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Properties of Cold Dark Matter Halos at z>6

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We compute the properties of dark matter halos with mass 106.5109\msun10^{6.5}-10^9\msun at redshift z=611z=6-11 in the standard cold dark matter cosmological model, utilizing a very high resolution N-body simulation. We find that dark matter halos in these mass and redshift ranges are significantly biased over matter with a bias factor in the range 2-6. The dark matter halo mass function displays a slope of 2.05±0.152.05\pm 0.15 at the small mass end. We do not find a universal dark matter density profile. Instead, we find a significant dependence of the central density profile of dark matter halos on halo mass and epoch with α0=0.41.0\alpha_0=0.4-1.0; the high-mass (M108\msunM\ge 10^8\msun) low-redshift (z6z\sim 6) halos occupy the high end of the range and low-mass (M107\msunM\sim 10^{7}\msun) high-redshift (z11z\sim 11) halos occupy the low end. Additionally, for fixed mass and epoch there is a significant dispersion in α0\alpha_0 due to the stochastic assembly of halos. Our results fit a relationship of the form α0=0.75((1+z)/7.0)1.25(M/107\msun)0.11(1+z)/7.0\alpha_0=0.75((1+z)/7.0)^{-1.25}(M/10^7\msun)^{0.11(1+z)/7.0} with a dispersion about this fit of ±0.5\pm 0.5 and no systematic dependence of variance correlated with environment. The median spin parameter of dark matter halos is 0.030.040.03-0.04 but with a large lognormal dispersion of 0.4\sim 0.4. Various quantities are tabulated or fitted with empirical formulae.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0403352,
  title  = {Properties of Cold Dark Matter Halos at z>6},
  author = {Renyue Cen and Feng Dong and Paul Bode and Jeremiah P. Ostriker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0403352},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

38 pages, submitted to ApJ, name revised (the first author name was wrong)