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We present the first comprehensive analysis of the segregation of dark matter subhaloes in their host haloes. Using numerical simulations, we examine the segregation of twelve different subhalo properties with respect to both orbital energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Frank C. van den Bosch , Fangzhou Jiang , Duncan Campbell , Peter Behroozi

We analyze the Aquarius simulations to characterize the shape of dark matter halos with peak circular velocity in the range 8<Vmax<200 km/s, and perform a convergence study using the various Aquarius resolution levels. For the converged…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Carlos Vera-Ciro , Laura V. Sales , Amina Helmi , Julio F. Navarro

The splashback radius $r_\mathrm{sp}$ has been identified in cosmological $N$-body simulations as an important scale associated with gravitational collapse and the phase-space distribution of recently accreted material. We employ a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan , Alessandra Silvestri

We present a wave generalization of the classic Schwarzschild method for constructing self-consistent halos -- such a halo consists of a suitable superposition of waves instead of particle orbits, chosen to yield a desired mean density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-09 Tomer D. Yavetz , Xinyu Li , Lam Hui

We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. Shin , B. Jain , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , S. Pandey , A. Salcedo , D. H. Weinberg , A. Amsellem , N. Battaglia , M. Belyakov , T. Dacunha , S. Goldstein , A. V. Kravtsov , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , M. J. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , P. A. Gallardo , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , M. Hilton , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , B. J. Koopman , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. Lokken , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. McCullough , J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , J. Myles , F. Nati , A. Navarro-Alsina , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page , A. Palmese , B. Partridge , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Salatino , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , A. Schillaci , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , C. Sifón , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , S. T. Staggs , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. Weller , E. J. Wollack , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang

We study the density structures of dark matter subhalos for both cold dark matter and self-interacting dark matter models using high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. We quantify subhalo's central density at 150 pc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 Toshihiro Ebisu , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Kohei Hayashi

The initial radial density profiles of dark matter halos are laid down by gravitational collapse in hierarchical structure formation scenarios and are subject to further compression as baryons cool and settle to the halo centers. We here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Sellwood , Stacy S. McGaugh

We study the amount and distribution of dark matter substructures within dark matter haloes, using a large set of high-resolution simulations ranging from group size to cluster size haloes, and carried our within a cosmological model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Contini , G. De Lucia , S. Borgani

The first dark matter halos form by direct collapse from peaks in the matter density field, and evidence from numerical simulations and other analyses suggests that the dense inner regions of these objects largely persist today. These halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 M. Sten Delos , Margie Bruff , Adrienne L. Erickcek

Hydrodynamical simulations of star formation have stimulated a need to develop fast and robust algorithms for evaluating radiative cooling. Here we undertake a critical evaluation of what is currently a popular method for prescribing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel R. Wilkins , Cathie J. Clarke

In this proceeding, we briefly review three recent results. First, we show that halos formed in simulations with gas cooling are significantly rounder than halos formed in dissipationless $N$-body simulations. The increase in principle axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Andrew R. Zentner , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Stelios Kazantzidis

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

We present a generalization of our recently proposed machine learning framework, aiming to provide new physical insights into dark matter halo formation. We investigate the impact of the initial density and tidal shear fields on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

We identify shell-like tidal structures in flattened haloes that appear stream-like under different projections. This projection dependence demonstrates how changes in the host halo directly impact the formation and classification of tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Smrithi Gireesh Babu , Viraj Ekanayaka , William H. Oliver , Geraint F. Lewis

When analysing dark matter halos forming in cosmological N-body simulations it is common practice to obtain the density profile utilizing spherical shells. However, it is also known that the systems under investigation are far from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Knebe , Volkmar Wiessner

We have performed the largest ever particle simulation of a Milky Way-sized dark matter halo, and present the most comprehensive convergence study for an individual dark matter halo carried out thus far. We have also simulated a sample of 6…

We study properties of dark matter halos at high redshifts z=2-10 for a vast range of masses with the emphasis on dwarf halos with masses 10^7-10^9 Msun/h. We find that the density profiles of relaxed dwarf halos are well fitted by the NFW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Colin , A. Klypin , O. Valenzuela , S. Gottlober

The observed flaring of HI disk in the outer region of galaxies has been used in the past to determine the shape of the dark matter halo. Previous studies based on this concept suggest a slightly oblate halo (axis ratio ~ 0.8) for our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Narayan , K. Saha , C. J. Jog

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 mass function of dark matter halos is one of the most fundamental statistics in structure formation. Many theoretical models (such as Press-Schechter theory) are based on the notion that it could be universal, meaning independent of…

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