Reconstructing the Triaxial Shapes of Dark Matter Halos from the Anisotropic Spatial Distributions of their Substructures in the Concordance Cosmology

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2005-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505179v2

Astrophys.J.637:561-566,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in ApJ, discussion on the limitation of the algorithm added, typos and mistakes corrected, 14 pages,

Scientific paper

10.1086/498559

We develop an algorithm to reconstruct the triaxial shapes of dark matter halos from the anisotropic spatial distributions of their substructures for the concordance background cosmology. First, we construct an analytic model for the anisotropic spatial distribution of dark halo substructures under the assumption that the tidal field with non-zero trace in the triaxial mass distribution of the host halos generates the substructure bulk motions toward the major principal axes of the hosts. Our analytic model implies that the degree of anisotropy depends sensitively on the triaxiality of the host halos as well as the correlation between the substructure locations and the tidal shear field. Second, we set the axis ratios of the triaxial host halos as free parameters in the analytic model, fit the model to the numerical results from high-resolution N-body simulation of the concordance cosmology, and reconstruct the two axis-ratios of the host halos from the best-fit values of the free parameters. The comparison of the reconstructed axis ratios with the numerical results reveals a good agreement. Finally, we conclude that our analytic model may provide a physical understanding of the anisotropic spatial distribution of dark halo substructures and a new way to reconstruct in principle the triaxial shapes of dark matter halos from the observables.

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