The Birth and Growth of Neutralino Haloes

Details The Birth and Growth of Neutralino Haloes The Birth and Growth of Neutralino Haloes

2009-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/0906.1730v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

7 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

We use the Extended-Press-Schechter (EPS) formalism to study halo assembly histories in a standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. A large ensemble of Monte Carlo random walks provides the {\it entire} halo membership histories of a representative set of dark matter particles, which we assume to be neutralinos. The first generation halos of most particles do not have a mass similar to the free-streaming cut-off $M_{f.s.}$ of the neutralino power spectrum, nor do they form at high redshift. Median values are $M_1 = 10^5$ to $10^7M_{f.s.}$ and $z_1 = 13$ to 8 depending on the form of the collapse barrier assumed in the EPS model. For almost a third of all particles the first generation halo has $M_1>10^9M_{f.s.}$. At redshifts beyond 20, most neutralinos are not yet part of any halo but are still diffuse. These numbers apply with little modification to the neutralinos which are today part of halos similar to that of the Milky Way. Up to 10% of the particles in such halos were never part of a smaller object; the typical particle has undergone $\sim 5$ "accretion events' where the halo it was part of falls into a more massive object. Available N-body simulations agree well with the EPS predictions for an "ellipsoidal" collapse barrier, so these may provide a reliable extension of simulation results to smaller scales. The late formation times and large masses of the first generation halos of most neutralinos imply that they will be disrupted with high efficiency during halo assembly.

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