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How to quantify the similarity of 2D distributions: Comparison of spatial distribution of Dark Matter and Intracluster light

  • Yoo, Jaewon;Ko, Jongwan;Sabiu, Cristiano G.;Chun, Kyungwon;Shin, Jihye;Hwang, Ho Seong;Smith, Rory;Kim, Hyowon
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제46권2호
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    • pp.67.4-68
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    • 2021
  • In studying the dynamical evolution of galaxy clusters, one intriguing approach is to compare the spatial distributions of various components, such as the dark matter, the member galaxies, the gas, and the intracluster light (ICL; the diffuse light from stars, which are not bound any individual cluster galaxy). If we find a visible component whose spatial distribution coincides with the dark matter distribution, then we could draw a dark matter map without requiring laborious weak lensing analysis. Furthermore, if the component traces the dark matter distribution better for more relaxed galaxy cluster, we could use the similarity as a dynamical stage estimator of the galaxy cluster. We present a novel new methodology to quantify the similarity of two or more 2-dimensional spatial distributions. We apply the method to a sample of galaxy clusters at different dynamical stages simulated within N-cluster Run, which is an N-body simulation using the galaxy replacement technique. Among the various components (stellar particles, galaxies, ICL), the velocity defined ICL+ brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) component traces the dark matter best. Between the sample galaxy clusters, the relaxed clusters show stronger similarity of the spatial distribution between the dark matter and ICL+BCG than the dynamically young clusters.

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VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF DARK MATTER GALACTIC HALO

  • OH K. S.
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제30권1호
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    • pp.95-106
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    • 1997
  • We investigate the velocity distribution of dark matter in the disk of a galaxy like the Milky Way at the solar radius. Using N-body simulations with the total mass and z-component of angular momentum conserved, we calculate the response of a dissipationless dark matter galactic halo during the dissipational collapse of the baryonic matter in spiral galaxy formation. The initial distribution of dark matter and baryonic particles is assumed to be a homogeneous mixture based on a King model. The baryonic matter is assumed to contract, forming the final luminous components of the galaxy, namely the disk and, in some cases, a bulge and central point. Both slow and fast growth of the luminous components are considered. We find that the velocity distribution of dark matter particles in a reference frame rotating slowly about the galaxy center in the plane of the disk is similar to a Maxwellian, but it is somewhat boxier, being flatter at the peak and truncated in the tails of the distribution. We tabulate parameters for the best-fitting Maxwellian and modified-Maxwellian distributions. There is no significant difference between slow collapse and fast collapse for all these results. We were unable to detect any effect of disk formation on the z-dependence of the dark matter density distribution.

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A Study of Double Dark Photons Produced by Lepton Colliders using High Performance Computing

  • Park, Kihong;Kim, Kyungho;Cho, Kihyeon
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제39권1호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2022
  • The universe is thought to be filled with not only Standard Model (SM) matters but also dark matters. Dark matter is thought to play a major role in its construction. However, the identity of dark matter is as yet unknown, with various search methods from astrophysical observartion to particle collider experiments. Because of the cross-section that is a thousand times smaller than SM particles, dark matter research requires a large amount of data processing. Therefore, optimization and parallelization in High Performance Computing is required. Dark matter in hypothetical hidden sector is though to be connected to dark photons which carries forces similar to photons in electromagnetism. In the recent analysis, it was studied using the decays of a dark photon at collider experiments. Based on this, we studies double dark photon decays at lepton colliders. The signal channels are e+e- → A'A' and e+e- → A'A'γ where dark photon A' decays dimuon. These signal channels are based on the theory that dark photons only decay into heavily charged leptons, which can explain the muon magnetic momentum anomaly. We scanned the cross-section according to the dark photon mass in experiments. MadGraph5 was used to generate events based on a simplified model. Additionally, to get the maximum expected number of events for the double dark photon channel, the detector efficiency for several center of mass (CM) energy were studied using Delphes and MadAnalysis5 for performance comparison. The results of this study will contribute to the search for double dark photon channels at lepton colliders.

MILGROM’S LAW AND Λ’S SHADOW: HOW MASSIVE GRAVITY CONNECTS GALACTIC AND COSMIC DYNAMICS

  • Trippe, Sascha
    • 천문학회지
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    • 제48권3호
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    • pp.191-194
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    • 2015
  • Massive gravity provides a natural solution for the dark energy problem of cosmology and is also a candidate for resolving the dark matter problem. I demonstrate that, assuming reasonable scaling relations, massive gravity can provide for Milgrom’s law of gravity (or “modified Newtonian dynamics”) which is known to remove the need for particle dark matter from galactic dynamics. Milgrom’s law comes with a characteristic acceleration, Milgrom’s constant, which is observationally constrained to a0 ≈ 1.1 × 10−10 ms−2 . In the derivation presented here, this constant arises naturally from the cosmologically required mass of gravitons like , with Λ, H0, and ΩΛ being the cosmological constant, the Hubble constant, and the third cosmological parameter, respectively. My derivation suggests that massive gravity could be the mechanism behind both, dark matter and dark energy.

Three-dimensional odd ring dark spatial solitons

  • Kim, Guang-Hoon;Jeon, Jin-Ho;Noh, Young-Chul;Ko, Kwang-Hoon;Moon, Hee-Jong;Lee, Jai-Hyung;Chang, Joon-Sung
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 1997
  • The propagation properties of three-dimensional dark spatial solitons having odd ring formation is analyzed numerically in the frame of the (1 + 2)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation and compared with a pair of odd dark solitons. We discuss the experimental excitation condition of an odd ring dark soliton, which is superimposed on a finite-width background beam, with phase masks.

무거운 헤일로를 가진 구형 은하의 역학 모형 (DYNAMICAL MODELS OF SPHERICAL GALAXIES WITH MASSIVE HALO)

  • 천문석;고훈성;손영종
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.63-82
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    • 2003
  • Schwarzschild의 선형 계획법을 사용하여 평형상태에서의 구형은하를 기술하는 비 충돌 볼쯔만 방정식의 일반적인 해를 얻었다. 이 계산으로부터 de Vaucouleurs의 광도 법칙을 만족하고 무거운 헤일로를 포함하는 등방성 구형은하의 존재를 확인할 수 있었다. 타원은하에서 속도 분산 곡선이 편평하거나 서서히 증가하는 현상은 암흑물질에 의한 질량대 광도비의 증가로 해석할 수 있다. 이런 경우 암흑물질의 밀도 분포는 core반경이 은하의 유효반경보다 훨씬 작은 값을 갖는다는 사실을 확인할 수 있었다.

"There's no Place like Home: The Sejong Suite"

  • Rossi, Graziano
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제45권1호
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    • pp.47.3-48
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    • 2020
  • I will present the Sejong Suite, an extensive collection of state-of-the-art high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations spanning a variety of cosmological and astrophysical parameters, primarily developed for modeling the Lyman-Alpha forest. Adopting a particle-based implementation, we follow the evolution of gas, dark matter (cold and warm), massive neutrinos, and dark radiation, and consider several combinations of box sizes and number of particles. Noticeably, for the first time, we simulate extended mixed scenarios describing the combined effects of warm dark matter, neutrinos, and dark radiation, modeled consistently by taking into account the neutrino mass splitting. Along the way, I will also highlight some new results focused on the matter and flux statistics.

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Tracing Dark Matter Halo Mass Using Central Velocity Dispersion of Galaxies

  • Seo, Gangil;Sohn, Jubee;Lee, Myung Gyoon
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제44권2호
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    • pp.73.4-73.4
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    • 2019
  • Most of the galaxy mass is known to be occupied by dark matter. However, it is difficult to directly measure the mass and distribution of dark matter in a galaxy. Recently, the velocity dispersion of the stellar population in a galaxy's center has been suggested as a possible probe of the mass of the dark matter halo. In this study, we test and verify this hypothesis using the kinematics of the satellite galaxies of isolated galaxies. We use the Friends-of-Friends (FoF)algorithm to build a catalog of primary galaxies and their satellite galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR 12. We calculate the dynamical mass of the primary galaxies from the velocity dispersion of their satellite galaxies. We then investigate the correlation between the dynamical mass and the central velocity dispersion of the primary galaxies. The stellar velocity dispersion of the central host galaxies has a strong linear correlation with the velocity dispersion of their satellite galaxies. Also, the stellar velocity dispersion of the central galaxy is strongly correlated with the dynamical mass of the galaxy, which can be described as a power law. The results of this study show that the central velocity dispersion of the primary galaxies is a good proxy for tracing the mass of dark matter halo.

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Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies Produced via High-velocity Galaxy Collisions In High-resolution Numerical Simulations

  • Shin, Eun-jin;Jung, Minyong;Kwon, Goojin;Kim, Ji-hoon;Lee, Joohyun;Jo, Yongseok;Oh, Boon Kiat
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제45권1호
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    • pp.34.1-34.1
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    • 2020
  • The recent discovery of diffuse dwarf galaxies that are deficient in dark matter appears to challenge the current paradigm of structure formation in our Universe. We describe the numerical experiments to determine if the so-called dark matter deficient galaxies (DMDGs) could be produced when two gas-rich, dwarf-sized galaxies collide with a high relative velocity of ~ 300km/s. Using idealized high-resolution simulations with both mesh-based and particle-based gravito-hydrodynamics codes, we find that DMDGs can form as high-velocity galaxy collisions separate dark matter from the warm disk gas which subsequently is compressed by shock and tidal interaction to form stars. Then using a large simulated universe ILLUSTRISTNG, we discover a number of high-velocity galaxy collision events in which DMDGs are expected to form. However, we did not find evidence that these types of collisions actually produced DMDGs in the ILLUSTRISTNG100-1 run. We argue that the resolution of the numerical experiment is critical to realize the "collision-induced" DMDG formation scenario. Our results demonstrate one of many routes in which galaxies could form with unconventional dark matter fractions.

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Current status of an interacting dark sector with cosmological observations

  • Mifsud, Jurgen
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제44권2호
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    • pp.53.1-53.1
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    • 2019
  • The cosmic dark sector, composed of dark energy and dark matter, might be coupled, and hence mediate a fifth-force which gives rise to distinctive cosmological signatures. I will consider an interacting dark sector, in which dark energy and dark matter are coupled via specific well-motivated coupling functions. After an overview of these coupled dark energy models, I will discuss the current model parameter constraints derived from the latest cosmological observations which probe the expansion history, and the growth of cosmic structures of our Universe. Moreover, I will demonstrate how different measurements of the Hubble constant, including the GW170817 measurement, influence the inferred constraints on the dark coupling. I will further discuss how one could put tighter constraints on such a dark sector coupling with the upcoming large-scale radio surveys.

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