Characteristic density of a Navarro--Frenk--White profile

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Characteristic density of a Navarro--Frenk--White profile by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
The characteristic density of a Navarro--Frenk--White profile is its normalization at fixed scale radius of a Navarro--Frenk--White profile . It is not the density at that radius: substituting in the NFW profile gives . Once is fixed, doubling doubles the enclosed mass at every radius. This separates a profile's density normalization from its radial scale.

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