Strong dark matter self-interactions diversify halo populations within and surrounding the milky way

D Yang, EO Nadler, HB Yu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way (MW)–like
system, which includes a realistic Large Magellanic Cloud analog, using a large differential …

Symphony: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation Suites over Four Decades of Host Halo Mass

EO Nadler, P Mansfield, Y Wang, X Du… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present Symphony, a compilation of 262 cosmological, cold-dark-matter-only zoom-in
simulations spanning four decades of host halo mass, from 10 11–10 15 M⊙. This …

Symfind: Addressing the fragility of subhalo finders and revealing the durability of subhalos

P Mansfield, E Darragh-Ford, Y Wang… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A major question in ΛCDM is what this theory actually predicts for the properties of subhalo
populations. Subhalos are difficult to accurately simulate and to find within simulations, and …

Please repeat: Strong lensing of gravitational waves as a probe of compact binary and galaxy populations

F Xu, JM Ezquiaga, DE Holz - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational wave sources offers a novel probe of both the
lens galaxy and the binary source population. In particular, the strong lensing event rate and …

Motivations for a large self-interacting dark matter cross-section from Milky Way satellites

M Silverman, JS Bullock, M Kaplinghat… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We explore the properties of Milky Way (MW) subhaloes in self-interacting dark matter
models for moderate cross-sections of 1–5 cm2 g− 1 using high-resolution zoom-in N-body …

Snowmass2021 cosmic frontier white paper: dark matter physics from halo measurements

K Bechtol, S Birrer, FY Cyr-Racine, K Schutz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound
overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities …

Detailed chemical abundances of stars in the outskirts of the Tucana II ultrafaint dwarf galaxy

A Chiti, A Frebel, AP Ji, MK Mardini, X Ou… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present chemical abundances and velocities of five stars between 0.3 and 1.1 kpc from
the center of the Tucana II ultrafaint dwarf galaxy (UFD) from high-resolution Magellan/MIKE …

Milky Way satellite census. IV. Constraints on decaying dark matter from observations of Milky Way satellite galaxies

S Mau, EO Nadler, RH Wechsler… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We use a recent census of the Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxy population to constrain the
lifetime of particle dark matter (DM). We consider two-body decaying dark matter (DDM) in …

Cosmological and idealized simulations of dark matter haloes with velocity-dependent, rare and frequent self-interactions

MS Fischer, L Kasselmann, M Brüggen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Dark matter self-interactions may have the capability to solve or at least mitigate small-scale
problems of the cosmological standard model, Lambda cold dark matter. There are a variety …

The agora high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project. v. satellite galaxy populations in a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a milky way–mass halo

M Jung, S Roca-Fàbrega, J Kim, A Genina… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze and compare the satellite halo populations at z∼ 2 in the high-resolution
cosmological zoom-in simulations of a 10 12 M⊙ target halo (z= 0 mass) carried out on …