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most citedCore-collapse, evaporation and tidal effects: the life story of a self-interacting dark matter subhalo

77 citations · 224 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Feeding the Void: Co-evolution of the SIDM-seeded Black Hole and the dark halo after core-collapse

Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, Louis E. Strigari +3

While the gravothermal collapse of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos provides a compelling mechanism for seeding supermassive black holes (BHs), the post-collapse macroscop…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Sensitivity of Substructure Lensing to SIDM Core-collapse Model Variation

Charlie Mace, Birendra Dhanasingham, Zhichao Carton Zeng +4

Strong gravitational lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of dark matter substructure, and shows particularly strong promise as a test of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). Th…

astro-ph.GA2026

Bypassed Core Formation in Milky Way-Mass SIDM Halos: Implications for the Local Group Past-Pericenter Scenario

Zhichao Carton Zeng, Odelia V. Hartl, Louis E. Strigari +4

We consider a scenario in which the Milky Way (MW) and M31 have had a previous pericentric passage, and investigate its compatibility with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). Usin…

astro-ph.GA2026

MARVELously Dark: the density profile evolution of dwarf halos in velocity-dependent SIDM

Anna Engelhardt, Ferah Munshi, Annika H. G. Peter +6

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with a sufficiently large cross section has been shown to naturally produce constant dark matter (DM) cores, as well as core-collapse, at the ce…

astro-ph.GA2025

Calibrating the SIDM Gravothermal Catastrophe with N-body Simulations

Charlie Mace, Shengqi Yang, Zhichao Carton Zeng +3

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theories predict that dark matter halos experience core-collapse in late-stage evolution, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increa…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Diversity and universality: evolution of dwarf galaxies with self-interacting dark matter

Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, Xiaolong Du +4

Dark matter halos with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) experience a unique evolutionary phenomenon, in that their central regions eventually collapse to high density through th…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 21 cited

Tidal evolution of cored and cuspy dark matter halos

Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Zhichao Carton Zeng +9

The internal structure and abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos are powerful probes of the nature of dark matter. In order to compare observations with dark matter models, a…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Convergence Tests of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Simulations

Charlie Mace, Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter +4

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theory predicts that dark matter halos experience core-collapse, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decrea…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Till the core collapses: the evolution and properties of self-interacting dark matter subhalos

Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, Xiaolong Du +6

One of the hottest questions in the cosmology of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is whether scatterings can induce detectable core-collapse in halos by the present day. Because…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

A quantitative comparison between velocity dependent SIDM cross sections constrained by the gravothermal and isothermal models

Shengqi Yang, Fangzhou Jiang, Andrew Benson +6

One necessary step for probing the nature of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) particles with astrophysical observations is to pin down any possible velocity dependence in the SI…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 42 cited

A semi-analytic study of self-interacting dark-matter haloes with baryons

Fangzhou Jiang, Andrew Benson, Philip F. Hopkins +8

We combine the isothermal Jeans model and the model of adiabatic halo contraction into a simple semi-analytic procedure for computing the density profile of self-interacting dark-m…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 58 cited

Gravothermal solutions of SIDM halos: mapping from constant to velocity-dependent cross section

Shengqi Yang, Xiaolong Du, Zhichao Carton Zeng +4

The scale-free gravothermal fluid formalism has long proved effective in describing the evolution of self-interacting dark matter halos with a constant dark matter particle cross s…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 77 cited

Core-collapse, evaporation and tidal effects: the life story of a self-interacting dark matter subhalo

Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, Xiaolong Du +5

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) cosmologies admit an enormous diversity of dark matter (DM) halo density profiles, from low-density cores to high-density core-collapsed cusps.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 16 cited

Effects of neutrino mass and asymmetry on cosmological structure formation

Zhichao Zeng, Shek Yeung, Ming-Chung Chu

Light but massive cosmological neutrinos do not cluster significantly on small scales, due to their high thermal velocities. With finite masses, cosmological neutrinos become part…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 3 cited

Evidence of Neutrino Enhanced Clustering in a Complete Sample of Sloan Survey Clusters, Implying eV

Razieh Emami, Tom Broadhurst, Pablo Jimeno +7

The clustering amplitude of 7143 clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is found to increase with cluster mass, closely agreeing with the Gaussian random field hypothesi…