4 papers
Role of prompt cusps in driving the core collapse of SIDM halos
Vinh Tran, Daniel Gilman, M. Sten Delos +4
Prompt cusps (PCs) form from the direct collapse of overdensities in the early Universe, reside at the center of every dark matter halo, and have density profiles steeper than $r^{…
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…
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…
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…