Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...206.4902b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 206, #49.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.503
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
We have formulated and tested a hypothesis regarding the origin of the scalelength present in halos formed in cosmological N-body simulations. We suggest that the radial orbit instability is present in the halos. This instability sets up a scalelength at which the velocity distribution changes rapidly from isotropic to radially anisotropic. This scalelength is reflected in the density distribution as a break radius at which the density profile changes character. We have tested this idea by manipulating the input of a semi-analytic model to imitate the radial orbit instability. Without such manipulation, the halo formed is approximated by a single power-law density profile. The halo formed after the changes have been introduced displays a scalelength and dual power-law density distribution similar to those seen in N-body simulations. This work has been supported by an NSF Astronomical Sciences grant.
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