahdi Naseri , Javad T. Firouzjaee

We investigate the density profiles and evolution of weakly self-interacting cold dark matter haloes using a numerical code based on the collisional Boltzmann equation. This approach is alternative to N-body techniques in following the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-07 C. Firmani , E. D'Onghia , G. Chincarini

We present a suite of 16 high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy (gaseous and stellar disk plus a stellar bulge) within an initially cuspy dark matter (DM) halo, including self-interactions between the DM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Jan D. Burger , Jesús Zavala , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey

We present a model for analytically calculating gravitational lensing by self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. Leveraging the universal behavior of SIDM halos during gravothermal evolution, we calibrate the lensing potential using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Siyuan Hou , Daneng Yang , Nan Li , Guoliang Li

We show that the gravothermal collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos can deviate from local thermodynamic equilibrium. As a consequence, the self-similar evolution predicted by the commonly adopted conducting fluid model can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 James Gurian , Simon May

We investigate cosmological constraints on an energy density contribution of elastic dark matter self-interactions characterized by the mass of the exchange particle and coupling constant. Because of the expansion behaviour in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-17 Rainer Stiele , Tillmann Boeckel , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Cosmological models with cold dark matter composed of weakly interacting particles predict overly dense cores in the centers of galaxies and clusters and an overly large number of halos within the Local Group compared to actual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 David N. Spergel , Paul J. Steinhardt

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

We employ isolated N-body simulations to study the response of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos in the presence of the baryonic potentials. Dark matter self-interactions lead to kinematic thermalization in the inner halo, resulting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-26 Omid Sameie , Peter Creasey , Hai-Bo Yu , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesus Zavala

Astrophysical observations spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters indicate that dark matter (DM) halos are less dense in their central regions compared to expectations from collisionless DM N-body simulations. Using detailed fits to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

Based on a set of cosmological N-body simulations we analyze properties of the dark matter haloes (DM) in a galaxy mass range ($10^{11} - 10^{13} h^{-1}M_{\odot}$) in modified $\lcdm$ cosmology with additional dynamically screened scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Wojciech A. Hellwing

We present a novel analytic density profile for halos in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models, which accurately captures the isothermal-core configuration, i.e. where both the density and velocity dispersion profiles exhibit central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Vinh Tran , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Daniel Gilman , Stephanie O'Neil , Cian Roche , Oliver Zier , Jiarun Gao

We examine the impact of moderate repulsive self-interactions on fuzzy dark matter halos generated by merging smaller Gaussian density concentrations. We study the size of the core and the granules, the spatial dependence of the field's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-31 Milos Indjin , Nick Keepfer , I-Kang Liu , Nick P. Proukakis , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

The properties of low-mass dark matter (DM) halos appear to be remarkably diverse relative to cold, collisionless DM predictions, even in the presence of baryons. We show that self-interacting DM (SIDM) can simultaneously explain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-01 Ethan O. Nadler , Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

We present an improved semi-analytical model to predict density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos and apply it to constrain the self-scattering cross section using SPARC galaxy rotation curves. Building on the isothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Zixiang Jia , Fangzhou Jiang , Shubo Li , Ran Li , Jing Wang , Ling Zhu

We benchmark the semi-analytical isothermal Jeans model against a high-resolution isolated N-body simulation that follows a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo into deep core collapse. The model accurately reproduces the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shubo Li , Moritz S. Fischer , Zixiang Jia , Fangzhou Jiang , Ran Li , Hai-Bo Yu