The Structure and Dynamical Evolution of Dark Matter Halos

Abstract

(Shortened) We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure and dynamical evolution of dark matter halos in galaxy clusters. Our sample consists of nine massive halos from an EdS universe with scale free power spectrum and n = -1. Halos are resolved by ~20000 particles each, with a dynamical resolution of 20-25 kpc. Large scale tidal fields are included up to L=150 Mpc using background particles. The halo formation process can be characterized by the alternation of two dynamical configurations: a merging phase and a relaxation phase, defined by their signature on the evolution of the total mass and rms velocity. Halos spend on average one 1/3 of their evolution in the merging phase and 2/3 in the relaxation phase. Using this definition, we study the density profiles and their change during the halo history. The average density profiles are fitted by the NFW analytical model with an rms residual of 17% between the virial radius Rv and 0.01 Rv. The Hernquist (1990) profiles fits the same halos with an rms residual of 26%. The trend with mass of the scale radius of these fits is marginally consistent with that found by Cole & Lacey (1996): in comparison our halos are more centrally concentrated, and the relation between scale radius and halo mass is slightly steeper. We find a moderately large scatter in this relation, due both to dynamical evolution within halos and to fluctuations in the halo population. We analyze the dynamical equilibrium of our halos using the Jeans' equation, and find that on average they are approximately in equilibrium within their virial radius. Finally, we find that the projected mass profiles of our simulated halos are in very good agreement with the profiles of three rich galaxy clusters derived from strong and weak gravitational lensing observations.

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