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Dark matter substructures are interesting since they can reveal the properties of dark matter. Collisionless N-body simulations of cold dark matter show more substructures compared with the population of dwarf galaxy satellites observed in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Hang Yu , Warren Morningstar , Jian Peng , Gilbert Holder

Disentangling the stellar population in the central galaxy from the intrahalo light can help us shed light on the formation history of the host halo, as the properties of the stellar components are expected to retain traces of its formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-02 I. Marini , A. Saro , S. Borgani , M. Boi

The simplest interpretation of the microlensing events observed towards the Large Magellanic Clouds is that approximately half of the mass of the Milky Way halo is in the form of MAssive Compact Halo Objects with $M \sim 0.5 M_{\odot}$. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M Green

In this work, we investigate the feasibility of using ringdown waveforms from supermassive black holes immersed in dark-matter halos to extract both the intrinsic black-hole parameters and those characterizing the surrounding matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Manjia Liang , Minghui Du , Qing Diao , Bo Liang , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu , Wei-Liang Qian , Massimo Tinto

Transformer-based semantic retrieval is highly effective, yet in many deployments the dominant cost lies in online query encoding rather than corpus indexing. We study the fixed-teacher query-adaptation problem and ask whether repeated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mohit Kumar , Somayeh Kargaran , Bernhard A. Moser , Manuela Geiß

We present a new algorithm for generating merger trees and halo catalogs which explicitly ensures consistency of halo properties (mass, position, and velocity) across timesteps. Our algorithm has demonstrated the ability to improve both the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Peter S. Behroozi , Risa H. Wechsler , Hao-Yi Wu , Michael T. Busha , Anatoly A. Klypin , Joel R. Primack

Navarro, Frenk, and White have suggested that the density profiles of simulated dark matter halos have a ``universal'' shape so that a given halo can be characterized by a single free parameter which fixes its mass. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard N. Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow

Strong gravitational lensing is a promising probe of the substructure of dark matter halos. Deep learning methods have the potential to accurately identify images containing substructure, and differentiate WIMP dark matter from other well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 Stephon Alexander , Sergei Gleyzer , Evan McDonough , Michael W. Toomey , Emanuele Usai

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 develop a new halo-independent strategy for analyzing emerging DM hints, utilizing the method of extended maximum likelihood. This approach does not require the binning of events, making it uniquely suited to the analysis of emerging DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Patrick J. Fox , Yonatan Kahn , Matthew McCullough

We present a 4 deg^2 weak gravitational lensing survey of subhalos in the very nearby Coma cluster using the Subaru/Suprime-Cam. The large apparent size of cluster subhalos allows us to measure the mass of 32 subhalos detected in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nobuhiro Okabe , Toshifumi Futamase , Masaru Kajisawa , Risa Kuroshima

We construct a new static, spherically symmetric black hole spacetime embedded in a dark matter halo whose density follows the cored Burkert profile. Starting from the halo-only geometry determined by the rotation curve relation, we solve…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Yi Yang , Gaetano Lambiase , Ali Ovgun , Dong Liu , Zheng-Wen Long

An ambitious goal in cosmology is to forward-model the observed distribution of galaxies in the nearby Universe today from the initial conditions of large-scale structures. For practical reasons, the spatial resolution at which this can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Supranta Sarma Boruah , Jens Jasche , Michael J. Hudson

We use the halo occupation model to calibrate galaxy group finders in magnitude-limited redshift surveys. Since, according to the current scenario of structure formation, galaxy groups are associated with cold dark matter halos, we make use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Y. P. Jing

I discuss the prospects for detecting the dark matter via the proper motion of sub-solar mass dark matter halos in the vicinity of the solar neighbourhood. Microhalos that survive tidal disruption could exhibit proper motion of order few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Savvas M. Koushiappas

It has been shown by Paczy\'nski that gravitational microlensing is potentially a useful method for detecting the dark constituents of the halo of our galaxy, if their mass lies in the approximate domain $10^{-6} < M/M_{\odot} < 10^{-1}$.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Philippe Jetzer

Using realistic cosmological simulations of Milky Way sized haloes, we study their dynamical state and the accuracy of inferring their mass profiles with steady-state models of dynamical tracers. We use a new method that describes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

We derive the mass model of the Milky Way (MW) using a cored dark matter (DM) halo profile and recent data. The method used consists in fitting a spherically symmetric model of the Galaxy with a Burkert DM halo profile to available data: MW…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Fabrizio Nesti , Paolo Salucci

We investigate a recently derived Schwarzschild-like black hole immersed in a Dehnen-type $(\alpha,\beta,\gamma)=(1,4,5/2)$ dark matter (DM) halo. We obtain constraints on the two model parameters, i.e., the halo core radius $r_s$ and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Tursunali Xamidov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

Theories of structure formation in a cold dark matter dominated Universe predict that massive clusters of galaxies assemble from the hierarchical merging of lower mass subhalos. Exploiting strong and weak gravitational lensing signals…