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Structure of Dark Matter Halo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Toshiyuki Fukushige
Affiliation:
College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan fukushig@chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Junichiro Makino
Affiliation:
College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan fukushig@chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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We performed N-body simulation on special-purpose computer, GRAPE-4, to investigate the structure of dark matter halos (Fukushige, T. and Makino, J. 1997, ApJL, 477, L9). Universal profile proposed by Navarro, Frenk, and White (1996, ApJ, 462, 563), which has cusp with density profiles ρ ∝ r−1 in density profile, cannot be reproduced in the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) picture of hierarchical clustering. Previous claims to the contrary were based on simulations with relatively few particles, and substantial softening. We performed simulations with particle numbers an order of magnitude higher, and essentially no softening, and found that typical central density profiles are clearly steeper than ρ ∝ r−1, as shown in Figure 1. In addition, we confirm the presence of a temperature inversion in the inner 5 kpc of massive galactic halos, and give a natural explanation for formation of the temperature structure.

Type
III. Galaxy Formation and Evolution
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Copyright © Kluwer 1999