English

Virial halo mass function in the ${\it Planck}$ cosmology

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-12-08 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study halo mass functions with high-resolution NN-body simulations under a Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology. Our simulations adopt the cosmological model that is consistent with recent measurements of the cosmic microwave backgrounds with the Planck{\it Planck} 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 MvirM_\mathrm{vir} is the virial spherical overdensity mass and redshift zz ranges from 00 to 77. 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 z7z\le 7. Our model predicts that the analytic prediction in Sheth &\& Tormen would overestimate the halo abundance at z=6z=6 with Mvir=108.510h1MM_\mathrm{vir} = 10^{8.5-10}\, h^{-1}M_\odot by 2030%20-30\%. Our calibrated halo mass function provides a baseline model to constrain warm dark matter (WDM) by high-zz galaxy number counts. We compare a cumulative luminosity function of galaxies at z=6z=6 with the total halo abundance based on our model and a recently proposed WDM correction. We find that WDM with its mass lighter than 2.71keV2.71\, \mathrm{keV} is incompatible with the observed galaxy number density at a 2σ2\sigma confidence level.

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@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

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