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暗物质晕的形成时间、质量增长历史和浓度

Formation times, mass growth histories and concentrations of dark matter haloes

Carlo Giocoli, Giuseppe Tormen, Ravi K. Sheth

摘要:

我们发展了一个简单的模型来估计暗物质晕的质量增长历史。该模型基于对形成时间分布的拟合,其中形成被定义为合并树的主要分支包含最终质量M的分数f的最早时间。我们的分析利用了这样一个事实,即作为f的函数的中值形成时间与作为时间的函数的主要祖质量分布的中值相同。再加上以前的工作表明,最终晕的浓度c与f \sim 0.04相关的形成时间tf有关,我们的方法提供了一个简单的算法,用于估计晕浓度的分布可能会依赖于质量,红移和背景宇宙学的膨胀历史。我们还表明,可以预测log10 c的精度约为0.13和0.09德克斯,如果只有它的质量,或质量和TF是已知的。相反,我们可以从质量或c预测log10 tf,精度为0.12和0.09 dex,几乎与f无关。将质量添加到基于c的估计值不会导致进一步的改进。后者的结果可能是有用的研究,试图比较年龄的恒星在中央星系的晕与时间的核心是第一次组装。

英文摘要:

We develop a simple model for estimating the mass growth histories of dark matter halos. The model is based on a fit to the formation time distribution, where formation is defined as the earliest time that the main branch of the merger tree contains a fraction f of the final mass M . Our analysis exploits the fact that the median formation time as a function of f is the same as the median of the main progenitor mass distribution as a function of time. When coupled with previous work showing that the concentration c of the final halo is related to the formation time tf associated with f \sim 0.04, our approach provides a simple algorithm for estimating how the distribution of halo concentrations may be expected to depend on mass, redshift and the expansion history of the background cosmology. We also show that one can predict log10 c with a precision of about 0.13 and 0.09 dex if only its mass, or both mass and tf are known. And, conversely, one can predict log10 tf from mass or c with a precision of 0.12 and 0.09 dex, approximately independent of f. Adding the mass to the c-based estimate does not result in further improvement. These latter results may be useful for studies which seek to compare the age of the stars in the central galaxy in a halo with the time the core was first assembled.

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