Environmental Dependence of Cold Dark Matter Halo Formation

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2006-08-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608690v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.375:633-639,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages,19 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11316.x

We use a high-resolution $N$-body simulation to study how the formation of cold dark matter (CDM) halos is affected by their environments, and how such environmental effects produce the age-dependence of halo clustering observed in recent $N$-body simulations. We estimate, for each halo selected at redshift $z=0$, an `initial' mass $M_{\rm i}$ defined to be the mass enclosed by the largest sphere which contains the initial barycenter of the halo particles and within which the mean linear density is equal to the critical value for spherical collapse at $z=0$. For halos of a given final mass, $M_{\rm h}$, the ratio $M_{\rm i}/M_{\rm h}$ has large scatter, and the scatter is larger for halos of lower final masses. Halos that form earlier on average have larger $M_{\rm i}/M_{\rm h}$, and so correspond to higher peaks in the initial density field than their final masses imply. Old halos are more strongly clustered than younger ones of the same mass because their initial masses are larger. The age-dependence of clustering for low-mass halos is entirely due to the difference in the initial/final mass ratio. Low-mass old halos are almost always located in the vicinity of big structures, and their old ages are largely due to the fact that their mass accretions are suppressed by the hot environments produced by the tidal fields of the larger structure. The age-dependence of clustering is weaker for more massive halos because the heating by large-scale tidal fields is less important.

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