Mass Distribution and Accretion of Sub-halos

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  • Yun Li
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We use the “Millennium Simulation” to study the mass function of accreted sub-halos during merger events in the dark halo assembly history. Our study includes three kinds of sub-halo mergers: (1) mergers that happen to the main progenitor of dark halos; (2) mergers that happen on the entire merging history tree of dark halos; and (3) mergers that leave identifiable sub-halos in present-day dark halos. We estimate the unevolved sub-halo mass functions (USMFs), for which sub-halo masses are measured at the times of their accretion. For sub-halos that merge into the main branch of a presentday dark halo, their USMF can be well described by a universal functional form, in excellent agreement with previous results. The same conclusion can also be reached for the USMF of all progenitors that have merged to become sub-halos during the entire halo merging history. In both cases, the USMFs are also independent of the redshift of host halos. Due to tidal disruption, only a small fraction of the accreted halos survive as sub-halos identifiable in the present-day dark halos. In cluster-sized halos, about 30% of the survived sub-halos are sub-subhalos, and this fraction decreases with decreasing halo mass. For given halo and sub-halo masses, the accretion time has very broad distribution, but the survived sub-halos are all accreted quite recently.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009