Cosmic structures from a mathematical perspective. I: Dark matter halo mass density profiles

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02715-WMaRDI QIDQ776793zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jenny Wagner

Publication date 13 July 2020

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00960

zbMATH Keywords

clustersgravitational lensingcosmologydark mattergalaxiesmass functionintracluster medium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: The shapes of individual self-gravitating structures of an ensemble of identical, collisionless particles have remained elusive for decades. In particular, a reason why mass density profiles like the Navarro-Frenk-White or the Einasto profile are good fits to simulation- and observation-based dark matter halos has not been found. Given the class of three dimensional, spherically symmetric power-law probability density distributions to locate individual particles in the ensemble mentioned above, we derive the constraining equation for the power-law index for the most and least likely joint ensemble configurations. We find that any dark matter halo can be partitioned into three regions: a core, an intermediate part, and an outskirts part up to boundary radius $r_{m}athrmmax$. The power-law index of the core is determined by the mean radius of the particle distribution within the core. The intermediate region becomes isothermal in the limit of infinitely many particles. The slope of the mass density profile far from the centre is determined by the choice of $r_{m}athrmmax$ with respect to the outmost halo particle, such that two typical limiting cases arise that explain the $r^{-3}$-slope for galaxy-cluster outskirts and the $r^{-4}$-slope for galactic outskirts. Hence, we succeed in deriving the mass density profiles of common fitting functions from a general viewpoint. These results also allow to find a simple explanation for the cusp-core-problem and to separate the halo description from its dynamics.

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