Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, to appear in "The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift" (ESO Astrophysics Symposia), eds. R. Bender & A. Renzini
Scientific paper
Dark-matter halos are the scaffolding around which galaxies and clusters are built. They form when the gravitational instability of primordial density fluctuations causes regions which are denser than average to slow their cosmic expansion, recollapse, and virialize. Objects as different in size and mass as dwarf spheroidal galaxies and galaxy clusters are predicted by the CDM model to have halos with a universal, self-similar equilibrium structure whose parameters are determined by the halo's total mass and collapse redshift. These latter two are statistically correlated, however, since halos of the same mass form on average at the same epoch, with small-mass objects forming first and then merging hierarchically. The structural properties of dark-matter dominated halos of different masses, therefore, should reflect this statistical correlation, an imprint of the statistical properties of the primordial density fluctuations which formed them. Current data reveal these correlations, providing a fundamental test of the CDM model which probes the shape of the power spectrum of primordial density fluctuations and the cosmological background parameters.
Iliev Ilian T.
Shapiro Paul R.
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