Splashback Radius of Dark Matter Halo¶
Introduction¶
- Read the introduction by Benedikt Diemer on his webpage: > “…A more natural halo boundary is provided by the splashback radius, \(R_{\rm sp}\), the radius where particles reach the apocenter of their first orbit after infall…Particles at the apocenter of their first orbit pile up due to their low radial velocity, creating a caustic that manifests itself as a sharp drop in the density profile. This so-called splashback radius represents a clear boundary between matter orbiting in the halo and matter on a first infall toward the halo.”
Reviews¶
- Walker et al. 2018 - The physics of galaxy cluster
outskirts
- See Section 1.1 and Figure 1.
Theoretical consideration¶
- Dimmer & Kravtsov 2014 - Dependence of the Outer Density Profiles of
Halos on Their Mass Accretion
Rate
- Important
- Adhikari, Dalal & Chamberlain 2014 - Splashback in accreting dark matter halos
- More, Diemer & Kravtsov - The Splashback Radius as a Physical Halo Boundary and the Growth of Halo Mass
- Shi 2016 - The outer profile of dark matter haloes: an analytical approach
- Diemer 2017 - The Splashback Radius of Halos from Particle Dynamics. I. The SPARTA Algorithm
- Diemer et al. 2017 - The Splashback Radius of Halos from Particle
Dynamics. II. Dependence on Mass, Accretion Rate, Redshift, and
Cosmology
- Important
- Mansfield, Kravtsov & Diemer 2017 - Splashback Shells of Cold Dark Matter Halos
- Busch & White 2017 - Assembly bias and splashback in galaxy
clusters
- Important
- Snaith et al. 2017 - Haloes at the ragged edge: the importance of the splashback radius
- Adhikari et al. 2018 - Splashback in galaxy clusters as a probe of cosmic expansion and gravity
- Okumura et al. 2018 - Splashback radius of nonspherical dark matter halos from cosmic density and velocity fields
- Renneby, Hilbert & Angulo 2018 - Halo mass and weak galaxy-galaxy lensing profiles in rescaled cosmological N-body simulations
Observational constraints¶
(Figure from Chang et al. 2018. Claimed detection of splashback radius around redMaPPer clusters using DES)
- Niikura et al. 2015 - Detection of universality of dark matter
profile from Subaru weak lensing measurements of 50 massive
clusters
- No detection of splashback signature.
- More et al. 2016 - Detection of the Splashback Radius and Halo
Assembly Bias of Massive Galaxy
Clusters
- Claim detection: “We show that the projected number density profiles of Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric galaxies around galaxy clusters display strong evidence for the splashback radius, a sharp halo edge corresponding to the location of the first orbital apocenter of satellite galaxies after their infall.”
- Umetsu & Diemer 2017 - Lensing Constraints on the Mass Profile Shape
and the Splashback Radius of Galaxy
Clusters
- Place lower limit.
- Baxter et al. 2017 - The Halo Boundary of Galaxy Clusters in the
SDSS
- Unclear, results are model sensitive
- Nishizawa et al. 2018 - First results on the cluster galaxy
population from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam survey. II. Faint end
color-magnitude diagrams and radial profiles of red and blue galaxies
at 0.1 < z <
1.1
- Detection using galaxy number density profiles (Fig 6)
- Chang et al. 2018 - The Splashback Feature around DES Galaxy
Clusters: Galaxy Density and Weak Lensing
Profiles
- Important Claim detection: “we find strong evidence of a splashback-like steepening of the galaxy density profile”
- Contigiani, Hoekstra & Bahe 2018 - Weak lensing constraints on
splashback around massive
clusters
- Unclear, “We do not detect a significant steepening”, but gives a constraint.
- Shin et al. 2018 arXiv:1811 - Measurement of the Splashback Feature
around SZ-selected Galaxy Clusters with DES, SPT and
ACT
- Detection using galaxy number density profile around SZ selected clusters
- R_sp consistent with prediction from simulation, in different with optically selected clusters
- Blue galaxies show just power law profile without splashback signiture, consistent with first infall
About accretion rate¶
General discussion about mass density profiles¶
- Shi 2016b - Locations of accretion shocks around galaxy clusters and the ICM properties: insights from self-similar spherical collapse with arbitrary mass accretion rates
- Trevisan, Mamon & Stalder 2017 - Group galaxy number density profiles far out: Is the __one-halo’ term NFW out to >10 virial radii?
- Fong et al. 2018 - Prospects for determining the mass distributions of galaxy clusters on large scales using weak gravitational lensing
- Osato et al. 2018 - Strong orientation dependence of surface mass
density profiles of dark haloes at large
scales
- “While the orientation dependence at small scales is ascribed to the halo triaxiality, our results indicate even stronger orientation dependence in the so-called two-halo regime”