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We study the gravothermal evolution of dark matter halos in the presence of dissipative dark matter self-interactions. Dissipative interactions are present in many particle-physics realizations of the dark-sector paradigm and can…

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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…

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 study the evolution of Hernquist profile ``galaxies'' in the presence of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), where the properties of the dark matter can be parameterized by one number, sigma-hat = sigma M/a^2 for a halo of mass M and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 C. S. Kochanek , Martin White

We investigate the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the density profiles of $V_{\rm max} \simeq 40~km~s^{-1}$ isolated dwarf dark matter halos -- the scale of relevance for the too big to fail problem (TBTF) -- using very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Oliver D. Elbert , James S. Bullock , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Miguel Rocha , Jose Oñorbe , Annika H. G. Peter

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

Core collapse, a process associated with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models, can increase the central density of halos by orders of magnitude with observable consequences for dwarf galaxy properties and gravitational lensing.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Vinh Tran , Xuejian Shen , Daniel Gilman , Mark Vogelsberger , Stephanie O'Neil , Donghua Xiong , Jiayi Hu , Ziang Wu

We present a detailed comparison of a Local Group dwarf galaxy analogue evolved in two cosmological models: the standard $\Lambda$CDM and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model with a velocity-dependent cross-section. Both simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 Thales A. Gutcke , Giulia Despali , Stephanie O'Neil , Mark Vogelsberger , Azadeh Fattahi , David B. Sanders

Self-gravitating galactic halos composed of self-interacting dark matter exhibit the formation of a highly dense core at the galactic center--a gravothermal collapse. Analytic models to describe this evolution have been developed and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Marc Kamionkowski , Kris Sigurdson

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

Recent analysis on the stellar kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies has put a stringent upper limit on the self-scattering cross section of dark matter, i.e., $\sigma/m<{\cal O}(0.1)\,{\rm cm^2/g}$ at the scattering velocity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Ayuki Kamada , Hee Jung Kim

We introduce the TangoSIDM project, a suite of cosmological simulations of structure formation in a $\Lambda$-Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) universe. TangoSIDM explores the impact of large dark matter (DM) scattering cross sections…

We use cosmological simulations to study the effects of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the density profiles and substructure counts of dark matter halos from the scales of spiral galaxies to galaxy clusters, focusing explicitly on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Miguel Rocha , Annika H. G. Peter , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Jose Onorbe , Leonidas A. Moustakas

The satellite galaxy Crater II of the Milky Way is extremely cold and exceptionally diffuse. These unusual properties are challenging to understand in the standard model of cold dark matter. We investigate the formation of Crater II in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 Xingyu Zhang , Hai-Bo Yu , Daneng Yang , Haipeng An

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), through gravothermal evolution driven by elastic self-scatterings, offers a compelling explanation for the observed diversity of inner halo densities. In this work, we investigate SIDM dynamics in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Daneng Yang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

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 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

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

Dark matter halos with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) experience a unique evolutionary phenomenon, in that their central regions eventually collapse to high density through the runaway gravothermal process after initially forming a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 Zhichao Carton Zeng , Annika H. G. Peter , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Jiaxuan Li , Charlie Mace , Shengqi Yang

We adopt the fluid conduction approximation to study the evolution of spherical star clusters and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We also explore the formation and dynamical impact of density cusps that arise in both systems due…

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