Formation and structure of halos in a warm dark matter cosmology

Abstract

(Abridged) Using high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations, we study how the density profiles of dark matter halos are affected by the filtering of the density power spectrum below a given scale length and by the introduction of a thermal velocity dispersion. In the warm dark matter (WDM) scenario, both the free-streaming scale, R_f, and the velocity dispersion, v_w, are determined by the mass m_w of the WDM particle. We find that v_w is too small to affect the density profiles of WDM halos. Down to the resolution attained in our simulations, there is not any significant difference in the density profiles and concentrations of halos obtained in simulations with and without the inclusion of v_w. The density profiles of halos with masses down to ~0.01 the filtering mass M_f can be described by the NFW shape; significant soft cores are not formed. Nevertheless, the concentrations of these halos are lower than those of the CDM counterparts and are approximately independent of mass. The lower concentrations of WDM halos with respect to their CDM counterparts can be accounted for their late formation epoch. Overall, our results point to a series of advantages of a WDM model over the CDM one. In addition to solving the substructure problem, a WDM model with R_f~0.16 Mpc (m_w~0.75 kev; flat cosmology with Omega_L=h=0.7) also predicts concentrations, a Tully-Fisher relation, and formation epochs for small halos which seems to be in better agreement with observations, relative to CDM predictions.

Accepted for publication in ApJ. 34 pages, figs. 1a,1b, and 1c given in separate files (high resolution versions available at ftp://ftp.astroscu.unam.mx/pub/temporal/). Major modifications after referees Report (more simulations and new figures are presented), but main conclusions remain the same

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