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We report the discovery of a Milky Way satellite in the constellation of Antlia. The Antlia 2 dwarf galaxy is located behind the Galactic disc at a latitude of $b\sim 11^{\circ}$ and spans $1.26$ degrees, which corresponds to $\sim2.9$ kpc…

We use N-body simulations to model the tidal evolution of dark matter-dominated dwarf spheroidal galaxies embedded in cuspy Navarro-Frenk-White subhalos. Tides gradually peel off stars and dark matter from a subhalo, trimming it down…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-18 Raphaël Errani , Julio F. Navarro , Rodrigo Ibata , Jorge Peñarrubia

We present SIDM Concerto: $14$ cosmological zoom-in simulations in cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models based on the Symphony and Milky Way-est suites. SIDM Concerto includes one Large Magellanic Cloud-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ethan O. Nadler , Demao Kong , Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

Dark matter (DM) with self-interactions is a promising solution for the small-scale problems of the standard cosmological model. Here we perform the first cosmological simulation of frequent DM self-interactions, corresponding to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Moritz S. Fischer , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Klaus Dolag , Felix Kahlhoefer , Antonio Ragagnin , Andrew Robertson

We systemically evaluate the performance of the self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo model proposed in arXiv:2305.16176 with matched halos from high-resolution cosmological CDM and SIDM simulations. The model incorporates SIDM effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

Understanding dark matter halo dynamics can be pivotal in unravelling the nature of dark matter particles. Analytical treatment of the multistream flows inside the turnaround region of a collapsed cold dark matter (CDM) halo using various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Abineet Parichha , Stephane Colombi , Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya

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…

We present BAHAMAS-SIDM, the first large-volume, (400/h Mpc)^3, cosmological simulations including both self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) and baryonic physics. These simulations are important for two primary reasons: 1) they include the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Andrew Robertson , David Harvey , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke , Ian G. McCarthy , Mathilde Jauzac , Baojiu Li , Joop Schaye

We explore whether stellar tidal streams can provide information on the secular, cosmological evolution of the Milky Way's gravitational potential and on the presence of subhalos. We carry out long-term (~t_hubble) N-body simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorge Penarrubia , Andrew J. Benson , David Martinez-Delgado , Hans-Walter Rix

We investigate how self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with anisotropic scattering affects the evolution of isolated dark matter haloes as well as systems with two colliding haloes. For isolated haloes, we find that the evolution can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Andrew Robertson , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke

If the dark matter particle is a neutralino then the first structures to form are cuspy cold dark matter (CDM) haloes collapsing after redshifts z ~ 100 in the mass range 10^{-6} - 10^{-3} Msun. We carry out a detailed study of the survival…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias Goerdt , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Ben Moore , Jürg Diemand , Joachim Stadel

Terrestrial particle accelerators collide charged particles, then watch the trajectory of outgoing debris - but they cannot manipulate dark matter. Fortunately, dark matter is the main component of galaxy clusters, which are continuously…

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theory predicts that dark matter halos experience core-collapse, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. The N-body simulations used to study this…

The cold dark matter (CDM) model has two unsolved issues: simulations overpredict the satellite abundance around the Milky Way (MW) and it disagrees with observations of the central densities of dwarf galaxies which prefer constant density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-10 Victor H. Robles , V. Lora , T. Matos , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo

We used fully cosmological, high resolution N-body + SPH simulations to follow the formation of disk galaxies with rotational velocities between 135 and 270 km/sec in a Lambda CDM universe. The simulations include gas cooling, star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Governato , B. Willman , L. Mayer , A. Brooks , G. Stinson , O. Valenzuela , J. Wadsley , T. Quinn

In this third paper of the series, we investigate the effects of warm dark matter with a particle mass of $m_\mathrm{WDM}=3\,\mathrm{keV}$ on the smallest galaxies in our Universe. We present a sample of 21 hydrodynamical cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Andrea V. Macciò , Jonas Frings , Tobias Buck , Aaron A. Dutton , Marvin Blank , Aura Obreja , Keri L. Dixon

(Abridged) We conduct a series of high-resolution, dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the cumulative effect of substructure mergers onto thin disk galaxies in the context of the LCDM paradigm of structure formation. Our…

We study the evolution of Hernquist profile ``galaxies'' in the presence of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), where the properties of the dark matter can be parameterized by one number, sigma-hat = sigma M/a^2 for a halo of mass M and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 C. S. Kochanek , Martin White

This paper investigates spheroidal galaxies comprising a self-interacting dark matter halo (SIDM) plus de Vaucouleurs stellar distribution. These are coupled only via their shared gravitational field, which is computed consistently from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Curtis J. Saxton

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