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We study the distribution of dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies by modelling the moments of their line-of-sight velocity distributions. We discuss different dark matter density profiles, both cuspy and possessing flat density cores.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ewa L. Lokas

In this paper we review the main and the most recent evidence for the presence of a core radius in the distribution of the dark matter around spiral galaxies. Their rotation curves, coadded according to the galaxy luminosity, conform to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Salucci , Annamaria Borriello

We explore the possibility that the density profiles of elliptical galaxies and cold dark matter (CDM) halos found in cosmological simulations can be understood in terms of the same physical process, collisionless gravitational collapse. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

We present Halpha rotation curves for a sample of 15 dwarf and LSB galaxies. From these, we derive limits on the slopes of the central mass distributions. Assuming the density distributions of dark matter halos follow a power-law at small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Swaters , B. F. Madore , F. C. van den Bosch , M. Balcells

The distribution of dark matter around galactic or cluster halos has usually been assumed to be approximately isothermal with a non-zero core radius, which is expected to be of the order of the size of the visible matter distribution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ricardo A. Flores , Joel R. Primack

We investigate the radial distribution of galaxies within their host dark matter halos by modeling their small-scale clustering, as measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Specifically, we model the Jiang et al. (2011) measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Douglas F. Watson , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , David W. Hogg , Tao Jiang

Context. The cusp-core discrepancy is one of the major problems in astrophysics. It results from comparing the observed mass distribution of galaxies with the predictions of Cold Dark Matter simulations. The latter predict a cuspy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. van Eymeren , C. Trachternach , B. S. Koribalski , R. -J. Dettmar

We use the rotation curves of a sample of dark matter dominated dwarf and low-surface brightness (LSB) late-type galaxies to study their radial mass distributions. We find that the shape of the rotation curves is remarkably similar for all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , James S. Bullock , Joel R. Primack

We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (APOSTLE project) carried out as part of the "Evolution and…

Cosmological N--body simulations have revealed a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed in hierarchically clustering universes. Regardless of halo mass, cosmological parameters, and power spectrum of initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

We investigate the distribution of dark matter in galaxies by solving the equations of equilibrium of a self-gravitating system of massive fermions (`inos') at selected temperatures and degeneracy parameters within general relativity. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 R. Ruffini , C. R. Argüelles , J. A. Rueda

We study the total density distribution in the central regions (~ 1 effective radius, $R_e$) of early-type galaxies (ETGs), using data from SPIDER and $\rm ATLAS^{3D}$. Our analysis extends the range of galaxy stellar mass ($M_{\star}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Tortora , F. La Barbera , N. R. Napolitano , A. J. Romanowsky , I. Ferreras , R. R. de Carvalho

We report the alignment and shape of dark matter, stellar, and hot gas distributions in the EAGLE and cosmo-OWLS simulations. The combination of these state-of-the-art hydro-cosmological simulations enables us to span four orders of…

Collisionless self-gravitating systems such as cold dark matter halos are known to harbor universal density profiles despite the intricate non-linear physics of hierarchical structure formation in the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. The origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Uddipan Banik , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Context. Current constraints on distributed matter in the innermost Galactic Centre (such as a cluster of faint stars and stellar remnants, Dark Matter or a combination thereof) based on the orbital dynamics of the visible stars closest to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Thibault Lechien , Gernot Heißel , Jai Grover , Dario Izzo

We explore the cosmological halo-to-halo scatter of the distribution of mass within dark matter halos utilizing a well-resolved statistical sample of clusters from the cosmological Millennium simulation. We find that at any radius, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Darren S. Reed , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Liang Gao

We present the HI data for 5 spiral galaxies that, along with their Halpha rotation curves, are used to derive the distribution of dark matter within these objects. A new method for extracting rotation curves from HI data cubes is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gentile , P. Salucci , U. Klein , D. Vergani , P. Kalberla

We derive inner dark matter halo density profiles for a sample of 165 low-mass galaxies using rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra assuming minimal disks and spherical symmetry. For $\rho(r) \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristine Spekkens , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

We study the role of systematic effects in observational studies of the cusp-core problem under the minimum disc approximation using a suite of high-resolution (25-pc softening length) hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies. We mimic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-19 Juan C. B. Pineda , Christopher C. Hayward , Volker Springel , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira

We study a large set of high spatial resolution optical rotation curves of galaxies with the goal of determining the model parameters for a disk embedded within a CDM halo that we model either with a NFW profile or pseudo-isothermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde , S. Peng Oh