Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders
  of magnitude
  Cosmological models in which dark matter consists of cold elementary
particles predict that the dark halo population should extend to masses many
orders of magnitude below those at which galaxies can form. Here we report a
cosmological simulation of the formation of present-day haloes over the full
range of observed halo masses (20 orders of magnitude) when dark matter is
assumed to be in the form of weakly interacting massive particles of mass
approximately 100 gigaelectronvolts. The simulation has a full dynamic range of
30 orders of magnitude in mass and resolves the internal structure of hundreds
of Earth-mass haloes in as much detail as it does for hundreds of rich galaxy
clusters. We find that halo density profiles are universal over the entire mass
range and are well described by simple two-parameter fitting formulae. Halo
mass and concentration are tightly related in a way that depends on cosmology
and on the nature of the dark matter. For a fixed mass, the concentration is
independent of the local environment for haloes less massive than those of
typical galaxies. Haloes over the mass range of 10^3 to 10^11 solar masses
contribute about equally (per logarithmic interval) to the luminosity produced
by dark matter annihilation, which we find to be smaller than all previous
estimates by factors ranging up to one thousand.
