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We study the diversity of the density profiles of dark matter halos based on a large set of high-resolution cosmological simulations of 256^3 particles. The cosmological models include four scale-free models and three representative cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing

We use techniques from nonparametric function estimation theory to extract the density profiles, and their derivatives, from a set of N-body dark matter halos. We consider halos generated from LCDM simulations of gravitational clustering,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 David Merritt , Alister W. Graham , Ben Moore , Juerg Diemand , Balsa Terzic

We study the mass accretion histories (MAHs) and density profiles of dark matter halos using N-body simulations of self-similar gravitational clustering from scale-free power spectra, $P(k)\propto k^n$. We pay particular attention to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Aaron D. Ludlow , Raul E. Angulo

We report a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the internal physical properties of dark matter halos. A total of fifteen halos, each represented by $\sim 1$ million particles within the virial radius, have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We use the Millennium Simulation series to study the relation between the accretion history (MAH) and mass profile of cold dark matter halos. We find that the mean density within the scale radius, r_{-2} (where the halo density profile has…

We explore the possibility that the density profiles of elliptical galaxies and cold dark matter (CDM) halos found in cosmological simulations can be understood in terms of the same physical process, collisionless gravitational collapse. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

We present observations and analysis of rotation curves and dark matter halo density profiles in the central regions of four nearby dwarf galaxies. This observing program has been designed to overcome some of the limitations of other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto D. Bolatto , Joshua D. Simon , Adam Leroy , Leo Blitz

Recent observations indicate that dark matter haloes have flat central density profiles. Cosmological simulations with non-baryonic dark matter predict however self similar haloes with central density cusps. This contradiction has lead to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Burkert

According to the now strongly supported concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, galaxies may be grossly described as a luminous component embedded in a dark matter halo. The density profile of these mass dominating haloes may be determined by N -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , V. F. Cardone

Measuring the density profile and mass concentration of dark-matter haloes is a key test of the standard cold dark matter paradigm. Such objects are dark and thus challenging to characterise, but they can be studied via gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 S. Vegetti , S. D. M. White , J. P. McKean , D. M. Powell , C. Spingola , D. Massari , G. Despali , C. D. Fassnacht

The density profiles of dark matter haloes can potentially probe dynamics, fundamental physics, and cosmology, but some of the most promising signals reside near or beyond the virial radius. While these scales have recently become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Benedikt Diemer

Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies are dominated by dark matter, and their rotation curves thus reflect their dark matter distribution. Recent high-resolution rotation curves suggest that their dark matter mass-density distributions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bosma , S. S. McGaugh

We study the effects of mass and force resolution on the density profiles of galaxy-size Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halos in a flat, low-density cosmological model with vacuum energy. We show thatalthough increasing the mass and force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anatoly Klypin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , James Bullock , Joel Primack

We present a useful function for describing the profiles of dark-matter haloes with a varying asymptotic inner slope -\alpha, ranging from a cusp to a core, where the profiles of density, mass-velocity and potential are simple analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-06 Avishai Dekel , Guy Ishai , Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Maccio

Profiles of dark matter-dominated halos at the group and cluster scales play an important role in modern cosmology. Using results from two very large cosmological $N$-body simulations, which increase the available volume at their mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Hillary L. Child , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Nicholas Frontiere , Hal Finkel , Adrian Pope , Vitali Morozov

The Einasto profile has been successful in describing the density profiles of dark matter haloes in $\Lambda$CDM N-body simulations. It has also been able to describe multiple components in the surface brightness profiles of galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Barun K. Dhar

Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by Garc\'ia et al. [R. Garc\'ia et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Tristen Shields , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo , Aakanksha Adya , Calvin Osinga , Ze'ev Vladimir

A large body of work based on collisionless cosmological N-body simulations going back over two decades has advanced the idea that collapsed dark matter haloes have simple and approximately universal forms for their mass density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Shaun T. Brown , Ian G. McCarthy , Benedikt Diemer , Andreea S. Font , Sam G. Stafford , Simon Pfeifer

We use the Illustris Simulations to gain insight into the build-up of the outer, low-surface brightness regions which surround galaxies. We characterize the stellar haloes by means of the logarithmic slope of the spherically-averaged…

N-body simulations predict that dark matter haloes are described by specific density profiles on both galactic- and cluster-sized scales. Weak gravitational lensing through the measurements of their first and second order properties, shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Retana-Montenegro , F. Frutos-Alfaro , M. Baes