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We have explored the outskirts of dark matter haloes out to 2.5 times the virial radius using a large sample of halos drawn from Illustris, along with a set of zoom simulations (MUGS). Using these, we make a systematic exploration of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-22 O. N. Snaith , J. Bailin , A. Knebe , G. Stinson , J. Wadsley , H. Couchman

We present an analytic model for the splashback mass function of dark matter halos, which is parameterized by a single coefficient and constructed in the framework of the generalized excursion set theory and the self-similar spherical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Suho Ryu , Jounghun Lee

By tracking trajectories of dark matter (DM) particles accreting onto haloes in cosmological $N$-body simulations, we investigate the radial phase-space distribution of cold dark matter (CDM) haloes, paying attention to their inner regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Yohsuke Enomoto , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya

We use weak lensing observations to make the first measurement of the characteristic depletion radius, one of the three radii that characterize the region where matter is being depleted by growing haloes. The lenses are taken from the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Matthew Fong , Jiaxin Han , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hongyu Gao , Jiaqi Wang , Hekun Li , Antonios Katsianis , Pedro Alonso

We show that the projected number density profiles of SDSS photometric galaxies around galaxy clusters displays strong evidence for the splashback radius, a sharp halo edge corresponding to the location of the first orbital apocenter of…

Mass around dark matter halos can be divided into "infalling" material and "collapsed" material that has passed through at least one pericenter. Analytical models and simulations predict a rapid drop in the halo density profile associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Eric Baxter , Chihway Chang , Bhuvnesh Jain , Susmita Adhikari , Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov , Surhud More , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Ravi K. Sheth

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 is a physical scale in dark matter halos that is set by the gravitational dynamics of recently accreted shells. We use analytical models and N-body simulations to study the dependence of splashback on dark energy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Susmita Adhikari , Jeremy Sakstein , Bhuvnesh Jain , Neal Dalal , Baojiu Li

The classification of dark matter halos as isolated hosts or subhalos is critical for our understanding of structure formation and the galaxy-halo connection. Most commonly, subhalos are defined to reside inside a spherical overdensity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-11 Benedikt Diemer

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

We examine the splashback structure of galaxy clusters using hydrodynamical simulations from the GIZMO run of The Three Hundred Project, focusing on the relationship between the stellar and dark matter components. We dynamically decompose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 Kris Walker , Aaron Ludlow , Chris Power , Alexander Knebe , Weiguang Cui

The splashback radius was proposed as a physically motivated boundary of clusters as it sets the limit between the infalling and the orbitally dominated regions. However, galaxy clusters are complex objects connected to filaments of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Théo Lebeau , Stefano Ettori , Nabila Aghanim , Jenny G. Sorce

In this paper, in the framework of the secondary infall model, the correlation between the central surface density and the halo core radius of galaxy, and cluster of galaxies, dark matter haloes was analyzed, this having recently been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , V. Cardone , G. Belvedere

Although high-resolution N-body simulations make robust empirical predictions for the density distribution within cold dark matter halos, these studies have yielded little physical insight into the origins of the distribution. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Liliya L. R. Williams , Arif Babul , Julianne J. Dalcanton

The lensing signal around galaxy clusters can, in principle, be used to test detailed predictions for their average mass profile from numerical simulations. However, the intrinsic shape of the profiles can be smeared out when a sample that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Keiichi Umetsu , Benedikt Diemer

The splashback radius $r_\text{sp}$ separates the physical regimes of collapsed and infalling material around massive dark matter haloes. In cosmological simulations, this location is associated with a steepening of the spherically averaged…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 O. Contigiani , H. Hoekstra , Y. M. Bahé

We examine the outskirts of galaxy clusters in the C-EAGLE simulations to quantify the `edges' of the stellar and dark matter distribution. The radius of the steepest slope in the dark matter, commonly used as a proxy for the splashback…

Context. Weak gravitational lensing offers a powerful method to investigate the projected matter density distribution within galaxy clusters, granting crucial insights into the broader landscape of dark matter on cluster scales. Aims. In…

In this paper we develop a new semianalytical approach to quantifying the density profile of outer dark matter halos, motivated by the remarkable universality those profiles, for a wide range of dynamical parameters of the inner halos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Kyriakos Grammatikos , Vasiliki Pavlidou

We explore the boundary of dark matter haloes through their bias and velocity profiles. Using cosmological $N$-body simulations, we show that the bias profile exhibits a ubiquitous trough that can be interpreted as created by halo accretion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Matthew Fong , Jiaxin Han