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Hierarchical Formation of Dark Matter Halos near the Cutoff Scale and Their Impact on Indirect Detections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2016
Abstract
The smallest dark matter halos are formed first in the early universe (e.g., Hofmann et al. 2001; Berezinsky et al. 2003; Ishiyama et al. 2010). We present results of very large cosmological N-body simulations of the hierarchical formation and evolution of halos over a wide mass range, beginning from the formation of the smallest halos. In the largest simulation, the motions of 40963 particles in comoving boxes of side lengths 400 pc and 200 pc were followed. The particle masses were 3.4 × 10−11M⊙ and 4.3 × 10−12M⊙, ensuring that halos at the cutoff scale were represented by 30,000 and 230,000 particles, respectively. We found that the central density cusp is much steeper in these halos than in larger halos (dwarf-galaxy-sized to cluster-sized halos), and scales as ρ ∝ r-(1.5–1.3). The cusp slope gradually becomes shallower as the halo mass increases.The slope of halos 50 times more massive than the smallest halo is approximately −1.3. No strong correlation exists between inner slope and the collapse epoch. The cusp slope of halos above the cutoff scale seems to be reduced primarily due to major merger processes. The concentration, estimated at the present universe, is predicted to be 60–70, consistent with theoretical models and earlier simulations, and ruling out simple power law mass-concentration relations. Such halos could still exist in the present universe with the same steep density profiles. Strongly depending on the subhalo mass function and the adopted concentration model, the steeper inner cusps of halos near the cutoff scale enhance the annihilation luminosity of a Milky Way sized halo between 12 to 67 (Ishiyama 2014).
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , General Assembly A29B: Astronomy in Focus , August 2015 , pp. 742
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