Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-03-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
10 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
We apply a recently developed scaling technique to the Millennium-XXL, one of the largest cosmological N-body simulations carried out to date (3x10^11 particles within a cube of volume ~70 Gpc^3). This allows us to investigate the cosmological parameter dependence of the mass and evolution of haloes in the extreme high-mass tail of the z=6 distribution. We assume these objects to be likely hosts for the population of rare but ultraluminous high-redshift quasars discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Haloes with a similar abundance to these quasars have a median mass of 9x10^12 Msun in the currently preferred cosmology, but do not evolve into equally extreme objects at z=0. Rather, their descendants span the full range conventionally assigned to present-day clusters, 6x10^13 to 2.5x10^15 Msun for this same cosmology. The masses both at z=6 and at z=0 shift up or down by factors exceeding two if cosmological parameters are pushed to the boundaries of the range discussed in published interpretations of data from the WMAP satellite. The main factor determining the future growth of a high-mass z=6 halo is the mean overdensity of its environment on scales of 7 to 14 Mpc, and descendant masses can be predicted 6 to 8 times more accurately if this density is known than if it is not. All these features are not unique to extreme high-z haloes, but are generic to hierarchical growth. Finally, we find that extreme haloes at z=6 typically acquired about half of their total mass in the preceding 100 Myr, implying very large recent accretion rates which may be related to the large black hole masses and high luminosities of the SDSS quasars.
Angulo Raul E.
Baugh Carlton M.
Cole Shaun
Frenk Carlos S.
Jenkins Alejandro
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