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Warm Dark Haloes Accretion Histories and their Gravitational Signatures
We study clusters in Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models of a thermally produced
dark matter particle keV in mass. We show that, despite clusters in WDM
cosmologies having similar density profiles as their Cold Dark Matter (CDM)
counterparts, the internal properties, such as the amount of substructure,
shows marked differences. This result is surprising as clusters are at mass
scales that are {\em a thousand times greater} than that at which structure
formation is suppressed. WDM clusters gain significantly more mass via smooth
accretion and contain fewer substructures than their CDM brethren. The higher
smooth mass accretion results in subhaloes which are physically more extended
and less dense. These fine-scale differences can be probed by strong
gravitational lensing. We find, unexpectedly, that WDM clusters have {\em
higher} lensing efficiencies than those in CDM cosmologies, contrary to the
naive expectation that WDM clusters should be less efficient due to the fewer
substructures they contain. Despite being less dense, the larger WDM subhaloes
are more likely to have larger lensing cross-sections than CDM ones.
Additionally, WDM subhaloes typically reside at larger distances, which
radially stretches the critical lines associated with strong gravitational
lensing, resulting in excess in the number of clusters with large radial
cross-sections at the level. Though lensing profile for an
individual cluster vary significantly with the line-of-sight, the radial arc
distribution based on a sample of clusters may prove to be the
crucial test for the presence of WDM.Comment: 13 pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRA
Rethinking the space of ethics in social entrepreneurship: Power, subjectivity, and practices of freedom’
This article identifies power, subjectivity, and practices of freedom as neglected but significant elements for understanding the ethics of social entrepreneurship. While the ethics of social entrepreneurship is typically conceptualized in conjunction with innate properties or moral commitments of the individual, we problematize this view based on its presupposition of an essentialist conception of the authentic subject. We offer, based on Foucault’s ethical oeuvre, a practice-based alternative which sees ethics as being exercised through a critical and creative dealing with the limits imposed by power, notably as they pertain to the conditioning of the neoliberal subject. To this end, we first draw on prior research which looks at how practitioners of social enterprises engage with government policies that demand that they should act and think more like prototypical entrepreneurs. Instead of simply endorsing the kind of entrepreneurial subjectivity implied in prevailing policies, our results indicate that practitioners are mostly reluctant to identify themselves with the invocation of governmental power, often rejecting the subjectivity offered to them by discourse. Conceiving these acts of resistance as emblematic of how social entrepreneurs practice ethics by retaining a skeptical attitude toward attempts that seek to determine who they should be and how they should live, we introduce three vignettes that illustrate how practices of freedom relate to critique, the care for others, and reflected choice. We conclude that a practice-based approach of ethics can advance our understanding of how social entrepreneurs actively produce conditions of freedom for themselves as well as for others without supposing a ‘true self’ or a utopian space of liberty beyond power
Hidden from view: Coupled Dark Sector Physics and Small Scales
We study cluster mass dark matter haloes, their progenitors and surroundings
in an coupled Dark Matter-Dark Energy model and compare it to quintessence and
CDM models with adiabatic zoom simulations. When comparing cosmologies
with different expansions histories, growth functions & power spectra, care
must be taken to identify unambiguous signatures of alternative cosmologies.
Shared cosmological parameters, such as , need not be the same for
optimal fits to observational data. We choose to set our parameters to
CDM values. We find that in coupled models, where DM decays into
DE, haloes appear remarkably similar to CDM haloes despite DM
experiencing an additional frictional force. Density profiles are not
systematically different and the subhalo populations have similar mass, spin,
and spatial distributions, although (sub)haloes are less concentrated on
average in coupled cosmologies. However, given the scatter in related
observables (), this difference is unlikely to
distinguish between coupled and uncoupled DM. Observations of satellites of MW
and M31 indicate a significant subpopulation reside in a plane. Coupled models
do produce planar arrangements of satellites of higher statistical significance
than CDM models, however, in all models these planes are dynamically
unstable. In general, the nonlinear dynamics within and near large haloes masks
the effects of a coupled dark sector. The sole environmental signature we find
is that small haloes residing in the outskirts are more deficient in baryons
than their CDM counterparts. The lack of a pronounced signal for a
coupled dark sector strongly suggests that such a phenomena would be
effectively hidden from view.Comment: 13 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRA
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