1209.2682 (S. V. Pilipenko et al.)

Effect of small scale density perturbations on the formation of dark matter halo profiles    [PDF]

S. V. Pilipenko, A. G. Doroshkevich, V. N. Lukash, E. V. Mikheeva

With help of a set of toy N-body models of dark halo formation we study the impact of small scale initial perturbations on the inner density profiles of haloes. We find a significant flattening of the inner slope $\alpha={d \log \rho \over d \log r}$ to $\alpha=-0.5$ in some range of scales and amplitudes of the perturbations (while in the case of absence of these perturbations the NFW profile with $\alpha=-1$ is reproduced). This effect may be responsible for the formation of cuspless galactic haloes.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2682