Empirical models for dark matter halos. I. Nonparametric construction of density profiles and comparison with parametric models

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2685-2700

  Merritt, David ^a   Graham, Alister W ^b,f   Moore, Ben ^c   Diemand, Jürg ^d   Terzić, Balša ^e  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Galaxies: halos; Methods: n body simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845954429     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508988     Document Type: Article

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