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Universal Dark-matter Density Profiles of Cosmic Filaments

  • Authors: Peng Xu, Fangzhou Jiang, Farhanul Hasan, Joanna Woo, Douglas Hellinger, Joel R. Primack, David C. Koo

Peng Xu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

DM density profiles around filaments as functions of node mass (top) and filament length (bottom). In each panel, the length-weighted mean profiles across redshifts are shown for the mass bin or length bin indicated. The best-fit gNFW (dotted) and PL3 (dashed) models for the full sample, as in Figure 3 and Table 1, are overlaid for reference. Note that no filaments are present in the Mnode > 1013M⊙ bin at z = 3.  Overall, the node-mass or length dependence is weak, except in the highest-mass bin where the result is affected by small number statistics. There is a weak redshift dependence in the central density at R/Rvir ≲ 0.1, with higher-redshift filaments exhibiting lower central densities.

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