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20182026
most citedDust in and around galaxies: dust in cluster environments and its impact on gas cooling

57 citations · 217 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Mergers Matter: Gravothermal Collapse in Dwarf Halos with Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Maya Silverman, Abdelaziz Hussein, Arpit Arora +8

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) models with large cross sections at relative velocities below can be tested with dwarf galaxy observations. We ana…

astro-ph.GA2026

Probing Atomic Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies

Lucas S. Mandacarú Guerra, Stephanie O'Neil, Mariangela Lisanti +7

We present the first detailed analysis of the effects of dissipative dark matter on stellar streams. As a concrete example, we generate a cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulati…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Speed Distributions

Ethan Lilie, Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti +14

Direct detection experiments require information about the local dark matter speed distribution to produce constraints on dark matter candidates, or infer their properties in the e…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles

Alex M. Garcia, Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey +23

In this work, we utilize a new suite of Milky Way-mass halos from the DREAMS Project, simulated with Cold Dark Matter (CDM), to quantify the influence of baryon feedback and intrin…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti, Paul Torrey +24

We analyze the properties of satellite galaxies around 1,024 Milky Way-mass hosts from the DREAMS Project, simulated within a CDM cosmology. Utilizing the TNG galaxy-formation m…

astro-ph.GA2025

The DREAMS Project: A New Suite of 1,024 Simulations to Contextualize the Milky Way and Assess Physics Uncertainties

Jonah C. Rose, Mariangela Lisanti, Paul Torrey +17

We introduce a new suite of 1,024 cosmological and hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-mass halos, run with Cold Dark Matter, as part of the DREAMS Project. Each simula…

astro-ph.GA2025

Linking Warm Dark Matter to Merger Tree Histories via Deep Learning Networks

Ilem Leisher, Paul Torrey, Alex M. Garcia +11

Dark matter (DM) halos form hierarchically in the Universe through a series of merger events. Cosmological simulations can represent this series of mergers as a graph-like ``tree''…

astro-ph.GA2025

Finding the boundary: Using galaxy membership to inform galaxy cluster extent through machine learning

Christine Hao, Stephanie O'Neil, Mark Vogelsberger +3

The spatial extent of the environment's impact on galaxies marks a transitional region between cluster and field galaxies. We present a data-driven method to identify this region i…

astro-ph.GA2025

Self-interacting dark matter in the center of a Local Group dwarf galaxy and its satellites

Thales A. Gutcke, Giulia Despali, Stephanie O'Neil +3

We present a detailed comparison of a Local Group dwarf galaxy analogue evolved in two cosmological models: the standard CDM and a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model with…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Measuring the splashback feature: Dependence on halo properties and history

Qiaorong S. Yu, Stephanie O'Neil, Xuejian Shen +7

In this study, we define the novel splashback depth and width to examine how the splashback features of dark matter haloes are affected by the physical…

astro-ph.CO2025

Supersizing hydrodynamical simulations of reionization using perturbative techniques

Wenzer Qin, Katelin Schutz, Olivia Rosenstein +2

We show that perturbative techniques inspired by effective field theory (EFT) can be used to "paint on" the 21~cm field during reionization using only the underlying linear density…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Core collapse in resonant self-interacting dark matter across two decades in halo mass

Vinh Tran, Xuejian Shen, Daniel Gilman +5

Core collapse, a process associated with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models, can increase the central density of halos by orders of magnitude with observable consequences f…

astro-ph.CO2025

Structure Formation under Inelastic Two-Component Dark Matter: Halo Statistics and Matter Power Spectra in the High- Universe

Ryan Low, Rakshak Adhikari, Jonah C. Rose +4

We present hydrodynamic simulations of a flavour-mixed two-component dark matter (2cDM) model that utilize IllustrisTNG baryonic physics. The model parameters are explored for two…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The effects of projection on measuring the splashback feature

Xiaoqing Sun, Stephanie O'Neil, Xuejian Shen +1

The splashback radius is a boundary of a halo that separates infalling and accreted matter. This results in a steep drop in the density profile at , which…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

Novel density profile for isothermal cores of dark matter halos

Vinh Tran, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger +5

We present a novel analytic density profile for halos in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models, which accurately captures the isothermal-core configuration, i.e. where both th…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

How DREAMS are made: Emulating Satellite Galaxy and Subhalo Populations with Diffusion Models and Point Clouds

Tri Nguyen, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma +16

The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of upc…

astro-ph.CO2024

Dynamical friction and measurements of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters

Talia M. O'Shea, Josh Borrow, Stephanie O'Neil +1

The splashback radius is one popular method of constraining the size of galaxy clusters, often measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile. How…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Gravothermal Catastrophe in Resonant Self-interacting Dark Matter Models

Vinh Tran, Daniel Gilman, Mark Vogelsberger +3

We investigate a self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) model featuring a velocity-dependent cross section with an order-of-magnitude resonant enhancement of the cross section at $\si…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Introducing the DREAMS Project: DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine learning and Simulations

Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +27

We introduce the DREAMS project, an innovative approach to understanding the astrophysical implications of alternative dark matter models and their effects on galaxy formation and…

astro-ph.CO2024

Varying primordial state fractions in exo- and endothermic SIDM simulations of Milky Way-mass haloes

Aidan Leonard, Stephanie O'Neil, Xuejian Shen +5

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is increasingly studied as a potential solution to small-scale discrepancies between simulations of cold dark matter (CDM) and observations. We…

astro-ph.GA2023

How time weathers galaxies: The temporal impact of the cluster environment on galaxy formation and evolution

Stephanie O'Neil, Josh Borrow, Mark Vogelsberger +2

We illuminate the altered evolution of galaxies in clusters compared to the field by tracking galaxies in the IllustrisTNG300 simulation as they enter isolated clusters of mass $10…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Inferring Warm Dark Matter Masses with Deep Learning

Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +6

We present a new suite of over 1,500 cosmological N-body simulations with varied Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models ranging from 2.5 to 30 keV. We use these simulations to train Convolu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

Endothermic self-interacting dark matter in Milky Way-like dark matter haloes

Stephanie O'Neil, Mark Vogelsberger, Saniya Heeba +9

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) offers the potential to mitigate some of the discrepancies between simulated cold dark matter (CDM) and observed galactic properties. We introdu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Unraveling the interplay between SIDM and baryons in MW halos: defining where baryons dictate heat transfer

Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey, Mark Vogelsberger +1

We present a new set of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a MW-like galaxy which for the first time include elastic velocity-dependent self interacting dark matter (SIDM) and Ill…