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We review the most recent evidence for the amazing properties of the density distribution of dark matter around spiral galaxies. Their rotation curves, coadded according to the galaxy luminosity, conform to an universal profile which can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Salucci , A. Borriello

The study of the rotation curves of spiral galaxies reveals a nearly constant cored density distribution of Cold Dark Matter. N-body simulations however lead to a cuspy distribution on the galactic scale, with a central peak. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-18 M. Dwornik , Z. Keresztes , L. Á. Gergely

Stellar and gas kinematics of galaxies are a sensitive probe of the dark matter distribution in the halo. The popular fuzzy dark matter models predict the peculiar shape of density distribution in galaxies: specific dense core with sharp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mariia Khelashvili , Anton Rudakovskyi , Sabine Hossenfelder

We use the concept of the spiral rotation curves universality to investigate the luminous and dark matter properties of the dwarf disc galaxies in the local volume (size $\sim11$ Mpc). Our sample includes 36 objects with rotation curves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-09 Ekaterina V. Karukes , Paolo Salucci

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

Numerical simulations within a cold dark matter (DM) cosmology form halos whose density profiles have a steep inner slope (`cusp'), yet observations of galaxies often point towards a flat central `core'. We develop a convolutional mixture…

In this paper we review the main and the most recent evidence for the presence of a core radius in the distribution of the dark matter around spiral galaxies. Their rotation curves, coadded according to the galaxy luminosity, conform to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Salucci , Annamaria Borriello

We present high-accuracy rotation curves, which show a steep nuclear rise and high-velocity central rotation, followed by a broad maximum in the disk and flat part. We use the rotation curves to directly calculate the radial distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiaki Sofue

We investigate the distribution of dark matter (DM) in gas-rich, low-mass galaxies, confronting them with numerical cosmological simulations with cold dark matter (LCDM). We show that the derived rotation curves comply best with cored DM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 U. Klein , G. Gentile , P. Salucci , G. J , G. Józsa

We re-examine the disk-halo decompositions of the rotation curves of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies with V_max > 80 km/s, taking full account of the effects of beam smearing. We show that the rotation curves of these LSB galaxies…

Using high-accuracy rotation curves of spiral galaxies, we derive distributions of the surface mass density. Comparing with the luminosity profiles, we show that the dark mass in disk and bulge distributions follows those of luminous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshiaki Sofue

For nearly 40 years, dark matter has been widely assumed to be cold and collisionless. Cold dark matter models make fundamental predictions for the behavior of dark matter on small (<10 kpc) scales. These predictions include cuspy density…

The existence of two kinematically and chemically distinct stellar subpopulations in the Sculptor and Fornax dwarf galaxies offers the opportunity to constrain the density profile of their matter haloes by measuring the mass contained…

Dwarf galaxies are observed to have linearly rising rotation curves, which indicate constant density cores in their centers. These do not arise naturally from dark matter only simulations, giving rise to the ``core-cusp'' problem.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Liliya L. R. Williams , Jens Hjorth , Evan D. Skillman

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

In this paper we present strong evidence for a core in the density distribution of the dark halo around a (dwarf) galaxy. DDO 47 has a rotation curve that increases linearly from the first data point, at 300 pc, up to to the last one, at 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Salucci , F. Walter , A. Borriello

The cusp-core problem is one of the main challenges of the cold dark matter paradigm on small scales: the density of a dark matter halo is predicted to rise rapidly toward the center as rho ~ r^alpha with alpha between -1 and -1.5, while…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Yong Shi , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Junzhi Wang , Jianhang Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Xiaoling Yu , Songlin Li

Dwarf galaxies have a wide variety of structures, such as dark matter (DM) distribution, stellar-to-halo mass ratio, and stellar density. Recent high-resolution simulations have shown a variety of stellar-to-halo mass ratios for dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Katsuhiro Kaneko , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai , Michiko S. Fujii

We discuss various aspects of the inner structure formation in virialized dark matter (DM) halos that form as primordial density inhomogeneities evolve in the cosmological standard model. The main focus is on the study of central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-04 A. G. Doroshkevich , V. N. Lukash , E. V. Mikheeva

While ultra-light bosonic dark matter (ULDM) in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) state could naturally account for the central core in some galaxies and resolve the core-cusp problem, the dark matter density distribution in the outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Tian-yao Fang , Ming-Chung Chu