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We study the biasing relation between dark-matter halos or galaxies and the underlying mass distribution, using cosmological $N$-body simulations in which galaxies are modelled via semi-analytic recipes. The nonlinear, stochastic biasing is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. S. Somerville , G. Lemson , Y. Sigad , A. Dekel , G. Kauffmann , S. D. M. White

Galaxy cluster mass halos ("clusters") in a dark matter simulation are matched to nodes in several different cosmic webs found using the Disperse cosmic web finder. The webs have different simulation smoothings and Disperse parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 J. D. Cohn

The strikingly anisotropic large-scale distribution of matter made of an extended network of voids delimited by sheets, themselves segmented by filaments, within which matter flows towards compact nodes where they intersect, imprints its…

In order to elucidate the origin of spin in both dark matter and baryons in galaxies, we have performed hydrodynamical simulations from cosmological initial conditions. We study atomic cooling haloes in the redshift range $100 > z > 9$ with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Joaquin Prieto , Raul Jimenez , Zoltán Haiman , Roberto E. González

Galaxy angular momenta (spins) contain valuable cosmological information, complementing their positions and velocities. The baryonic spin direction of galaxies has been probed as a reliable tracer of their host halos and the primordial spin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Ming-Jie Sheng , Lin Zhu , Hao-Ran Yu , Hongchuan Ma , Haikun Li , Peng Wang , Xi Kang

We use the rotation curves of more than 100 disk galaxies to examine whether the structure of their surrounding dark halos is consistent with the universal density profile proposed by Navarro, Frenk & White (NFW profiles). Rotation curve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

Analyzing the halo and galaxy catalogs from the Millennium simulations at redshifts $z=0,\ 0.5,\ 1$, we determine the alignment profiles of cluster galaxies by measuring the average alignments between the major axes of the pseudo inertia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hyunmi Song , Jounghun Lee

We study galaxy clustering using halo models, where gravitational clustering is described in terms of dark matter halos. At small scales, clustering statistics are dominated by halo density profiles, whereas at large scales, correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth , Lam Hui , Bhuvnesh Jain

We calculated spatial correlation functions of galaxies, $\xi(r)$, structure functions, $g(r)=1 +\xi(r)$, gradient functions, $\gamma(r)= d \log g(r)/ d \log r$, and fractal dimension functions, $D(r)= 3+\gamma(r)$, using dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 J. Einasto , G. Hütsi , T. Kuutma , M. Einasto

We provide new constraints on the connection between galaxies in the local universe, identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and dark matter halos and their constituent substructures in the $\Lambda$CDM model using WMAP7…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Rachel M. Reddick , Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker , Peter S. Behroozi

The halo spin-spin correlation function, $\eta(r)$, measures how rapidly the strength of the alignments of the spin directions between the neighbor halos change with the separation distance, $r$. The previous model based on the tidal torque…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 Jounghun Lee

A recent study conducted using CALIFA survey data (Lee et al, 2019b) has found that the orbital motions of neighbor galaxies are coherent with the spin direction of a target galaxy on scales of many Megaparsecs. We study this so called…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Yigon Kim , Rory Smith , Jihye Shin

Large surveys have shown that red galaxies are preferentially aligned with their halos while blue galaxies have a more isotropic distribution. Since halos generally align with their filaments this introduces a bias in the measurement of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-20 Victor P. Debattista , Frank C. van den Bosch , Rok Roskar , Thomas Quinn , Ben Moore , David R. Cole

In the theory of structure formation, galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying matter density field. The statistical relation between galaxy and matter density field is commonly referred as galaxy bias. In this paper, we test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eric Jullo , Jason Rhodes , Alina Kiessling , James E. Taylor , Richard Massey , Joel Berge , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Paul Kneib , Nick Scoville

Multiple observations made by several different telescopes have shown asymmetry between the number of spiral galaxies rotating in opposite directions in different parts of the sky. One of the immediate questions regarding the possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Lior Shamir

In the hierarchical formation model, galaxy clusters grow by accretion of smaller groups or isolated galaxies. During the infall into the centre of a cluster, the properties of accreted galaxies change. In particular, both observations and…

We employ high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations to analyze the emerging morphology of galaxies in dark matter halos at redshifts z > 2. We choose DM halos of similar masses of log (Mvir/Mo) ~11.65 +- 0.05 at the target redshifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

The standard cosmological model, now strongly constrained by direct observation at early epochs, is very successful in describing the structure of the evolved universe on large and intermediate scales. Unfortunately, serious contradictions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey Mashchenko , H. M. P. Couchman , James Wadsley

The alignment between halo spins and the cosmic web is still poorly understood despite being a widely studied topic. Here, we study this alignment within the context of tidal torque theory (TTT) and deviations from it. To this end, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-19 Pablo López , Marius Cautun , Dante Paz , Manuel Merchán , Rien van de Weygaert

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we have resolved individual red-giant branch stars in the halos of eight nearby spiral galaxies. The fields lie at projected distances between 2 and 13 kpc along the galaxies' minor axes. The data set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mouhcine , H. C. Ferguson , R. M. Rich , T. M. Brown , T. E. Smith