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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

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…

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

We present an improved semi-analytical model to predict density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos and apply it to constrain the self-scattering cross section using SPARC galaxy rotation curves. Building on the isothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Zixiang Jia , Fangzhou Jiang , Shubo Li , Ran Li , Jing Wang , Ling Zhu

We propose a parametric model for studying self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. The model uses an analytical density profile, calibrated using a controlled N-body SIDM simulation that covers the entire gravothermal evolution,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu , Yi-Ming Zhong

The spherical Jeans equation is a widely used tool for dynamical study of gravitating systems in astronomy. Here we test its efficacy in robustly weighing the mass of Milky Way analogues, given they need not be in equilibrium or even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Prajwal R. Kafle , Sanjib Sharma , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Pascal J. Elahi , Simon P. Driver

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 systemically evaluate the performance of the self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo model proposed in arXiv:2305.16176 with matched halos from high-resolution cosmological CDM and SIDM simulations. The model incorporates SIDM effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

We probe the self-interactions of dark matter using observational data of relaxed galaxy groups and clusters. Our analysis uses the Jeans formalism and considers a wider range of systematic effects than in previous work, including adiabatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Laura Sagunski , Sophia Gad-Nasr , Brian Colquhoun , Andrew Robertson , Sean Tulin

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

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 study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

Spherical Jeans modeling is widely used to estimate mass profiles of systems from star clusters to galactic stellar haloes to clusters of galaxies. It derives the cumulative mass profile, M(<r), from kinematics of tracers of the potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Nabeel Rehemtulla , Monica Valluri , Eugene Vasiliev

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models feature short-range interactions between dark matter (DM) particles that lead to larger diversity in the inner parts of galactic rotation curves and potentially unique gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 David Klemmer , Moritz S. Fischer , Kimberly K. Boddy , Manoj Kaplinghat , Laura Sagunski

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…

We study the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) and baryons on the shape of early-type galaxies (ETGs) and their dark matter haloes, comparing them to the predictions of the cold dark matter (CDM) scenario. We use five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Giulia Despali , Levi G. Walls , Simona Vegetti , Martin Sparre , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesús Zavala

We employ isolated N-body simulations to study the response of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos in the presence of the baryonic potentials. Dark matter self-interactions lead to kinematic thermalization in the inner halo, resulting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-26 Omid Sameie , Peter Creasey , Hai-Bo Yu , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Jesus Zavala

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

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

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
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