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The splashback radius, coinciding with the minimum in the dark matter radial density gradient, is thought to be a universal definition of the edge of a dark matter halo. Observational methods to detect it have traced the dark matter using…

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 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 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 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

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 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 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

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

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

The splashback radius is a physical scale in dark matter halos that is set by the gravitational dynamics of recently accreted shells. We use analytical models and N-body simulations to study the dependence of splashback on dark energy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Susmita Adhikari , Jeremy Sakstein , Bhuvnesh Jain , Neal Dalal , Baojiu Li

We explore how the splashback radius ($R_{\rm sp}$) of galaxy clusters, measured using the number density of the subhalo population, changes based on various selection criteria using the IllustrisTNG cosmological galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 Stephanie O'Neil , Josh Borrow , Mark Vogelsberger , Benedikt Diemer

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

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

We present a model for the halo--mass correlation function that explicitly incorporates halo exclusion. We assume that halos trace mass in a way that can be described using a single scale-independent bias parameter. However, our model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Rafael Garcia , Eduardo Rozo , Matthew R. Becker , Surhud More

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

Dark matter halos are typically defined as spheres that enclose some overdensity, but these sharp, somewhat arbitrary boundaries introduce non-physical artifacts such as backsplash halos, pseudo-evolution, and an incomplete accounting of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ze'ev Vladimir , Calvin Osinga , Benedikt Diemer , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo

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…

Splashback refers to the process of matter that is accreting onto a dark matter halo reaching its first orbital apocenter and turning around in its orbit. The cluster-centric radius at which this process occurs, r_sp, defines a halo…

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