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Formation times and masses of dark matter haloes

Ravi K. Sheth, Giuseppe Tormen

Published 2004-02-02Version 1

The most commonly used definition of halo formation is the time when a halo's most massive progenitor first contains at least half the final mass of its parent. Reasonably accurate formulae for the distribution of formation times of haloes of fixed mass have been available for some time. We use numerical simulations of hierarchical gravitational clustering to test the accuracy of formulae for the mass at formation. We also derive and test a formula for the joint distribution of formation masses and times. The structure of a halo is expected to be related to its accretion history. Our tests show that our formulae for formation masses and times are reasonably accurate, so we expect that they will aid future analytic studies of halo structure.

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS, in press
Journal: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 1464
Categories: astro-ph
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