Predicting the density profiles of the first halos

Abstract

The first dark matter halos form by direct collapse from peaks in the matter density field, and evidence from numerical simulations and other analyses suggests that the dense inner regions of these objects largely persist today. These halos would be the densest dark matter structures in the Universe, and their abundance can probe processes that leave imprints on the primordial density field, such as inflation or an early matter-dominated era. They can also probe dark matter through its free-streaming scale. The first halos are qualitatively different from halos that form by hierarchical clustering, as evidenced by their $\rho \propto r^{-3/2}$ inner density profiles. In this work, we present and tune models that predict the density profiles of these halos from properties of the density peaks from which they collapsed. These models predict the coefficient $A$ of the $\rho =A{r}^{-3/2}$ small-radius asymptote of the density profile along with the maximum circular velocity $v_{\max }$ and associated radius $r_{\max }$. These models are universal; they can be applied to any cosmology, and we confirm this by validating them using six $N$-body simulations carried out in wildly disparate cosmological scenarios. We find that these models can even predict the full population of halos with reasonable accuracy in scenarios with narrowly supported power spectra, although for broader power spectra, an understanding of the impact of halo mergers is needed. With their connection to the primordial density field established, the first dark matter halos will serve as probes of the early Universe and the nature of dark matter.

arXiv comment18 pages plus appendices, 21 figures; adds clarifications, reorders figures, and marginally changes numbers to match published version

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