Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-05-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 333 (2002) 378
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 4 figures, replaced with substanially revised version (much cleaner initial conditions used, but results remain uncha
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05400.x
It is logically possible that early two-body relaxation in simulations of cosmological clustering influences the final structure of massive clusters. Convergence studies in which mass and spatial resolution are simultaneously increased, cannot eliminate this possibility. We test the importance of two-body relaxation in cosmological simulations with simulations in which there are two species of particles. The cases of two mass ratios, sqrt(2):1 and 4:1, are investigated. Simulations are run with both a spatially fixed softening length and adaptive softening using the publicly available codes GADGET and MLAPM, respectively. The effects of two-body relaxation are detected in both the density profiles of halos and the mass function of halos. The effects are more pronounced with a fixed softening length, but even in this case they are not so large as to suggest that results obtained with one mass species are significantly affected by two-body relaxation. The simulations that use adaptive softening are less affected by two-body relaxation and produce slightly higher central densities in the largest halos. They run about three times faster than the simulations that use a fixed softening length.
Binney James
Knebe Alexander
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