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We present a complementary methodology to constrain the total neutrino mass, $\sum m_{\nu}$, based on the diffusion coefficient of the splashback mass function of dark matter halos. Analyzing the snapshot data from the Massive Neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Suho Ryu , Jounghun Lee

We examine the splashback structure of galaxy clusters using hydrodynamical simulations from the GIZMO run of The Three Hundred Project, focusing on the relationship between the stellar and dark matter components. We dynamically decompose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Kris Walker , Aaron Ludlow , Chris Power , Alexander Knebe , Weiguang Cui

The lensing signal around galaxy clusters can, in principle, be used to test detailed predictions for their average mass profile from numerical simulations. However, the intrinsic shape of the profiles can be smeared out when a sample that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Keiichi Umetsu , Benedikt Diemer

The splashback radius, the radius of the apocenter of the first orbit of infalling material, is a measurable quantity marking the boundary between a galaxy cluster and its infalling region. We report detections of splashback radii in total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 A. Trudeau , Anthony H. Gonzalez , K. Thongkham , M. Brodwin , Thomas Connor , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt , Emily Moravec , S. A. Stanford , D. Stern

The outskirts of accreting dark matter haloes exhibit a sudden drop in density delimiting their multi-stream region. Due to the dynamics of accretion, the location of this physically motivated edge strongly correlates with the halo growth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 O. Contigiani , Y. M. Bahé , H. Hoekstra

We use a set of large cosmological N-body simulations to study the internal structure of dark matter haloes which form in scale-free models. We find that the radius r_178 corresponding to a mean interior overdensity of 178 accurately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shaun Cole , Cedric Lacey

We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation to measure the velocity dispersion profiles of dark matter and star particles in Milky Way-mass, galaxy group, and cluster-scale dark matter halos.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-19 Sownak Bose , Abraham Loeb

We present the splashback radius analysis of the Adaptive Matched Identifier of Clustered Objects (AMICO) galaxy cluster sample in the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). The sample contains 9049 rich galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 G. F. Lesci , C. Giocoli , F. Marulli , M. Romanello , L. Moscardini , M. Sereno , M. Maturi , M. Radovich , G. Castignani , H. Hildebrandt , L. Ingoglia , E. Puddu

We investigate a splashback-like feature in the outer region of central galaxies (CGs) in clusters. This feature is detected as a "dip" in the radial slope of the CG surface brightness, derived through the stacking of Dark Energy Survey…

We use publicly available data for the Millennium Simulation to explore the implications of the recent detection of assembly bias and splashback signatures in a large sample of galaxy clusters. These were identified in the SDSS/DR8…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

We present the direct detection of the splashback feature using the sample of massive galaxy clusters from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). This feature is clearly detected (above $5\sigma$) in the stacked luminosity density…

The splashback radius $R_{\rm sp}$ is a boundary of a halo that separates infalling and accreted matter. This results in a steep drop in the density profile at $R_{\rm st}$, which is a commonly adopted proxy for $R_{\rm sp}$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-24 Xiaoqing Sun , Stephanie O'Neil , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger

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

Context. Weak gravitational lensing offers a powerful method to investigate the projected matter density distribution within galaxy clusters, granting crucial insights into the broader landscape of dark matter on cluster scales. Aims. In…

We report a series of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations designed to explore the formation and properties of dark matter halos with masses close to the damping scale of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , V. Avila-Reese

We investigate the effects of intrinsic alignments (IA) of dark-matter halo shapes on cosmic density and velocity fields from cluster to cosmic scales beyond 100 Mpc/h. Besides the density correlation function binned by the halo orientation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Teppei Okumura , Takahiro Nishimichi , Keiichi Umetsu , Ken Osato

Although high-resolution N-body simulations make robust empirical predictions for the density distribution within cold dark matter halos, these studies have yielded little physical insight into the origins of the distribution. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Liliya L. R. Williams , Arif Babul , Julianne J. Dalcanton

We describe a new algorithm for finding substructures within dark matter haloes from N-body simulations. The algorithm relies upon the fact that dynamically distinct substructures in a halo will have a {\em local} velocity distribution that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-27 Pascal J. Elahi , Robert J. Thacker , Lawrence M. Widrow

We present evidence for the existence of the splashback radius in galaxy clusters selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. We show that the deprojected cross-correlation of galaxy clusters found in the Planck survey with galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Dominik Zuercher , Surhud More

We use the Illustris Simulations to gain insight into the build-up of the outer, low-surface brightness regions which surround galaxies. We characterize the stellar haloes by means of the logarithmic slope of the spherically-averaged…