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A unified model for the spatial and mass distribution of subhaloes

Han, J.; Cole, S.; Frenk, C.S.; Jing, Y.

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J. Han

Y. Jing



Abstract

N-body simulations suggest that the substructures that survive inside dark matter haloes follow universal distributions in mass and radial number density. We demonstrate that a simple analytical model can explain these subhalo distributions as resulting from tidal stripping which increasingly reduces the mass of subhaloes with decreasing halocentric distance. As a starting point, the spatial distribution of subhaloes of any given infall mass is shown to be largely indistinguishable from the overall mass distribution of the host halo. Using a physically motivated statistical description of the amount of mass stripped from individual subhaloes, the model fully describes the joint distribution of subhaloes in final mass, infall mass and radius. As a result, it can be used to predict several derived distributions involving combinations of these quantities including, but not limited to, the universal subhalo mass function, the subhalo spatial distribution, the gravitational lensing profile, the dark matter annihilation radiation profile and boost factor. This model clarifies a common confusion when comparing the spatial distributions of galaxies and subhaloes, the so-called anti-bias, as a simple selection effect. We provide a PYTHON code SUBGEN for populating haloes with subhaloes at http://icc.dur.ac.uk/data/.

Citation

Han, J., Cole, S., Frenk, C., & Jing, Y. (2016). A unified model for the spatial and mass distribution of subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(2), 1208-1223. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2900

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 8, 2015
Online Publication Date Feb 2, 2016
Publication Date Apr 1, 2016
Deposit Date Apr 5, 2016
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 457
Issue 2
Pages 1208-1223
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2900

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This article has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.





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