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孤立自相互作用暗物质晕的重力热坍缩:N体模拟与流体模型

Gravothermal collapse of isolated self-interacting dark matter haloes: N-body simulation versus the fluid model

Jun Koda, Paul R. Shapiro

摘要:

自相互作用暗物质(SIDM)是冷暗物质(CDM)的一种碰撞形式,最初被提出来解决当结构形成的无碰撞CDM理论与小尺度星系的观测进行比较时出现的问题。所提出的弹性碰撞对结构形成的定量影响已经估计以前的Monte Carlo N-体模拟和导电流体模型,明显分歧的结果。为了改善这种情况,我们直接比较新的Monte Carlo N-体模拟和解决方案的导电流体模型,孤立的SIDM晕的固定质量。这使我们能够清楚地将重力热弛豫的影响与膨胀背景宇宙中连续质量吸积的影响分开。当这两种方法以前被应用于晕形成与宇宙学边界条件,他们不同意的数量级的散射截面的大小需要解决所谓的“尖核问题。“然而,我们在这里表明,对于孤立的晕,这些方法在20%以内相互一致。这表明这两种方法是一致的,它们对宇宙学晕的分歧并不是由于它们的有效性被打破。这里研究的孤立晕经历重力热塌缩。我们比较了这两种方法计算的解决方案重力热坍塌从几个初始条件。这使我们能够校准热传导,其中考虑到流体模型中弹性硬球散射的影响。然而,要使这两种方法在孤立晕上接近一致,所需的热导率参数的调整量太小,无法解释以前在宇宙学背景下发现的差异。

英文摘要:

Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) is a collisional form of cold dark matter (CDM), originally proposed to solve problems that arose when the collisionless CDM theory of structure formation was compared with observations of galaxies on small scales. The quantitative impact of the proposed elastic collisions on structure formation has been estimated previously by Monte Carlo N-body simulations and by a conducting fluid model, with apparently diverging results. To improve this situation, we make direct comparisons between new Monte Carlo N-body simulations and solutions of the conducting fluid model, for isolated SIDM haloes of fixed mass. This allows us to separate cleanly the effects of gravothermal relaxation from those of continuous mass accretion in an expanding background universe. When these two methods were previously applied to halo formation with cosmological boundary conditions, they disagreed by an order of magnitude about the size of the scattering cross section required to solve the so-called 'cusp-core problem.' We show here, however, that the methods agree with each other within 20 per cent for isolated haloes. This suggests that the two methods are consistent, and that their disagreement for cosmological haloes is not caused by a breakdown of their validity. The isolated haloes studied here undergo gravothermal collapse. We compare the solutions calculated by these two methods for gravothermal collapse starting from several initial conditions. This allows us to calibrate the heat conduction which accounts for the effect of elastic hard-sphere scattering in the fluid model. The amount of tuning of the thermal conductivity parameters required to bring the two methods into close agreement for isolated haloes, however, is too small to explain the discrepancy found previously in the cosmological context.

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