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arXiv 2012.10277astro-ph.COastro-ph.GAhep-ph
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具有频繁自相互作用的暗物质的N体模拟

N-body simulations of dark matter with frequent self-interactions

Moritz S. Fischer, Marcus Brüggen, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, Klaus Dolag, Felix Kahlhoefer, Antonio Ragagnin, Andrew Robertson

摘要:

自相互作用暗物质(SIDM)模型有可能解决冷暗物质范式中出现的小尺度问题。模拟是在天体物理学背景下研究SIDM的有力工具,但研究有利于小角度散射的微分截面(如光介质模型)在数值上具有挑战性。在这里,我们提出了一种新的方法来模拟频繁散射的基础上有效的阻力,我们已经实现了N体代码gadget-3。在一系列的测试问题中,我们证明了我们的实现准确地模型频繁散射。我们的实现可用于研究预测罕见和频繁散射的SIDM模型之间的差异。我们模拟核心形成孤立的暗物质晕,以及主要合并的星系团,并发现SIDM模型与罕见的和频繁的相互作用作出不同的预测。特别是,频繁的相互作用能够在等质量合并中产生星系和暗物质分布之间的较大偏移。

英文摘要:

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have the potential to solve the small-scale problems that arise in the cold dark matter paradigm. Simulations are a powerful tool for studying SIDM in the context of astrophysics, but it is numerically challenging to study differential cross-sections that favour small-angle scattering, as in light-mediator models. Here, we present a novel approach to model frequent scattering based on an effective drag force, which we have implemented into the N-body code gadget-3. In a range of test problems, we demonstrate that our implementation accurately models frequent scattering. Our implementation can be used to study differences between SIDM models that predict rare and frequent scattering. We simulate core formation in isolated dark matter haloes, as well as major mergers of galaxy clusters and find that SIDM models with rare and frequent interactions make different predictions. In particular, frequent interactions are able to produce larger offsets between the distribution of galaxies and dark matter in equal-mass mergers.

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