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Small-scale challenges to $\Lambda$CDM cosmology require a deeper understanding of dark matter physics.This paper aims to develop maximum entropy distributions for dark matter particle velocity (denoted by $X$), speed (denoted by $Z$), and…

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The mass and composition of dark matter (DM) particles and the shape and damping scales of the power spectrum of density perturbations can be estimated from recent observations of the DM dominated relaxed objects -- dwarf galaxies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-22 M. Demianski , A. Doroshkevich

Due to our vantage point in the disk of the Galaxy, its 3D structure is not directly accessible. However, knowing the spatial distribution, e.g. of atomic and molecular hydrogen gas is of great importance for interpreting and modelling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Laurin Söding , Philipp Mertsch , Vo Hong Minh Phan

We review theoretical approaches to the study of galaxy formation, with emphasis on the role of hydrodynamic simulations in modeling the high redshift galaxy population. We present new predictions for the abundance of star-forming galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Weinberg , Romeel Dave' , Jeffrey P. Gardner , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz

The gravitational lensing signal produced by a galaxy or a galaxy cluster is determined by its total matter distribution, providing us with a way to directly constrain their dark matter content. State-of-the-art numerical simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Giulia Despali , Felix M. Heinze , Claudio Mastromarino

We study the impact of warm dark matter mass on the internal properties of individual galaxies using a large suite of 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamic simulations from the DREAMS project. We take individual galaxies'…

Context. Current constraints on distributed matter in the innermost Galactic Centre (such as a cluster of faint stars and stellar remnants, Dark Matter or a combination thereof) based on the orbital dynamics of the visible stars closest to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Thibault Lechien , Gernot Heißel , Jai Grover , Dario Izzo

We examine the correlation between physical quantities to explore the existence of dark matter (DM) in the Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). In order to clarify whether DM exists in the dSphs we compare two extreme models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Hirashita , H. Kamaya , T. T. Takeuchi

We present an analysis of the ellipticities of galaxy groups, derived from the spatial distribution of member galaxies, revealing a notable incongruity between the observed local galaxy groups and their counterparts in the Lambda cold dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-01 Yu Rong

We demonstrate that all properties of the hot X-ray emitting gas in galaxy clusters are completely determined by the underlying dark matter (DM) structure. Apart from the standard conditions of spherical symmetry and hydrostatic equilibrium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-06 Teddy F. Frederiksen , Steen H. Hansen , Ole Host , Marco Roncadelli

Despite the fact that the mean matter density of the universe has been measured to an accuracy of a few percent within the standard $\Lambda$CDM paradigm, its median density is not known even to order of magnitude. Typical points lie in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Jens Stücker , Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

The center of the Milky Way is a prime site to search for signals of dark matter (DM) annihilation due to its proximity and expected high concentration of DM. The amplification of the dispersion velocity of DM particles in the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Alessandro Montanari , Oscar Macias , Emmanuel Moulin

We have analyzed the rate of capture of dark matter (DM) particles by the galaxy in the case of the existence of two different types of DM or a bimodal velocity distribution function for DM. It is shown that, in addition to the scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Ruth Durrer , Serge Parnovsky , Aleksei Parnowski

Galactic accretion interacts in complex ways with gaseous halos, including galactic winds. As a result, observational diagnostics typically probe a range of intertwined physical phenomena. Because of this complexity, cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

The system of stability equations for galactic halos is under-determined in most of the models of dark matter (DM). Conventionally, the issue is resolved by taking the temperature as a constant, and the chemical potential and the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-13 Ahmad Borzou

The Galactic dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) provide valuable insight into dark matter (DM) properties and its role in galaxy formation. Their close proximity enables the measurement of line-of-sight velocities for resolved stars, which…

Predicting the local flux of dark matter particles is vital for dark matter direct detection experiments. To date, such predictions have been based on simulations that model the dark matter alone. Here we include the influence of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , V. Debattista , O. Agertz , L. Mayer , A. M. Brooks , F. Governato , G. Lake

Dark matter N-body simulations provide a powerful tool to model the clustering of galaxies and help interpret the results of galaxy redshift surveys. However, the galaxy properties predicted from N-body simulations are not necessarily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-30 Hao-Yi Wu , Dragan Huterer

Dark-matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have cusp-like inner density profiles, while observations of low-mass galaxies have found a range of inner slopes that are typically much shallower. It is still not well…

We review how dark matter is distributed in our local neighbourhood from an observational and theoretical perspective. We will start by describing first the dark matter halo of our own galaxy and in the Local Group. Then we proceed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman
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