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Self interacting dark matter (SIDM) provides us with a consistent solution to certain astrophysical observations in conflict with collision-less cold DM paradigm. In this work we estimate the shear viscosity $(\eta)$ and bulk viscosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Abhishek Atreya , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arvind Mishra

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) has long been proposed as a solution to small scale problems posed by standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). We use numerical simulations to study the effect of dark matter interactions on the morphology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-15 Lucas F. Secco , Amanda Farah , Bhuvnesh Jain , Susmita Adhikari , Arka Banerjee , Neal Dalal

Self-Interacting Dark Matter is an attractive alternative to the Cold Dark Matter paradigm only if it is able to substantially reduce the central densities of dwarf-size haloes while keeping the densities and shapes of cluster-size haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Matthew G. Walker

We investigate the collapse and internal structure of dark matter halos. We consider halo formation from initially scale-free perturbations, for which gravitational collapse is self-similar. Fillmore and Goldreich (1984) and Bertschinger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 Yoram Lithwick , Neal Dalal

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

This paper investigates spheroidal galaxies comprising a self-interacting dark matter halo (SIDM) plus de Vaucouleurs stellar distribution. These are coupled only via their shared gravitational field, which is computed consistently from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Curtis J. Saxton

The Jeans model is a semi-analytical approach to modeling self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) that works remarkably well to reproduce the spherically-averaged halo profiles from observations and simulations of relaxed galaxies and galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Andrew Robertson , Laura Sagunski , Adam Smith-Orlik , Sean Tulin

We calculate the radial profiles of galaxies where the nuclear region is self-gravitating, consisting of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with $F$ degrees of freedom. For sufficiently high density this dark matter becomes collisional,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Curtis J. Saxton , Ziri Younsi , Kinwah Wu

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) naturally gives rise to a cored isothermal density profile, which is favored in observations of many dwarf galaxies. The dark matter distribution in the presence of a central black hole in an isothermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Gerardo Alvarez , Hai-Bo Yu

Understanding dark matter halo dynamics can be pivotal in unravelling the nature of dark matter particles. Analytical treatment of the multistream flows inside the turnaround region of a collapsed cold dark matter (CDM) halo using various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Abineet Parichha , Stephane Colombi , Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya

We present a statistical study of black hole (BH) formation and growth seeded by gravothermal core collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos at high redshift, using a cosmological semi-analytical framework based on Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Fangzhou Jiang , Zixiang Jia , Haonan Zheng , Luis C. Ho , Kohei Inayoshi , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Wei-Xiang Feng

Warm dark matter (WDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) are often motivated by the inferred cores in the dark matter halos of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. We test thermal WDM, non-thermal WDM, and SIDM using high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Kuzio de Naray , Gregory D. Martinez , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat

The scalar field endowed with a cosh scalar field potential, behaves exactly in the same way as cold dark matter (CDM) in the region where the scalar field oscillates around its minimum. Also, in the linear regime, the scalar field dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Argelia Bernal , Tonatiuh Matos , Dario Nunez

Discrepancies have emerged between the predictions of standard cold dark matter (CDM) theory and observations of clustering on sub-galactic scales. Warm dark matter (WDM) is a simple modification of CDM in which the dark matter particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Neil Turok

We study the evolution of the halo-halo correlation function and bias in a LCDM model using very high-resolution N-body simulations. The high force and mass resolution allows dark matter (DM) halos to survive in the tidal fields in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Pedro Colin , Alexei Khokhlov

We consider the cosmological consequences if a small fraction ($f\lesssim 0.1$) of the dark matter is ultra-strongly self-interacting, with an elastic self-interaction cross-section per unit mass $\sigma\gg1\ \mathrm{cm^{2}/g}$. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jason Pollack , David N. Spergel , Paul J. Steinhardt

Recent, very accurate simulations of galaxy formation have revealed that the standard cold dark matter model has great difficulty in explaining the detailed structure of galaxies. One of the major problems is that galactic halos are too…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steen Hannestad

In two-component self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with inter-species interactions, mass segregation arises naturally from collisional relaxation, enhancing central densities and gravothermal evolution. We demonstrate that models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Daneng Yang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Siyuan Hou , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Milky Way (MW) satellites exhibit a diverse range of internal kinematics, reflecting in turn a diverse set of subhalo density profiles. These profiles include large cores and dense cusps, which any successful dark matter model must explain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-25 Tamar Meshveliani , Jesús Zavala , Mark R. Lovell

Dissipative dark matter self-interactions can affect halo evolution and change its structure. We perform a series of controlled N-body simulations to study impacts of the dissipative interactions on halo properties. The interplay between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ran Huo , Hai-Bo Yu , Yi-Ming Zhong