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We have explored the dynamical and mass evolution of halos driven by large-scale filaments using a dark matter-only cosmological simulation with the help of a phase-space analysis. Since a non-negligible number of galaxies is expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Hannah Jhee , Hyunmi Song , Rory Smith , Jihye Shin , Inkyu Park , Clotilde Laigle

Although the spin parameter of dark matter halos is well known to follow a log-normal distribution at fixed epoch, its quantitative redshift evolution - encompassing both the mean and the dispersion - remains only partially explored. Prior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Tomas Riera , Alexander Knebe , Chris Power , Robert Adriel Mostoghiu Paun , Adam Ussing

In this work, we study the formation and evolution of dark matter halos by means of the spherical infall model with shell-crossing. We present a framework to tackle this effect properly based on the numerical follow-up, with time, of that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Sanchez-Conde , J. Betancort-Rijo , F. Prada

[Abridged] [...] We study the mass and spin evolution of massive black holes within a semianalytical galaxy-formation model that follows the evolution of dark-matter halos along merger trees, as well as that of the baryonic components (hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-17 Enrico Barausse

We present a proposal for the full phase space distribution of the Milky Way halo. The model is axially and reflection symmetric and its time evolution is self-similar. It describes the halo as a set of discrete dark matter flows with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 L. D. Duffy , P. Sikivie

The evolution of a dark matter halo in a dark matter only simulation is governed purely byNewtonian gravity, making a clean testbed to determine what halo properties drive its fate.Using machine learning, we predict the survival, mass loss,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Abigail Petulante , Andreas A. Berlind , J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Manodeep Sinha

We report the results of simulations of dense rotating stellar systems whose members suffer collisions and undergo stellar evolution processes. The initial configuration for each experiment is an isotropic Kuzmin-Kutuzov model. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John S. Arabadjis , Douglas O. Richstone

We investigate the role of angular momentum in the clustering of dark matter haloes. We make use of data from two high-resolution N-body simulations spanning over four orders of magnitude in halo mass, from $10^{9.8}$ to $10^{14}\ h^{-1}\…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 James W. Johnson , Ariyeh H. Maller , Andreas A. Berlind , Manodeep Sinha , J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

N-body equations of motion in comoving system and expanding background are reformulated in a transformed system with static background and fixed damping. The energy and momentum evolution in dark matter flow are rigorously formulated for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Zhijie Xu

In order to elucidate the origin of spin in both dark matter and baryons in galaxies, we have performed hydrodynamical simulations from cosmological initial conditions. We study atomic cooling haloes in the redshift range $100 > z > 9$ with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Joaquin Prieto , Raul Jimenez , Zoltán Haiman , Roberto E. González

We use a 64$h^{-1}$Mpc dark matter (DM) only cosmological simulation to examine the large scale orientation of haloes and substructures with respect the cosmic web. A web classification scheme based on the velocity shear tensor is used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Noam I. Libeskind , Yehuda Hoffman , Alexander Knebe , Matthias Steinmetz , Stefan Gottlöber , Ofer Metuki , Gustavo Yepes

We develop a model for the growth of dark matter halos and use it to study their evolved density profiles. In this model, halos are spherical and form by quiescent accretion of matter in clumps, called satellites. The halo mass as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adi Nusser , Ravi Sheth

A recent study conducted using CALIFA survey data (Lee et al, 2019b) has found that the orbital motions of neighbor galaxies are coherent with the spin direction of a target galaxy on scales of many Megaparsecs. We study this so called…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Yigon Kim , Rory Smith , Jihye Shin

The study by White (1984) on the growth of angular momentum in dark haloes is extended towards a more detailed investigation of the spin parameter $\lambda\equiv L\sqrt{E}/{G M^{2.5}}$. Starting from the Zel'dovich approximation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Steinmetz , Matthias Bartelmann

The close relationship between mergers and the reorientation of the spin for galaxies and their host dark haloes is investigated using a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation (Horizon-AGN). Through a statistical analysis of merger trees,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Charlotte Welker , Julien Devriendt , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Sébastien Peirani

We conducted an analysis on dark matter halo properties following major and minor mergers to advance our understanding of halo evolution. In this work, we analyzed ~80,000 dark matter halos from the Bolshoi-Planck cosmological simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-28 Peter Wu , Shawn Zhang

We develop a novel approach in exploring the joint dependence of halo bias on multiple halo properties using Gaussian process regression. Using a $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body simulation, we carry out a comprehensive study of the joint bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Jiaxin Han , Yin Li , Yipeng Jing , Takahiro Nishimichi , Wenting Wang , Chunyan Jiang

It is known observationally that the major axes of galaxy clusters and their brightest cluster galaxies are roughly aligned with each other. To understand the origin of the alignment, we identify 40 cluster-sized dark matter (DM) haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Taizo Okabe , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masamune Oguri , Sébastien Peirani , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto , Christophe Pichon , Yohan Dubois

Thanks to the ever increasing computational power and the development of more sophisticated algorithms, numerical N-body simulations are now uncovering several phenomenological relations between the physical properties of dark matter haloes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yago Ascasibar , Stefan Gottloeber

Context. The clustering of dark-matter halos depends primarily on halo mass. However, at fixed halo mass, numerical simulations have revealed multiple secondary dependencies. This so-called secondary halo bias has important implications for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Yigon Kim , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Rory Smith , Jong-Ho Shinn