The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos: Recent Insights from High Resolution Simulations

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent high-resolution simulations of cold dark matter halos, revealing new structural insights into Milky Way-sized objects within a cosmological context.

Contribution

It presents novel findings on halo structures derived from high-resolution simulations, enhancing understanding of dark matter distribution.

Findings

Detailed halo density profiles at high resolution

Insights into substructure and subhalo distributions

Refined models of halo formation and evolution

Abstract

We review results from recent high resolution cosmological structure formation simulations, namely the Via Lactea I & II and GHALO projects. These simulations study the formation of Milky Way sized objects within a cosmological framework. We discuss the general properties of cold dark matter halos at redshift z = 0 and focus on new insights into the structure of halos we got due to the unprecedented high resolution in these simulations.