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We study the effects of inelastic dark matter self-interactions on the internal structure of a simulated Milky Way (MW)-size halo. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative to collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) which offers a…

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Observations of ultra-dense substructures in strong lensing systems challenge the standard cosmological model at small scales. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), as an alternative to the cold and collisionless dark matter (CDM) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yuxuan He , Weiyang Wang , Chen Zhang , Yi-Ming Zhong

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…

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The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a particle-based, Lagrangian method for fluid-flow simulations. In this work, fundamental concepts of this method are first briefly recalled. Then, the ability to accurately model granular…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 Kamil Szewc

We present results from N-body simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) subhalos, which could host ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies, inside a Milky-Way-like main halo. We find that high-concentration subhalos are driven to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Felix Kahlhoefer , Manoj Kaplinghat , Tracy R. Slatyer , Chih-Liang Wu

Dark matter (DM) particles can interact with particles of the standard model. Although there are a number of constraints derived from direct and indirect detection experiments, the evolution of astrophysical objects could offer a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Moritz S. Fischer , Klaus Dolag , Mathias Garny , Vera Gluscevic , Frederick Groth , Ethan O. Nadler

We study the evolution of isolated self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos that undergo gravothermal collapse and are driven deep into the short-mean-free-path regime. We assume spherical Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) halos as initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-19 Sophia Gad-Nasr , Kimberly K. Boddy , Manoj Kaplinghat , Nadav Joseph Outmezguine , Laura Sagunski

We use cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to consistently compare the assembly of dwarf galaxies in both $\Lambda$ dominated, Cold (CDM) and Self--Interacting (SIDM) dark matter models. The SIDM model adopts a constant cross section of 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-28 A. Bastidas Fry , F. Governato , A. Pontzen , T. Quinn , M. Tremmel , L. Anderson , H. Menon , A. M. Brooks , J. Wadsley

Dark matter (DM) could be subject to non-gravitational self-interactions which is relevant to resolve potential problems of cold DM on small scales. Their impact on astrophysical objects such as galaxies and galaxy clusters allows for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Moritz S. Fischer , Marc Wiertel , Cenanda Arido , Yashraj Patil , Antonio Ragagnin , Klaus Dolag , Marcus Brüggen , Mathias Garny , Andrew Robertson , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative to the standard collisionless cold dark matter model (CDM), allowing for interactions between the dark matter particles through the introduction of a self-scattering cross-section.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Elizabeth Johana Gonzalez , Agustín Rodriguez-Medrano , Luis Alberto Pereyra , Diego García Lambas

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have the potential to solve the small-scale problems that arise in the cold dark matter paradigm. Simulations are a powerful tool for studying SIDM in the context of astrophysics, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Moritz S. Fischer , Marcus Brüggen , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Klaus Dolag , Felix Kahlhoefer , Antonio Ragagnin , Andrew Robertson

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

Recent observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts pose challenges to standard seeding mechanisms. Among competing models, the collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos provide a plausible explanation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Hua-Peng Gu , Fangzhou Jiang , Xian Chen , Ran Li

Motivated by recent detections of low-mass perturbers in strong gravitational lensing systems, we investigate analogs of these objects in the Concerto suite, a set of cosmological N-body zoom-in simulations of self-interacting dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Demao Kong , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

We describe a new algorithm for the integration of self-gravitating fluid systems using SPH method. We split the Hamiltonian of a self-gravitating fluid system to the gravitational potential and others (kinetic and internal energies) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

We explore the impact of elastic, anisotropic, velocity-dependent dark matter (DM) self-interactions on the host halo and subhalos of Milky Way (MW)--mass systems. We consider a generic self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Ethan O. Nadler , Arka Banerjee , Susmita Adhikari , Yao-Yuan Mao , Risa H. Wechsler

Self interacting dark matter (SIDM) provides us with a consistent solution to certain astrophysical observations in conflict with collision-less cold DM paradigm. In this work we estimate the shear viscosity $(\eta)$ and bulk viscosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Abhishek Atreya , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arvind Mishra

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods are advantageous in simulations of fluids in domains with free boundary. Special SPH methods have also been developed to simulate solids. However, there are situations where the matter behaves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Michal Pavelka , Václav Klika

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is increasingly studied as a potential solution to small-scale discrepancies between simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) and observations. We examine a physically motivated two-state SIDM model with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Aidan Leonard , Stephanie O'Neil , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Olivia Rosenstein , Hoatian Shangguan , Yuanhong Teng , Jiayi Hu

The Jeans model is a semi-analytical approach to modeling self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) that works remarkably well to reproduce the spherically-averaged halo profiles from observations and simulations of relaxed galaxies and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Andrew Robertson , Laura Sagunski , Adam Smith-Orlik , Sean Tulin