PINOCCHIO: pinpointing orbit-crossing collapsed hierarchical objects in a linear density field

Details PINOCCHIO: pinpointing orbit-crossing collapsed hierarchical objects in a linear density field PINOCCHIO: pinpointing orbit-crossing collapsed hierarchical objects in a linear density field

2001-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109323v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 587

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 15 eps figures included. Revised to match the version accepted by MNRAS. New appendix added on N-body estimate of ha

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05162.x

PINOCCHIO (PINpointing Orbit-Crossing Collapsed Hierarchical Objects) is a new algorithm for identifying dark matter halos in a given numerical realisation of the linear density field in a hierarchical universe (Monaco et al. 2001). It is shown that Lagrangian perturbation theory, and in particular its ellipsoidal truncation, is able to predict accurately the collapse, in the orbit-crossing sense, of generic mass elements. Some points that have undergone orbit crossing are assigned to the network of filaments and sheets that connects the halos; it is demonstrated that this network resembles closely that found in N-body simulations. The code generates a catalogue of dark matter halos with known mass, position, velocity, merging history and angular momentum. It is shown that the predictions of the code are very accurate when compared with the results of large N-body simulations that cover a range of cosmological models, box sizes and numerical resolutions. The mass function is recovered with an accuracy of better than 10 per cent in number density for halos with at least 30-50 particles. A similar accuracy is reached in the estimate of the correlation length r_0. The good agreement is still valid on the object-by-object level, with 70-100 per cent of the objects with more than 50 particles in the simulations also identified by our algorithm. For these objects the masses are recovered with an error of 20-40 per cent, and positions and velocities with a root mean square error of ~1-2 Mpc (0.5-2 grid lengths) and ~100 km/s, respectively. The recovery of the angular momentum of halos is considerably noisier and accuracy at the statistical level is achieved only by introducing free parameters. The algorithm requires negligible computer time as compared with performing a numerical $N$-body simulation.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

PINOCCHIO: pinpointing orbit-crossing collapsed hierarchical objects in a linear density field does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with PINOCCHIO: pinpointing orbit-crossing collapsed hierarchical objects in a linear density field, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and PINOCCHIO: pinpointing orbit-crossing collapsed hierarchical objects in a linear density field will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-621396