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When dark matter has a large cross section for self scattering, halos can undergo a process known as gravothermal core collapse, where the inner core rapidly increases in density and temperature. To date, several methods have been used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Igor Palubski , Oren Slone , Manoj Kaplinghat , Mariangela Lisanti , Fangzhou Jiang

We study evolution of single subhaloes with their masses of $\sim10^9 M_\odot$ in a Milky-Way-sized host halo for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. We perform dark-matter-only N-body simulations of dynamical evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Okamoto , Shin'ichiro Ando

We improve upon the parametric model for the evolution of the density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos introduced in Yang et al. (2024b), by considering the effects of mass accretion on a SIDM halo's gravothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Siddhesh Raut , Ethan Nadler , Andrew Benson

Self-interactions facilitate inter-particle redistribution of energy within the dense regions of galactic halos, implying modifications in the density and velocity distribution of dark matter. Simulating dark-matter only isolated halos for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Tirtha Sankar Ray , Sambo Sarkar

We study the evolution of isolated self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos using spherically-symmetric gravothermal equations allowing for the scattering cross section to be velocity dependent. We focus our attention on the large class of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-15 Nadav Joseph Outmezguine , Kimberly K. Boddy , Sophia Gad-Nasr , Manoj Kaplinghat , Laura Sagunski

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) has gathered growing attention as a solution to the small scale problems of the collisionless cold dark matter (DM). We investigate the SIDM using stellar kinematics of 23 ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kohei Hayashi , Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

In this paper we study the density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) haloes spanning the full observable mass range, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. Using realistic simulations that model the baryonic physics relevant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-25 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Anastasia Sokolenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Andrew Robertson , David Harvey , Yves Revaz

We present the first set of cosmological baryonic zoom-in simulations of galaxies including dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM). These simulations utilize the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Xuejian Shen , Philip F. Hopkins , Lina Necib , Fangzhou Jiang , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Andrew Wetzel

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) naturally gives rise to a cored isothermal density profile, which is favored in observations of many dwarf galaxies. The dark matter distribution in the presence of a central black hole in an isothermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Gerardo Alvarez , Hai-Bo Yu

The multicomponent dark matter model with self-scattering and inter-conversions of species into one another is an alternative dark matter paradigm that is capable of resolving the long-standing problems of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Keita Todoroki , Mikhail V. Medvedev

We present a suite of 16 high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of an isolated dwarf galaxy (gaseous and stellar disk plus a stellar bulge) within an initially cuspy dark matter (DM) halo, including self-interactions between the DM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Jan D. Burger , Jesús Zavala , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an intriguing alternative to the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, which predicts that dark matter halos typically have large, isothermal cores. Numerical simulations have shown that dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Frank C. van den Bosch , Shashank Dattathri

We use cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to consistently compare the assembly of dwarf galaxies in both $\Lambda$ dominated, Cold (CDM) and Self--Interacting (SIDM) dark matter models. The SIDM model adopts a constant cross section of 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-28 A. Bastidas Fry , F. Governato , A. Pontzen , T. Quinn , M. Tremmel , L. Anderson , H. Menon , A. M. Brooks , J. Wadsley

Motivated by recent detections of low-mass perturbers in strong gravitational lensing systems, we investigate analogs of these objects in the Concerto suite, a set of cosmological N-body zoom-in simulations of self-interacting dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Demao Kong , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

We perform a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way (MW)--like system, which includes a realistic Large Magellanic Cloud analog, using a large differential elastic dark matter self-interaction cross section that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

The dark matter density distribution in small-scale astrophysical objects may indicate that dark matter is self-interacting, while observations from clusters of galaxies suggest that the corresponding cross section depends on the velocity.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-27 Xiaoyong Chu , Camilo Garcia-Cely , Hitoshi Murayama

Dark matter halos can enter a phase of gravothermal core--collapse in the presence of self-interactions. This phase that follows a core--expansion phase is thought to be subdominant due to the long time-scales involved. However, it has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Neev Shah , Susmita Adhikari

We present results from N-body simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) subhalos, which could host ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies, inside a Milky-Way-like main halo. We find that high-concentration subhalos are driven to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Felix Kahlhoefer , Manoj Kaplinghat , Tracy R. Slatyer , Chih-Liang Wu

We use cosmological simulations to study the effects of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the density profiles and substructure counts of dark matter halos from the scales of spiral galaxies to galaxy clusters, focusing explicitly on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Miguel Rocha , Annika H. G. Peter , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Jose Onorbe , Leonidas A. Moustakas

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) cosmologies admit an enormous diversity of dark matter (DM) halo density profiles, from low-density cores to high-density core-collapsed cusps. The possibility of the growth of high central density in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Zhichao Carton Zeng , Annika H. G. Peter , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Stacy Kim , Fangzhou Jiang , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Mark Vogelsberger