Dark matter density profiles: a comparison of nonextensive theory with N-body simulations

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20065151MaRDI QIDQ3408431zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors T. Kronberger, M. P. Leubner, Eelco van Kampen

Publication date 1 November 2006

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603602

zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body simulationsdark mattergalaxies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: Density profiles of simulated galaxy cluster-sized dark matter haloes are analysed in the context of a recently introduced nonextensive theory of dark matter and gas density distributions. Nonextensive statistics accounts for long-range interactions in gravitationally coupled systems and is derived from the fundamental concept of entropy generalisation. The simulated profiles are determined down to radii of ~1% of R_200. The general trend of the relaxed, spherically averaged profiles is accurately reproduced by the theory. For the main free parameter kappa, measuring the degree of coupling within the system, and linked to physical quantities as the heat capacity and the polytropic index of the self-gravitating ensembles, we find a value of -15. The significant advantage over empirical fitting functions is provided by the physical content of the nonextensive approach.

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