Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-02-04
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 388 (2008) 815-828
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 12 figures, final version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13441.x
We study the distribution function (DF) of dark matter particles in haloes of mass range 10^{14}--10^{15}\Msun. In the numerical part of this work we measure the DF for a sample of relaxed haloes formed in the simulation of a standard \LambdaCDM model. The DF is expressed as a function of energy E and the absolute value of the angular momentum L, a form suitable for comparison with theoretical models. By proper scaling we obtain the results that do not depend on the virial mass of the haloes. We demonstrate that the DF can be separated into energy and angular momentum components and propose a phenomenological model of the DF in the form f_{E}(E)[1+L^{2}/(2L_{0}^{2})]^{-\beta_{\infty}+\beta_{0}}L^{-2\beta_{0}}. This formulation involves three parameters describing the anisotropy profile in terms of its asymptotic values (\beta_{0} and \beta_{\infty}) and the scale of transition between them (L_{0}). The energy part f_{E}(E) is obtained via inversion of the integral for spatial density. We provide a straightforward numerical scheme for this procedure as well as a simple analytical approximation for a typical halo formed in the simulation. The DF model is extensively compared with the simulations: using the model parameters obtained from fitting the anisotropy profile, we recover the DF from the simulation as well as the profiles of the dispersion and kurtosis of radial and tangential velocities. Finally, we show that our DF model reproduces the power-law behaviour of phase space density Q=\rho(r)/\sigma^{3}(r).
Gottloeber Stefan
Hoffman Yehuda
Klypin Anatoly
Lokas Ewa L.
Mamon Gary A.
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