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We present more results from a fully cosmological LCDM simulation of a group of isolated dwarf galaxies that has been shown to reproduce the observed stellar mass and cold gas content, resolved star formation histories, and metallicities of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Piero Madau , Sijing Shen , Fabio Governato

The observed rotation curves of dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies indicate low density cores, contrary to the predictions of CDM models. A possible solution of this problem involves stellar feedback. A strong baryonic wind driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg Y. Gnedin , HongSheng Zhao

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

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

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

An analytical solution for the discrepancy between observed core-like profiles and predicted cusp profiles in dark matter halos is studied. We calculate the distribution function for Navarro-Frenk-White halos and extract energy from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-27 Rafael S. de Souza , Emille E. O. Ishida

The standard cold dark matter (CDM) model has recently been challenged by the claim that dwarf galaxies have dark matter halos with constant density cores. Consequently, numerous alternative dark matter candidates have recently been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank C. van den Bosch , Rob A. Swaters

We compare proposed solutions to the core vs cusp issue of spiral galaxies, which has also been framed as a diversity problem, and demonstrate that the cuspiness of dark matter halos is correlated with the stellar surface brightness. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Manoj Kaplinghat , Tao Ren , Hai-Bo Yu

Recent observations have been discovering new ultra-faint dwarf galaxies as small as $\sim20~{\rm pc}$ in half-light radius and $\sim3~{\rm km~s^{-1}}$ in line-of-sight velocity dispersion. In these galaxies, dynamical friction on a star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Shigeki Inoue

Standard cosmology has many successes on large scales, but faces some fundamental difficulties on small, galactic scales. One such difficulty is the cusp/core problem. High resolution observations of the rotation curves for dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Da-Ming Chen , Stacy McGaugh

The `core-cusp' problem is considered a key challenge to the LCDM paradigm. Halos in dark matter only simulations exhibit `cuspy' profiles, where density continuously increases towards the centre. However, the dark matter profiles of many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-09 R. A. Jackson , S. Kaviraj , S. K. Yi , S. Peirani , Y. Dubois , G. Martin , J. E. G. Devriendt , A. Slyz , C. Pichon , M. Volonteri , T. Kimm , K. Kraljic

The tension between the diverging density profiles in Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) simulations and the constant-density inner regions of observed galaxies is a long-standing challenge known as the `core-cusp' problem. We…

Recently there has been much interest in light dark matter, especially ultra-light axions, as they may provide a solution to the core-cusp problem at the center of galaxies. Since very light bosons can have a de Broglie wavelength that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 Heling Deng , Mark P. Hertzberg , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Ali Masoumi

We propose an analytic model, CuspCore II, for the response of dark matter (DM) haloes to central gas ejection, as a mechanism for generating DM-deficient cores in dwarfs and high-z massive galaxies. We test this model and three other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-10 Zhaozhou Li , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Jonathan Freundlich , Thibaut François

The observed rotation curves of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies play an essential role in studying dark matter, and indicate that there exists a central constant density dark matter core. However, the cosmological N-body simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-02 Xiaobo Gong , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We examine the formation of dark matter (DM) cores in dwarf galaxies simulated with the EAGLE model of galaxy formation. As in earlier work, we find that the star formation (SF) gas density threshold ($\rho_{\rm th}$) plays a critical role.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-26 Alejandro Benitez-Llambay , Carlos S. Frenk , Aaron D. Ludlow , Julio F. Navarro

The dark matter dominated Fornax dwarf spheroidal has five globular clusters orbiting at ~1 kpc from its centre. In a cuspy CDM halo the globulars would sink to the centre from their current positions within a few Gyrs, presenting a puzzle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Goerdt , Ben Moore , J. I. Read , Joachim Stadel , Marcel Zemp

According to the current concordance cosmological model, the dark matter (DM) particles are collision-less and produce self-gravitating structures with a central cusp which, generally, is not observed. The observed density tends to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-06 Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Angel R. Plastino , Ignacio Trujillo

We analyze the observed properties of dwarf galaxies, which are dark matter dominated astrophysical objects, by assuming that dark matter is in the form of a strongly - coupled, dilute Bose - Einstein condensate. The basic astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 T. Harko

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