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Dynamics of substructures in warm dark-matter cosmologies

Bastian Arnold·Alexander Knebe·Chris Power·Brad K. Gibson
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We performed cosmological simulations based upon both a cold dark matter (CDM) and a warm dark matter (WDM) model. The focus of our investigations lies with selected spatial and kinematic properties of substructure halos (subhalos) orbiting within host halos, that form in both dark-matter cosmologies. We aim at using the dynamics of the subhalos as a probe of the respective cosmology.

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Bastian Arnold, Alexander Knebe, Chris Power, Brad K. Gibson. 2008-11-13. Dynamics of substructures in warm dark-matter cosmologies. https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1851

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