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Orbital parameters of infalling satellite haloes in the hierarchical ΛCDM model

Jiang, L.; Cole, S.; Sawala, T.; Frenk, C.S.

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L. Jiang

T. Sawala



Abstract

We present distributions of orbital parameters of infalling satellites of Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) haloes in the mass range 1012–1014 M⊙, which represent the initial conditions for the subsequent evolution of substructures within the host halo. We use merger trees constructed in a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation to trace satellite haloes, and identify the time of infall. We find significant trends in the distribution of orbital parameters with both the host halo mass and the ratio of satellite-to-host halo masses. For all host halo masses, satellites whose infall mass is a larger fraction of the host halo mass have more eccentric, radially biased orbits. At fixed satellite-to-host halo mass ratio, high-mass haloes are biased towards accreting satellites on slightly more radial orbits. To characterize the orbital distributions fully requires fitting the correlated bivariate distribution of two chosen orbital parameters (e.g. radial and tangential velocity or energy and angular momentum). We provide simple fits to one choice of the bivariate distributions, which when transformed faithfully, captures the behaviour of any of the projected one-dimensional distributions.

Citation

Jiang, L., Cole, S., Sawala, T., & Frenk, C. (2015). Orbital parameters of infalling satellite haloes in the hierarchical ΛCDM model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(2), 1674-1686. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv053

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 10, 2015
Publication Date Apr 1, 2015
Deposit Date Apr 15, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 448
Issue 2
Pages 1674-1686
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv053
Keywords Methods: numerical, Galaxies: haloes, Cosmology: theory, Dark matter.
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1179

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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.





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