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We use the Copernicus Complexio (COCO) high resolution $N$-body simulations to investigate differences in the properties of small-scale structures in the standard cold dark matter (CDM) model and in a model with a cutoff in the initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Sownak Bose , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Mark R. Lovell , John C. Helly , Baojiu Li , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Liang Gao

We use N-body simulations of dark matter haloes in cold dark matter (CDM) and a large set of different warm dark matter (WDM) cosmologies to demonstrate that the spherically averaged density profile of dark matter haloes has a shape that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Polisensky , M. Ricotti

We study the statistics of dwarf galaxy populations as a function of environment in the cold dark matter (CDM) and warm dark matter (WDM) cosmogonies, using hydrodynamical simulations starting from initial conditions with matched phases but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-04 Tamar Meshveliani , Mark R. Lovell , Robert A. Crain , Joel Pfeffer

The statistical mechanics of N cold dark matter (CDM) particles interacting via a softened gravitational potential is reviewed in the microcanonical ensemble and mean-field limit. A phase diagram for the system is computed as a function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Cathryn M. Trott , Andrew Melatos

The interaction properties of cold dark matter (CDM) particle candidates, such as those of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), generically lead to the structuring of dark matter on scales much smaller than typical galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle

If the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model is a true description of the universe, it should also properly predict the properties and structure of dark matter haloes, where galaxies are born. Using N-body simulations with a broad scale of mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 P. Nurmi , P. Heinämäki , E. Saar , M. Einasto , J. Holopainen , V. J. Martínez , J. Einasto

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

Decaying dark matter cosmological models have been proposed to remedy the overproduction problem at small scales in the standard cold dark matter paradigm. We consider a decaying dark matter model in which one CDM mother particle decays…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-04 Shohei Aoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Daisuke Nitta , Naoshi Sugiyama

The hierarchical clustering inherent in Lambda-CDM cosmology seems to produce many of the observed characteristics of large-scale structure. But some glaring problems still remain, including the over-prediction (by a factor 10) of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Majd Abdelqader , Fulvio Melia

Dissipative dark matter self-interactions can affect halo evolution and change its structure. We perform a series of controlled N-body simulations to study impacts of the dissipative interactions on halo properties. The interplay between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ran Huo , Hai-Bo Yu , Yi-Ming Zhong

Galaxies residing in dark matter halos exert significant gravitational effects that alter halo structure and dynamics. The complexity of these interactions escalates with the diversity of galactic structures and the variability in dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Daneng Yang

In this Letter we investigate the basic assumptions of the decaying dark matter (DDM) theory in the light of recent advances in observational and theoretical cosmology and physics, i.e. detection of massive astrophysical compact halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Srdjan Samurovic , Milan M. Cirkovic

The standard cosmological model based on cold dark matter (CDM) predicts a large number of subhalos for each galaxy-size halo. It is well known that matching the subhalos to the observed properties of luminous satellites of galaxies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Nierenberg , T. Treu , N. Menci , Y. Lu , W. Wang

We analyze the effect of dissipation on the shapes of dark matter (DM) halos using high-resolution cosmological gasdynamics simulations of clusters and galaxies in the LCDM cosmology. We find that halos formed in simulations with gas…

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model successfully explains large-scale structure formation, but challenges remain at smaller scales, leading to interest in Warm Dark Matter (WDM) as an alternative. The abundance of Milky Way subhalos depends on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Mizuki Ono , Takashi Okamoto , Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama

I argue that the cold dark matter (CDM) model requires that even within a few kpc of the center of a galactic halo a significant fraction (greater than a few percent) of the surface density is contained in substructures with masses > 10^3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Benton Metcalf

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions for their dynamics, which take proper account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

Understanding dark matter halo dynamics can be pivotal in unravelling the nature of dark matter particles. Analytical treatment of the multistream flows inside the turnaround region of a collapsed cold dark matter (CDM) halo using various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Abineet Parichha , Stephane Colombi , Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya

Accurately predicting the abundance and structural evolution of dark matter subhaloes is crucial for understanding galaxy formation, modeling galaxy clustering, and constraining the nature of dark matter. Due to the nonlinear nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-22 Sheridan B. Green , Frank C. van den Bosch

Cosmographic reconstructions provide a model-agnostic approach towards constraining cosmic evolution. In this work, we develop a semi-cosmographic framework that adopts a Pad\'e-rational fraction parametrization of the Luminosity distance,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Mohit Yadav , Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar