The Structure and Dynamics of Cold Dark Matter Halos

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1997-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711259v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Summary of results presented at the UC Santa Cruz workshop on "Galactic Halos" and the Potsdam Cosmology Workshop on "Large Sc

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We investigate the internal structure of cold dark matter halos using high resolution N-body simulations. As the mass and force resolution are increased, halo density profiles become steeper, asymptoting to a slope of $\sim -4/3$ in the central regions and may not have converged to a unique result. At our highest resolution we have nearly 3 million particles within the virial radius, $R_{200}$, and force softening that is $\sim 0.2% R_{200}$. This resolution has also allowed us to resolve a large part of the overmerging problem - we find over 1000 surviving dark halos orbiting within a single cluster potential. These data have given us unprecedented insights into the dynamics and structure of ``halos within halos'', allowing us for the first time, to compare the distribution of dark matter with observations of galaxies in clusters.

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