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We combine the isothermal Jeans model and the model of adiabatic halo contraction into a simple semi-analytic procedure for computing the density profile of self-interacting dark-matter (SIDM) haloes with the gravitational influence from…

The core-cusp problem remains as a challenging discrepancy between observations and simulations in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model for the formation of galaxies. The problem is that $\Lambda$CDM simulations predict a steep power-law mass…

Studying the smallest self-bound dark matter structure in our Universe can yield important clues about the fundamental particle nature of dark matter. Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing provides a unique way to detect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Ana Diaz Rivero , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Cora Dvorkin

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

Recent claims of observational evidence for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) have relied on a semi-analytic method for predicting the density profiles of galaxies and galaxy clusters containing SIDM. We present a thorough description of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-01 Andrew Robertson , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns

Self-gravitating astronomical objects often show a central plateau in the density profile (core) whose physical origin is hotly debated. Cores are theoretically expected in N-body systems of maximum entropy, however, they are not present in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Ignacio Trujillo

The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most fundamental open questions in physics. Among the main DM candidates are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), expected to interact with matter through scattering. Directional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-16 David José Gaspar Marques

While various codes exist to systematically and robustly find haloes and subhaloes in cosmological simulations (Knebe et al., 2011, Onions et al., 2012), this is the first work to introduce and rigorously test codes that find tidal debris…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Pascal J. Elahi , Jiaxin Han , Hanni Lux , Yago Ascasibar , Peter Behroozi , Alexander Knebe , Stuart I. Muldrew , Julian Onions , Frazer Pearce

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) has long been proposed as a solution to small scale problems posed by standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). We use numerical simulations to study the effect of dark matter interactions on the morphology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-15 Lucas F. Secco , Amanda Farah , Bhuvnesh Jain , Susmita Adhikari , Arka Banerjee , Neal Dalal

Numerical simulation plays an important role in the study of structure formation of the universe. However, the mass resolution in current simulations is still poor. Due to technical difficulties, it is necessary to use both greatly reduced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Weike Xiao , Zhengfan Sun , Heng Hao

One of the predictions of the standard CDM is that dark haloes have centrally divergent density profiles. An extensive body of rotation curve observations of dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies shows the dark haloes of those systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Firmani , E. D'Onghia , G. Chincarini , X. Hernandez , V. Avila-Reese

We present a new scheme to couple existing numerical methods for elastic self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) to the hydrodynamic equations via a continuous function of the local Knudsen number. The method, an SIDM-hydro hybrid (SHH), allows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Sarah Schon , Michael Ryan , John Blakely , Jeysen Flores-Velazquez , Sarah Shandera , Donghui Jeong

We benchmark the semi-analytical isothermal Jeans model against a high-resolution isolated N-body simulation that follows a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo into deep core collapse. The model accurately reproduces the density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shubo Li , Moritz S. Fischer , Zixiang Jia , Fangzhou Jiang , Ran Li , Hai-Bo Yu

Subhalos play a crucial role in accurately modeling galaxy formation and galaxy-based cosmological probes within the highly nonlinear, virialized regime. However, numerical convergence of subhalo evolution is difficult to achieve,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Kun Xu

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm based on radial symmetry center method to track colloidal particles close to contact, where the optical images of the particles start to overlap in digital video microscopy. This overlapping effect…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-26 Harun Yücel , Nazmi Turan Okumuşoğlu

Surprisingly compact substructures in galaxies and galaxy clusters, but also field halos, have been observed by gravitational lensing. They could be difficult to explain with collisionless dark matter (DM). To explain those objects, recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Yashraj Patil , Moritz S. Fischer

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

An important open question today is the understanding of the relevance that dark matter (DM) halo substructure may have for DM searches. In the standard cosmological framework, subhalos are predicted to be largely abundant inside larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-06 Miguel Angel Sanchez Conde , Michele Doro

The internal structure and abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos are powerful probes of the nature of dark matter. In order to compare observations with dark matter models, accurate theoretical predictions of these quantities are…

We provide an algorithm for detection of possible dark matter particle interactions recorded within NEWSdm detector. The NEWSdm (Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search directional measure) is an underground Direct detection Dark Matter search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Artem Golovatiuk , Giovanni De Lellis , Andrey Ustyuzhanin