A universal velocity distribution of relaxed collisionless structures

Details A universal velocity distribution of relaxed collisionless structures A universal velocity distribution of relaxed collisionless structures

2005-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505420v2

JCAP 0601 (2006) 014

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 6 figures; oversimplified analysis corrected; changed abstract and conclusions; significantly extended discussion

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2006/01/014

Several general trends have been identified for equilibrated, self-gravitating collisionless systems, such as density or anisotropy profiles. These are integrated quantities which naturally depend on the underlying velocity distribution function (VDF) of the system. We study this VDF through a set of numerical simulations, which allow us to extract both the radial and the tangential VDF. We find that the shape of the VDF is universal, in the sense that it depends only on two things namely the dispersion (radial or tangential) and the local slope of the density. Both the radial and the tangential VDF's are universal for a collection of simulations, including controlled collisions with very different initial conditions, radial infall simulation, and structures formed in cosmological simulations.

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