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We show that the gravothermal collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos can deviate from local thermodynamic equilibrium. As a consequence, the self-similar evolution predicted by the commonly adopted conducting fluid model can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 James Gurian , Simon May

We investigate the effects of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the tidal stripping and evaporation of satellite galaxies in a Milky Way-like host. We use a suite of five zoom-in, dark-matter-only simulations, two with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-14 Gregory A. Dooley , Annika H. G. Peter , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala , Anna Frebel

The LambdaCDM model of cosmology, though very successful at large scales, has some discrepancy with observations at the galactic and sub-galactic scales. These include the core-cusp problem, missing satellites problem etc. Spergel and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-21 Chayan Chatterjee

Models of Cold Dark Matter predict that the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters should be cuspy, centrally concentrated. Constant density cores would be strong evidence for beyond-CDM physics, such as Self-Interacting Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 David Harvey , Andrew Robertson , Richard Massey , Ian G. McCarthy

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

We probe the self-interactions of dark matter using observational data of relaxed galaxy groups and clusters. Our analysis uses the Jeans formalism and considers a wider range of systematic effects than in previous work, including adiabatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Laura Sagunski , Sophia Gad-Nasr , Brian Colquhoun , Andrew Robertson , Sean Tulin

We compare the statistics and morphology of giant arcs in galaxy clusters using N-body and non-radiative SPH simulations within the standard cold dark matter model and simulations where dark matter has a non-negligible probability of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 J. Vega-Ferrero , J. M. Dana , J. M. Diego , G. Yepes , W. Cui , M. Meneghetti

We benchmark the semi-analytical isothermal Jeans model against a high-resolution isolated N-body simulation that follows a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo into deep core collapse. The model accurately reproduces the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shubo Li , Moritz S. Fischer , Zixiang Jia , Fangzhou Jiang , Ran Li , Hai-Bo Yu

We study evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) subhalos in the Milky Way (MW) tidal field. The interaction between the subhalos and the MW's tides lead to more diverse dark matter distribution in the inner region, compared to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Omid Sameie , Hai-Bo Yu , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesus Zavala

A small fraction of millicharged dark matter (DM) is considered in the literature to give an interpretation about the enhanced 21-cm absorption at the cosmic dawn. Here we focus on the case that the main component of DM is self-interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Lian-Bao Jia

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) was introduced by Spergel & Steinhardt to address possible discrepancies between collisionless dark matter simulations and observations on scales of less than 1 Mpc. We examine the case in which dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard H. Cyburt , Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We consider the growth of density perturbations in the presence of self--interacting dark matter, SIDM, proposed by Carlson, Machacek and Hall (1992). We determine the range of values for the coupling constant $\lambda$ and the particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Andrew A. de Laix , Robert J. Scherrer , Robert K. Schaefer

We present the first $N$-body simulations that adapt the equations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics to capture the effect of dark matter self-interactions which are too frequent to be resolved explicitly. The relevant energy transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-22 Janis Kummer , Marcus Brüggen , Klaus Dolag , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

The observed surface densities of dark matter halos are known to follow a simple scaling law, ranging from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters, with a weak dependence on their virial mass. Here we point out that this can not only be used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Torsten Bringmann , Anastasia Sokolenko

We present the "DARKSKIES" suite of one hundred, zoom-in hydrodynamic simulations of massive ($M_{200}>5\times10^{14}{\rm M}_\odot)$ galaxy clusters with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). We super-sample the simulations such that $m_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 David Harvey , Yves Revaz , Matthieu Schaller , Aurel Schneider , Ethan Tregidga , Felix Vecchi

We study the impact of self-interactions on the structure and evolution of scalar field dark matter (SFDM) halos. Using three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson simulations of multiple soliton mergers, we explore both repulsive and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jessica N. López-Sánchez , Erick Munive-Villa , Tanja Rindler-Daller

We study self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenarios, where the $s$-wave self-scattering cross section almost saturates the Unitarity bound. Such self-scattering cross sections are singly parameterized by the dark matter mass, and are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Ayuki Kamada , Hee Jung Kim , Takumi Kuwahara

This paper investigates spheroidal galaxies comprising a self-interacting dark matter halo (SIDM) plus de Vaucouleurs stellar distribution. These are coupled only via their shared gravitational field, which is computed consistently from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Curtis J. Saxton

The evolution of halos consisting of weakly self-interacting dark matter particles is summarized. The halos initially contain a central density cusp as predicted by cosmological models. Weak self-interaction leads to the formation of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert

We study the density structures of dark matter subhalos for both cold dark matter and self-interacting dark matter models using high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. We quantify subhalo's central density at 150 pc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 Toshihiro Ebisu , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Kohei Hayashi