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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

High-resolution N--body simulations show a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed through dissipationless hierarchical clustering. Independent of halo mass, power spectrum, and cosmological parameters, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Julio F. Navarro

Cosmological N--body simulations have revealed a remarkable similarity in the structure of dark matter halos formed in hierarchically clustering universes. Regardless of halo mass, cosmological parameters, and power spectrum of initial…

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

We investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben Moore , Sebastiano Ghigna , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

We study the effects of mass and force resolution on the density profiles of galaxy-size Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halos in a flat, low-density cosmological model with vacuum energy. We show thatalthough increasing the mass and force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anatoly Klypin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , James Bullock , Joel Primack

According to the now strongly supported concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, galaxies may be grossly described as a luminous component embedded in a dark matter halo. The density profile of these mass dominating haloes may be determined by N -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , V. F. Cardone

The balance of evidence indicates that individual galaxies and groups or clusters of galaxies are embedded in enormous distributions of cold, weakly interacting dark matter. These dark matter 'halos' provide the scaffolding for all luminous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-26 James E. Taylor

Cosmological models in which dark matter consists of cold elementary particles predict that the dark halo population should extend to masses many orders of magnitude below those at which galaxies can form. Here we report a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jie Wang , Sownak Bose , Carlos S. Frenk , Liang Gao , Adrian Jenkins , Volker Springel , Simon D. M. White

We investigate the structure of the dark matter halo formed in the cold dark matter scenario using $N$-body simulations. We simulated 12 halos with the mass of $6.6\times 10^{11}M_{\odot}$ to $8.0\times 10^{14}M_{\odot}$. In almost all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

We examine the properties of dark matter halos within a rich galaxy cluster using a high resolution simulation that captures the cosmological context of a cold dark matter universe. The mass and force resolution permit the resolution of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

(Shortened) We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure and dynamical evolution of dark matter halos in galaxy clusters. Our sample consists of nine massive halos from an EdS universe with scale free power spectrum and n = -1.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Giuseppe Tormen , Francois R. Bouchet , Simon D. M. White

High-resolution LCDM cosmological N-body simulations are used to study the properties of galaxy-size dark halos in different environments (cluster, void, and "field"). Halos in clusters and their surroundings have a median spin parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , S. Gottloeber , C. Firmani , C. Maulbetsch

We use a set of large cosmological N-body simulations to study the internal structure of dark matter haloes which form in scale-free models. We find that the radius r_178 corresponding to a mean interior overdensity of 178 accurately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shaun Cole , Cedric Lacey

We use a set of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations to investigate the inner mass profile of galaxy-sized cold dark matter (CDM) halos. These simulations extend the thorough numerical convergence study presented in Paper I of…

We analyse the properties of substructures within dark matter halos (subhalos) using a set of high-resolution numerical simulations of the formation of structure in a Lambda-CDM Universe. Our simulation set includes 11 high-resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 G. De Lucia , G. Kauffmann , V. Springel , S. D. M. White , B. Lanzoni , F. Stoehr , G. Tormen , N. Yoshida

I use $N$-body simulations to investigate the morphology and the dynamical evolution and properties of dark matter halos in clusters of galaxies. My sample consists of nine massive halos, coming from an Einstein-de Sitter universe with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Tormen

We investigate the structure of the dark matter halo formed in the cold dark matter scenarios by N-body simulations with parallel treecode on GRAPE cluster systems. We simulated 8 halos with the mass of $4.4\times 10^{14}M_{\odot}$ to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

In the standard cosmological model a mysterious cold dark matter (CDM) component dominates the formation of structures. Numerical studies of the formation of CDM halos have produced several robust results that allow unique tests of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jürg Diemand , Ben Moore

We explore the possibility that the density profiles of elliptical galaxies and cold dark matter (CDM) halos found in cosmological simulations can be understood in terms of the same physical process, collisionless gravitational collapse. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 Eli Visbal , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

Dark-matter halos are the scaffolding around which galaxies and clusters are built. They form when the gravitational instability of primordial density fluctuations causes regions which are denser than average to slow their cosmic expansion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul R. Shapiro , Ilian T. Iliev , Hugo Martel , Kyungjin Ahn , Marcelo A. Alvarez
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