Properties of Cold Dark Matter Halos at z>6
Abstract
We compute the properties of dark matter halos with mass at redshift 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 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 ; the high-mass () low-redshift () halos occupy the high end of the range and low-mass () high-redshift () halos occupy the low end. Additionally, for fixed mass and epoch there is a significant dispersion in due to the stochastic assembly of halos. Our results fit a relationship of the form with a dispersion about this fit of and no systematic dependence of variance correlated with environment. The median spin parameter of dark matter halos is but with a large lognormal dispersion of . 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)