Central Profiles of Dark Matter Halos

Daisuke Iono, Ian Mulvany, Ewan Todd
Adviser: Tom Quinn

Simulations of standard Cold Dark Matter cosmologies fail to reproduce the relatively flat central density profiles of low surface brightness galaxies. We are exploring whether this problem can be remedied by adding new physics into the central regions of the dark matter halo in a heuristic manner. Examples of the physics we will try to mimic include clearing out of the baryons by supernovae and stirring of the central dark matter by black holes or molecular clouds.