Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-08-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters, for full sized images, see http://www.itp.uzh.ch/news.html
Scientific paper
We perform a series of simulations of a Galactic mass dark matter halo at different resolutions, our largest uses over three billion particles and has a mass resolution of 1000 M_sun. We quantify the structural properties of the inner dark matter distribution and study how they depend on numerical resolution. We can measure the density profile to a distance of 120 pc (0.05% of R_vir) where the logarithmic slope is -0.8 and -1.4 at (0.5% of R_vir). We propose a new two parameter fitting function that has a linearly varying logarithmic density gradient which fits the GHALO and VL2 density profiles extremely well. Convergence in the density profile and the halo shape scales as N^(-1/3), but the shape converges at a radius three times larger at which point the halo becomes more spherical due to numerical resolution. The six dimensional phase-space profile is dominated by the presence of the substructures and does not follow a power law, except in the smooth under-resolved inner few kpc.
Diemand Jürg
Kuhlen Michael
Madau Piero
Moore Ben
Potter Doug
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