Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-02-16
Astrophys.J.535:L21-L24,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, submitted to ApJLetters. Further simulation details at http://www.nbody.net (www.nbody.net)
Scientific paper
10.1086/312692
We compare the structure and substructure of dark matter halos in model universes dominated by collisional, strongly self interacting dark matter (SIDM) and collisionless, weakly interacting dark matter (CDM). While SIDM virialised halos are more nearly spherical than CDM halos, they can be rotationally flattened by as much as 20% in their inner regions. Substructure halos suffer ram-pressure truncation and drag which are more rapid and severe than their gravitational counterparts tidal stripping and dynamical friction. Lensing constraints on the size of galactic halos in clusters are a factor of two smaller than predicted by gravitational stripping, and the recent detection of tidal streams of stars escaping from the satellite galaxy Carina suggests that its tidal radius is close to its optical radius of a few hundred parsecs --- an order of magnitude smaller than predicted by CDM models but consistent with SIDM. The orbits of SIDM satellites suffer significant velocity bias $\sigma_{SIDM}/\sigma_{CDM}=0.85$ and are more circular than CDM, $\beta_{SIDM}} \approx 0.5$, in agreement with the inferred orbits of the Galaxy's satellites. In the limit of a short mean free path, SIDM halos have singular isothermal density profiles, thus in its simplest incarnation SIDM is inconsistent with galactic rotation curves.
Gelato Sergio
Jenkins Adrian
Moore Ben
Pearce Frazer R.
Quilis Vicent
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