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Non-power law behavior of the radial profile of phase-space density of halos

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/014

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galaxy evolution; galaxy formation

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We study the pseudo phase-space density, rho(r)/sigma(3)(r), of Lambda CDM dark matter halos with and without baryons (baryons+DM, and pure DM), by using the model introduced in Del Popolo (2009), which takes into account the effect of dynamical friction, ordered and random angular momentum, baryons adiabatic contraction and dark matter baryons interplay. We examine the radial dependence of rho(r)/sigma(3)(r) over 9 orders of magnitude in radius for structures on galactic and cluster of galaxies scales. We find that rho(r)/sigma(3)(r) is approximately a power-law only in the range of halo radius resolved by current simulations (down to 0.1% of the virial radius) while it has a non-power law behavior below the quoted scale, with inner profiles changing with mass. the non-power-law behavior is more evident for halos constituted both of dark matter and baryons while halos constituted just of dark matter and with angular momentum chosen to reproduce a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profile, are characterized by an approximately power-law behavior. The results of the present paper lead to conclude that density profiles of the NFW type are compatible with a power-law behavior of rho(r)/sigma(3)(r), while those flattening to the halo center, like those found in Del Popolo (2009) or the Einasto profile, or the Burkett profile, cannot produce radial profile of the pseudo-phase-space density that are power-laws at all radii. The results argue against universality of the pseudo phase-space density and as a consequence argue against universality of density profiles constituted by dark matter and baryons as also discussed in Del Popolo (2009).

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