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Through a suite of direct N-body simulations, we explore how the structural and kinematic evolution of a star cluster located at the center of a dwarf galaxy is affected by the shape of its host's dark matter density profile. The stronger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Jeremy J. Webb , Enrico Vesperini

N-body simulations and analytical calculations of the gravitational collapse in an expanding universe predict that halos should form with a diverging inner density profile, the cusp. There are some observational indications that the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Amr El-Zant , Isaac Shlosman , Yehuda Hoffman

We study the distribution function (DF) of dark matter particles in haloes of mass range 10^{14}--10^{15}\Msun. In the numerical part of this work we measure the DF for a sample of relaxed haloes formed in the simulation of a standard…

For a spherical dark matter halo with isotropic velocity distribution, the phase space distribution function (DF), the energy distribution, and the density profile form a set of self-consistent description of its equilibrium state, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Axel Gross , Zhaozhou Li , Yong-Zhong Qian

It is now established that several of the Local Group dwarf Spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) have large mass-to-light ratios. We consider the possibility that the dark matter in the halos of dSphs is composed of massive black holes with masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shoko Jin , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Mark I. Wilkinson

In this paper, we formulate a new model of density distribution for halos made of warm dark matter (WDM) particles. The model is described by a single microphysics parameter - the mass (or, equivalently, the maximal value of the initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-30 A. Rudakovskyi , D. Savchenko

The density profiles established in the self-similar dynamical phase of dark matter haloes recollapse are all close to isothermal. This is steeper than the predictions of some n-body simulations for the central regions of the halo, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. N Henriksen , M. Le Delliou

The disparity between the density profiles of galactic dark matter haloes predicted by dark matter only cosmological simulations and those inferred from rotation curve decomposition, the so-called cusp-core problem, suggests that baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Peter R Hague , Mark I Wilkinson

Dwarf galaxies have a wide variety of structures, such as dark matter (DM) distribution, stellar-to-halo mass ratio, and stellar density. Recent high-resolution simulations have shown a variety of stellar-to-halo mass ratios for dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Katsuhiro Kaneko , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai , Michiko S. Fujii

We study the impact of the assumed velocity distribution of galactic dark matter particles on the interpretation of results from nuclear recoil detectors. By converting experimental data to variables that make the astrophysical unknowns…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-01 Mads T. Frandsen , Felix Kahlhoefer , Christopher McCabe , Subir Sarkar , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Using collisionless N-body simulations of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way (MW) we construct realistic models of dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies of the Local Group. The dwarfs are initially composed of stellar disks embedded in dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Klaudia Kowalczyk , Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Lucio Mayer

The rotation curves of dark matter dominated dwarf galaxies are analysed. The observations show that dark matter halos represent a one-parameter family with self similar density profiles. The global halo parameters, like total mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert

The velocity distribution of dark matter is supposed to be isotropic Maxwell- Boltzmann distribution in most cases, however, its anisotropy is suggested by some simulations. We investigate conditions to give constraints on the anisotropy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Keiko I. Nagao

Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiments usually assume the simplest possible 'Standard Halo Model' for the Milky Way (MW) halo in which the velocity distribution is Maxwellian. This model assumes that the MW halo is an isotropic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Mattia Fornasa , Anne M. Green

We use the kinematic data of the stars in eight dwarf spheroidal galaxies to assess whether $f(R)$ gravity can fit the observed profiles of the line-of-sight velocity dispersion of these systems without resorting to dark matter. Our model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Ivan de Martino , Antonaldo Diaferio , Luisa Ostorero

The spherical Jeans equation is commonly used to infer dark matter distributions in dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way to constrain the nature of dark matter. One of its assumptions is that of dynamical equilibrium while the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Kristian Tchiorniy , Anna Genina

A number of dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are known to contain a more extended, metal-poor population with a flattish velocity dispersion profile, and a more concentrated, metal-rich population with a velocity dispersion declining with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 N. C. Amorisco , N. W. Evans

We present the distribution of luminous and dark matter in a set of strong lensing (early-type) galaxies. By combining two independent techniques - stellar population synthesis and gravitational lensing - we can compare the baryonic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Ferreras , P. Saha , L. L. R. Williams , S. Burles

We investigate the non-spherical density structure of dark halos of the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies in the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies based on revised axisymmetric mass models from our previous work. The models we adopt here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Kohei Hayashi , Masashi Chiba

For nearly 40 years, dark matter has been widely assumed to be cold and collisionless. Cold dark matter models make fundamental predictions for the behavior of dark matter on small (<10 kpc) scales. These predictions include cuspy density…