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arxiv: 1209.2682 · v1 · pith:LSIUOS75new · submitted 2012-09-12 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

Effect of small scale density perturbations on the formation of dark matter halo profiles

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With help of a set of toy N-body models of dark halo formation we study the impact of small scale initial perturbations on the inner density profiles of haloes. We find a significant flattening of the inner slope $\alpha={d \log \rho \over d \log r}$ to $\alpha=-0.5$ in some range of scales and amplitudes of the perturbations (while in the case of absence of these perturbations the NFW profile with $\alpha=-1$ is reproduced). This effect may be responsible for the formation of cuspless galactic haloes.

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