Friday, February 24, 2012

1104.2905 (Eduard Salvador-Solé et al.)

Theoretical dark matter halo kinematics and triaxial shape    [PDF]

Eduard Salvador-Solé, Sinue Serra, Alberto Manrique Guillermo González-Casado
The model of the inner structure of dark matter haloes in hierarchical cosmologies recently developed by Salvador-Sol\'e et al. (2012) is extended to deal with their kinematics and triaxial shape. We establish the link between these properties and the shape of halo seeds, namely peaks in the initial random Gaussian density field, which can be inferred from the power-spectrum of density perturbations. The model is shown to hold for all haloes, regardless of their aggregation history. The predicted typical trends in the shape, as well as the pseudo phase-space density and anisotropy profiles are in good agreement with the results of numerical simulations. The model allows one to understand the origin of the power-law-like pseudo phase space density profile for virialised haloes.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2905

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