A mass-dependent density profile for dark matter haloes including the influence of galaxy formation

Abstract

We introduce a mass dependent density profile to describe the distribution of dark matter within galaxies, which takes into account the stellar-to-halo mass dependence of the response of dark matter to baryonic processes. The study is based on the analysis of hydrodynamically simulated galaxies from dwarf to Milky Way mass, drawn from the MaGICC project, which have been shown to match a wide range of disk scaling relationships. We find that the best fit parameters of a generic double power-law density profile vary in a systematic manner that depends on the stellar-to-halo mass ratio of each galaxy. Thus, the quantity Mstar/Mhalo constrains the inner ($\gamma$) and outer ($\beta$) slopes of dark matter density, and the sharpness of transition between the slopes($\alpha$), reducing the number of free parameters of the model to two. Due to the tight relation between stellar mass and halo mass, either of these quantities is sufficient to describe the dark matter halo profile including the effects of baryons. The concentration of the haloes in the hydrodynamical simulations is consistent with N-body expectations up to Milky Way mass galaxies, at which mass the haloes become twice as concentrated as compared with pure dark matter runs. This mass dependent density profile can be directly applied to rotation curve data of observed galaxies and to semi analytic galaxy formation models as a significant improvement over the commonly used NFW profile.

10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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