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We study the effects of mass and force resolution on the density profiles of galaxy-size Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halos in a flat, low-density cosmological model with vacuum energy. We show thatalthough increasing the mass and force…

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We describe a new Python-based stand-alone halo finding algorithm, Haskap Pie, that combines several methods of halo finding and tracking into a single calculation. Our halo-finder flexibly solves halos for simulations produced by eight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Kirk S. S. Barrow , Thinh Huu Nguyen , Edward C. Skrabacz

We give a summary of recent results on spatial and velocity biases in cosmological models. Progress in numerical techniques made it possible to simulate halos in large volumes with a such accuracy that halos survive in dense environments of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin

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

We describe a method for generating halo catalogues on the light cone using the \Abacus{AbacusSummit} suite of $N$-body simulations. The main application of these catalogues is the construction of realistic mock galaxy catalogues and weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel Eisenstein , Sownak Bose

Subhalos play a crucial role in accurately modeling galaxy formation and galaxy-based cosmological probes within the highly nonlinear, virialized regime. However, numerical convergence of subhalo evolution is difficult to achieve,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Kun Xu

In this paper we investigate how the halo mass function evolves with redshift, based on a suite of very large (with N_p = 3072^3 - 6000^3 particles) cosmological N-body simulations. Our halo catalogue data spans a redshift range of z =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 William A. Watson , Ilian T. Iliev , Anson D'Aloisio , Alexander Knebe , Paul R. Shapiro , Gustavo Yepes

We explore the dependence of the central logarithmic slope of dark matter halo density profiles $\alpha$ on the spectral index $n$ of the linear matter power spectrum $P(k)$ using cosmological $N$-body simulations of scale-free models (i.e.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steffen R. Knollmann , Chris Power , Alexander Knebe

Understanding the physical connection between cluster galaxies and massive haloes is key to mitigating systematic uncertainties in next-generation cluster cosmology. We develop a novel method to infer the level of conformity between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ying Zu , Yunjia Song , Zhiwei Shao , Xiaokai Chen , Yun Zheng , Hongyu Gao , Yu Yu , Huanyuan Shan , Yipeng Jing

High-resolution cosmological N-body simulations are excellent tools for modelling the formation and clustering of dark matter haloes. These simulations suggest complex physical theories of halo formation governed by a set of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Androniki Dimitriou , Christoph Weniger , Camila A. Correa

We examine the present-day total stellar-to-halo mass (SHM) ratio as a function of halo mass for a new sample of simulated field galaxies using fully cosmological, LCDM, high resolution SPH + N-Body simulations.These simulations include an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ferah Munshi , F. Governato , A. M. Brooks , C. Christensen , S. Shen , S. Loebman , B. Moster , T. Quinn , J. Wadsley

The distribution of galaxies, halo abundance, and peculiar velocities are influenced by non-linear gravitational interactions, making the study of non-linear evolution crucial for accurate cosmological predictions. We explore these aspects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Swati Gavas

We study the evolution of the halo-halo correlation function and bias in four cosmological models (LCDM, OCDM, tauCDM, and SCDM) using very high-resolution N-body simulations. The high force and mass resolution allows dark matter (DM) halos…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pedro Colin , Anatoly Klypin , Andrey Kravtsov , Alexei Khokhlov

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

We study relation between stellar mass and halo mass for high-mass halos using a sample of galaxy clusters with accurate measurements of stellar masses from optical and IR data and total masses from X-ray observations. We find that stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andrey Kravtsov , Alexey Vikhlinin , Alexander Meshscheryakov

For the first time, we develop a simulation-based model for the Minkowski functionals (MFs) of large-scale structure, which allows us to extract the full information available from the MFs (including both the Gaussian and non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Wei Liu , Enrique Paillas , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Georgios Valogiannis , Wenjuan Fang

We present a suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to $z=4$ of a $10^{12}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ halo at $z=0$, obtained using seven contemporary astrophysical simulation codes widely used in the numerical galaxy formation…

We derive inner dark matter halo density profiles for a sample of 165 low-mass galaxies using rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra assuming minimal disks and spherical symmetry. For $\rho(r) \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristine Spekkens , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

A major question in $\Lambda$CDM is what this theory actually predicts for the properties of subhalo populations. Subhalos are difficult to simulate and to find within simulations, and this propagates into uncertainty in theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Philip Mansfield , Elise Darragh-Ford , Yunchong Wang , Ethan O. Nadler , Risa H. Wechsler

The universality of the halo mass function is investigated in the context of dark energy cosmologies. This widely used approximation assumes that the mass function can be expressed as a function of the matter density omega_m and the rms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 J. Courtin , Y. Rasera , J. -M. Alimi , P. -S. Corasaniti , V. Boucher , A. Fuzfa