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Tidal dissipation in stars is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of binary and multiple stars. As in the Earth oceans, it corresponds to the resonant excitation of their eigenmodes of oscillation and their damping.…

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The density profiles of dark matter halos are typically modeled using empirical formulae fitted to the density profiles of relaxed halo populations. We present a neural network model that is trained to learn the mapping from the raw density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Brian Nord , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Davide Piras

We present new analytical distribution functions for anisotropic spherical galaxies. They have the density profiles of the gamma-models, which allow a wide range of central density slopes, and are widely used to fit elliptical galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pieter Buyle , Chris Hunter , Herwig Dejonghe

We present constraints on the flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model through a joint analysis of galaxy abundance, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing observables with the Kilo-Degree Survey. Our theoretical model combines a flexible…

We investigate impacts of long-wavelength gravitational waves (GWs) on nonlinear structure formation by utilizing the tidal separate universe simulations. Based on the equivalence of a long-wavelength GW to a uniform tidal field in a local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Yin Li , Teppei Okumura

Observations show that the underlying rotation curves at intermediate radii in spiral and low-surface brightness galaxies are nearly universal. Further, in these same galaxies, the product of the central density and the core radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. D. A. Hartwick

A detailed understanding of cosmic-ray transport in galactic halos is essential for explaining various observations, such as the radio continuum measurements of synchrotron radiation from energetic electrons. Of central importance is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , M. Stein , R. -J. Dettmar , D. J. Bomans , S. Oughton

Spherical models of collisionless but quasi-relaxed stellar systems have long been studied as a natural framework for the description of globular clusters. Here we consider the construction of self-consistent models under the same physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Bertin , A. L. Varri

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

Observational evidence for the radial alignment of satellites with their dark matter host has been accumulating steadily in the past few years. The effect is seen over a wide range of scales, from massive clusters of galaxies down to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-23 Maria J. Pereira , Greg L. Bryan , Stuart P. D. Gill

Stellar and AGN-driven feedback processes affect the distribution of gas on a wide range of scales, from within galaxies well into the intergalactic medium. Yet, it remains unclear how feedback, through its connection to key galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Daniele Sorini , Sownak Bose , Mathilda Denison , Romeel Davé

Observational studies of galaxy isophotal shapes have shown that galaxy orientations are anisotropic: a galaxy's long axis tends to be oriented toward the center of its host. This radial alignment is seen across a wide range of scales, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-23 Maria J. Pereira , Greg L. Bryan

Strong gravitational lenses enable direct inference of halo abundance and internal structure, which in turn enable constraints on the nature of dark matter and the primordial matter power spectrum. However, the density profiles of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu , Andrew Benson , Charles Gannon

We present a technique for constructing equilibrium triaxial N-body haloes with nearly arbitrary density profiles, axial ratios and spin parameters. The method is based on the way in which structures form in hierarchical cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ben Moore , Stelios Kazantzidis , Juerg Diemand , Joachim Stadel

We simulate tidal streams in the presence and absence of substructures inside the zero redshift snapshot of the Via Lactea II (VL-2) simulation. A halo finder is used to remove and isolate the subhalos found inside the high resolution dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Wayne Ngan , Brandon Bozek , Raymond G. Carlberg , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Alexander S. Szalay , Piero Madau

For the spherical symmetric case, all quantities describing the relaxed dark matter halo can be expressed as functions of the gravitational potential $\Phi$. Decomposing the radial velocity dispersion $\sigma_r$ with respect to $\Phi$ at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. P. Muecket , M. Hoeft

We present six simulations of galactic stellar haloes formed by the tidal disruption of accreted dwarf galaxies in a fully cosmological setting. Our model is based on the Aquarius project, a suite of high resolution N-body simulations of…

Satellite galaxies endure powerful environmental tidal forces that drive mass stripping of their outer regions. Consequently, satellites located in central regions of galaxy clusters or groups, where the tidal field is strongest, are…

Using the SIMBA, EAGLE, and IllustrisTNG-100 galaxy formation simulations, we examine the anisotropy of the satellite distribution and its dependencies on central galaxies, host halos, and cosmic filaments. We find that in all simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Zhuoming Zhang , Weiguang Cui , Yun Chen , Romeel Davé , Katarina Kraljic

We demonstrate the existence of distribution functions that can be used to represent spherical massless cored stellar systems embedded in cuspy dark matter halos with constant mildly tangential velocity anisotropy. In particular, we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Maarten A. Breddels , Amina Helmi