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(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

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 report a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the internal physical properties of dark matter halos. A total of fifteen halos, each represented by $\sim 1$ million particles within the virial radius, have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure of dark halos in the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmogony. Halos are excised from simulations of cosmologically representative regions and are resimulated individually at high…

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

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

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

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

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 examine the effects of mass resolution and force softening on the density profiles of cold dark matter halos that form within cosmological N-body simulations. As we increase the mass and force resolution, we resolve progenitor halos that…

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

We study the diversity of the density profiles of dark matter halos based on a large set of high-resolution cosmological simulations of 256^3 particles. The cosmological models include four scale-free models and three representative cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. P. Jing

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

We report a series of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations designed to explore the formation and properties of dark matter halos with masses close to the damping scale of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , V. Avila-Reese

We have identified over 2000 well resolved cluster halos, and also their associated bound subhalos, from the output of a 1024^3 particle cosmological N-body simulation (of box size 320 h^-1 Mpc and softening length 3.2 h^-1 kpc). This has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 L. D. Shaw , J. Weller , J. P. Ostriker , P. Bode

Properties of dark matter halos are reviewed. Taken from different publications, we present results on (1) the mass and velocity functions, (2) density and velocity profiles, and (3) concentration of halos. In the range of radii…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin

Can N-body simulations reliably determine the structural properties of dark matter halos? Focussing on a Virgo-sized galaxy cluster, we increase the resolution of current ``high resolution simulations'' by almost an order of magnitude to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

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

The density profile and the clustering of dark matter (DM) halos are two very important ingredients for understanding many observations of galaxies. In this talk, I present our new results for these two quantities from a large set of high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Jing

This article concerns the formation and structure of dark matter halos, including (1) their radial density profiles, (2) their abundance, and (3) their merger rates. The last topic may be relevant to the nature of the small, bright,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Primack , J. S. Bullock , A. A. Klypin , A. V. Kravtsov

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
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