ITC Special Seminar - Andreas Burkert (USM)

Date: 

Monday, January 27, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Phillips

The puzzle of dark matter halo cores in low- and high redshift galaxies

 

In the present Universe, especially low-mass galaxies reveal central dark halo properties that

indicate a dark core of constant density and constant velocity dispersion. This is in strong contrast

to cold-dark-matter simulations that predict cuspy, cold cores with a density that diverges towards the center as 1/r,

with a velocity dispersion that decreases towards the center. Several scenarios to explain this discrepancy

are currently being discussed, from gravitational

interaction betwen baryons and dark matter to hidden properties of dark matter particles.

 

I will discuss new properties about dark matter cores, that we detected recently not only in low-redshift galaxies but also

for a large sample of high-z, star-forming disk galaxies. These scaling relations provide more insight into the

process of core formation with implications for the intimate coupling between baryons and dark matter and the possible

nature of dark matter particle itself.