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We have developed a new halo finding method, Physically Self-Bound (PSB) group finding algorithm, which can efficiently identify halos located even at crowded regions. This method combines two physical criteria such as the tidal radius of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juhan Kim , Changbom Park

We investigate the structure of cold dark matter halos using advanced models of spherical collapse and accretion in an expanding Universe. These base on solving time-dependent equations for the moments of the phase-space distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Lapi , A. Cavaliere

We report the results of a study of the distribution of galaxies in the projection along the radius ($R \leq 3R_{200c}$) for 157~groups and clusters of galaxies in the local Universe (0.01 < $z$ < 0.10) with line-of-sight velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Flera G. Kopylova , Alexander I. Kopylov

We examine the properties of dark matter halos within a rich galaxy cluster using a high resolution simulation that captures the cosmological context of a cold dark matter universe. The mass and force resolution permit the resolution of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

We use a large N-body simulation to study the characteristic scales in the density gradient profiles in and around halos with masses ranging from $10^{12}$ to $10^{15} h^{-1}{\rm M_\odot}$. We investigate the profiles separately along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 X. Wang , H. Wang , H. J. Mo

We explore the boundary of dark matter haloes through their bias and velocity profiles. Using cosmological $N$-body simulations, we show that the bias profile exhibits a ubiquitous trough that can be interpreted as created by halo accretion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Matthew Fong , Jiaxin Han

We present a detection of the splashback feature around galaxy clusters selected using their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal. Recent measurements of the splashback feature around optically selected galaxy clusters have found that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 T. Shin , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , B. Jain , N. Battaglia , L. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. DeRose , D. Gruen , M. Hilton , A. Kravtsov , T. McClintock , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , H. Wu , S. Aiola , S. Allam , K. Bechtol , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , J. R. Bond , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , S. K. Choi , C. E. Cunha , T. M. Crawford , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , M. J. Devlin , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , J. Dunkley , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , P. A. Gallardo , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , M. Gralla , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , S. P. Ho , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , A. G. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , L. Maurin , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , S. Naess , F. Nati , L. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page B. Partridge , S. Patil , A. A. Plazas , D. Rapetti , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , S. Serrano , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , S. T. Staggs , A. Stark , G. Stein , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. van Engelen , E. J. Wollack , Z. Xu , Z. Zhang

The density profiles of dark matter haloes can potentially probe dynamics, fundamental physics, and cosmology, but some of the most promising signals reside near or beyond the virial radius. While these scales have recently become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Benedikt Diemer

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

Cosmological parameters such as $\Omega_{\rm{M}}$ and $\sigma_{8}$ can be measured indirectly using various methods, including galaxy cluster abundance and cosmic shear. These measurements constrain the composite parameter $S_{8}$, leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Roan Haggar , Yuba Amoura , Charlie T. Mpetha , James E. Taylor , Kris Walker , Chris Power

We compute the properties of dark matter halos with mass $10^{6.5}-10^9\msun$ at redshift $z=6-11$ in the standard cold dark matter cosmological model, utilizing a very high resolution N-body simulation. We find that dark matter halos in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renyue Cen , Feng Dong , Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present the splashback radius measurements around the SRG/eROSITA eFEDS X-ray selected galaxy clusters by cross-correlating them with HSC S19A photometric galaxies. The X-ray selection is expected to be less affected by systematics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Divya Rana , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Sebastian Grandis , Matthias Klein , Esra Bulbul , I-Non Chiu , Satoshi Miyazaki , Neta Bahcall

We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure of dark halos in the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. Halos are excised from simulations of cosmologically representative regions and are resimulated individually at high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julio F. Navarro , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White

The structure and dark matter halo core properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are investigated. A double-isothermal model of an isothermal stellar system, embedded in an isothermal dark halo core provides an excellent fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Andreas Burkert

We analyse the coarse-grained phase-space structure of the six Galaxy-scale dark matter haloes of the Aquarius Project using a state-of-the-art 6D substructure finder. Within r_50, we find that about 35% of the mass is in identifiable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michal Maciejewski , Mark Vogelsberger , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel

We present a detailed comparison of the substructure properties of a single Milky Way sized dark matter halo from the Aquarius suite at five different resolutions, as identified by a variety of different (sub-)halo finders for simulations…

A self-similar spherical collapse model predicts a dark matter (DM) splashback and accretion shock in the outskirts of galaxy clusters while misses a key ingredient of structure formation - processes associated with mergers. To fill this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Congyao Zhang , Irina Zhuravleva , Andrey Kravtsov , Eugene Churazov

Recent observations of tidal debris around galaxies have revealed that the structural properties of the spheroidal components of tidally disturbed galaxies are similar to those found in non-interacting early-type galaxies(ETGs), likely due…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-04 Victor H. Robles , L. A. Martinez-Medina , T. Matos

We investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben Moore , Sebastiano Ghigna , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

The splashback radius is one popular method of constraining the size of galaxy clusters, often measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile. However, measuring the splashback radius through the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Talia M. O'Shea , Josh Borrow , Stephanie O'Neil , Mark Vogelsberger