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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 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 develop a self-consistent and accurate halo model by partitioning matter according to the depletion radii of haloes. Unlike conventional models that define haloes with the virial radius while relying on a separate exclusion radius or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Yifeng Zhou , Jiaxin Han

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

The top-hat spherical collapse model (TSC) is one of the most fundamental analytical frameworks to describe the non-linear growth of cosmic structure. TSC has motivated, and been widely applied in, various researches even in the current era…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Daichi Suto , Tetsu Kitayama , Ken Osato , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

We review the physics of halo collapse giving rise to various halo boundaries, as well as their identification, observation, and applications. The classical halo is typically defined as a monolithic, virialized object enclosed within its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Jiaxin Han

We study the impact of numerical parameters on the properties of cold dark matter haloes formed in collisionless cosmological simulations. We quantify convergence in the median spherically-averaged circular velocity profiles for haloes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Richard Bower

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

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

Observational evidence for the radial alignment of satellites with their dark matter host has been accumulating steadily in the past few years. The effect is seen over a wide range of scales, from massive clusters of galaxies down to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-23 Maria J. Pereira , Greg L. Bryan , Stuart P. D. Gill

Accurate predictions of the abundance and clustering of dark matter haloes play a key role in testing the standard cosmological model. Here, we investigate the accuracy of one of the leading methods of connecting the simulated dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-15 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Steffen Hess , Stefan Gottlober

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

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

We use N-body simulations to examine whether a characteristic turnaround radius, as predicted from the spherical collapse model in a $\rm {\Lambda CDM}$ Universe, can be meaningfully identified for galaxy clusters, in the presence of full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Giorgos Korkidis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Konstantinos Tassis , Evangelia Ntormousi , Theodore N. Tomaras , Konstantinos Kovlakas

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation often rely on prescriptions for star formation and feedback that depend on halo properties such as halo mass, central over-density, and virial temperature. In this paper we address the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Trenti , B. D. Smith , E. J. Hallman , S. W. Skillman , J. M. Shull

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 introduce a new method to calculate dark matter halo density profiles from simulations. Each particle is 'smeared' over its orbit to obtain a dynamical profile that is averaged over a dynamical time, in contrast to the traditional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-26 Claudia Muni , Andrew Pontzen , Jason L. Sanders , Martin P. Rey , Justin I. Read , Oscar Agertz

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

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

Dark matter subhaloes are key for the predictions of simulations of structure formation, but their existence frequently ends prematurely due to two technical issues, namely numerical disruption in N-body simulations and halo finders failing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Benedikt Diemer , Peter Behroozi , Philip Mansfield