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NFW Halo Profile

The Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile is a widely-adopted density profile for dark matter halos emerging from cosmological simulations. It provides a simple parametric description of how dark matter density varies with distance from the halo center, essential for modeling galaxy cluster mass distributions, weak lensing, and dark matter annihilation signals.

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Navarro-Frenk-White Dark Matter Profile
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / particle-physics
  • Navarro, J. F., Frenk, C. S., & White, S. D. M. (1997). A universal density profile from hierarchical clustering. The Astrophysical Journal, 490(2), 493. · DOI 10.1086/304888
  • Dutton, A. A., & Maccio, A. V. (2014). The abundance of dark matter haloes and the assembly of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(4), 3359–3374. · URL
  • Diemer, B., & Kravtsov, A. V. (2015). A universal model for halo concentrations. The Astrophysical Journal, 799(2), 108. · DOI 10.1088/0004-637x/799/1/108
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