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Dark matter haloes are typically characterised by radial density profiles with fixed forms motivated by simulations (e.g. NFW). However, simulation predictions depend on uncertain dark matter physics and baryonic modelling. Here, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alicia Martín , Tariq Yasin , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

We study the density profile of a dwarf halo in the decaying dark matter (DDM) cosmology, using a new algorithm that resolves halo density profiles down to the innermost $700$ pc robustly with high efficiency. Following Schwarzschild's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Jianxiong Chen , M. -C. Chu

The subtle and unique imprint of dark matter substructure on extended arcs in strong lensing systems contains a wealth of information about the properties and distribution of dark matter on small scales and, consequently, about the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Johann Brehmer , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joeri Hermans , Gilles Louppe , Kyle Cranmer

Understanding the halo-galaxy connection is fundamental in order to improve our knowledge on the nature and properties of dark matter. In this work we build a model that infers the mass of a halo given the positions, velocities, stellar…

(abridged) We study the relation between the density profiles of dark matter halos and their mass assembly histories, using a statistical sample of halos in a high-resolution N-body simulation of the LCDM cosmology. For each halo at z=0, we…

Machine learning has the potential to improve the reconstruction of the dark matter profile of galaxies with respect to traditional methods, like rotation curves. We demonstrate on the simulation suite Illustris-TNG that a steerable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 Martín de los Rios , Serafina Di Gioia , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta

I use $N$-body simulations to investigate the morphology and the dynamical evolution and properties of dark matter halos in clusters of galaxies. My sample consists of nine massive halos, coming from an Einstein-de Sitter universe with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Tormen

We calculate by means of the Press-Schechter formalism the density profile developed by dark-matter halos during accretion, i.e., the continuous aggregation of small clumps. We find that the shape of the predicted profile is similar to that…

We study the mass accretion histories (MAHs) and density profiles of dark matter halos using N-body simulations of self-similar gravitational clustering from scale-free power spectra, $P(k)\propto k^n$. We pay particular attention to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Aaron D. Ludlow , Raul E. Angulo

Dark matter haloes play a fundamental role in cosmological structure formation. The most common approach to model their assembly mechanisms is through N-body simulations. In this work we present an innovative pathway to predict dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Mauro Bernardini , Lucio Mayer , Darren Reed , Robert Feldmann

Deep neural networks are becoming more and more popular due to their revolutionary success in diverse areas, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, the decision-making processes of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Oana-Maria Camburu

Dark matter halos are typically defined as spheres that enclose some overdensity, but these sharp, somewhat arbitrary boundaries introduce non-physical artifacts such as backsplash halos, pseudo-evolution, and an incomplete accounting of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ze'ev Vladimir , Calvin Osinga , Benedikt Diemer , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo

Cosmological simulations consistently predict specific properties of dark matter halos, but these have not yet led to a physical understanding that is generally accepted. This is especially true for the central regions of these structures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 R. N. Henriksen

High-resolution cosmological N-body simulations are excellent tools for modelling the formation and clustering of dark matter haloes. These simulations suggest complex physical theories of halo formation governed by a set of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Androniki Dimitriou , Christoph Weniger , Camila A. Correa

We present a useful function for describing the profiles of dark-matter haloes with a varying asymptotic inner slope -\alpha, ranging from a cusp to a core, where the profiles of density, mass-velocity and potential are simple analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-06 Avishai Dekel , Guy Ishai , Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Maccio

We conducted an analysis on dark matter halo properties following major and minor mergers to advance our understanding of halo evolution. In this work, we analyzed ~80,000 dark matter halos from the Bolshoi-Planck cosmological simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-28 Peter Wu , Shawn Zhang

We report a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the internal physical properties of dark matter halos. A total of fifteen halos, each represented by $\sim 1$ million particles within the virial radius, have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

The relationship between galaxies and haloes is central to the description of galaxy formation, and a fundamental step towards extracting precise cosmological information from galaxy maps. However, this connection involves several complex…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , L. Raul Abramo

We study the relation between the density profiles of dark matter halos and their mass assembly histories, using a statistical sample of halos in a high-resolution N-body simulation of the LCDM cosmology. For each halo at z=0, we identify…

We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure of dark halos in the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. Halos are excised from simulations of cosmologically representative regions and are resimulated individually at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julio F. Navarro , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White