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We present the first simulated galaxy clusters (M_200 > 10^14 Msun) with both self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) and baryonic physics. They exhibit a greater diversity in both dark matter and stellar density profiles than their…

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…

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Dark matter (DM) environments around black holes (BHs) can influence their mergers through dynamical friction, causing gravitational wave (GW) dephasing during the inspiral phase. While this effect is well studied for collisionless dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Amitayus Banik , Jeong Han Kim , Jun Seung Pi , Yuhsin Tsai

The cold dark matter (CDM) candidate with weakly interacting massive particles can successfully explain the observed dark matter relic density in cosmic scale and the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, a number of observations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Chung Kao , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Gwo-Guang Wong

We consider the consequences of SIDM for a velocity dependent cross section per unit mass. Accretion of SIDM onto seed black holes can produce supermassive black holes that are too large for certain combinations of parameters,which is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph F. Hennawi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Milky Way (MW) satellites exhibit a diverse range of internal kinematics, reflecting in turn a diverse set of subhalo density profiles. These profiles include large cores and dense cusps, which any successful dark matter model must explain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-25 Tamar Meshveliani , Jesús Zavala , Mark R. Lovell

The observed anti-correlation between the central dark matter (DM) densities of the bright Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and their orbital pericenter distances poses a potential signature of self-interacting dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Camila A. Correa

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

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

We explore for the first time the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the dark matter (DM) and baryonic distribution in massive galaxies formed in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, including explicit baryonic physics…

The partial spatial separation of cold dark matter (DM) and gas is a ubiquitous feature in the formation of cosmic large-scale structure. This separation, termed dissociation, is prominent in galaxy clusters that formed through collisions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 William McDonald , Danail Obreschkow , Lilian Garratt-Smithson

We consider the scenario of self-interacting dark matter(SIDM) with a light mediator in a model-independent way, which can alleviate two long-standing issues of the small scale cosmology namely cusp vs. core and too-big-to-fail. A Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-02 Utkarsh Patel , Sudhanwa Patra

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

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theory predicts that dark matter halos experience core-collapse, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. The N-body simulations used to study this…

The GD-1 stellar stream exhibits spur and gap structures that may result from a close encounter with a dense substructure. When interpreted as a dark matter subhalo, the perturber is denser than predicted in the standard cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Xingyu Zhang , Hai-Bo Yu , Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler

We devise a method to constrain self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) from observations of quadruply-imaged quasars, and apply it to five self-interaction potentials with a long-range dark force. We consider several SIDM models with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Daniel Gilman , Yi-Ming Zhong , Jo Bovy

Warm dark matter (WDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) are often motivated by the inferred cores in the dark matter halos of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. We test thermal WDM, non-thermal WDM, and SIDM using high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Kuzio de Naray , Gregory D. Martinez , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat

We show that the mass of a self-interacting dark matter candidate, specifically a Dirac fermion, can be generated by composite dynamics, with a light scalar mediator emerging alongside the Higgs itself as composite particles. These novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Martin Rosenlyst

Observations of ultra-diffuse galaxies NGC 1052-DF2 and -DF4 show they may contain little dark matter, challenging our understanding of galaxy formation. Using controlled N-body simulations, we explore the possibility that their properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu , Haipeng An

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