The Distribution of Dark Matter in Spirals

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2005-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510123v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 Fig. Invited Talk at 21st IAP Colloquium." Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures", 4-9 July 2005

Scientific paper

10.1051/eas:2006051

In the past years a wealth of observations allowed to unravel the structural properties of the Dark Matter Halos around spirals. First, their rotation curves follow an Universal profile (URC) that can be described in terms of an exponential thin stellar disk and a dark halo with a constant density core, whose relative importance increases with galaxy luminosity. Careful studies of individual objects reveal that dark halos have a core, whose size $r_0$ correlates with the central density $\rho_0$. These properties are in serious discrepancy with the cuspy density distribution predicted by N-body simulations in collisionless $\Lambda$CDM Cosmology.

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