The Structure and Dynamics of Cold Dark Matter Halos

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dc.creatorMoore, Ben
dc.creatorGhigna, Sebastiano
dc.creatorGovernato, Fabio
dc.creatorLake, George
dc.creatorQuinn, Tom
dc.creatorStadel, Joachim
dc.date1997-11-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:25:13Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:25:13Z
dc.descriptionWe investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the central regions and may not have converged to a unique result. At our highest resolution we have nearly 3 million particles within the virial radius, $R_{200}$, and force softening that is $\sim 0.2% R_{200}$. This resolution has also allowed us to resolve a large part of the overmerging problem - we find over 1000 surviving dark halos orbiting within a single cluster potential. These data have given us unprecedented insights into the dynamics and structure of ``halos within halos'', allowing us for the first time, to compare the distribution of dark matter with observations of galaxies in clusters.
dc.descriptionSummary of results presented at the UC Santa Cruz workshop on "Galactic Halos" and the Potsdam Cosmology Workshop on "Large Scale Structure: Tracts and Traces"
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711259
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711259
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11842
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Structure and Dynamics of Cold Dark Matter Halos
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