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We present the first comprehensive analysis of the segregation of dark matter subhaloes in their host haloes. Using numerical simulations, we examine the segregation of twelve different subhalo properties with respect to both orbital energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Frank C. van den Bosch , Fangzhou Jiang , Duncan Campbell , Peter Behroozi

We use a dimension reduction algorithm, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP), to study dynamical structures inside a dark matter halo. We use a zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way mass dark matter halo, and apply UMAP on the 6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-05 Soorya Narayan R. , Susmita Adhikari

We introduce the Uchuu suite of large high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. The largest simulation, named Uchuu, consists of 2.1 trillion ($12800^3$) dark matter particles in a box of side-length 2.0 Gpc/h, with particle mass…

We investigate the formation and evolution of satellite galaxies using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of a Milky Way(MW)-like system, focussing on the best resolved examples, analogous to the classical MW satellites.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Owen H. Parry , Vincent R. Eke , Carlos S. Frenk , Takashi Okamoto

We apply a semi-analytic galaxy formation model to two high resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate analogues of the Milky Way system. We select these according to observed properties of the Milky Way rather than by halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Qi Guo , Andrew Cooper , Carlos Frenk , John Helly , Wojciech Hellwing

An analytical model is developed for the mass function of cold dark matter subhalos at the time of accretion and for the distribution of their accretion times. Our model is based on the model of Zhao et al. (2009) for the median assembly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Youcai Zhang , Frank C. van den Bosch

We investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben Moore , Sebastiano Ghigna , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

We use the "Millennium Simulation" to study the mass function of accreted sub-halos during merger events in the dark halo assembly history. Our study includes three kinds of sub-halo mergers: (1) mergers that happen to the main progenitor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-04 Yun Li , Houjun Mo

We use the extensive catalog of dark matter haloes from the Millennium simulation to investigate the statistics of the mass accretion histories (MAHs) and accretion rates of ~500,000 haloes from redshift z=0 to 6. We find only about 25% of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 James McBride , Onsi Fakhouri , Chung-Pei Ma

We use a set of large cosmological N-body simulations to study the internal structure of dark matter haloes which form in scale-free models. We find that the radius r_178 corresponding to a mean interior overdensity of 178 accurately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shaun Cole , Cedric Lacey

We present a new, semi-analytical model describing the evolution of dark matter subhaloes. The model uses merger trees constructed using the method of Parkinson et al. (2008) to describe the masses and redshifts of subhaloes at accretion,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-28 Fangzhou Jiang , Frank C. van den Bosch

We analyse the dynamical properties of substructures in a high-resolution dark matter simulation of the formation of a Milky Way-like halo in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Our goal is to shed light on the dynamical peculiarities of the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-11 Yang-Shyang Li , Amina Helmi

The study of dark matter substructure through strong gravitational lensing has shown enormous promise in probing the properties of dark matter on sub-galactic scales. This approach has already been used to place strong constraints on a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Charles Gannon , Anna Nierenberg , Andrew Benson , Ryan Keeley , Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman

We investigate whether the subhalos of Lambda-CDM galaxy halos have potentials consistent with the observed properties of Milky Way satellites, particularly those with high-quality photometric and kinematic data: Fornax, Leo I, Sculptor,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Louis E. Strigari , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White

Recent kinematical constraints on the internal densities of the Milky Way's dwarf satellites have revealed a discrepancy with the subhalo populations of simulated Galaxy-scale halos in the standard CDM model of hierarchical structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Chris W. Purcell , Andrew R. Zentner

We present the first high-resolution zoom-in simulation of a Milky-way-like halo extracted from the Aquarius Project in the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) framework. We use the N-body code AX-GADGET, based on a particle oriented solution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi

We use cosmological LCDM numerical simulations to model the evolution of the substructure population in sixteen dark matter haloes with resolutions of up to seven million particles within the virial radius. The combined substructure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren Reed , Fabio Governato , Thomas Quinn , Jeffrey Gardner , Joachim Stadel , George Lake

We use simulations of merging galaxies to explore the sensitivity of the morphology of tidal tails to variations of the halo mass distributions in the parent galaxies. Our goal is to constrain the mass of dark halos in well-known merging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John Dubinski , J. Christopher Mihos , Lars Hernquist

We use particle data from the Illustris simulation, combined with individual kinematic constraints on the mass of the Milky Way (MW) at specific distances from the Galactic center, to infer the radial distribution of the MW's dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-28 Corbin Taylor , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

This is the first of a series of three Papers devoted to the study of halo substructure in hierarchical cosmologies by means of the CUSP formalism. In the present Paper we derive the properties of subhaloes and diffuse dark matter (dDM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Eduard Salvador-Solé , Alberto Manrique , Ignacio Botella