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We investigate for the first time the effects of a Warm Dark Matter (WDM) power spectrum on the statistical properties of galaxies using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. The WDM spectrum we adopt as a reference case is suppressed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 N. Menci , F. Fiore , A. Lamastra

(Abridged) Using high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations, we study how the density profiles of dark matter halos are affected by the filtering of the density power spectrum below a given scale length and by the introduction of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , E. D'Onghia , C. Firmani

We perform a set of high-resolution, dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the influence of cold dark matter (CDM) substructure on the dynamical evolution of thin galactic disks. Our method combines cosmological simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stelios Kazantzidis , Andrew R. Zentner , James S. Bullock

Using late-Universe observations, we demonstrate that freeing dark energy and dark matter equations of state (EoS) dramatically alters the inferred strength and direction of their interactions. When dark sector EoS are fixed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Peng-Ju Wu , Ming Zhang , Shang-Jie Jin

We examine the dynamics of stellar systems embedded within cold dark matter (CDM) halos in order to assess observational constraints on the dark matter content of Local Group dwarf spheroidals (dSphs). Our analysis shows that the total mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorge Penarrubia , Alan McConnachie , Julio F. Navarro

White dwarfs represent the most common end stage of stellar evolution and are important for a range of astrophysical questions. The high-resolution ultraviolet spectroscopic capability of the Habitable World Observatory (HWO) offers a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Siyi Xu , Martin Barstow , Andy Buchan , Érika Le Bourdais , Patrick Dufour

In order to unravel the nature of the dark matter (DM) we have proposed a particle-physics motivated model called Bound Dark Matter (BDM) that consist in DM massless particles above a threshold energy Ec that acquire mass below it due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-02 Jorge Mastache , Axel de la Macorra , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

Approximately 25--50\% of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit metal absorption lines in their photospheres, interpreted as evidence of ongoing/recent accretion of planetary debris from remnant systems. Previous theoretical studies have suggested…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhangliang Chen , Xin-Yue Zhang , Di-Chang Chen , Kejun Wang , Bo Ma , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

In a recent work [Phys. Rev. D 98, 043521 (2018)], we have investigated a dark matter (DM)-photon coupling model in which the DM decays into photons in the presence of dark energy (DE) with the constant equation of state (EoS) parameter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Santosh Kumar Yadav

For the first time, we analyze the impact of dark matter (DM) on the curvature properties of quarkyonic neutron stars (NS) using a hybrid model based on quarkyonic-effective field theory within the relativistic mean-field (E-RMF) framework.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , D. Dey , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

We studied the properties of dark matter admixed-neutron stars (DMANS), considering fermionic dark matter (DM) that interacts gravitationally with hadronic matter (HM). Using relativistic mean-field equations of state (EoSs) for both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Payaswinee Arvikar , Sakshi Gautam , Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik

Warm dark matter (WDM) can potentially explain small-scale observations that currently challenge the cold dark matter (CDM) model, as warm particles suppress structure formation due to free-streaming effects. Observing small-scale matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Ariane Dekker , Shin'ichiro Ando , Camila A. Correa , Kenny C. Y. Ng

A significant excess of the stellar mass density at high redshift has been discovered from the early data release of James Webb Space Telescope ($\it{JWST}$), and it may require a high star formation efficiency. However, this will lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Hengjie Lin , Yan Gong , Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

The equation of state (EoS) and composition of dense and hot $\Delta$-resonance admixed hypernuclear matter is studied under conditions that are characteristic of neutron star binary merger remnants and supernovas. The cold, neutrino free…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Armen Sedrakian , Arus Harutyunyan

Warm dark matter (WDM) is an intriguing model of structure formation from the point of view of both cosmology and particle physics. We consider a one-parameter family of WDM models. The linear power spectra for these models is calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Stephane Colombi , Scott Dodelson , Lawrence M. Widrow

We place limits on dark matter made up of compact objects significantly heavier than a solar mass, such as MACHOs or primordial black holes (PBHs). In galaxies, the gas of such objects is generally hotter than the gas of stars and will thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-17 Peter W. Graham , Harikrishnan Ramani

We review some general properties of assembling galactic dark matter (DM) halos which have a direct effect on the baryon dynamics. Specifically, we focus on the mutual dynamical feedback between baryons and DM which influence disk formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-18 Isaac Shlosman

Dark Matter (DM) can become captured, deposit annihilation energy, and hence increase the heat flow in exoplanets and brown dwarfs. Detecting such a DM-induced heating in a population of exoplanets in the inner kpc of the Milky Way thus…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 María Benito , Konstantin Karchev , Rebecca K. Leane , Sven Põder , Juri Smirnov , Roberto Trotta

In this paper, we studied the ``hyperon puzzle", a problem that nevertheless the large number of studies is still an open problem. The solution of this issue requires one or more mechanisms that could eventually provide the additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Antonino Del Popolo , Maksym Deliyergiyev , Morgan Le Delliou

We perform a series of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the effects of non-gravitational dark matter (DM) interactions on the intergalactic medium (IGM). In particular, we use the ETHOS framework (Cyr-Racine et al. 2016;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-10 Sownak Bose , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala , Christoph Pfrommer , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Sebastian Bohr , Torsten Bringmann