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We use an array of high-resolution N-body simulations to determine the mass function of dark matter haloes at redshifts 10-30. We develop a new method for compensating for the effects of finite simulation volume that allows us to find an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

The halo mass function (HMF) is fundamental for interpreting the number counts of galaxy clusters, serving as a pivotal theoretical tool in cosmology. With the advent of high-precision surveys such as LSST, eROSITA, DESI, and Euclid,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani , Jeppe Dakin

We present new fitting functions for the velocity divergence auto- and cross-power spectra, $P_{\theta\theta}(k)$ and $P_{\delta\theta}(k)$, calibrated on gravity-only $N$-body simulations. By applying the Evolution Mapping framework, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Matteo Esposito , Ariel G. Sánchez , Julien Bel , Andrés N. Ruiz

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 revisit the study of the mass functions and the bias of dark matter halos. Focusing on the limit of rare massive halos, we point out that exact analytical results can be obtained for the large-mass tail of the halo mass function. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-22 P. Valageas

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

We use a high resolution $\Lambda$CDM numerical simulation to calculate the mass function of dark matter haloes down to the scale of dwarf galaxies, back to a redshift of fifteen, in a 50 $h^{-1}$Mpc volume containing 80 million particles.…

A dark matter halo is commonly defined as a spherical overdensity of matter with respect to a reference density, such as the critical density or the mean matter density of the Universe. Such definitions can lead to a spurious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 Benedikt Diemer , Surhud More , Andrey Kravtsov

The parameters governing the standard \Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model have been constrained with unprecedented accuracy by precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Steven Murray , Chris Power , Aaron Robotham

Context. Galaxy cluster masses are usually defined as the mass within a spherical region enclosing a given matter overdensity (in units of the critical density). Converting masses from one overdensity definition to another can have several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 T. R. G. Richardson , P. -S. Corasaniti

We present an accelerated calibration framework for semi-analytic galaxy formation models, demonstrated with Galacticus. Rather than fitting directly to properties such as the low-redshift stellar mass function (SMF) - which requires…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Andrew Robertson , Andrew Benson

The relation between halo mass, M, and concentration, c, is a critical component in our understanding of the structure of dark matter halos. While numerous models for this relation have been proposed, almost none of them attempt to derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Benedikt Diemer , Michael Joyce

The claimed detection of large amounts of substructure in lensing flux anomalies, and in Milky Way stellar stream gaps statistics, has lead to a step change in constraints on simple warm dark matter models. In this study we compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-20 M. R. Lovell

Halo Models of large scale structure provide powerful and indispensable tools for phenomenological understanding of the clustering of matter in the Universe. While the halo model builds structures out of the superposition of haloes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alice Chen , Niayesh Afshordi

We present a non-parametric Lagrangian biasing model and fit the ratio of the halo and mass densities at the field level using the mass-weighted halo field in the AbacusSummit simulations at $z=0.5$. Unlike the perturbative halo bias model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Xiaohan Wu , Julian B. Munoz , Daniel Eisenstein

The dark matter halo mass function (HMF) is a characteristic property of cosmological structure formation models, quantifying the number density of dark matter haloes per unit mass in the Universe. A key goal of current and planned large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-01 Steven Murray , Chris Power , Aaron Robotham

We examine the efficacy of the halo mass function as a probe of $f(R)$, symmetron and DGP gravity. We develop an excursion-set method to generalise a range of popular HMF fitting functions from GR to screened MG, considering the HMF…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Francesca von Braun-Bates , Julien Devriendt

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober

The halo mass function, encoding the comoving number density of dark matter halos of a given mass, plays a key role in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. As such, it is a key goal of current and future deep optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Steven G. Murray , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Chris Power

[ABRIDGED] The unconditional mass function (UMF) of dark matter haloes has been determined accurately in the literature, showing excellent agreement with high resolution numerical simulations. However, this is not the case for the…

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