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Erasing Dark Matter Cusps In Cosmological Galactic Halos With Baryons, Emilio Romano-Diaz, Isaac Shlosman, Yehuda Hoffman, Clayton Heller
Erasing Dark Matter Cusps In Cosmological Galactic Halos With Baryons, Emilio Romano-Diaz, Isaac Shlosman, Yehuda Hoffman, Clayton Heller
Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
We study the central dark matter (DM) cusp evolution in cosmologically grown galactic halos. Numerical models with and without baryons (baryons+DM, hereafter BDM model, and pure DM, PDM model, respectively) are advanced from identical initial conditions, obtained using the Constrained Realization method. The DM cusp properties are contrasted by a direct comparison of pure DM and baryonic models. We find a divergent evolution between the PDM and BDM models within the inner few × 10 kpc region. The PDM model forms an R−1 cusp as expected, while the DM in the BDM model forms a larger isothermal cusp R …