Small-Scale Challenges to the Λ CDM Paradigm

JS Bullock, M Boylan-Kolchin - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The dark energy plus cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model has been a
demonstrably successful framework for predicting and explaining the large-scale structure of …

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

LV Sales, A Wetzel, A Fattahi - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Galaxies and their dark-matter haloes have posed several challenges to the dark energy
plus cold dark matter (Λ CDM) cosmological model. These discrepancies between …

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

JC Phillips, R Braun, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high‐performance simulation of
large biomolecular systems. NAMD scales to hundreds of processors on high‐end parallel …

Cosmic star-formation history

P Madau, M Dickinson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Over the past two decades, an avalanche of new data from multiwavelength imaging and
spectroscopic surveys has revolutionized our view of galaxy formation and evolution. Here …

Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

M Boylan-Kolchin, JS Bullock… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We show that dissipationless Λ cold dark matter simulations predict that the majority of the
most massive subhaloes of the Milky Way are too dense to host any of its bright satellites …

The Aquarius Project: the subhaloes of galactic haloes

V Springel, J Wang, M Vogelsberger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We have performed the largest ever particle simulation of a Milky Way sized dark matter
halo, and present the most comprehensive convergence study for an individual dark matter …

Dark matter direct-detection experiments

TM Undagoitia, L Rauch - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to
directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved …

Dark matter halos in the standard cosmological model: Results from the bolshoi simulation

AA Klypin, S Trujillo-Gomez… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) is now the standard theory of structure
formation in the universe. We present the first results from the new Bolshoi dissipationless …

Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millennium-II Simulation

M Boylan-Kolchin, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We present the Millennium-II Simulation (MS-II), a very large N-body simulation of dark
matter evolution in the concordance Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology. The MS-II …