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We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) halos. These simulations extend the thorough numerical convergence study presented in Paper I of…

A dark matter halo is commonly defined as a spherical overdensity of matter with respect to a reference density, such as the critical density or the mean matter density of the Universe. Such definitions can lead to a spurious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 Benedikt Diemer , Surhud More , Andrey Kravtsov

For the spherical symmetric case, all quantities describing the relaxed dark matter halo can be expressed as functions of the gravitational potential $\Phi$. Decomposing the radial velocity dispersion $\sigma_r$ with respect to $\Phi$ at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. P. Muecket , M. Hoeft

We study the concentration of dark matter halos and its evolution in N-body simulations of the standard LCDM cosmology. The results presented in this paper are based on 4 large N-body simulations with about 10 billion particles each: the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Francisco Prada , Anatoly A. Klypin , Antonio J. Cuesta , Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Joel Primack

The density profiles of dark matter halos are typically modeled using empirical formulae fitted to the density profiles of relaxed halo populations. We present a neural network model that is trained to learn the mapping from the raw density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Brian Nord , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Davide Piras

We present rotation curve fits to 175 late-type galaxies from the Spitzer Photometry & Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) database using seven dark matter (DM) halo profiles: pseudo-isothermal (pISO), Burkert, Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Pengfei Li , Federico Lelli , Stacy McGaugh , James Schombert

Conventional treatment of cold dark matter halos employs the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile with a maximum radius set at $r=r_{200}$, where the enclosed matter has an overdensity of 200 times the critical density. The choice of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Lieu

High-resolution N--body simulations show a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed through dissipationless hierarchical clustering. Independent of halo mass, power spectrum, and cosmological parameters, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Julio F. Navarro

The halo mass function, encoding the comoving number density of dark matter halos of a given mass, plays a key role in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. As such, it is a key goal of current and future deep optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Steven G. Murray , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Chris Power

We present a simple technique to estimate mass-to-light (M/L) ratios of stellar populations based on two broadband photometry measurements, i.e. a color-M/L relation. We apply the color-M/L relation to galaxy rotation curves, using a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roelof S. de Jong , Susan Kassin , Eric F. Bell , Stephane Courteau

Navarro, Frenk, and White have suggested that the density profiles of simulated dark matter halos have a ``universal'' shape so that a given halo can be characterized by a single free parameter which fixes its mass. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard N. Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow

We use a combination of three large N-body simulations to investigate the dependence of dark matter halo concentrations on halo mass and redshift in the WMAP year 5 cosmology. The median relation between concentration and mass is adequately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-03 Alan R. Duffy , Joop Schaye , Scott T. Kay , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

We investigate the effect of an assembly history on the evolution of dark matter (DM) halos of 10^{12} Msun/h using Constrained Realizations of random Gaussian fields. Five different realizations of a DM halo with distinct merging histories…

According to high resolution cold dark matter (CDM) simulations, large virialized halos are formed through the constant merging of smaller halos formed at earlier times. In particular, the halo of our Galaxy may have hundreds of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Aloisio , P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto

We study the evolution of the mass function of dark matter halos in the concordance LCDM model at high redshift. We employ overlapping (multiple-realization) numerical simulations to cover a wide range of halo masses,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , Zarija Lukic , Salman Habib , Paul M. Ricker

We examined the reliability of estimates of pseudoisothermal, Burkert and NFW dark halo parameters for the methods based on the mass-modelling of the rotation curves.To do it we constructed the $\chi^2$ maps for the grid of the dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Anna Saburova , Anastasia Kasparova , Ivan Katkov

We present the results of a study of the average mass profile around galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. We use 45.5 deg^2 of R_C band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and define a sample of 1.2\times 10^5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

As a common gravitation virialized object in the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, dark matter halo connects from the large-scale structure all the way down to galaxy and star formation. However, as the nature of dark matter particles is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Weiguang Cui

We explore the cosmological halo-to-halo scatter of the distribution of mass within dark matter halos utilizing a well-resolved statistical sample of clusters from the cosmological Millennium simulation. We find that at any radius, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Darren S. Reed , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Liang Gao

In the far future of an accelerating LCDM cosmology, the cosmic web of large-scale structure consists of a set of increasingly isolated halos in dynamical equilibrium. We examine the approach of collisionless dark matter to hydrostatic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Michael T. Busha , August E. Evrard , Fred C. Adams , Risa H. Wechsler