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Splashback refers to the process of matter that is accreting onto a dark matter halo reaching its first orbital apocenter and turning around in its orbit. The cluster-centric radius at which this process occurs, r_sp, defines a halo…

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 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 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

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 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…

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 examine scatter and bias in weak lensing selected clusters, employing both an analytic model of dark matter haloes and numerical mock data of weak lensing cluster surveys. We pay special attention to effects of the diversity of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takashi Hamana , Masamune Oguri , Masato Shirasaki , Masanori Sato

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 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

Weak lensing is an important technique to determine the masses of galaxy groups. However, the distortion imprint on the shape of the background galaxies is affected by all the mass content along the line-of-sight. Using COSMOS shear mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. F. Spinelli , S. Seitz , M. Lerchster , F. Brimioulle , A. Finoguenov

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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
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