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Convergence of halo statistics: code comparison between Rockstar and CompaSO using scale-free simulations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-12-07 v2

Abstract

In this study, we perform a halo-finder code comparison between Rockstar and CompaSO. Based on our previous analysis aiming at quantifying resolution of NN-body simulations by exploiting large (up to N=40963N=4096^3) simulations of scale-free cosmologies run using Abacus, we focus on convergence of the HMF, 2PCF and mean radial pairwise velocities of halo centres selected with the aforementioned two algorithms. We establish convergence, for both Rockstar and CompaSO, of mass functions at the 1%1\% precision level and of the mean pairwise velocities (and also 2PCF) at the 2%2\% level. At small scales and small masses, we find that Rockstar exhibits greater self-similarity, and we also highlight the role played by the merger-tree post-processing of CompaSO halos on their convergence. Finally, we give resolution limits expressed as a minimum particle number per halo in a form that can be directly extrapolated to LCDM.

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@article{arxiv.2308.00438,
  title  = {Convergence of halo statistics: code comparison between Rockstar and CompaSO using scale-free simulations},
  author = {Sara Maleubre and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Lehman H. Garrison and Michael Joyce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00438},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages, accepted in MNRAS. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2211.07607

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