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We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters using our 2D Monte Carlo code with the inclusion of primordial binary interactions for equal-mass stars. We use approximate analytical cross sections for energy generation from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Fregeau , M. A. Gurkan , K. J. Joshi , F. A. Rasio

The steepness of the central density profiles of dark matter (DM) in low-mass galaxy halos (e.g. dwarf galaxies) is a powerful probe of the nature of DM. We propose a novel scheme to probe the inner profiles of galaxy subhalos using stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-17 Khyati Malhan , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese

The observation of a massive galaxy with an extremely low dark matter content (i.e. NGC 1277) has posed questions about how such objects form and evolve in a hierarchical universe. We here report on the finding of several massive, dark…

The internal structure and abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos are powerful probes of the nature of dark matter. In order to compare observations with dark matter models, accurate theoretical predictions of these quantities are…

Strong gravitational lenses enable direct inference of halo abundance and internal structure, which in turn enable constraints on the nature of dark matter and the primordial matter power spectrum. However, the density profiles of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu , Andrew Benson , Charles Gannon

Recent observations suggest that Carina and other nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies are surrounded by unbound stars tidally stripped by the Milky Way. We run high-resolution N-Body simulations of dwarf galaxies orbiting within the Milky Way…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Mayer , Ben Moore , Thomas Quinn , Fabio Governato , Joachim Stadel

We test the hypothesis that globular clusters form in supergiant molecular clouds within high-redshift galaxies. Numerical simulations demonstrate that such large, dense, and cold gas clouds assemble naturally in current hierarchical models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-27 Oleg Y. Gnedin , Jose L. Prieto

We use a fully GPU $N$-body code to demonstrate that dark matter minihalos, as a new component of globular clusters, resolve both the timing and cusp-core problems in Fornax if the five (or six) globular clusters were recently accreted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Pierre Boldrini , Roya Mohayaee , Joseph Silk

Recent observational studies have revealed star-to-star abundance inhomogeneity among light elements (e.g., C, N, O, Na, and Al) of stars on the main sequence in the Galactic globular clusters (GCs). One of promising interpretations for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenji Bekki

The infall of the Sagittarius (Sgr) Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in the Milky Way halo is an unique opportunity to understand how the different components of a dwarf galaxy could be tidally removed. In this work, we reconstruct the Sgr core…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Hai-Feng Wang , Francois Hammer , Yan-Bin Yang , Jian-Ling Wang

The Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) represents a challenge for some globular cluster (GC) formation models, because an exceptionally high fraction of its stellar mass is locked in its GC system. In order to shed light on our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Giuliano Iorio , Francesco Calura , Carlo Nipoti , Marcello Cantari

Despite the rapid observational progress in the study of young massive star clusters, the formation of globular clusters still remains poorly understood. Yet, it is emerging that globular cluster formation is intimately linked to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oleg Y. Gnedin

The internal structure of dark matter haloes encodes their assembly history and offers critical insight into the nature of dark matter and structure formation. Analytical studies and high-resolution simulations have recently predicted the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Yuchan Wang , Sownak Bose , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins

The current generation of galaxy simulations can resolve individual giant molecular clouds, the progenitors of dense star clusters. But the evolutionary fate of these young massive clusters, and whether they can become the old globular…

In previous papers of this series, we developed a new algorithm for modeling the formation of star clusters in galaxy formation simulations. Here we investigate how dissolution of bound star clusters affects the shape of the cluster mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-21 Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We have investigated the effect of the number of primordial binaries on the relationship between the total number of detected binaries within globular cluster and its collision rate. We have used simulated populations of binary stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Gendre

We investigate the effects of numerous dark matter subhalos in a galaxy-sized halo on the events of strong lensing, to assess their presence as expected from the cold dark matter scenario. Lens galaxies are represented by a smooth ellipsoid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masashi Chiba

Both simulations and observations have found that the spin of halo/galaxy is correlated with the large scale environment, and particularly the spin of halo flips in filament. A consistent picture of halo spin evolution in different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Peng Wang , Xi Kang

Stellar tidal streams are sensitive tracers of the properties of the gravitational potential in which they orbit and detailed observations of their density structure can be used to place stringent constraints on fluctuations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Nilanjan Banik , Jo Bovy

Using a new physical model for star formation (Padoan 1995) we have tested the possibility that globular clusters (GCs) are formed from primordial mass fluctuations, whose mass scale ($10^8$ - $10^9$ M$_{\odot}$) is selected out of a CDM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Padoan , Raul Jimenez , Bernard Jones
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