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We report a series of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations designed to explore the formation and properties of dark matter halos with masses close to the damping scale of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , V. Avila-Reese

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

Cosmological N-body simulations have been a major tool of theorists for decades, yet many of the numerical issues that these simulations face are still unexplored. This paper measures numerical biases in these large, dark matter-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Philip Mansfield , Camille Avestruz

Halo Models of large scale structure provide powerful and indispensable tools for phenomenological understanding of the clustering of matter in the Universe. While the halo model builds structures out of the superposition of haloes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alice Chen , Niayesh Afshordi

A new analysis method to investigate halos in finite many-fermion systems is designed, as existing characterization methods are proven to be incomplete/inaccurate. A decomposition of the internal wave-function of the {$N$-body} system in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 V. Rotival , T. Duguet

A large amount of observations have constrained cosmological parameters and the initial density fluctuation spectrum to a very high accuracy. However, cosmological parameters change with time and the power index of the power spectrum varies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. H. Zhao , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Boerner

We use techniques from nonparametric function estimation theory to extract the density profiles, and their derivatives, from a set of N-body dark matter halos. We consider halos generated from LCDM simulations of gravitational clustering,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 David Merritt , Alister W. Graham , Ben Moore , Juerg Diemand , Balsa Terzic

Using cosmological N-body simulations, we study the abundance of local maxima (peaks) and minima (dips) identified in the smoothed distribution of halos and dark matter (DM) on scales of $10-100$s Mpcs. The simulations include Gaussian and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Adi Nusser , Matteo Biagetti , Vincent Desjacques

An ambitious goal in cosmology is to forward-model the observed distribution of galaxies in the nearby Universe today from the initial conditions of large-scale structures. For practical reasons, the spatial resolution at which this can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tom Charnock , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Supranta Sarma Boruah , Jens Jasche , Michael J. Hudson

(Abridged) We study the outer density profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a generalized secondary infall model and observed in a N-body cosmological simulation of a \Lambda CDM model. We find substantial systematic variations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Avila-Reese , C. Firmani , A. Klypin , A. V. Kravtsov

Constraints on dark matter halo masses from weak gravitational lensing can be improved significantly by using additional information about the morphology of their density distribution, leading to tighter cosmological constraints derived…

I use $N$-body simulations to investigate the morphology and the dynamical evolution and properties of dark matter halos in clusters of galaxies. My sample consists of nine massive halos, coming from an Einstein-de Sitter universe with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Tormen

(Shortened) We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure and dynamical evolution of dark matter halos in galaxy clusters. Our sample consists of nine massive halos from an EdS universe with scale free power spectrum and n = -1.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Giuseppe Tormen , Francois R. Bouchet , Simon D. M. White

We discuss an implementation of a deep learning framework to gain insight into dark matter (DM) structure formation. We investigate the contribution of velocity and density field information to the construction of the halo mass function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Saba Etezad-Razavi , Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Mohammad-Hadi Sotoudeh , Farbod Hassani , Sadegh Raeisi , Shant Baghram

We use the universal mass accretion history recently reported for simulations of halo formation in the cold dark matter model (CDM) to analyze the formation and growth of a single halo. We derive the time-dependent density profile three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

We present useful functions for the profiles of dark-matter (DM) haloes with a free inner slope, from cusps to cores, where the profiles of density, mass-velocity and potential are simple analytic expressions. Analytic velocity is obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 Avishai Dekel , Guy Ishai , Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Maccio

Understanding the halo-galaxy connection is fundamental in order to improve our knowledge on the nature and properties of dark matter. In this work we build a model that infers the mass of a halo given the positions, velocities, stellar…

Massive halos hosting groups and clusters of galaxies imprint coherent, arcminute-scale features across the spectrophotometric sky, especially optical-IR clusters of galaxies, distortions in the sub-mm CMB, and extended sources of X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Cameron E. Norton , Fred C. Adams , August E. Evrard

Profiles of dark matter-dominated halos at the group and cluster scales play an important role in modern cosmology. Using results from two very large cosmological $N$-body simulations, which increase the available volume at their mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Hillary L. Child , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Nicholas Frontiere , Hal Finkel , Adrian Pope , Vitali Morozov

The dark matter halo sparsity, i.e. the ratio between spherical halo masses enclosing two different overdensities, provides a non-parametric proxy of the halo mass distribution which has been shown to be a sensitive probe of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-30 P. S. Corasaniti , A. M. C. Le Brun , T. R. G. Richardson , Y. Rasera , S. Ettori , M. Arnaud , G. W Pratt