Timeline for How does Dark Matter form a halo?
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| Dec 15, 2016 at 19:07 | comment | added | ProfRob | What is ambiguous is what it is meant to represent and how you have calculated it. Also, the plot has no labels on it at all, which is why I assume it is something you have calculated. It is not in the paper you reference. @MikeDoonsebury | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | user32023 | The plot is clearly labelled "Mass" and the units are $10^9$ solar masses. Please explain what part of this is ambiguous and I'll try to correct it. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | ProfRob | @MikeDoonsebury The core is more dense - as I explain quite clearly above. It behaves roughly as $\rho \propto r^{-1}$. Your graphs are not density versus radius. This is why I have asked you (twice) to explain exactly what you are plotting. | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | user32023 | Thanks for the information, but I'm not sure I communicated my question properly. Why is it $shapped$ like this. All other objects bound by gravity, well, gravitate and Dark Matter has only one job: gravitate. Take away the baryonic mass and you have the same question: why isn't the core more dense than the outer region (except to create a flat velocity curve which would be an ad-hoc justification for it's shape)? | |
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