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The distribution of dark matter in the inner regions of galaxies poses a key challenge for small-scale {\Lambda}CDM cosmology. While cold dark matter simulations predict cuspy inner density profiles, observations of low surface brightness…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-09 Sougata Sarkar , Prerana Biswas , Veselina Kalinova , Nirupam Roy , Narendra Nath Patra , Sushma Kurapati

A central question regarding Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) is whether they are a separate category to Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies, or just their natural continuation towards low stellar masses. In this letter, we show that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Chris B. Brook , Arianna Di Cintio , Andrea V. Maccio , Marvin Blank

While N-body simulations testify for a cuspy profile of the central region of the dark matter haloes, observations favor a shallow, cored density profile of the central region of, at least, some spiral galaxies and dwarf spheroidals. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-15 Anton N. Baushev

The presence of a dark matter core in the central kiloparsec of many dwarf galaxies has been a long standing problem in galaxy formation theories based on the standard cold dark matter paradigm. Recent cosmological simulations, based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Romain Teyssier , Andrew Pontzen , Yohan Dubois , Justin Read

A clear prediction of the Cold Dark Matter model is the existence of cuspy dark matter halo density profiles on all mass scales. This is not in agreement with the observed rotation curves of spiral galaxies, challenging on small scales the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrea V. Maccio' , Greg Stinson , Chris B. Brook , James Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman , Sijing Shen , Brad K. Gibson , Tom Quinn

Cosmological numerical simulations of galaxy formation have led to the cuspy density profile of a pure cold dark matter halo toward the center, which is in sharp contradiction with the observations of the rotation curves of cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 Nan Li , Da-Ming Chen

Rotation curves of galaxies probe their total mass distributions, including dark matter. Dwarf galaxies are excellent systems to investigate the dark matter density distribution, as they tend to have larger fractions of dark matter compared…

We derive inner dark matter halo density profiles for a sample of 165 low-mass galaxies using rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra assuming minimal disks and spherical symmetry. For $\rho(r) \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristine Spekkens , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

Simulations have established that each halo of collisionless dark matter is expected to contain a $\rho = A r^{-1.5}$ density cusp at its center. This prompt cusp is a relic of the halo's earliest moments and has a mass comparable to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 M. Sten Delos

We investigate the diversity of dark matter (DM) density profiles in a large sample of late-type galaxies from the SPARC database, with the goal of testing whether a cusp-to-core transition occurs across galaxy mass scales. We perform…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Kohei Hayashi , Yuka Kaneda , Masao Mori , Michi Shinozaki

We derive the mass density profiles of dark matter halos that are implied by high spatial resolution rotation curves of low surface brightness galaxies. We find that at small radii, the mass density distribution is dominated by a nearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. J. G. de Blok , Stacy S. McGaugh , Albert Bosma , Vera C. Rubin

We use numerical simulations in a Lambda CDM cosmology to model density profiles in a set of 16 dark matter haloes with resolutions of up to 7 million particles within the virial radius. These simulations allow us to follow robustly the…

One of the predictions of the standard CDM is that dark haloes have centrally divergent density profiles. An extensive body of rotation curve observations of dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies shows the dark haloes of those systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Firmani , E. D'Onghia , G. Chincarini , X. Hernandez , V. Avila-Reese

The disparity between the density profiles of galactic dark matter haloes predicted by dark matter only cosmological simulations and those inferred from rotation curve decomposition, the so-called cusp-core problem, suggests that baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter R Hague , Mark I Wilkinson

We model the shape and density profile of the dark matter halo of the low surface brightness, superthin galaxy UGC 7321, using the observed rotation curve and the HI scale height data as simultaneous constraints. We treat the galaxy as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Arunima Banerjee , Lynn D. Matthews , Chanda J. Jog

We investigate the structure of the dark matter halo formed in the cold dark matter scenario using $N$-body simulations. We simulated 12 halos with the mass of $6.6\times 10^{11}M_{\odot}$ to $8.0\times 10^{14}M_{\odot}$. In almost all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

Context. The cusp-core discrepancy is one of the major problems in astrophysics. It results from comparing the observed mass distribution of galaxies with the predictions of Cold Dark Matter simulations. The latter predict a cuspy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. van Eymeren , C. Trachternach , B. S. Koribalski , R. -J. Dettmar

Cusp-core problem is a controversial problem on galactic dark matter haloes. Cosmological N-body simulations has demonstrated that galactic dark matter haloes have a cuspy density profile at the centre. However, baryonic physics may affect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Shigeki Inoue , Takayuki R. Saitoh

Galaxies in the nearby Universe, particularly dwarf systems, exhibit inner mass profiles of dark matter haloes that systematically depart from canonical cold dark matter expectations, signalling an interplay between baryonic feedback and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Michi Shinozaki , Masao Mori , Yuka Kaneda , Kohei Hayashi

We consider the problem of determining the structure of the dark halo of nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) from the spherical Jeans equations. Whether the dark halos are cusped or cored at the centre is an important strategic problem…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. W. Evans , J. An , M. G. Walker
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