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The abundance of collapsed objects in the universe, or halo mass function, is an important theoretical tool in studying the effects of primordially generated non-Gaussianities on the large scale structure. The non-Gaussian mass function has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Guido D'Amico , Marcello Musso , Jorge Noreña , Aseem Paranjape

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

A large body of work based on collisionless cosmological N-body simulations going back over two decades has advanced the idea that collapsed dark matter haloes have simple and approximately universal forms for their mass density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Shaun T. Brown , Ian G. McCarthy , Benedikt Diemer , Andreea S. Font , Sam G. Stafford , Simon Pfeifer

We study the distribution functions of mass and circular velocity for dark matter halos in N-body simulations of the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, addressing redshift and environmental dependence. The dynamical range enables us to resolve…

We present a non-parametric Lagrangian biasing model and fit the ratio of the halo and mass densities at the field level using the mass-weighted halo field in the AbacusSummit simulations at $z=0.5$. Unlike the perturbative halo bias model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Xiaohan Wu , Julian B. Munoz , Daniel Eisenstein

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

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 present an analysis of the effects of baryon physics on the halo mass function. The analysis is based on simulations of a cosmological volume. Besides a Dark Matter (DM) only simulation, we also carry out two other hydrodynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Weiguang Cui , Stefano Borgani , Klaus Dolag , Giuseppe Murante , Luca Tornatore

We study, for the first time, how shear and angular momentum modify typical parameters of the spherical collapse model, in dark energy dominated universes. In particular, we study the linear density threshold for collapse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , F. Pace , J. A. S. Lima

We perform a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the density profiles of dark matter halos. From 12 simulated halos ranging the mass of $2\times10^{12}\sim 5\times10^{14} h^{-1}{\rm M_\odot}$ (represented by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

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 use a suite of N-body simulations that incorporate massive neutrinos as an extra-set of particles to investigate their effect on the halo mass function. We show that for cosmologies with massive neutrinos the mass function of dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Matteo Costanzi , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel , Jun-Qing Xia , Stefano Borgani , Emanuele Castorina , Emiliano Sefusatti

We study the evolution of the mass function of dark matter halos in the concordance LCDM model at high redshift. We employ overlapping (multiple-realization) numerical simulations to cover a wide range of halo masses,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , Zarija Lukic , Salman Habib , Paul M. Ricker

The mass function of dark halos in a Lambda-dominated cold dark matter (LambdaCDM) universe is investigated. 529 output files from five runs of N-body simulations are analyzed using the friends-of-friends cluster finding algorithm. All the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideki Yahagi , Masahiro Nagashima , Yuzuru Yoshii

It is well established from cosmological simulations that dark matter haloes are not precisely self-similar and an additional parameter, beyond their concentration, is required to accurately describe their spherically-averaged mass density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Shaun T. Brown , Ian G. McCarthy , Sam G. Stafford , Andreea S. Font

Without relying on a spherical or ellipsoidal collapse model, we analytically derive the halo mass function and cuspy halo density (inner slope of -4/3) based on the mass and energy cascade theory in dark matter flow. The hierarchical halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Zhijie , Xu

We use an array of high-resolution N-body simulations to determine the mass function of dark matter haloes at redshifts 10-30. We develop a new method for compensating for the effects of finite simulation volume that allows us to find an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

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 a high resolution $\Lambda$CDM numerical simulation to calculate the mass function of dark matter haloes down to the scale of dwarf galaxies, back to a redshift of fifteen, in a 50 $h^{-1}$Mpc volume containing 80 million particles.…

Non-spherical dynamical approximations and models for the gravitational collapse are used to extend the well-known Press \& Schechter (PS) approach, in order to determine analytical expressions for the mass function of cosmic structures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Pierluigi Monaco