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The splashback radius marks the physical boundary of galaxy clusters, separating orbiting from infalling material, and provides a halo definition free from pseudo-evolution. In this work, we present a fully photometric framework to measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lucas Gabriel-Silva , Laerte Sodré

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

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

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 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 present measurements of the radial profile of mass and galaxy number density around X-ray selected ROSAT All Sky Survey-Multi-Component Matched Filter galaxy clusters using Year 3 data from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Jitendra Joshi , Divya Rana , Surhud More , Matthias Klein

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

The phase space structure of dark matter halos can be used to measure the mass of the halo, infer mass accretion rates, and probe the effects of modified gravity. Previous studies showed that the splashback radius can be measured in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Eduardo Rozo , Rafael Garcia

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 $r_\text{sp}$ 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

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…

We present a study of the distribution of galaxies along the radius of 157 groups and clusters of galaxies (200~km~s$^{-1}$ < $\sigma$ < 1100~km~s$^{-1}$) of the local Universe (0.01 < $z$ < 0.1). We introduced a new boundary of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-16 Flera G. Kopylova , Alexander I. Kopylov

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 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

Observations of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the outskirts of galaxy clusters reveal shocks associated with gas accretion from the cosmic web. Previous work based on non-radiative cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have defined the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 M. Zhang , K. Walker , A. Sullivan , C. Power , W. Cui , Y. Li , X. Zhang

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

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

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

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…

Using the motion of accreting particles onto halos in cosmological $N$-body simulations, we study the radial phase-space structures of cold dark matter (CDM) halos. In CDM cosmology, formation of virialized halos generically produces radial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Hiromu Sugiura , Takahiro Nishimichi , Yann Rasera , Atsushi Taruya