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Given recent developments in our understanding of the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC) impact on the Milky Way's (MW) dark matter subhalo population, we compare the signatures of dark matter and baryonic physics on subhalos in MW systems with…

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The abundance, distribution and inner structure of satellites of galaxy clusters can be sensitive probes of the properties of dark matter. We run 30 cosmological zoom-in simulations with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-27 Joy Bhattacharyya , Susmita Adhikari , Arka Banerjee , Surhud More , Amit Kumar , Ethan O. Nadler , Suchetana Chatterjee

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

We study the structure of Milky Way (MW)- and cluster-sized halos in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter (CDM) cosmology with self-interacting (SI) dark particles. The cross section per unit of particle mass has the form sigma = sig_0(1/v_100)^alpha,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Colin , V. Avila-Reese , O. Valenzuela , C. Firmani

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

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 investigate the claim that the largest subhaloes in high resolution dissipationless cold dark matter (CDM) simulations of the Milky Way are dynamically inconsistent with observations of its most luminous satellites. We find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-20 E. Polisensky , M. Ricotti

We study the effects of inelastic dark matter self-interactions on the internal structure of a simulated Milky Way (MW)-size halo. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative to collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) which offers a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Kun Ting Eddie Chua , Karia Dibert , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala

We study the density structures of dark matter subhalos for both cold dark matter and self-interacting dark matter models using high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. We quantify subhalo's central density at 150 pc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 Toshihiro Ebisu , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Kohei Hayashi

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…

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) naturally gives rise to a cored isothermal density profile, which is favored in observations of many dwarf galaxies. The dark matter distribution in the presence of a central black hole in an isothermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Gerardo Alvarez , Hai-Bo Yu

We compare a suite of four simulated dwarf galaxies formed in 10$^{10} M_{\odot}$ haloes of collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) with galaxies simulated in the same haloes with an identical galaxy formation model but a non-zero…

Self-Interacting Dark Matter is an attractive alternative to the Cold Dark Matter paradigm only if it is able to substantially reduce the central densities of dwarf-size haloes while keeping the densities and shapes of cluster-size haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Matthew G. Walker

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 explore for the first time the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the dark matter (DM) and baryonic distribution in massive galaxies formed in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, including explicit baryonic physics…

Dark matter halos can enter a phase of gravothermal core--collapse in the presence of self-interactions. This phase that follows a core--expansion phase is thought to be subdominant due to the long time-scales involved. However, it has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Neev Shah , Susmita Adhikari

We explore the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos in the Milky Way (MW) and quantify the implications on properties of the dark matter particle and the phenomenology of low-mass galaxy formation. This is done through a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Prashin Jethwa , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov

Using cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations, we explore the properties of subhalos in Milky Way analogs that contain a sub-component of Atomic Dark Matter (ADM). ADM differs from Cold Dark Matter (CDM) due to the presence of self…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-27 Caleb Gemmell , Sandip Roy , Xuejian Shen , David Curtin , Mariangela Lisanti , Norman Murray , Philip F. Hopkins

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