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We present the results of a study of weak lensing by galaxies based on 45.5 deg$^2$ of $R_C$ band imaging data from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS). We present the first weak lensing detection of the flattening of galaxy dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Henk Hoekstra , Howard K. C. Yee , Michael D. Gladders

The large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is comprised of galaxy filaments, tendrils, and voids. The majority of the Universe's volume is taken up by these voids, which exist as underdense, but not empty, regions. The galaxies found…

There are hints suggesting that properties of galaxy populations in dark matter haloes may depend on their large-scale environment. Recent works point out that very low-density environments influence halo occupation distribution (HOD),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ignacio G. Alfaro , Andres N. Ruiz , Heliana E. Luparello , Facundo Rodriguez , Diego Garcia Lambas

We use a combination of N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter and semi-analytic modelling of the physics of galaxy formation to probe the relationship between the galaxy distribution and the mass distribution. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Benson , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

Self-interacting dark matter may have striking astrophysical signatures, such as observable offsets between galaxies and dark matter in merging galaxy clusters. Numerical N-body simulations used to predict such observables typically treat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-14 Janis Kummer , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Cosmic voids are large underdense regions that, together with galaxy clusters, filaments and walls, build up the large-scale structure of the Universe. The void size function provides a powerful probe to test the cosmological framework.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Sofia Contarini , Tommaso Ronconi , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Marco Baldi

The spatial distribution of galaxies at sufficiently small scales will encode information about the identity of the dark matter. We develop a novel description of the halo distribution using persistent homology summaries, in which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Brittany Terese Fasy , Wojciech Hellwing , Mark R. Lovell , Pawel Drozda , Mike Wu

An overview is presented of the main properties of dark matter haloes, as we know them from observations, essentially from rotation curves around spiral and dwarf galaxies. Detailed rotation curves are now known for more than a thousand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Combes

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober

Cosmic voids are underdense regions filling up most of the volume in the Universe. They are expected to emerge in regions comprising negative initial density fluctuations, and subsequently expand as the matter around them collapses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-07 David Vallés-Pérez , Vicent Quilis , Susana Planelles

We present a percent-level accurate model of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies around dark matter halos as a function of projected radius and halo mass. The model is developed and tested using synthetic galaxy catalogs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Eduardo Rozo , Brandon Wolfe , Susmita Adhikari

Using deep images from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey and taking advantage of its unprecedented weak lensing capabilities, we reveal a remarkably tight connection between the stellar mass distribution of massive central galaxies and…

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relation between galaxies and dark matter at the level of individual dark matter halos. The properties of galaxies residing at the centers of halos differ from those of satellite galaxies…

High-resolution LCDM cosmological N-body simulations are used to study the properties of galaxy-size dark halos in different environments (cluster, void, and "field"). Halos in clusters and their surroundings have a median spin parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , S. Gottloeber , C. Firmani , C. Maulbetsch

The abundance of cosmic voids can be described by an analogue of halo mass functions for galaxy clusters. In this work, we explore a number of void mass functions: from those based on excursion-set theory to new mass functions obtained by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Siri Chongchitnan , Matthew Hunt

In the present work we study the statistics of haloes, which in the halo model determines the distribution of galaxies. Haloes are known to be biased tracer of dark matter, and at large scales it is usually assumed there is no intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Silvia Bonoli , Ue-Li Pen

We have analyzed the distribution of void sizes in the two-dimensional slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). Fourteen volume-limited subsamples were extracted from the six slices to cover a large part of the survey and to test…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 V. Mueller , S. Arbabi-Bidgoli , J. Einasto , D. Tucker

We study how the void environment affects the formation and evolution of galaxies in the universe by comparing the ratio of dark matter halo mass to stellar mass of galaxies in voids with galaxies in denser regions. Using spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-09 Kelly A. Douglass , Jacob A. Smith , Regina Demina

Aims. We present an analysis of 37 high-quality extended rotation curves that highlights the existence of a new discrepancy (or a new aspect of an old discrepancy) between the density profiles predicted by the Lambda Cold Dark Matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Gentile , Chiara Tonini , Paolo Salucci

The upcoming new generation of spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys will provide large samples of cosmic voids, the distinct, large underdense structures in the universe. Combining these with future galaxy imaging surveys, we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Elisabeth Krause , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Keiichi Umetsu