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We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in {\Lambda}CDM haloes that collect into galaxies. This 'galaxy formation…

We present high-accuracy rotation curves, which show a steep nuclear rise and high-velocity central rotation, followed by a broad maximum in the disk and flat part. We use the rotation curves to directly calculate the radial distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiaki Sofue

Using N-body simulations we study the phenomenon of radial orbit instability occurring in dark matter haloes of the size of a dwarf galaxy. We carried out simulations of seven spherical models, with the same standard NFW density profile but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-21 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas , Radoslaw Wojtak

Dwarf galaxies are good candidates to investigate the nature of Dark Matter, because their kinematics are dominated by this component down to small galactocentric radii. We present here the results of detailed kinematic analysis and mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 Noemi Frusciante , Paolo Salucci , Daniele Vernieri , John M. Cannon , Ed C. Elson

We present a model for gas heating, driven by dynamical friction from orbiting subhalos within dark matter halos. Using data from the TNG50 simulation, we derive the subhalo mass function and calculate the dynamical friction heating rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Zhenyu Wu , Sadegh Khochfar , Muhammad A. Latif , Ben Morton , Britton Smith

Dark matter halos with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) experience a unique evolutionary phenomenon, in that their central regions eventually collapse to high density through the runaway gravothermal process after initially forming a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 Zhichao Carton Zeng , Annika H. G. Peter , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Jiaxuan Li , Charlie Mace , Shengqi Yang

The best measured rotation curve for any galaxy is that of the dwarf spiralXXXX DDO 154, which extends out to about 20 disk scale lengths. It provides an ideal laboratory for testing the universal density profile prediction from high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Burkert , J. Silk

We construct a model for the Galactic globular cluster system based on a realistic gravitational potential and a distribution function (DF) analytic in the action integrals. The DF comprises disc and halo components whose functional forms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 James Binney , Leong Khim Wong

Analyses of halo shapes for disc galaxies are said to give incongruous results. I point out that the modified dynamics (MOND) predicts for disc galaxies a distribution of fictitious dark matter that comprises two components: a pure disc and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Mordehai Milgrom

High-accuracy rotation curves of spiral galaxies show a steep rise in the central few hundred pc region, indicating high concentration of mass toward the center. Using the rotation curves, we idrectly calculate radial distributions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiaki Sofue

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

Dissipative dark matter, such as mirror dark matter and related hidden sector dark matter candidates, requires an energy source to stabilize dark matter halos in spiral galaxies. It has been proposed previously that supernovae could be the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 R. Foot

The rotation curves of regularly rotating disc galaxies are a unique probe of the gravitational potential and dark matter distribution. Until recently, matter decomposition of rotation curves at $z>0.5$ was challenging, not only due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

The dissipative infall of gas during the formation of a galaxy modifies the density profile and shape of the dark halo. Gas dissipates energy radiatively and sinks to the center of the dark halo forming the luminous part of a galaxy. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 John Dubinski

We investigate the dynamical friction (DF) acting on circularly-moving perturbers in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) backgrounds. After condensation, FDM is described by a single wave function satisfying a Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation. An…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Robin Buehler , Vincent Desjacques

We report on results of N-body simulations aimed at testing the hypothesis that galaxies in X-ray emitting (i.e., virialized) Compact Groups are not tidally stripped when they are embedded in a common, massive, quiescent dark matter halo.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. A. Gomez-Flechoso , R. Dominguez-Tenreiro

The rotation curves of spiral galaxies exhibit a great diversity that challenge our understanding of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter. Previous studies showed that in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models with a cross…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 M. Grant Roberts , Manoj Kaplinghat , Mauro Valli , Hai-Bo Yu

We show that a universe dominated by cold dark matter fails to reproduce the rotation curves of dark matter dominated galaxies, one of the key problems that it was designed to resolve. We perform numerical simulations of the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ben Moore , Tom Quinn , Fabio Governato , Joachim Stadel , George Lake

The dynamical evolution of galaxies in clusters is modified if dark matter is self-interacting. Heat conduction from the hot cluster halo leads to evaporation of the relatively cooler galactic halos. The stellar distribution would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Oleg Y. Gnedin , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by Garc\'ia et al. [R. Garc\'ia et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Tristen Shields , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo , Aakanksha Adya , Calvin Osinga , Ze'ev Vladimir