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We investigate a series of galaxy properties computed using the merger trees and environmental histories from dark matter only cosmological simulations, using a semi-recurrent neural network producing self-consistent predictions of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Harry George Chittenden , Jayashree Behera , Rita Tojeiro

Despite the Milky Way's proximity to us, our knowledge of its dark matter halo is fairly limited, and there is still considerable uncertainty in its halo mass. Many past techniques have been limited by assumptions such as the Galaxy being…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Elaheh Hayati , Peter Behroozi , Ekta Patel

A longstanding puzzle of fundamental importance in modern cosmology has been the origin of the nearly universal density profiles of dark matter halos found in N-body simulations -- the so-called NFW profile. We show how this behavior may be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-25 Neal Dalal , Yoram Lithwick , Michael Kuhlen

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

High-resolution N-body simulations of hierarchical clustering in a wide variety of cosmogonies show that the density profiles of dark matter halos are universal, with low mass halos being denser than their more massive counterparts. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Salvador-Sole , A. Manrique , J. M. Solanes

Dark matter substructures are interesting since they can reveal the properties of dark matter. Collisionless N-body simulations of cold dark matter show more substructures compared with the population of dwarf galaxy satellites observed in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Hang Yu , Warren Morningstar , Jian Peng , Gilbert Holder

Galaxies co-evolve with their host dark matter halos. Models of the galaxy-halo connection, calibrated using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, can be used to populate dark matter halo catalogs with galaxies. We present a new method for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 John F. Wu , Christian Kragh Jespersen

We build a deep learning framework that connects the local formation process of dark matter halos to the halo bias. We train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the final mass and concentration of dark matter halos from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Alexandre Barreira , Fabian Schmidt

In a series of recent papers, a new formalism has been developed that explains the inner structure of dark matter halos as collisionless, dissipationless systems assembled through mergers and accretion at the typical cosmological rate.…

During hierarchical clustering, smaller masses generally collapse earlier than larger masses and so are denser on the average. The core of a small mass halo could be dense enough to resist disruption and survive undigested, when it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kandaswamy Subramanian , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We use high-resolution N-body simulations to study the equilibrium density profiles of dark matter halos in hierarchically clustering universes. We find that all such profiles have the same shape, independent of halo mass, of initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julio F. Navarro , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White

Halos of similar mass and redshift exhibit a large degree of variability in their differential properties, such as dark matter, hot gas, and stellar mass density profiles. This variability is an indicator of diversity in the formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Arya Farahi , Daisuke Nagai , Dhayaa Anbajagane

The stellar mass - halo mass relation provides a strong basis for connecting galaxies to their host dark matter halos in both simulations and observations. Other observable information, such as the density of the local environment, can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Haley Bowden , Peter Behroozi , Andrew Hearin

Individual dark matter halos in cosmological simulations vary widely in their detailed structural properties such as shape, rotation, substructure and degree of internal relaxation. Recent non-parametric (principal component) analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-14 Anson W. C. Wong , James E. Taylor

Observations of density profiles of galaxies and clusters constrain the properties of dark matter. Formation of stable halos by collisional fluids with very low mass particles appears as the most probable interpretation, while halos formed…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 Ernst Fischer

A physical understanding of galaxy formation and evolution benefits from an understanding of the connections between galaxies, their host dark matter halos, and their environments. In particular, interactions with more-massive neighbors can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Haley Bowden , Peter Behroozi

We analyze the physical justification of the picture proposed by Salvador-Sole et al. in these proceedings for the time evolution of the universal density profile of dark-matter halos. According to this picture, halos have at formation a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gonzalez-Casado , A. Raig , E. Salvador-Sole

Context:Halo formation time, which quantifies the mass assembly history of dark-matter halos, directly impacts galaxy properties and evolution. Although not directly observable, it can be inferred through proxies like star formation history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Atulit Srivastava , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andres , Jesse B. Golden-Marx , Elena Rasia , Ying Zu

We explore the relation between the structure and mass accretion histories of dark matter halos using a suite of cosmological simulations. We confirm that the formation time, defined as the time when the virial mass of the main progenitor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Camila A. Correa , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Joop Schaye , Alan R. Duffy

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta