most citedUniversal scaling laws and density slope for dark matter haloes

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astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Universal scaling laws and density slope for dark matter haloes

Zhijie Xu

Small scale challenges suggest some missing pieces in our understanding of dark matter. A cascade theory for dark matter is proposed to provide extra insights, similar to the casca…

astro-ph.GA2022

The baryonic-to-halo mass relation from mass and energy cascade in self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow

Zhijie Xu

The relation between properties of galaxies and dark matter halos they reside in can be valuable for structure formation and evolution. This paper focus on the baryonic-to-halo mas…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

On a critical acceleration scale of dark matter in Lambda-CDM and dynamical dark energy

Zhijie, Xu

Universal acceleration emerges in various empirical laws, yet its fundamental nature remains unclear. Using Illustris and Virgo N-body simulations, we propose is the sc…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

On the statistical theory of self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow: Scale and redshift variation of velocity and density distributions

Zhijie Xu

This paper studies the scale and redshift variation of density and velocity distributions in self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow by a halo-based non-projection approach…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

Evolution of energy, momentum, and spin parameter in dark matter flow and integral constants of motion

Zhijie Xu

N-body equations of motion in comoving system and expanding background are reformulated in a transformed system with static background and fixed damping. The energy and momentum ev…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

On the statistical theory of self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow: high order kinematic and dynamic relations

Zhijie Xu

To better understand the collisionless dark matter flow on different scales, statistical theory involving kinematic and dynamic relations must be developed for different types of f…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 6 cited

On the statistical theory of self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow

Zhijie Xu

Dark matter, if exists, accounts for five times as much as the ordinary baryonic matter. Compared to hydrodynamic turbulence, the flow of dark matter might possess the widest prese…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

The mean flow, velocity dispersion, energy transfer and evolution of rotating and growing dark matter halos

Zhijie Xu

By decomposing velocity dispersion into non-spin and spin-induced, mean flow and dispersion are analytically solved for axisymmetric rotating and growing halos. The polar flow can…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Inverse energy cascade in self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow and effects of halo shape

Zhijie, Xu

Halo-mediated mass and energy cascades are key to understand dark matter flow. Both cascades origin from the mass exchange between halo and out-of-halo sub-systems. Kinetic energy…

astro-ph.CO2021

Halo mass functions from maximum entropy distributions in collisionless dark matter flow

Zhijie Xu

The halo-mediated inverse mass cascade is a key feature of the intermediate statistically steady state for self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow (SG-CFD). A broad spectru…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 2 cited

Two-body collapse model for self-gravitating flow of dark matter and generalized stable clustering hypothesis for pairwise velocity

Zhijie Xu

Analytical tools are extremely hard to find for non-linear gravitational collpase. Only a few simple but powerful tools exist so far. Two examples are the spherical collapse model…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 8 cited

Maximum entropy distributions of dark matter in CDM cosmology

Zhijie Xu

Small-scale challenges to CDM cosmology require a deeper understanding of dark matter physics.This paper aims to develop maximum entropy distributions for dark matter particle v…

astro-ph.CO2021

Inverse mass cascade in dark matter flow and effects on halo deformation, energy, size, and density profiles

Zhijie, Xu

Inverse mass cascade is a key feature of the intermediate statistically steady state for self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow (SG-CFD). This paper focus on effects of ma…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 6 cited

Universal spectrum and scaling laws for halo mass function, structure, and dark matter mass constraints

Zhijie Xu

Between the linear and nonlinear regimes, we identify a universal transition range centered on a characteristic halo mass , within which gravitational dynamics self…