Constrained Cosmological Simulations of Dark Matter Halos

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2005-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508272v1

Astrophys.J.637:L93-L96,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 postscript figures, ApJ emulator, submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/500645

The formation and structure of dark matter (DM) halos is studied by means of constrained realizations of Gaussian fields using N-body simulations. A series of experiments of the formation of a 10^{12} Msun halo is designed to study the dependence of the density profile on its merging history. We confirm that the halo growth consists of violent and quiescent phases, with the density well approximated by the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile during the latter phases. We find that (1) the NFW scale radius R_s stays constant during the quiescent phase and grows abruptly during the violent one. In contrast, the virial radius grows linearly during the quiescent and abruptly during the violent phases. (2) The central density stays unchanged during the quiescent phase while dropping abruptly during the violent phase. (3) The value of \rs reflects the violent merging history of the halo, and depends on the number of violent events and their fractional magnitudes, independent of the time and order of these events. It does not reflect the formation time of the halo. (4) The fractional change in R_s is a nonlinear function of the fractional absorbed kinetic energy within R_s in a violent event.

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