The effects of baryons on the halo mass function

Details The effects of baryons on the halo mass function The effects of baryons on the halo mass function

2011-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3066v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

11 pages, 7 figures, minor changes, version accepted by MNRAS

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We present an analysis of the effects of baryon physics on the halo mass function. The analysis is based on simulations of a cosmological volume. Besides a Dark Matter (DM) only simulation, we also carry out two other hydrodynamical simulations. We identified halos using a spherical overdensity algorithm and their masses are computed at three different overdensities (with respect to the critical one), $\Delta_c=200$, 500 and 1500. We find the fractional difference between halo masses in the hydrodynamical and in the DM simulations to be almost constant, at least for halos more massive than $\log (M_{\Delta_c} / \hMsun)\geq 13.5$. In this range, mass increase in the hydrodynamical simulations is of about 4-5 per cent at $\Delta_c=500$ and $\sim 1$ - 2 per cent at $\Delta_c=200$. Quite interestingly, these differences are nearly the same for both radiative and non-radiative simulations. Such variations of halo masses induce corresponding variations of the halo mass function (HMF). At $z=0$, the HMFs for GH and CSF simulations are close to the DM one, with differences of $\mincir 3$ per cent at $\Delta_c = 200$, and $\simeq 7$ per cent at $\Delta_c=500$, with $\sim 10$ - 20 per cent differences reached at $\Delta_c = 1500$. At this higher overdensity, the increase of the HMF for the radiative case is larger by about a factor 2 with respect to the non--radiative case. Assuming a constant mass shift to rescale the HMF from the hydrodynamic to the DM simulations, brings the HMF difference with respect to the DM case to be consistent with zero. Our results have interesting implications to bracket uncertainties in the mass function calibration associated to the uncertain baryon physics, in view of cosmological applications of future large surveys of galaxy clusters. (Abridged)

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