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We investigate the influence of the external tidal field of a dark matter halo on the dynamical evolution of star clusters using direct N-body simulations, where we assume that the halo is described by a Navarro, Frenk & White mass profile…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 A. K. Praagman , J. R. Hurley , C. Power

We present an extensive parameter survey to study the influence of halo mass profiles on the development of tidal tails in interacting disk galaxies. We model the galaxies using a fixed exponential disk with a central bulge and vary the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Dubinski , J. Christopher Mihos , Lars Hernquist

We simulate the tidal disruption of a collisionless N-body globular star cluster in a total of 300 different orbits selected to have galactocentric radii between 10 and 30 kpc in four dark matter halos: (a) a spherical halo with no…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Wayne Ngan , Raymond G. Carlberg , Brandon Bozek , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Alexander S. Szalay , Piero Madau

Dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations are affected by processes such as mergers, accretion and the gravitational interaction with baryonic matter. Typically the analysis of dark matter haloes is performed in spherical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-26 Martin Sparre , Steen H. Hansen

We study the effect of stellar mass segregation driven by collisional relaxation within the potential well of a smooth dark matter halo. This effect is of particular relevance for old stellar systems with short crossing times, where small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-03 Raphaël Errani , Jorge Peñarrubia , Matthew G. Walker

To gain understanding of the complicated, non-linear and numerical processes associated with the tidal evolution of dark matter subhaloes in numerical simulation, we perform a large suite of idealized simulations that follow individual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 Frank C. van den Bosch , Go Ogiya

We present a set of N-body simulations of a class of models in which an unstable dark matter particle decays into a stable non-interacting dark matter particle, with decay lifetime comparable to the Hubble time. We study the effects of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mei-Yu Wang , Annika H. G. Peter , Louis E. Strigari , Andrew R. Zentner , Bryan Arant , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Miguel Rocha

A fully analytical formulation is developed to make dynamical friction modeling more realistic. The rate for a satellite to decay its orbit in a host galaxy halo is often severely overestimated when applying ChandraSekhar's formula without…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 HongSheng Zhao

Intermediate mass stars and stellar remnants often host planets, and these dynamical systems evolve because of mass loss and tides. This paper considers the combined action of stellar mass loss and tidal dissipation on planetary orbits in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch

We use simulations of merging galaxies to explore the sensitivity of the morphology of tidal tails to variations of the halo mass distributions in the parent galaxies. Our goal is to constrain the mass of dark halos in well-known merging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John Dubinski , J. Christopher Mihos , Lars Hernquist

We present a simple, semi-analytical model to compute the mass functions of dark matter subhaloes. The masses of subhaloes at their time of accretion are obtained from a standard merger tree. During the subsequent evolution, the subhaloes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-24 Frank C. van den Bosch , G. Tormen , C. Giocoli

Tidal gravitational forces can modify the shape of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, thus correlating their orientation with the surrounding matter density field. We study the dependence of this phenomenon, known as intrinsic alignment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Davide Piras , Benjamin Joachimi , Björn Malte Schäfer , Mario Bonamigo , Stefan Hilbert , Edo van Uitert

We study the spherical collapse model in the presence of external gravitational tidal shear fields for different dark energy scenarios and investigate the impact on the mass function and cluster number counts. While previous studies of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-12 Robert Reischke , Francesco Pace , Sven Meyer , Björn Malte Schäfer

We study tidal stripping of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) subhalo cores using simulations of the Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson equations and analyze the dynamics of tidal disruption, highlighting the differences with standard cold dark matter. Mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-08 Xiaolong Du , Bodo Schwabe , Jens C. Niemeyer , David Bürger

This is the second in a series of papers presenting the results of fully general relativistic simulations of stellar tidal disruptions in which the stars' initial states are realistic main-sequence models. We consider eight different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-14 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble

Tides are the main driving force behind the long-term evolution of planetary systems. The associated energy dissipation and momentum exchanges are commonly described by Love numbers, which relate the exciting potential to the tidally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Gwenaël Boué , Baptiste Loire

We explore the dynamical restrictions on the structure of dark matter halos through a study of cosmological self-similar gravitational collapse solutions. A fluid approach to the collisionless dynamics of dark matter is developed and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kandaswamy Subramanian

Most of the mass content of dark matter haloes is expected to be in the form of tidal debris. The density of debris is not constant, but rather can grow due to formation of caustics at the apocenters and pericenters of the orbit, or decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Niayesh Afshordi , Roya Mohayaee , Edmund Bertschinger

The halo-mediated inverse mass cascade is a key feature of the intermediate statistically steady state for self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow (SG-CFD). A broad spectrum of halos and halo groups are necessary to form from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Zhijie Xu

In this paper we carry out anisotropic "separate universe" simulations by including a large-scale tidal field in the N-body code \textsc{gadget}4 using an anisotropic expansion factor $A_{ij}$. We use the code in a pure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Andreas S. Schmidt , Simon D. M. White , Fabian Schmidt , Jens Stücker