Effects of Angular Momentum on Halo Profiles

Abstract

The near universality of DM halo density profiles provided by N-body simulations has proven to be robust against changes in total mass density, power spectrum, and some forms of initial velocity dispersion. In this letter we study the effects of coherently spinning up an isolated DM-only progenitor on halo structure. Halos with spins within several standard deviations of the simulated mean ($\lambda \lesssim 0.20$) produce profiles with negligible deviations from the universal form. Only when the spin becomes quite large ($\lambda \gtrsim 0.20$) do departures become evident. The angular momentum distribution also exhibits a near universal form, which is also independent of halo spin up to $\lambda \lesssim 0.20$. A correlation between these epidemic profiles and the presence of a strong bar in the virialized halo is also observed. These bar structures bear resemblance to the radial orbit instability in the rotationless limit.

6 pages, 7 figures, submitted for publication in ApJ

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