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The halo-mediated inverse mass cascade is a key feature of the intermediate statistically steady state for self-gravitating collisionless dark matter flow (SG-CFD). A broad spectrum of halos and halo groups are necessary to form from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Zhijie Xu

For the last 30 years many observational and theoretical evidences have shown that galaxy clusters are not spherical objects, and that their shape is much better described by a triaxial geometry. With the advent of multi-wavelength data of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mario Bonamigo , Giulia Despali , Marceau Limousin , Raul Angulo , Carlo Giocoli , Geneviève Soucail

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 $R_{\rm sp}$, 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 abundance of dark matter haloes is one of the key probes of the growth of structure and expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical predictions for this quantity usually assume that, when expressed in a certain form, it depends only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Lurdes Ondaro-Mallea , Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò

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

In the framework of the spherical collapse model we study the influence of shear and rotation terms for dark matter fluid in clustering dark energy models. We evaluate, for different equations of state, the effects of these terms on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Pace , R. C. Batista , A. Del Popolo

Virtually any investigation involving dark matter halos relies on a definition of their radius, mass, and of whether they are a subhalo. The halo boundary is most commonly defined to include a spherical overdensity contrast (such as R200c,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Benedikt Diemer

A modification of the Press-Schechter theory allowing for presence of a background large-scale structure (LSS) - a supercluster or a void, is proposed. The LSS is accounted as the statistical constraints in form of linear functionals of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. P. Kurbatov

We study the formation of dark matter halos in the concordance LCDM model over a wide range of redshifts, from z=20 to the present. Our primary focus is the halo mass function, a key probe of cosmology. By performing a large suite of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zarija Lukic , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Sergei Bashinsky , Paul M. Ricker

A dark matter halo is commonly defined as a spherical overdensity of matter with respect to a reference density, such as the critical density or the mean matter density of the Universe. Such definitions can lead to a spurious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 Benedikt Diemer , Surhud More , Andrey Kravtsov

The dark matter halo mass function is a key repository of cosmological information over a wide range of mass scales, from individual galaxies to galaxy clusters. N-body simulations have established that the friends-of-friends (FOF) mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zarija Lukić , Darren Reed , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

We discuss the different definitions of the mass of a halo in common use and how one may convert between them. Using N-body simulations we show that mass estimates based on spherical averages are much more tightly correlated with each other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Martin White

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…

Between the linear and nonlinear regimes, we identify a universal transition range centered on a characteristic halo mass $m_h^*\propto t$, within which gravitational dynamics self-organize the matter field toward an effective spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhijie Xu

The phase space structure of dark matter halos can be used to measure the mass of the halo, infer mass accretion rates, and probe the effects of modified gravity. Previous studies showed that the splashback radius can be measured in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Eduardo Rozo , Rafael Garcia

In this study, we define the novel splashback depth $\mathcal{D}$ and width $\mathcal{W}$ to examine how the splashback features of dark matter haloes are affected by the physical properties of haloes themselves. We use the largest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Qiaorong S. Yu , Stephanie O'Neil , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Sownak Bose , Boryana Hadzhyska , Lars Hernquist , Rahul Kannan , Monica Wu , Ziang Wu

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

Structure formation provides a strong test of any cosmic acceleration model because a successful dark energy model must not inhibit {\black or overpredict} the development of observed large-scale structures. Traditional approaches to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 C. Prescod-Weinstein , N. Afshordi

Theoretical frameworks based on Press-Schechter formalism and excursion set arguments suggest that the abundance of dark matter haloes exhibits universal behaviour when expressed in terms of peak height. If true, this implies that a single…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Yuhao Li , Robert E. Smith