Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-06-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1327,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06924.x
This paper uses numerical simulations to test the formation time distribution of dark matter haloes predicted by the analytic excursion set approaches. The formation time distribution is closely linked to the conditional mass function and this test is therefore an indirect probe of this distribution. The excursion set models tested are the extended Press-Schechter (EPS) model, the ellipsoidal collapse (EC) model, and the non-spherical collapse boundary (NCB) model. Three sets of simulations (6 realizations) have been used to investigate the halo formation time distribution for halo masses ranging from dwarf-galaxy like haloes ($M=10^{-3} M_*$, where $M_*$ is the characteristic non-linear mass scale) to massive haloes of $M=8.7 M_*$. None of the models can match the simulation results at both high and low redshift. In particular, dark matter haloes formed generally earlier in our simulations than predicted by the EPS model. This discrepancy might help explain why semi-analytic models of galaxy formation, based on EPS merger trees, under-predict the number of high redshift galaxies compared with recent observations.
Jing Yi-Peng
Lin Lihwai
Lin Wei-Peng
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