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Several lines of evidence suggest that as dark matter haloes grow their scale radius increases, and that the density in their central region drops. Major mergers seem an obvious mechanism to explain both these phenomena, and the resulting…
We apply the model relating halo concentration to formation history proposed by Ludlow et al. to merger trees generated using an algorithm based on excursion set theory. We find that while the model correctly predicts the median relation…
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We investigate several approaches for constructing Monte Carlo realizations of the merging history of virialized dark matter halos (``merger trees'') using the extended Press-Schechter formalism. We describe several unsuccessful methods in…
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