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In a previous paper, we described a new method for including detailed information about substructure in semi-analytic models of dark matter halo formation based on merger trees. In this paper, we present the basic predictions of our full…

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We compare the results of high-resolution simulations of individual dark matter subhalos evolving in external tidal fields with and without baryonic bulge and disk components, where the average dark matter particle mass is three orders of…

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We use a simulation performed within the Constrained Local UniversE Simulation (CLUES) project to study a realistic Local Group-like object. We employ this group as a numerical laboratory for studying the evolution of the population of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jaroslaw Klimentowski , Ewa L. Lokas , Alexander Knebe , Stefan Gottloeber , Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero , Gustavo Yepes , Yehuda Hoffman

As galaxy simulations increase in resolution more attention is being paid towards the evolution of dwarf galaxies and how the simulations compare to observations. Despite this increasing resolution we are however, far away from resolving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Matthew Nichols , Yves Revaz , Pascale Jablonka

Hierarchical structure formation implies that the number of subhalos within a dark matter halo depends not only on halo mass, but also on the formation history of the halo. This dependence on the formation history, which is highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Yao-Yuan Mao , Marc Williamson , Risa H. Wechsler

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of dark matter subhaloes in the cosmological Bolshoi simulation. We identify a complete set of 12 unique evolution channels by which subhaloes evolve in between simulation outputs, and…

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Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the collapse and evolution of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble those formed by…

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We investigate the structural properties, distribution and abundance of LCDM dark matter subhaloes using the Phi-4096 and Uchuu suite of N-body cosmological simulations. Thanks to the combination of their large volume, high mass resolution…

We explore whether stellar tidal streams can provide information on the secular, cosmological evolution of the Milky Way's gravitational potential and on the presence of subhalos. We carry out long-term (~t_hubble) N-body simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorge Penarrubia , Andrew J. Benson , David Martinez-Delgado , Hans-Walter Rix

We compile a large sample of nearby galaxies that are satellites of hosts using a well known SDSS group catalogue. From this sample, we create an `ancient infallers' and `recent infallers' subsample, based on the mean infall time predicted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Rory Smith , Camilla Pacifici , Anna Pasquali , Paula Calderon-Castillo

We develop a semi-analytical model that determines the evolution of the mass, position and internal structure of dark matter substructures orbiting in dark matter haloes. We apply this model to the case of the Milky Way. We focus in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. Penarrubia , A. J. Benson

We study the evolution of stellar mass in galaxies as a function of host halo mass, using the "MPA" and "Durham" semi-analytic models, implemented on the Millennium Run simulation. The results from both models are similar. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Idit Zehavi , Santiago Patiri , Zheng Zheng

We study evolution of dark matter substructures, especially how they lose the mass and change density profile after they fall in gravitational potential of larger host halos. We develop an analytical prescription that models the subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 Nagisa Hiroshima , Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama

We present results from a series of high-resolution N-body simulations that focus on the formation and evolution of eight dark matter halos, each of order a million particles within the virial radius. We follow the time evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stuart P. D. Gill , Alexander Knebe , Brad K. Gibson , Mike A. Dopita

We track subhalo orbits of galaxy and group sized halos in cosmological simulations. We identify filamentary structures around halos and we use these to define a sample of subhalos accreted from filaments as well as a control sample of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Nelson D. Padilla

High-redshift clusters of galaxies show an over-abundance of spirals by a factor of 2-3, and the corresponding under-abundance of S0 galaxies, relative to the nearby clusters. This morphological evolution can be explained by tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Oleg Y. Gnedin

We study the abundance of subhaloes in the hydrodynamical cosmological simulation Illustris, which includes both baryons and dark matter in a $\Lambda$CDM volume 106.5 Mpc a side. We compare Illustris to its dark matter-only (DMO) analogue,…

It is common practice, both in dynamical modelling and in idealised numerical simulations, to assume that galaxies and/or dark matter haloes are spherical and have isotropic velocity distributions, such that their distribution functions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Barry T. Chiang , Frank C. van den Bosch , Hsi-Yu Schive

We investigate the distributions of subhalos about their hosts in two suites of zoom-in N-body simulations of halo growth -- one suite focused on Milky Way-Mass halos ($\sim 10^{12} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$) and another focused on cluster-mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-25 Lorena Mezini , Andrew R. Zentner , Kuan Wang , Catherine Fielder

Strong gravitational lenses enable direct inference of halo abundance and internal structure, which in turn enable constraints on the nature of dark matter and the primordial matter power spectrum. However, the density profiles of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu , Andrew Benson , Charles Gannon