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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…

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) cosmologies admit an enormous diversity of dark matter (DM) halo density profiles, from low-density cores to high-density core-collapsed cusps. The possibility of the growth of high central density in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Zhichao Carton Zeng , Annika H. G. Peter , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Stacy Kim , Fangzhou Jiang , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Mark Vogelsberger

We adopt the conduction fluid approximation to model the steady-state distribution of matter around a massive black hole at the center of a weakly collisional cluster of particles. By "`weakly collisional" we mean a cluster in which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Stuart L. Shapiro , Vasileios Paschalidis

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) arises generically in scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model that have dark sectors with light mediators or strong dynamics. The self-interactions allow energy and momentum transport through…

We introduce the cosmological HYPER code based on an innovative hydro-particle-mesh (HPM) algorithm for efficient and rapid simulations of gas and dark matter. For the HPM algorithm, we update the approach of Gnedin & Hui (1998) to expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yizhou He , Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present a novel analytic density profile for halos in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models, which accurately captures the isothermal-core configuration, i.e. where both the density and velocity dispersion profiles exhibit central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Vinh Tran , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Daniel Gilman , Stephanie O'Neil , Cian Roche , Oliver Zier , Jiarun Gao

We use hydrodynamical cosmological simulations to test the differences between cold and self-interacting dark matter models (CDM and SIDM) in the mass range of massive galaxies ($10^{12}M_{\odot}h^{-1}<M<10^{13.5}M_{\odot}h^{-1}$). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Claudio Mastromarino , Giulia Despali , Lauro Moscardini , Andrew Robertson , Massimo Meneghetti , Matteo Maturi

The rotation curves of spiral galaxies exhibit a great diversity that challenge our understanding of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter. Previous studies showed that in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with a cross…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 M. Grant Roberts , Manoj Kaplinghat , Mauro Valli , Hai-Bo Yu

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

We present a comparison of halo properties in cosmological simulations of collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) for a range of dark matter cross sections. We find, in agreement with various authors,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Romeel Davé , David N. Spergel , Paul J. Steinhardt , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Astrophysical observations spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters indicate that dark matter (DM) halos are less dense in their central regions compared to expectations from collisionless DM N-body simulations. Using detailed fits to DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

We use high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation to test the difference of halo properties in cold dark matter (CDM) and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) scenario with a constant cross-section of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Giulia Despali , Martin Sparre , Simona Vegetti , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala , Federico Marinacci

We compare a suite of four simulated dwarf galaxies formed in 10$^{10} M_{\odot}$ haloes of collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) with galaxies simulated in the same haloes with an identical galaxy formation model but a non-zero…

We investigate a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model featuring a velocity-dependent cross section with an order-of-magnitude resonant enhancement of the cross section at $\sim 16\,{\rm km}\,{\rm s}^{-1}$. To understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-02 Vinh Tran , Daniel Gilman , Mark Vogelsberger , Xuejian Shen , Stephanie O'Neil , Xinyue Zhang

The properties of low-mass dark matter (DM) halos appear to be remarkably diverse relative to cold, collisionless DM predictions, even in the presence of baryons. We show that self-interacting DM (SIDM) can simultaneously explain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-01 Ethan O. Nadler , Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an intriguing alternative to the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm, which predicts that dark matter halos typically have large, isothermal cores. Numerical simulations have shown that dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-16 Frank C. van den Bosch , Shashank Dattathri

We improve upon the parametric model for the evolution of the density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos introduced in Yang et al. (2024b), by considering the effects of mass accretion on a SIDM halo's gravothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Siddhesh Raut , Ethan Nadler , Andrew Benson

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

It has been proposed that gravothermal collapse due to dark matter self-interactions (i.e. self-interacting dark matter, SIDM) can explain the observed diversity of the Milky Way (MW) satellites' central dynamical masses. We investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Hannah C. Turner , Mark R. Lovell , Jesús Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theories predict that dark matter halos experience core-collapse in late-stage evolution, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. This process can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-11 Charlie Mace , Shengqi Yang , Zhichao Carton Zeng , Annika H. G. Peter , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson