Cusps in CDM halos

Abstract

We resolve the inner region of a massive cluster forming in a cosmological LCDM simulation with a mass resolution of 2*10^6 Msun and before z=4.4 even 3*10^5 Msun. This is a billion times less than the clusters final virial mass and a substantial increase over current LCDM simulations. We achieve this resolution using a new multi-mass refinement procedure and are now able to probe a dark matter halo density profile down to 0.1 percent of the virial radius. The inner density profile of this cluster halo is well fitted by a power-law rho ~ r^-gamma down to the smallest resolved scale. An inner region with roughly constant logarithmic slope is now resolved, which suggests that cuspy profiles describe the inner profile better than recently proposed profiles with a core. The cluster studied here is one out of a sample of six high resolution cluster simulations of Diemand et al. (2004) and it's inner slope of gamma = 1.2 lies close to the sample average.

10 pages,10 figures. Matches version in press. Added Figure 7 and section 3.3. about upper limits of inner slopes, text (incl, title and abstract) revised, conclusions unchanged

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