期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 689, 期 1, 页码 L33-L36出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/595783
关键词
dark matter; galaxies: halos; methods: data analysis; methods: numerical
资金
- Danish National Research Foundation
The radial density profile of dark matter structures has been observed to have an almost universal behavior in numerical simulations; however, the physical reason for this behavior remains unclear. It has previously been shown that if the pseudo phase-space density, rho/sigma(epsilon)(d), is a beautifully simple power law in radius, with the golden values epsilon = 3 and d = r (i.e., the phase-space density is only dependent on the radial component of the velocity dispersion), then one can analytically derive the radial variation of the mass profile, dispersion profile, etc. That would imply, if correct, that we just have to explain why, rho/sigma(3)(r) similar to r(-alpha), and then we would understand everything about equilibrated DM structures. Here we use a set of simulated galaxies and clusters of galaxies to demonstrate that there are no such golden values, but that each structure instead has its own set of values. Considering the same structure at different redshifts shows no evolution of the phase-space parameters toward fixed points. There is also no clear connection between the halo virialized mass and these parameters. This implies that we still do not understand the origin of the profiles of dark matter structures.
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