The influence of baryons on the mass distribution of dark matter halos

Details The influence of baryons on the mass distribution of dark matter halos The influence of baryons on the mass distribution of dark matter halos

2006-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607555v3

Astrophys.J.651:636-642,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, ApJ in press (v652n1); updated to match with the being published version

Scientific paper

10.1086/508052

Using a set of high-resolution N-body/SPH cosmological simulations with identical initial conditions but run with different numerical setups, we investigate the influence of baryonic matter on the mass distribution of dark halos when radiative cooling is NOT included. We compare the concentration parameters of about 400 massive halos with virial mass from $10^{13}$ \Msun to $7.1 \times 10^{14}$ \Msun. We find that the concentration parameters for the total mass and dark matter distributions in non radiative simulations are on average larger by ~3% and 10% than those in a pure dark matter simulation. Our results indicate that the total mass density profile is little affected by a hot gas component in the simulations. After carefully excluding the effects of resolutions and spurious two-body heating between dark matter and gas particles, we conclude that the increase of the dark matter concentration parameters is due to interactions between baryons and dark matter. We demonstrate this with the aid of idealized simulations of two-body mergers. The results of individual halos simulated with different mass resolutions show that the gas profiles of densities, temperature and entropy are subjects of mass resolution of SPH particles. In particular, we find that in the inner parts of halos, as the SPH resolution increases the gas density becomes higher but both the entropy and temperature decrease.

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