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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2017

A look into the inside of haloes: a characterization of the halo shape as a function of overdensity in the Planck cosmology

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In this paper, we study the triaxial properties of dark matter haloes of a wide range of masses extracted from a set of cosmological N-body simulations. We measure the shape at different distances from the halo centre (characterized by different overdensity thresholds), both in three and in two dimensions. We discuss how halo triaxiality increases with mass, redshift and distance from the halo centre. We also examine how the orientations of the different ellipsoids are aligned with each other and what is the gradient in internal shapes for haloes with different virial configurations. Our findings highlight that the internal part of the halo retains memory of the violent formation process keeping the major axis oriented towards the preferential direction of the infalling material while the outer part becomes rounder due to continuous isotropic merging events. This effect is clearly evident in high-mass haloes – which formed more recently – while it is more blurred in low-mass haloes. We present simple distributions that may be used as priors for various mass reconstruction algorithms, operating in different wavelengths, in order to recover a more complex and realistic dark matter distribution of isolated and relaxed systems.
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hal-01554287 , version 1 (09-05-2018)

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Giulia Despali, Carlo Giocoli, Mario Bonamigo, Marceau Limousin, Giuseppe Tormen. A look into the inside of haloes: a characterization of the halo shape as a function of overdensity in the Planck cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017, 466 (1), pp.181-193. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stw3129⟩. ⟨hal-01554287⟩
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