Large-Scale Clustering of Galaxies with Massive Dark Halos. I. General Structure, Two-Point Correlations, and Binaries
Abstract
N-body simulations of large-scale clustering of galaxies with massive dark halos are performed and compared to models where galaxies are treated as point masses. Simulations with 800 galaxies in both a flat (Ω = 1.0) and open (Ωf = 0.15) universe are evolved from a Poisson initial density distribution in a periodic comoving cube of final length 63 Mpc. In the dark matter models, two "species" of particles are used, galactic systems are comprised initially of a single "luminous" particle centered in an extended halo of 25 "dark" particles. Ninety percent of the total mass is contained in the halos, which are not "locked" to a given galaxy. The most significant observable effects of dark halos are the lowering of galaxy pair peculiar velocities, particularly on scales r < 500 kpc, the enhancement of small-scale clustering through dynamical friction, and the suppression or delay of clustering on 1 - 5 Mpc scales.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- November 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1086/164659
- Bibcode:
- 1986ApJ...310....1E
- Keywords:
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- Galactic Clusters;
- Halos;
- Intergalactic Media;
- Matter (Physics);
- Astronomical Models;
- Correlation;
- Dark Matter;
- Galactic Structure;
- Many Body Problem;
- Radial Velocity;
- Spatial Distribution;
- Astrophysics;
- COSMOLOGY;
- GALAXIES: CLUSTERING;
- GALAXIES: STRUCTURE;
- NUMERICAL METHODS