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Structure-wide Dark Matter Density Depletion Induced by Local Degeneracies

  • Authors: Yifei Yang, Weikang Lin

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1001 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Diversity of rotation curves predicted from FIPs with different levels of central degeneracy Δ0 and baryon compactness κb. In the physical scenario proposed in this work, where the DID mechanism is incorporated into hierarchical cosmic structure formation, Δ0 should be interpreted as representing the average degeneracy 〈Δ0〉 of the constituent subhalos within a host DM halo. Halos with sufficiently large 〈Δ0〉 generate cored-halo rotation curves (solid lines), whereas those with insufficient 〈Δ0〉 produce cuspy-halo–like rotation curves (dashed lines). For physically reasonable values of κb, of order unity or smaller, increasing κb tends to make the rotation curves shallower without significantly altering their overall characteristics. Here, we take md = 30 keV and Mbtot = 5 × 108 M.

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