Virial halo mass function in the ${\it Planck}$ cosmology
Abstract
We study halo mass functions with high-resolution -body simulations under a CDM cosmology. Our simulations adopt the cosmological model that is consistent with recent measurements of the cosmic microwave backgrounds with the satellite. We calibrate the halo mass functions for 10^{8.5} \lower.5ex\hbox{\; \buildrel < \over \sim \;} M_\mathrm{vir} / (h^{-1}M_\odot) \lower.5ex\hbox{\; \buildrel < \over \sim \;} 10^{15.0 - 0.45 \, z}, where is the virial spherical overdensity mass and redshift ranges from to . The halo mass function in our simulations can be fitted by a four-parameter model over a wide range of halo masses and redshifts, while we require some redshift evolution of the fitting parameters. Our new fitting formula of the mass function has a 5\%-level precision except for the highest masses at . Our model predicts that the analytic prediction in Sheth Tormen would overestimate the halo abundance at with by . Our calibrated halo mass function provides a baseline model to constrain warm dark matter (WDM) by high- galaxy number counts. We compare a cumulative luminosity function of galaxies at with the total halo abundance based on our model and a recently proposed WDM correction. We find that WDM with its mass lighter than is incompatible with the observed galaxy number density at a confidence level.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.11038,
title = {Virial halo mass function in the ${\it Planck}$ cosmology},
author = {Masato Shirasaki and Tomoaki Ishiyama and Shin'ichiro Ando},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11038},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
19 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ