A white paper on keV sterile neutrino dark matter

R Adhikari, M Agostini, NA Ky, T Araki… - … of cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive review of keV-scale sterile neutrino Dark Matter, collecting
views and insights from all disciplines involved—cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear, and …

Small scale problems of the ΛCDM model: a short review

A Del Popolo, M Le Delliou - Galaxies, 2017 - mdpi.com
The ΛCDM model, or concordance cosmology, as it is often called, is a paradigm at its
maturity. It is clearly able to describe the universe at large scale, even if some issues remain …

Cold dark matter: controversies on small scales

DH Weinberg, JS Bullock… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model has been remarkably successful in
explaining cosmic structure over an enormous span of redshift, but it has faced persistent …

Primordial black holes as generators of cosmic structures

B Carr, J Silk - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide the dark matter in various mass windows below
102 M⊙ and those of 30 M⊙ might explain the LIGO events. PBHs much larger than this …

The impact of baryonic physics on the structure of dark matter haloes: the view from the FIRE cosmological simulations

TK Chan, D Kereš, J Oñorbe, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We study the distribution of cold dark matter (CDM) in cosmological simulations from the
FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments) project, for M*∼ 104–11 M⊙ galaxies in M h∼ …

Forged in fire: cusps, cores and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies

J Oñorbe, M Boylan-Kolchin, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present multiple ultrahigh resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of M⋆≃
104–6.3 Mȯ dwarf galaxies that form within two M vir= 109.5–10 Mȯ dark matter halo initial …

Dark matter cores all the way down

JI Read, O Agertz, MLM Collins - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We use high-resolution simulations of isolated dwarf galaxies to study the physics of dark
matter cusp-core transformations at the edge of galaxy formation: M 200= 107–109 M⊙. We …

Be it therefore resolved: cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies with 30 solar mass resolution

C Wheeler, PF Hopkins, AB Pace… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study a suite of extremely high-resolution cosmological Feedback in Realistic
Environments simulations of dwarf galaxies (), run to z= 0 with resolution, sufficient (for the …

ELVIS: Exploring the local volume in simulations

S Garrison-Kimmel, M Boylan-Kolchin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a set of high-resolution dissipationless simulations that model the Local Group
(LG) in a cosmological context: Exploring the Local Volume in Simulations (ELVIS). The …

Core formation in dwarf haloes with self-interacting dark matter: no fine-tuning necessary

OD Elbert, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the effect of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) on the density profiles of V
max≃ 40km s− 1 isolated dwarf dark matter haloes–the scale of relevance for the too big to …