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We use publicly available data for the Millennium Simulation to explore the implications of the recent detection of assembly bias and splashback signatures in a large sample of galaxy clusters. These were identified in the SDSS/DR8…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

The splashback radius $R_{\rm sp}$, the apocentric radius of particles on their first orbit after falling into a dark matter halo, has recently been suggested as a physically motivated halo boundary that separates accreting from orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-17 Benedikt Diemer , Philip Mansfield , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Surhud More

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2 (MaDCoWS2) is a WISE-selected catalog of galaxy clusters at $0.1<z<2$ covering an effective area of $>6000$ deg$^2$. In this paper, we derive splashback radii for this cluster ensemble from…

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

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…

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

In the hierarchical evolution framework of cosmology, larger halos grow through matter accretion and halo mergers. To clarify the halo evolution, we need to define the halo mass and radius physically. However, the pseudo-evolution problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Weiwei Xu , Huanyuan Shan , Ran Li , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Nan Li , Chaoli Zhang

We present the splashback radius analysis of the Adaptive Matched Identifier of Clustered Objects (AMICO) galaxy cluster sample in the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). The sample contains 9049 rich galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 G. F. Lesci , C. Giocoli , F. Marulli , M. Romanello , L. Moscardini , M. Sereno , M. Maturi , M. Radovich , G. Castignani , H. Hildebrandt , L. Ingoglia , E. Puddu

The splashback radius is one popular method of constraining the size of galaxy clusters, often measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile. However, measuring the splashback radius through the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Talia M. O'Shea , Josh Borrow , Stephanie O'Neil , Mark Vogelsberger

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 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

We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 T. Shin , B. Jain , S. Adhikari , E. J. Baxter , C. Chang , S. Pandey , A. Salcedo , D. H. Weinberg , A. Amsellem , N. Battaglia , M. Belyakov , T. Dacunha , S. Goldstein , A. V. Kravtsov , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , J. R. Bond , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , M. J. Devlin , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , S. Ferraro , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , P. A. Gallardo , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , J. C. Hill , M. Hilton , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , J. P. Hughes , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , B. J. Koopman , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. Lokken , N. MacCrann , M. S. Madhavacheril , M. A. G. Maia , J. McCullough , J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , K. Moodley , R. Morgan , J. Myles , F. Nati , A. Navarro-Alsina , M. D. Niemack , R. L. C. Ogando , L. A. Page , A. Palmese , B. Partridge , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Salatino , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , A. Schillaci , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , B. D. Sherwin , C. Sifón , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , S. T. Staggs , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. Weller , E. J. Wollack , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang

The splashback radius, $R_{\rm sp}$, is a physically motivated halo boundary that separates infalling and collapsed matter of haloes. We study $R_{\rm sp}$ in the hydrodynamic and dark matter only IllustrisTNG simulations. The most commonly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-27 Stephanie O'Neil , David J. Barnes , Mark Vogelsberger , Benedikt Diemer

Observations of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the outskirts of galaxy clusters reveal shocks associated with gas accretion from the cosmic web. Previous work based on non-radiative cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have defined the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 M. Zhang , K. Walker , A. Sullivan , C. Power , W. Cui , Y. Li , X. Zhang

The boundaries of dark matter and gas in clusters are delineated by the splashback radius and the accretion shock, respectively. Theoretically, both of these boundaries are expected to coincide at the outskirts of halos. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Siddhant Sen , Susmita Adhikari , Daisuke Nagai , Benedikt Diemer

The splashback radius ($R_{\rm sp}$) of dark matter halos has recently been detected using weak gravitational lensing and cross-correlations with galaxies. However, different methods have been used to measure $R_{\rm sp}$ and to assess the…

The splashback radius $R_{\rm sp}$ is a boundary of a halo that separates infalling and accreted matter. This results in a steep drop in the density profile at $R_{\rm st}$, which is a commonly adopted proxy for $R_{\rm sp}$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-24 Xiaoqing Sun , Stephanie O'Neil , Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger

The paper presents the results of studying the dynamics of galaxies, properties of early-type galaxies, properties of galaxies with the quenched star formation (QGs) in the A 2142 based on the archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-06 Flera G. Kopylova , Alexander I. Kopylov

A steepening feature in the outer density profiles of dark matter halos indicating the splashback radius has drawn much attention recently. Possible observational detections have even been made for galaxy clusters. Theoretically, Adhikari…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-14 Xun Shi

We use 1697 clusters of galaxies from the Illustris TNG300-1 simulation (mass $M_{200c}>10^{14}$M$_\odot$ and redshift range $0.01\leq z \leq 1.04$) to explore the physics of the cluster infall region. We use the average radial velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Michele Pizzardo , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon , Ivana Damjanov