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1University of California, Riverside, Center for Experimental Cosmology and Instrumentation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California 92521, USA.
Abstract:
We show that core-collapsed self-interacting dark matter halos of mass ∼10^{6}M_{⊙}, originally simulated to explain the dense perturber of the GD-1 stellar stream, also reproduce the structural properties inferred for the dense perturber detected in the strong lensing system JVAS B1938+666 from radio observations. Furthermore, these halos are sufficiently compact and dense to gravitationally capture field stars in satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, providing a natural explanation for the origin of Fornax 6, a stellar cluster in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Our results demonstrate that observations of halos with similar masses but residing in different cosmic environments offer a powerful and complementary probe of self-interacting dark matter.
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