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We discuss a modification of a recently developed numerical scheme for evolving spherically symmetric self-gravitating systems to include the effects of self-interacting dark matter. The approach is far more efficient than traditional…

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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…

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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 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 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

Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation function xi_gg(r) to constrain Omega_m and sigma_8, going beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaiyul Yoo , Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Zheng Zheng , Neal Katz , Romeel Davé

We analyze strongly lensed images in 8 galaxy clusters to measure their dark matter density profiles in the radial region between 10 kpc and 150 kpc, and use this to constrain the self-interaction cross section of dark matter (DM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Kevin E. Andrade , Jackson Fuson , Sophia Gad-Nasr , Demao Kong , Quinn Minor , M. Grant Roberts , Manoj Kaplinghat

In this study, we review some current studies on Gravitational Lensing for black holes, mainly in the context of general relativity. We mainly focus on the analytical studies related to lensing with references to observational results. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Saptaswa Ghosh , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study the efficiency of numerically simulated galaxy clusters for producing strong gravitational lensing events in different dark-energy cosmologies with constant and time-variable equation of state and we compare it with ``standard''…

We present 108 full-sky gravitational lensing simulation data sets generated by performing multiple-lens plane ray-tracing through high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data sets include full-sky convergence and shear maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takashi Hamana , Masato Shirasaki , Toshiya Namikawa , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ken Osato , Kosei Shiroyama

We analyze rotation curves of five HI-rich galaxies recently discovered with MeerKAT. These galaxies exhibit sharply rising rotation curves, while their baryonic components are not dynamically dominant, suggesting that their dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Demao Kong , Hai-Bo Yu

We derive the expected Type II SN differential number counts, N(m), and Hubble diagram for SCDM and LCDM cosmological models, taking into account the effects of gravitational lensing (GL) produced by the intervening cosmological mass. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Simone Marri , Andrea Ferrara , Lucia Pozzetti

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for probing the nature of dark matter, as lensing signals are sensitive to the dark matter substructure within the lensing galaxy. We present a comparative analysis of strong gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-29 Jack Lonergan , Andrew Benson , Daniel Gilman

Strong gravitational lenses enable direct inference of halo abundance and internal structure, which in turn enable constraints on the nature of dark matter and the primordial matter power spectrum. However, the density profiles of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu , Andrew Benson , Charles Gannon

We present a suite of baryonic cosmological zoom-in simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) haloes within the ``Feedback In Realistic Environment'' (FIRE) project. The three simulated haloes have virial masses of $\sim 10^{12}\,…

This work aims at assessing the impact of DM self-interactions on the properties of galaxy clusters. In particular, the goal is to study the angular dependence of the cross section by testing rare (large angle scattering) and frequent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Antonio Ragagnin , Massimo Meneghetti , Francesco Calura , Giulia Despali , Klaus Dolag , Moritz S. Fischer , Carlo Giocoli , Lauro Moscardini

We present an efficient numerical algorithm for evolving self-gravitating systems of dark-matter particles that leverages the assumption of spherical symmetry to reduce the nominally six-dimensional phase space to three dimensions. It can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Marc Kamionkowski , Kris R. Sigurdson

Decaying dark matter (DDM) affects the evolution of cosmic structure relative to standard cold, collisionless, stable dark matter (CDM). We introduce a new semianalytic model for the effects of two-body DDM on halo structure and subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew J. Benson

The nature of dark matter is still mysterious despite various astronomical evidence. As a possible candidate, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) can potentially resolve some issues appearing in cold dark matter paradigm. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Mu-Chun Chen , Yong Tang

We perform high-resolution simulations of a MW-like galaxy in a self-interacting cold dark matter model with elastic cross section over mass of $1~\rm cm^2/g$ (SIDM) and compare to a model without self-interactions (CDM). We run our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Victor H. Robles , Tyler Kelley , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat