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We perform a statistical weak lensing analysis of dark matter profiles around tracers of halo mass from galactic- to cluster-size halos. In this analysis we use 170,640 isolated ~L* galaxies split into ellipticals and spirals, 38,236 groups…

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We investigate the properties of dark matter haloes and subhaloes in an $f(R)$ gravity model with $|f_{R0}|=10^{-6}$, using a very high-resolution N-body simulation. The model is a borderline between being cosmologically interesting and yet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-14 Difu Shi , Baojiu Li , Jiaxin Han , Liang Gao , Wojciech A. Hellwing

Observed kinematical data of 40 Local Group (LG) members are used to derive the dark matter halo mass of such galaxies. Haloes are selected from the theoretically expected LG mass function and two different density profiles are assumed, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris B. Brook , Arianna Di Cintio

The dark matter halo mass function (HMF) is a characteristic property of cosmological structure formation models, quantifying the number density of dark matter haloes per unit mass in the Universe. A key goal of current and planned large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-01 Steven Murray , Chris Power , Aaron Robotham

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate how the inclusion of physical processes relevant to galaxy formation (star formation, metal-line cooling, stellar winds, supernovae and feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Marco Velliscig , Marcel P. van Daalen , Joop Schaye , Ian G. McCarthy , Marcello Cacciato , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

We present a physical model of the Mass Accretion Histories (MAH) of haloes in concordance with the {\it observed} cosmic star formation rate density (CSFRD). We model the MAHs of dark matter haloes using a Gamma ($\Gamma$) functional form:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Antonios Katsianis , Xiaohu Yang , Matthew Fong , Jie Wang

We examine the present-day total stellar-to-halo mass (SHM) ratio as a function of halo mass for a new sample of simulated field galaxies using fully cosmological, LCDM, high resolution SPH + N-Body simulations.These simulations include an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ferah Munshi , F. Governato , A. M. Brooks , C. Christensen , S. Shen , S. Loebman , B. Moster , T. Quinn , J. Wadsley

A key ingredient for semi-analytic models (SAMs) of galaxy formation is the mass assembly history of haloes, encoded in a tree structure. The most commonly used method to construct halo merger histories is based on the outcomes of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-28 Sandra Robles , Jonathan S. Gómez , Adín Ramírez Rivera , Nelson D. Padilla , Diego Dujovne

A method of deriving and using merging history trees of dark matter galaxy haloes directly from pure gravity N-body simulations is presented. This combines the full non-linearity of N-body simulations with the flexibility of the…

We use ~100 cosmological galaxy formation zoom-in simulations using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics code {\sc gasoline} to study the effect of baryonic processes on the mass profiles of cold dark matter haloes. The haloes in our study…

Galaxy formation and evolution models, such as semi-analytic models, are powerful theoretical tools for predicting how galaxies evolve across cosmic time. These models follow the evolution of galaxies based on the halo assembly histories…

We investigate 3D density and weak lensing profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a cosmology-rescaling algorithm for $N$-body simulations. We extend the rescaling method of Angulo & White (2010) and Angulo & Hilbert (2015) to improve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Malin Renneby , Stefan Hilbert , Raúl E. Angulo

We present new determinations of the stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) at $z=0-10$ that match the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function, the SFR$-M_*$ relation,and the cosmic star formation rate. We utilize a compilation of 40…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla , Joel R. Primack , Vladimir Avila-Reese , S. M. Faber

The non-spherical shapes of dark matter and gas distributions introduce systematic uncertainties that affect observable-mass relations and selection functions of galaxy groups and clusters. However, the triaxial gas distributions depend on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle , Camille Avestruz , David J. Barnes , Arya Farahi , Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai

Using a novel machine learning method, we investigate the buildup of galaxy properties in different simulations, and in various environments within a single simulation. The aim of this work is to show the power of this approach at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Robert McGibbon , Sadegh Khochfar

The main aim of microlensing experiments is to evaluate the mean mass of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) and the mass fraction of the Galactic halo made by this type of dark matter. Statistical analysis shows that by considering a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sohrab Rahvar

For any assumed stellar Initial Mass Function, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) gives a precise determination of the stellar mass function of galaxies for 10^8 M_sun < M_* < 10^12 M_sun. Within the concordance LCDM cosmology, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Qi Guo , Simon White , Cheng Li , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We study the effect of baryonic processes on the halo mass function in the galaxy cluster mass range using a catalogue of 153 high resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the AMR code ramses. We use the results of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Davide Martizzi , Irshad Mohammed , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore

We use N-body cosmological simulations and empirical galaxy models to study the merger history of dwarf-mass galaxies (with M_halo~10^10 M_Sun). Our input galaxy models describe the stellar mass-halo mass relation, and the galaxy occupation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-04 Alis J. Deason , Sownak Bose , Azadeh Fattahi , Nicola C. Amorisco , Wojciech Hellwing , Carlos S. Frenk

The halo mass function (HMF) is fundamental for interpreting the number counts of galaxy clusters, serving as a pivotal theoretical tool in cosmology. With the advent of high-precision surveys such as LSST, eROSITA, DESI, and Euclid,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani , Jeppe Dakin