Is the concentration of dark matter halos at virialization universal?

被引:39
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作者
Ricotti, Massimo [1 ]
Pontzen, Andrew
Viel, Matteo
机构
[1] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[2] Univ Cambridge, Inst Astron, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England
[3] Osserv Astron Trieste, INAF, I-34131 Trieste, Italy
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2007年 / 663卷 / 02期
关键词
cosmology : theory; galaxies : formation; methods : n-body simulations; methods : numerical; methods : statistical;
D O I
10.1086/520113
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Several recent studies suggest a correlation between dark matter halo mass and the shape of the density profile. We reanalyze simulations from Ricotti in which such a correlation was first proposed. We use a standard analysis of the halo density profiles and compare the old simulations to new ones performed with Gadget2, including higher resolution runs. We confirm Ricotti's result that, at virialization, the central log slopes alpha, at 5%-10% of the virial radius, are correlated with the halo mass and that the halo concentration is a universal constant. Our results do not contradict the majority of published papers: when using a split power law to fit the density profiles, due to the alpha - c degeneracy, the fits are consistent with halos having a universal shape with alpha = 1 or 1.5 and concentrations that depend on the mass, in agreement with results published elsewhere. Recently, several groups have found no evidence for convergence of the inner halo profile to a constant power law. The choice of the split power-law parameterization used in this Letter is motivated by the need to compare our results to previous ones and is formally valid because we are not able to resolve regions where the slope of the fitting function reaches its asymptotic constant value. Using a nonparameterized technique, we also show that the density profiles of dwarf galaxies at z similar to 10 have a log slope shallower than 0.5 within 5% of the virial radius.
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页码:L53 / L56
页数:4
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