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We investigate the evolution of dark matter halo shapes in cosmological N-body simulations both in scale free Einstein-De Sitter (EdS) and $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies. We compute the axis ratios ($q=b/a,s=c/a$) of well resolved central halos…

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We measure the mass function of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of flat LCDM cosmology and investigate its evolution at z<~2. Halos are identified as isolated density peaks, and their masses are…

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a technique for populating simulated dark matter distributions with galaxies, assuming a monotonic relation between a galaxy's stellar mass or luminosity and the mass of its parent dark matter halo or…

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The cold dark matter (CDM) model has two unsolved issues: simulations overpredict the satellite abundance around the Milky Way (MW) and it disagrees with observations of the central densities of dwarf galaxies which prefer constant density…

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Subhalo dynamics in galaxy cluster host halos govern the observed distribution and properties of cluster member galaxies. We use the IllustrisTNG simulation to investigate the accretion and orbits of subhalos found in cluster-size halos. We…

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In this paper we develop further a method for detecting unstable periodic orbits (UPOs) by stabilising transformations, where the strategy is to transform the system of interest in such a way that the orbits become stable. The main…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jonathan J. Crofts , Ruslan L. Davidchack

The growth of the supermassive black holes (BHs) that reside at the centres of most galaxies is intertwined with the physical processes that drive the formation of the galaxies themselves. The evolution of the relations between the mass of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. M. Booth , Joop Schaye

We study evolution of single subhaloes with their masses of $\sim10^9 M_\odot$ in a Milky-Way-sized host halo for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. We perform dark-matter-only N-body simulations of dynamical evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Okamoto , Shin'ichiro Ando

Measurements of the dynamical environment of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are becoming abundant and precise. We use such measurements to look for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), which is predicted to form dense cores ("solitons") in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Thomas Lacroix , Paolo Panci

We compare the dark matter halos' structural parameters derived for four Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies to those of subhalos found in cosmological $N$-body simulations. We confirm that estimates of the mass at a single fixed radius are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Maarten A. Breddels , Carlos Vera-Ciro , Amina Helmi

Semi-analytic modeling furnishes an efficient avenue for characterizing the properties of dark matter halos associated with satellites of Milky Way-like systems, as it easily accounts for uncertainties arising from halo-to-halo variance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Dylan Folsom , Oren Slone , Mariangela Lisanti , Fangzhou Jiang , Manoj Kaplinghat

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models feature short-range interactions between dark matter (DM) particles that lead to larger diversity in the inner parts of galactic rotation curves and potentially unique gravitational lensing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 David Klemmer , Moritz S. Fischer , Kimberly K. Boddy , Manoj Kaplinghat , Laura Sagunski

We study the co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with galaxies by means of semi-analytic model (SAM) of galaxy formation based on sub-halo merger trees built from Millennium and Millennium-II simulation. We utilize the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Qing Yang , Bin Hu , Xiao-Dong Li

The internal structure and abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos are powerful probes of the nature of dark matter. In order to compare observations with dark matter models, accurate theoretical predictions of these quantities are…

We compare the results of two techniques used to calculate the evolution of cooling gas during galaxy formation: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and semi-analytic modelling. We improve upon the earlier statistical comparison…

We investigate the redshift evolution of intrinsic alignments of the shapes of galaxies and subhalos with the large-scale structures of the universe using the cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, $\textit{Horizon Run 5}$. To this end,…

(Abridged) We use cosmological N-body simulations to study the properties of substructure halos in galaxy-sized dark matter halos. We extend prior work on the subject by considering the whole population of subhalos physically associated…

Observations of massive galaxies at low redshift have revealed approximately linear scaling relations between the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and properties of its host galaxy. How these scaling relations evolve with redshift…

We develop a semi-analytic model to explore different prescriptions of supermassive black hole (SMBH) fuelling. This model utilises a merger-triggered burst mode in concert with two possible implementations of a long-lived steady mode for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Angelo Ricarte , Priyamvada Natarajan

We present distributions of orbital parameters of infalling satellites of $\Lambda$CDM haloes in the mass range $10^{12}-10^{14}$M$_\odot$, which represent the initial conditions for the subsequent evolution of substructures within the host…

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