English

Theoretical dark matter halo kinematics and triaxial shape

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2012-09-13 v4

Abstract

In a recent paper, Salvador-Sol\'e et al. (2012) have derived the typical inner structure of dark matter haloes from that of peaks in the initial random Gaussian density field, determined by the power-spectrum of density perturbations characterising the hierarchical cosmology under consideration. In the present paper, we extend this formalism to the typical kinematics and triaxial shape of haloes. Specifically, we establish the link between such halo properties and the power-spectrum of density perturbations through the typical shape of peaks. The trends of the predicted typical halo shape, pseudo phase-space density and anisotropy profiles are in good agreement with the results of numerical simulations. Our model sheds light on the origin of the power-law-like pseudo phase-space density profile for virialised haloes.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2905,
  title  = {Theoretical dark matter halo kinematics and triaxial shape},
  author = {Eduard Salvador-Solé and Sinue Serra and Alberto Manrique Guillermo González-Casado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2905},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

18 pages, 6 figures. Published in MNRAS