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The splashback radius, $R_{\rm sp}$, is a physically motivated halo boundary that separates infalling and collapsed matter of haloes. We study $R_{\rm sp}$ in the hydrodynamic and dark matter only IllustrisTNG simulations. The most commonly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-27 Stephanie O'Neil , David J. Barnes , Mark Vogelsberger , Benedikt Diemer

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope (AdvACT) survey using galaxies observed by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Susmita Adhikari , Tae-hyeon Shin , Bhuvnesh Jain , Matt Hilton , Eric Baxter , Chihway Chang , Risa H. Wechsler , Nick Battaglia , J. Richard Bond , Sebastian Bocquet , Joseph DeRose , Steve K. Choi , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , August E. Evrard , Simone Ferraro , J. Colin Hill , John P. Hughes , Patricio A. Gallardo , Martine Lokken , Amanda MacInnis , Jeffrey McMahon , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Frederico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Antonella Palmese , Bruce Partridge , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Cristóbal Sifón , Chun-Hao To , Ed Wollack , Hao-Yi Wu , Zhilei Xu , Michel Aguena , Sahar Allam , Alexandra Amon , James Annis , Santiago Avila , David Bacon , Emmanuel Bertin , Sunayana Bhargava , David Brooks , David L. Burke , Aurelio C. Rosell , Matias Carrasco Kind , Jorge Carretero , Francisco Javier Castander , Ami Choi , Matteo Costanzi , Luiz N. da Costa , Juan De Vicente , Shantanu Desai , Thomas H. Diehl , Peter Doel , Spencer Everett , Ismael Ferrero , Agnès Ferté , Brenna Flaugher , Pablo Fosalba , Josh Frieman , Juan García-Bellido , Enrique Gaztanaga , Daniel Gruen , Robert A. Gruendl , Julia Gschwend , Gaston Gutierrez , Will G. Hartley , Samuel R. Hinton , Devon L. Hollowood , Klaus Honscheid , David J. James , Tesla Jeltema , Kyler Kuehn , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Ofer Lahav , Marcos Lima , Marcio A. G. Maia , Jennifer L. Marshall , Paul Martini , Peter Melchior , Felipe Menanteau , Ramon Miquel , Robert Morgan , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Francisco Paz-Chinchón , Andrés Plazas Malagón , Eusebio Sanchez , Basilio Santiago , Vic Scarpine , Santiago Serrano , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Mathew Smith , Marcelle Soares-Santos , Eric Suchyta , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tamas N. Varga , Reese D. Wilkinson , Yuanyuan Zhang , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , Edward V. Denison , Shannon M. Duff , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Joel N. Ullom , Jeff Van Lanen , Leila R. Vale , DES Collaboration , ACT Collaboration

We investigate a splashback-like feature in the outer region of central galaxies (CGs) in clusters. This feature is detected as a "dip" in the radial slope of the CG surface brightness, derived through the stacking of Dark Energy Survey…

The splashback radius $R_{\rm sp}$, the apocentric radius of particles on their first orbit after falling into a dark matter halo, has recently been suggested as a physically motivated halo boundary that separates accreting from orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-17 Benedikt Diemer , Philip Mansfield , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Surhud More

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

It has been shown some years ago that dark matter haloes outskirts are characterized by very steep density profiles in a very small radial range. This feature has been interpreted as a pile up of at a similar location of different particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Antonino Del Popolo , Morgan Le Delliou

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 present the direct detection of the splashback feature using the sample of massive galaxy clusters from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). This feature is clearly detected (above $5\sigma$) in the stacked luminosity density…

We investigate the splashback features of dark-matter halos based on cosmic density and velocity fields. Besides the density correlation function binned by the halo orientation angle which was used in the literature, we introduce, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-23 Teppei Okumura , Takahiro Nishimichi , Keiichi Umetsu , Ken Osato

Cluster scaling relations are key ingredients in cluster abundance-based cosmological studies. In optical cluster cosmology, where clusters are detected through their richness, cluster-weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful…

We present the splashback radius analysis of the Adaptive Matched Identifier of Clustered Objects (AMICO) galaxy cluster sample in the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). The sample contains 9049 rich galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 G. F. Lesci , C. Giocoli , F. Marulli , M. Romanello , L. Moscardini , M. Sereno , M. Maturi , M. Radovich , G. Castignani , H. Hildebrandt , L. Ingoglia , E. Puddu

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 work has shown that density profiles in the outskirts of dark matter halos can become extremely steep over a narrow range of radius. This behavior is produced by splashback material on its first apocentric passage after accretion. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Susmita Adhikari , Neal Dalal , Robert T. Chamberlain

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

The density field in the outskirts of dark matter halos is discontinuous due to a caustic formed by matter at its first apocenter after infall. In this paper, we present an algorithm to identify the "splashback shell" formed by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Philip Mansfield , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Benedikt Diemer

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…

Optical galaxy cluster identification algorithms such as redMaPPer promise to enable an array of astrophysical and cosmological studies, but suffer from biases whereby galaxies in front of and behind a galaxy cluster are mistakenly…

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

We measure the luminosity and color dependence of galaxy clustering in the SDSS DR7 main galaxy sample, focusing on the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of volume-limited samples. We interpret our measurements using halo occupation…

Dark matter halos are fundamental cosmological structures whose properties-such as concentration, ellipticity, and mass centroid-encode information about their formation and evolution. Concentration traces collapse time and internal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Chenxu Cui , Xiangkun Liu , Huanyuan Shan , Ziwei Li , Zuhui Fan