Dark Matter Halo: Universal Density Profile?
(compiled by Mike Boylan-Kolchin and Chung-Pei Ma)
Precursor:
- Dubinski & Carlberg, ApJ 378, 496 (1991)
Universal Profile:
- NFW: MNRAS 275, 720 (1995): proposed NFW profile for x-ray clusters
- NFW: ApJ 462, 563 (1996)
- NFW: ApJ 490, 493 (1997): Appendix has useful formulae
Papers supporting NFW profile:
- Cole & Lacey, MNRAS 281, 716 (1996)
- Tormen, Bouchet, & White MNRAS 286, 865 (1997)
- Kravtsov, Klypin, & Khokhlov ApJS, 111, 73 (1997) (Code paper)
- Power et al., MNRAS 338, 14 (2003)
Papers finding steeper profiles:
- Fukushige & Makino, ApJ 447, J9 (1997)
- Moore et al., ApJ 499, L5 (1998)
- Moore et Al, MNRAS 310, 1147 (1999)
- Ghigna et al, ApJ 544, 616 (2000)
- Klypin et al, ApJ 554, 903 (2001)
- Fukushige & Makino, ApJ 557, 533 (2001)
Papers finding shallower profiles:
- Kravtsov et al., ApJ 502, 48 (1998) (but later "retracted" by
Klypin et al 2001)
Papers finding not-so-universal profiles:
- Jing & Suto ApJ 529, L69 (2000)
- Jing, ApJ 535, 30 (2000)
- Fukushige, Kawai, & Makino, astro-ph/0306203 (2003)
- Hayashi et al., astro-ph/0310576 (2003)