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We present a comprehensive series of dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of density distribution in equal-mass mergers between dark matter (DM) halos and multicomponent galaxies. The DM halo models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stelios Kazantzidis , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We use the OWLS (OverWhelmingly Large Simulations) set of cosmological Nbody/gasdynamical simulations to study the properties of simulated galaxies at z=2. We focus on the effect of supernova feedback from evolving stars on the baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-25 Julio F. Navarro , Laura V. Sales , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Volker Springel

We study the spatially-resolved stellar specific angular momentum $j_*$ in a high-quality sample of 24 CALIFA galaxies covering a broad range of visual morphology, accounting for stellar velocity and velocity dispersion. The shape of the…

We study the present-day connection between galaxy morphology and angular momentum using the {\sc Dark Sage} semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. For galaxies between $ 10^{11}-10^{12} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ in stellar mass, the model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-21 Antonio J. Porras-Valverde , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Adam R. H. Stevens

Profiles of dark matter-dominated halos at the group and cluster scales play an important role in modern cosmology. Using results from two very large cosmological $N$-body simulations, which increase the available volume at their mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Hillary L. Child , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Nicholas Frontiere , Hal Finkel , Adrian Pope , Vitali Morozov

Motivated by new kinematic data in the outer parts of early-type galaxies (ETGs), we re-examine angular momentum (AM) in all galaxy types. We present methods for estimating the specific AM j, focusing on ETGs, to derive relations between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Aaron J. Romanowsky , S. Michael Fall

We investigate the formation of virialized halos due to the gravitational collapse of collisionless matter using high-resolution N-body simulations. A variety of formation scenarios are studied, ranging from hierarchical clustering to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andreas Huss , Bhuvnesh Jain , Matthias Steinmetz

We rederive the relation between the specific angular momentum j_* and the mass M_* of the stellar matter in galaxies of different morphological types. This is a revision of the j_*--M_* diagram presented in our recent comprehensive study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Michael Fall , Aaron J. Romanowsky

The rotational properties of the visible and dark components of low-mass disk galaxies (vrot<=100 km/s) are investigated using the Swaters sample. The rotational parameter lambda'=lambda_DM*(j_d/m_d) is determined, where lambda_DM is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert

We use the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project to investigate the stellar specific angular momenta ($j_{\ast}$) of $\sim$12,000 central galaxies at $z=0$ in a full cosmological context, with stellar masses ($M_{\ast}$) ranging…

I present results from numerical N-body simulations regarding the effect of merging events on the angular momentum distribution of galactic halos as well as a comparison of halo growth in Press-Schechter vs. N-body methods. A total of six…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeffrey P. Gardner

We propose that angular momentum transfer from the baryons to the Dark Matter (DM) during the early stages of galaxy formation can flatten the halo inner density profile and modify the halo dynamics. We compute the phase-space distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chiara Tonini , Andrea Lapi , Paolo Salucci

We present an analysis of the molecular specific angular momentum-mass ($j_{H_2}-M_{H_2}$) relation using a sample of 51 nearby disc galaxies from the PHANGS-ALMA survey with deep, high-resolution molecular gas rotation curves and surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Nikki N. Geesink , Pavel E. Mancera Piña , Claudia del P. Lagos , Mariska Kriek

We present an analysis of the angular momentum content of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using TNG100, one of the flagship runs of the IllustrisTNG project. We focus on Milky Way-mass halos ($\sim 10^{12} \; M_{\odot}$) at $z=0$ but also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-22 Daniel DeFelippis , Shy Genel , Greg L. Bryan , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Lars Hernquist

High resolution N-body simulations show that the density profiles of dark matter halos formed in the standard CDM cosmogony can be fit accurately by scaling a simple ``universal'' profile. Regardless of their mass, halos are nearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

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

We perform a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the density profiles of dark matter halos. From 12 simulated halos ranging the mass of $2\times10^{12}\sim 5\times10^{14} h^{-1}{\rm M_\odot}$ (represented by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

The specific angular momenta ($j\equiv J/M$) of stars ($j_{\star}$), gas ($j_{\mathrm{gas}}$), baryons as a whole ($j_{\mathrm{b}}$) and dark matter haloes ($j_{\mathrm{h}}$) contain clues of vital importance about how galaxies form and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Alessandro B. Romeo , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud

The specific angular momenta ($j_t$) of stars, baryons as a whole and dark matter haloes contain clues of vital importance about how galaxies form and evolve. Using a sample of 70 spiral galaxies, we perform a preliminary analysis of $j_t$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-22 Lan Zhang , Feilu Wang , Xiangxiang Xue , David Salzmann , Baifei Shen , Zehao Zhong , Gang Zhao

The radial density profiles of stellar galaxy discs can be well approximated as an exponential. Compared to this canonical form, however, the profiles in the majority of disc galaxies show downward or upward breaks at large radii.…