Baryonic Pinching of Galactic Dark Matter Halos

Abstract

High resolution cosmological N-body simulations of four galaxy-scale dark matter halos are compared to corresponding N-body/hydrodynamical simulations containing dark matter, stars and gas. The simulations without baryons share features with others described in the literature in that the dark matter density slope continuously decreases towards the center, with a density ρ~r^{-1.3+/-0.2}, at about 1% of the virial radius for our Milky Way sized galaxies. The central cusps in the simulations which also contain baryons steepen significantly, to ρ~r^{-1.9+/-0.2}, with an indication of the inner logarithmic slope converging. Models of adiabatic contraction of dark matter halos due to the central build-up of stellar/gaseous galaxies are examined. The simplest and most commonly used model, by Blumenthal et al., is shown to overestimate the central dark matter density considerably. A modified model proposed by Gnedin et al. is shown to be a considerable improvement, but not perfect. Moreover it is found that the contraction parameters not only depend on the orbital structure of the dark-matter-only halos but also on the stellar feedback prescription which is most relevant for the baryonic distribution. Implications for dark matter annihilation at the galactic center are discussed and it is found that although our simulations show a considerable reduced halo contraction as compared to the Blumenthal et al. model, the fluxes from dark matter annihilation is still expected to be enhanced by at least a factor of a hundred as compared to dark-matter-only halos. Finally, it is shown that while dark-matter-only halos are typically prolate, the dark matter halos containing baryons are mildly oblate with minor-to-major axis ratios of c/a=0.73+/-0.11, with their flattening aligned with the central baryonic disks.

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