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The two-point clustering of dark matter halos is influenced by halo properties besides mass, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Using the depth of the gravitational potential well, $V_{\rm max}$, as our secondary halo property,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Tomomi Sunayama , Andrew P. Hearin , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Alexie Leauthaud

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an optical wide-field survey designed to map the matter distribution in the Universe using weak gravitational lensing. In this paper, we use these data to measure the density profiles and masses of a sample…

Using two sets of large $N$-body simulations, we study the origin of the correlations of halo assembly time ($z_{\rm f}$), concentration ($v_{\rm max}/v_{\rm 200}$) and spin ($\lambda$) with the large-scale evolved density field at given…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xiaoyu Wang , Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , JingJing Shi , Yipeng Jing

The distribution of mass on galaxy cluster scales is an important test of structure formation scenarios, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter itself. Several techniques have been used to probe the mass distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lindsay King , Virginia Corless

Xu \& Jing reported a monotonic relationship between host halo mass $M_h$ and the morphology of massive central galaxies, characterized by the S\'ersic index $n$, at fixed stellar mass, suggesting that morphology could serve as a good…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-30 Zhenjie Liu , Kun Xu , Jun Zhang , Wenting Wang , Cong Liu

Cosmological simulations predict significant secondary dependencies of halo clustering on internal properties and environment. Detecting these subtle signals in observational data remains challenging, with important ramifications for galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Facundo Rodriguez , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

Gravitational lensing has now become a popular tool to measure the mass distribution of structures in the Universe on various scales. Here we focus on the study of galaxy's scale dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy lensing techniques:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Limousin , J-P. Kneib , P. Natarajan

We investigate how galactic disk structures connect to the detailed properties of their host dark-matter halos using the TNG50 simulation. From the hydrodynamic and matched dark-matter-only runs, we measure a comprehensive list of halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Jinning Liang , Fangzhou Jiang , Houjun Mo , Andrew Benson , Philip F. Hopkins , Avishal Dekel , Luis C. Ho

Strong gravitational lensing offers a unique probe of dark matter (DM) on sub-galactic scales, where the abundance and distribution of low-mass halos are highly sensitive to the underlying properties of DM particles. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Andreas Filipp , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Daniel Gilman , LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Using deep images from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey and taking advantage of its unprecedented weak lensing capabilities, we reveal a remarkably tight connection between the stellar mass distribution of massive central galaxies and…

Halo bias is the main link between the matter distribution and dark matter halos. In its simplest form, halo bias is determined by halo mass, but there are known additional dependencies on other halo properties which are of consequence for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , L. Raul Abramo , Francisco Prada , Anatoly Klypin

In a previous paper, we described a new method for including detailed information about substructure in semi-analytic models of halo formation based on merger trees. In this paper, we compare the predictions of our model with results from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James E. Taylor , Arif Babul

We introduce a novel halo/galaxy matching technique between two cosmological simulations with different resolutions, which utilizes the positions and masses of halos along their subhalo merger tree. With this tool, we conduct a study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-19 Minyong Jung , Ji-hoon Kim , Boon Kiat Oh , Sungwook E. Hong , Jaehyun Lee , Juhan Kim

In a previous paper, we described a new method for including detailed information about substructure in semi-analytic models of dark matter halo formation based on merger trees. In this paper, we present the basic predictions of our full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James E. Taylor , Arif Babul

We present a maximum-likelihood weak lensing analysis of the mass distribution in optically selected spectroscopic Galaxy Groups (G$^3$Cv5) in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, using background Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Using the weak gravitational lensing data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC survey), we study the potential of different stellar mass estimates in tracing halo mass. We consider galaxies with $\log…

We explore the phenomenon commonly known as halo assembly bias, whereby dark matter halos of the same mass are found to be more or less clustered when a second halo property is considered, for halos in the mass range $3.7 \times 10^{11} \;…

Aims. The main goal of this paper is to derive observational constraints on the halo mass fuction (HMF) by performing a tomographic analysis of the magnification bias signal on a sample of background submillimeter galaxies. The results can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 M. M. Cueli , L. Bonavera , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , D. Crespo , J. M. Casas , A. Lapi

Shape estimates that quantify the halo anisotropic mass distribution are valuable parameters that provide information on their assembly process and evolution. Measurements of the mean shapes for a sample of cluster-sized halos can be used…

We determine the error introduced in a joint halo model analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering observables when adopting the standard approximation of linear halo bias. Considering the Kilo-Degree Survey, we forecast that…