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Parametric modeling of galaxy cluster density profiles from weak lensing observations leads to a mass bias, whose detailed understanding is critical in deriving accurate mass-observable relations for constraining cosmological models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Martin W. Sommer , Tim Schrabback , Douglas E. Applegate , Stefan Hilbert , Behzad Ansarinejad , Benjamin Floyd , Sebastian Grandis

The non-linear, scale-dependent bias in the mass distribution of galaxies and the underlying dark matter is a key systematic affecting the extraction of cosmological parameters from galaxy clustering. Using 95 million halos from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Elise Jennings , Carlton M. Baugh , Dylan Hatt

We present a Bayesian hierarchical inference formalism to study the relation between the properties of dark matter halos and those of their central galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. Unlike traditional methods, this technique does…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Alexie Leauthaud

We use N-body simulations to test the predictions of the redshift distortion in the power spectrum given by the halo model in which the clustering of dark matter particles is considered as a result both of the clustering of dark halos in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xi. Kang , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Borner

We present a proof-of-concept of a novel and fully Bayesian methodology designed to detect halos of different masses in cosmological observations subject to noise and systematic uncertainties. Our methodology combines the previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Alexander I. Merson , Jens Jasche , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Benjamin Wandelt , D. Heath Jones , Matthew Colless

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation often rely on prescriptions for star formation and feedback that depend on halo properties such as halo mass, central over-density, and virial temperature. In this paper we address the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Trenti , B. D. Smith , E. J. Hallman , S. W. Skillman , J. M. Shull

Properties of dark matter halos are reviewed. Taken from different publications, we present results on (1) the mass and velocity functions, (2) density and velocity profiles, and (3) concentration of halos. In the range of radii…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin

The structural and dynamic properties of the dark matter halos, though an important ingredient in understanding large-scale structure formation, require more conservative particle resolution than those required by halo mass alone in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Premvijay Velmani

We study how well halo properties of galaxy clusters, like mass and concentration, are recovered using lensing data. In order to generate a large sample of systems at different redshifts we use the code MOKA. We measure halo mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , R. Benton Metcalf , Stefano Ettori , Lauro Moscardini

We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Soumadeep Maiti , Carlos M. Correa , Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Ariel G. Sánchez

Clustering of dark matter halos has been shown to depend on halo properties beyond mass such as halo concentration, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Standard halo occupation models (HOD) in large scale structure studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-05 Mohammadjavad Vakili , ChangHoon Hahn

In recent work (Seljak, Hamaus and Desjacques 2009) it was found that weighting central halo galaxies by halo mass can significantly suppress their stochasticity relative to the dark matter, well below the Poisson model expectation. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nico Hamaus , Uros Seljak , Vincent Desjacques , Robert E. Smith , Tobias Baldauf

The halo shape plays a central role in determining important observational properties of the haloes such as mass, concentration and lensing cross-sections. The triaxiality of lensing galaxy clusters has a substantial impact on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jesús Vega-Ferrero , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlöber

We investigate 3D density and weak lensing profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a cosmology-rescaling algorithm for $N$-body simulations. We extend the rescaling method of Angulo & White (2010) and Angulo & Hilbert (2015) to improve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Malin Renneby , Stefan Hilbert , Raúl E. Angulo

We perform a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the density profiles of dark matter halos. From 12 simulated halos ranging the mass of $2\times10^{12}\sim 5\times10^{14} h^{-1}{\rm M_\odot}$ (represented by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We present a method to numerically estimate the densities of a discretely sampled data based on binary space partitioning tree. We start with a root node containing all the particles and then recursively divide each node into two nodes each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sanjib Sharma , Matthias Steinmetz

The simplest scheme for predicting real galaxy properties after performing a dark matter simulation is to rank order the real systems by stellar mass and the simulated systems by halo mass and then simply assume monotonicity - that the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-22 Stephanie Tonnesen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We compare the measurements of the bispectrum and the estimate of its covariance obtained from a set of different methods for the efficient generation of approximate dark matter halo catalogs to the same quantities obtained from full N-body…

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

We present precise measurements of the assembly bias of dark matter halos, i.e. the dependence of halo bias on other properties than the mass, using curved "separate universe" N-body simulations which effectively incorporate an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Titouan Lazeyras , Marcello Musso , Fabian Schmidt