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A Universal Profile of the Dark Matter Halo and the Two-point Correlation Function

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We have investigated the relation between the two-point spatial correlation function and the density profile of the dark matter halo in the strongly non-linear regime. It is well known that when the density fluctuation grows into dark matter halo whose density profile is ρrϵ\rho \propto r^{-\epsilon}(3/2<ϵ<3{3/2}<\epsilon<3) on almost all mass scales, the two-point spatial correlation function obeys a power law with the power index γ=2ϵ3\gamma = 2\epsilon -3 in the strongly non-linear regime. We find the form of the two-point spatial correlation function, which does not obey the power law when the power index ϵ\epsilon is smaller than 3/2, such as the density profile ρr1\rho \propto r^{-1} around the center of the halo which is proposed by Navarro, Frenk & White (1996,1997). By using the BBGKY equation in the strongly non-linear regime, it is also found that velocity parameter h<v>/a˙xh \equiv - < v > / \dot{a}x is not a constant even in the strongly non-linear regime (x~x/xnl0\tilde{x} \equiv x/x_{nl} \to 0) although it is a constant when ϵ>3/2\epsilon > 3/2 and then the two-point spatial correlation function can be regarded as the power law. The velocity parameter hh becomes 0 at the non-linear limit of x~0\tilde{x} \to 0, that is, the stable clustering hypothesis cannot be satisfied when ϵ<3/2\epsilon < 3/2.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9906375,
  title  = {A Universal Profile of the Dark Matter Halo and the Two-point Correlation Function},
  author = {Taihei Yano and Naoteru Gouda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9906375},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages with no figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal