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Brown, ST, McCarthy, IG, Stafford, SG and Font, AS (2021) Towards a universal model for the density profiles of dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509 (4). pp. 5685-5701. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
It is well established from cosmological simulations that dark matter haloes are not precisely self-similar and an additional parameter, beyond their concentration, is required to accurately describe their spherically-averaged mass density profiles. We present, for the first time, a model to consistently predict both halo concentration, c, and this additional `shape' parameter, \alpha, for a halo of given mass and redshift for a specified cosmology. Following recent studies, we recast the dependency on mass, redshift, and cosmology to a dependence on `peak height'. We show that, when adopting the standard definition of peak height, which employs the so-called spherical top hat (STH) window function, the concentration--peak height relation has a strong residual dependence on cosmology (i.e., it is not uniquely determined by peak height), whereas the \alpha--peak height relation is approximately universal when employing the STH window function. Given the freedom in the choice of window function, we explore a simple modification of the STH function, constraining its form so that it produces universal relations for concentration and \alpha as a function of peak height using a large suite of cosmological simulations. It is found that universal relations for the two density profile parameters can indeed be derived and that these parameters are set by the linear power spectrum, P(k), filtered on different scales. We show that the results of this work generalise to any (reasonable) combination of P(k) and background expansion history, H(z), resulting in accurate predictions of the density profiles of dark matter haloes for a wide range of cosmologies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | astro-ph.CO; astro-ph.CO; astro-ph.GA |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2022 12:37 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2022 12:45 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stab3394 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15617 |
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