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Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theory predicts that dark matter halos experience core-collapse, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. The N-body simulations used to study this…

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,…

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We perform a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way (MW)--like system, which includes a realistic Large Magellanic Cloud analog, using a large differential elastic dark matter self-interaction cross section that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

Current data suggest that the central mass densities $\rho_0$ and phase-space densities $Q\equiv\rho_0/\sigma_V^3$ of cosmological halos in the present universe are correlated with their velocity dispersions $\sigma_V$ over a very wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev

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

High-resolution N--body simulations show a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed through dissipationless hierarchical clustering. Independent of halo mass, power spectrum, and cosmological parameters, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Julio F. Navarro

We present an improved semi-analytical model to predict density profiles of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos and apply it to constrain the self-scattering cross section using SPARC galaxy rotation curves. Building on the isothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Zixiang Jia , Fangzhou Jiang , Shubo Li , Ran Li , Jing Wang , Ling Zhu

We present a comprehensive series of dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of density distribution in equal-mass mergers between dark matter (DM) halos and multicomponent galaxies. The DM halo models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stelios Kazantzidis , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We use numerical simulations in a Lambda CDM cosmology to model density profiles in a set of 16 dark matter haloes with resolutions of up to 7 million particles within the virial radius. These simulations allow us to follow robustly the…

We investigate the effect of long-range scalar interactions in dark matter (DM) models of cosmic structure formation with a particular focus on the formation times of haloes. Utilising $N$-body simulations with $512^3$ DM particles we show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-20 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Steffen R. Knollmann , Alexander Knebe

Dark matter (DM) haloes forming near the thermal cut-off scale of the density perturbations are unique, since they are the smallest objects and form through monolithic gravitational collapse, while larger haloes contrastingly have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Go Ogiya , Oliver Hahn

Using observational data for a sample of dark matter dominated galaxies and two cluster of galaxies, we have found that the central halo density does not depend on its mass, and the core radius is roughly proportional to the maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Avila-Reese , C. Firmani , E. D'Onghia , X. Hernandez

Using a simple analytic formalism, we demonstrate that significant dark matter self-interactions produce halo cores that obey scaling relations nearly independent of the underlying particle physics parameters such as the annihilation cross…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Henry W. Lin , Abraham Loeb

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

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an able alternative to collisionless dark matter. If dark matter does have self-interactions, we would expect this to cause a separation between the collisionless stars and the dark matter halo of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-10 Kris Pardo , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

It has been proposed that gravothermal collapse due to dark matter self-interactions (i.e. self-interacting dark matter, SIDM) can explain the observed diversity of the Milky Way (MW) satellites' central dynamical masses. We investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Hannah C. Turner , Mark R. Lovell , Jesús Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger

We examine the effect of primordial dark matter velocity dispersion and/or particle self-interactions on the structure and stability of galaxy halos, especially with respect to the formation of substructure and central density cusps.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Craig J. Hogan , Julianne J. Dalcanton

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 Stuart L. Shapiro

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theories predict that dark matter halos experience core-collapse in late-stage evolution, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. This process can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-11 Charlie Mace , Shengqi Yang , Zhichao Carton Zeng , Annika H. G. Peter , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson

We analyze strongly lensed images in 8 galaxy clusters to measure their dark matter density profiles in the radial region between 10 kpc and 150 kpc, and use this to constrain the self-interaction cross section of dark matter (DM)…

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