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We present measurements of the triaxial dark matter halo shapes and alignment correlation functions in the Millennium and Millennium-2 dark matter N-body simulations. These two simulations allow us to measure the distributions of halo…

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We use 31 simulated galaxies from the MaGICC project to investigate the effects of baryonic feedback on the density profiles of dark matter (DM) haloes. The sample covers a wide mass range: 9.4e9<Mhalo/Msun<7.8e11, hosting galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Arianna Di Cintio , Chris B. Brook , Andrea V. Maccio , Greg S. Stinson , Alexander Knebe , Aaron A. Dutton , James Wadsley

We analyse the impact of galaxy--halo misalignment on the ability of weak lensing studies to constrain the shape of dark matter haloes, using a combination of the Millennium dark matter N-body simulation and different semi-analytic galaxy…

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We study shapes and alignments of 45 dark matter (DM) haloes and their brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) using a sample of 39 massive clusters from Hubble Frontier Field (HFF), Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Taizo Okabe , Masamune Oguri , Sébastien Peirani , Yasushi Suto , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Takahiro Nishimichi

We use six, high-resolution $\Lambda$CDM simulations of galaxy formation to study how emission from dark matter annihilation is affected by baryonic processes. These simulations produce isolated, disc-dominated galaxies with structure,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Robert J J Grand , Simon D M White

It has been demonstrated that the inclusion of baryonic physics can alter the dark matter densities in the centers of low-mass galaxies, making the central dark matter slope more shallow than predicted in pure cold dark matter simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alyson M. Brooks , Michael Kuhlen , Adi Zolotov , Dan Hooper

Seven cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of disk galaxy formation are analyzed to determine the alignment of the disk within the dark matter halo and the internal structure of the halo. We find that the orientation of the outer halo,…

The angular momentum properties of virialised dark matter haloes have been measured with good statistics in collisionless N-body simulations, but an equally accurate analysis of the baryonic spin is still missing. We employ the Illustris…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jolanta Zjupa , Volker Springel

Mock galaxy catalogues are often constructed from dark-matter-only simulations based on the galaxy-halo connection. Although modern mocks can reproduce galaxy clustering to some extent, the absence of baryons affects the spatial and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Sergio Contreras , Raul E. Angulo , Sownak Bose , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lars Hernquist , Francisco Maion , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Dark matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have steep, cuspy inner density profiles, while observations of dwarf galaxies find a range of inner slopes that are often much shallower. There is debate whether this discrepancy…

We present a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of a 10^13 Msun galaxy group and its environment (out to 10 times the virial radius) carried out using the EAGLE model of galaxy formation. Exploiting a novel technique to increase the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-04 Jack Richings , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Andrew Robertson , Matthieu Schaller

We carry out ``full-physics'' hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation in the normal-branch Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) braneworld model using a new modified version of the {\sc Arepo} code and the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 César Hernández-Aguayo , Christian Arnold , Baojiu Li , Carlton M. Baugh

Dwarf galaxies have a wide variety of structures, such as dark matter (DM) distribution, stellar-to-halo mass ratio, and stellar density. Recent high-resolution simulations have shown a variety of stellar-to-halo mass ratios for dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Katsuhiro Kaneko , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai , Michiko S. Fujii

We investigate how galactic disk structures connect to the detailed properties of their host dark-matter halos using the TNG50 simulation. From the hydrodynamic and matched dark-matter-only runs, we measure a comprehensive list of halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Jinning Liang , Fangzhou Jiang , Houjun Mo , Andrew Benson , Philip F. Hopkins , Avishal Dekel , Luis C. Ho

The spatial and velocity distributions of dark matter particles in the Milky Way Halo affect the signals expected to be observed in searches for dark matter. Results from direct detection experiments are often analyzed assuming a simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-08 Chris Kelso , Christopher Savage , Monica Valluri , Katherine Freese , Gregory S. Stinson , Jeremy Bailin

The statistical properties of the ellipticities of galaxy images depend on how galaxies form and evolve, and therefore constrain models of galaxy morphology, which are key to the removal of the intrinsic alignment contamination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Joachimi , E. Semboloni , P. E. Bett , J. Hartlap , S. Hilbert , H. Hoekstra , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback

We recover spiral and barred spiral patterns in disk galaxy simulations with a Wave Dark Matter (WDM) background (also known as Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM), Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) dark matter, and Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-15 L. A. Martinez-Medina , Hubert L. Bray , Tonatiuh Matos

Weak lensing three-point statistics are powerful probes of the structure of dark matter halos. We propose to use the correlation of the positions of galaxies with the shapes of background galaxy pairs, known as the halo-shear-shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

If the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model is a true description of the universe, it should also properly predict the properties and structure of dark matter haloes, where galaxies are born. Using N-body simulations with a broad scale of mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 P. Nurmi , P. Heinämäki , E. Saar , M. Einasto , J. Holopainen , V. J. Martínez , J. Einasto

Correlations between intrinsic ellipticities of galaxies are a potentially important systematic error when constraining dark energy properties from weak gravitational lensing (cosmic shear) surveys. In the absence of perfectly known galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael D. Schneider , Sarah Bridle