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The splashback radius of a dark matter halo, which corresponds to the first apocenter radius reached by infalling matter and substructures, has been detected around galaxy clusters using a multitude of observational methods, including weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Yuanyuan Zhang , Susmita Adhikari , Matteo Costanzi , Josh Frieman , Jim Annis , Chihway Chang

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

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 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 publicly available data for the Millennium Simulation to explore the implications of the recent detection of assembly bias and splashback signatures in a large sample of galaxy clusters. These were identified in the SDSS/DR8…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

The splashback radius ($R_{\rm sp}$) of dark matter halos has recently been detected using weak gravitational lensing and cross-correlations with galaxies. However, different methods have been used to measure $R_{\rm sp}$ and to assess the…

A steepening feature in the outer density profiles of dark matter halos indicating the splashback radius has drawn much attention recently. Possible observational detections have even been made for galaxy clusters. Theoretically, Adhikari…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-14 Xun Shi

Mass around dark matter halos can be divided into "infalling" material and "collapsed" material that has passed through at least one pericenter. Analytical models and simulations predict a rapid drop in the halo density profile associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Eric Baxter , Chihway Chang , Bhuvnesh Jain , Susmita Adhikari , Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov , Surhud More , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Ravi K. Sheth

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 show that the projected number density profiles of SDSS photometric galaxies around galaxy clusters displays strong evidence for the splashback radius, a sharp halo edge corresponding to the location of the first orbital apocenter of…

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

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

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 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

In the hierarchical evolution framework of cosmology, larger halos grow through matter accretion and halo mergers. To clarify the halo evolution, we need to define the halo mass and radius physically. However, the pseudo-evolution problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Weiwei Xu , Huanyuan Shan , Ran Li , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Nan Li , Chaoli Zhang

Context. Weak gravitational lensing offers a powerful method to investigate the projected matter density distribution within galaxy clusters, granting crucial insights into the broader landscape of dark matter on cluster scales. Aims. In…

The lensing signal around galaxy clusters can, in principle, be used to test detailed predictions for their average mass profile from numerical simulations. However, the intrinsic shape of the profiles can be smeared out when a sample that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Keiichi Umetsu , Benedikt Diemer

The boundaries of cold dark matter halos are commonly defined to enclose a density contrast $\Delta$ relative to a reference (mean or critical) density. We argue that a more physical boundary of halos is the radius at which accreted matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Surhud More , Benedikt Diemer , Andrey Kravtsov

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 density profiles of dark matter haloes contain rich information about their growth history and physical properties. One particularly interesting region is the splashback radius, $R_{\rm sp}$, which marks the transition between particles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tae-hyeon Shin , Benedikt Diemer
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