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We have explored the outskirts of dark matter haloes out to 2.5 times the virial radius using a large sample of halos drawn from Illustris, along with a set of zoom simulations (MUGS). Using these, we make a systematic exploration of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-22 O. N. Snaith , J. Bailin , A. Knebe , G. Stinson , J. Wadsley , H. Couchman

In the hierarchical evolution framework of cosmology, larger halos grow through matter accretion and halo mergers. To clarify the halo evolution, we need to define the halo mass and radius physically. However, the pseudo-evolution problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Weiwei Xu , Huanyuan Shan , Ran Li , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Nan Li , Chaoli Zhang

In this study, we define the novel splashback depth $\mathcal{D}$ and width $\mathcal{W}$ to examine how the splashback features of dark matter haloes are affected by the physical properties of haloes themselves. We use the largest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Qiaorong S. Yu , Stephanie O'Neil , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Sownak Bose , Boryana Hadzhyska , Lars Hernquist , Rahul Kannan , Monica Wu , Ziang Wu

We present an analytic model for the splashback mass function of dark matter halos, which is parameterized by a single coefficient and constructed in the framework of the generalized excursion set theory and the self-similar spherical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Suho Ryu , Jounghun Lee

We use weak lensing observations to make the first measurement of the characteristic depletion radius, one of the three radii that characterize the region where matter is being depleted by growing haloes. The lenses are taken from the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Matthew Fong , Jiaxin Han , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hongyu Gao , Jiaqi Wang , Hekun Li , Antonios Katsianis , Pedro Alonso

Virtually any investigation involving dark matter halos relies on a definition of their radius, mass, and of whether they are a subhalo. The halo boundary is most commonly defined to include a spherical overdensity contrast (such as R200c,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Benedikt Diemer

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

By tracking trajectories of dark matter (DM) particles accreting onto haloes in cosmological $N$-body simulations, we investigate the radial phase-space distribution of cold dark matter (CDM) haloes, paying attention to their inner regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Yohsuke Enomoto , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya

The splashback radius was proposed as a physically motivated boundary of clusters as it sets the limit between the infalling and the orbitally dominated regions. However, galaxy clusters are complex objects connected to filaments of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Théo Lebeau , Stefano Ettori , Nabila Aghanim , Jenny G. Sorce

We examine the outskirts of galaxy clusters in the C-EAGLE simulations to quantify the `edges' of the stellar and dark matter distribution. The radius of the steepest slope in the dark matter, commonly used as a proxy for the splashback…

Mass around dark matter halos can be divided into "infalling" material and "collapsed" material that has passed through at least one pericenter. Analytical models and simulations predict a rapid drop in the halo density profile associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Eric Baxter , Chihway Chang , Bhuvnesh Jain , Susmita Adhikari , Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov , Surhud More , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Ravi K. Sheth

The splashback radius $r_\text{sp}$ separates the physical regimes of collapsed and infalling material around massive dark matter haloes. In cosmological simulations, this location is associated with a steepening of the spherically averaged…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 O. Contigiani , H. Hoekstra , Y. M. Bahé

Recent advances in simulations and observations of galaxy clusters suggest that there exists a physical outer boundary of massive cluster-size dark matter haloes. In this work, we investigate the locations of the outer boundaries of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin T. Lau

We study how properties of discrete dark matter halos depend on halo environment, characterized by the mass density around the halos on scales from 0.5 to 16 $h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$. We find that low mass halos (those less massive than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-10 Christoph T Lee , Joel R. Primack , Peter Behroozi , Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla , Doug Hellinger , Avishai Dekel

Virialized halos of cold dark matter generically exhibit multi-stream structures of accreted dark matter within an outermost radial caustic known as the splashback radius. By tracking the particle trajectories that accrete onto the halos in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Yohsuke Enomoto , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya

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

We present measurements of the radial profile of mass and galaxy number density around X-ray selected ROSAT All Sky Survey-Multi-Component Matched Filter galaxy clusters using Year 3 data from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Jitendra Joshi , Divya Rana , Surhud More , Matthias Klein

We present an analysis of the splashback radius ($R_{\text{sp}}$) and the associated splashback mass ($M_{\text{sp}}$) for a sample of galaxy clusters using SDSS spectroscopic data and mock simulations. $R_{\text{sp}}$ marks a physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Lucas Gabriel-Silva , Laerte Sodré

Recent constraints on the splashback radius around optically selected galaxy clusters from the redMaPPer cluster-finding algorithm in the literature have shown that the observed splashback radius is $\sim 20\%$ smaller than that predicted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Ryoma Murata , Tomomi Sunayama , Masamune Oguri , Surhud More , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ken Osato

We obtain predictions for the properties of cold dark matter annihilation radiation using high resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies (APOSTLE project) carried out as part of the "Evolution and…