Unbound particles in dark matter halos

Journal Article · Thu Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/06/019· OSTI ID:1076824

Behroozi, Peter S.; Loeb, Abraham; Wechsler, Risa H.

We investigate unbound dark matter particles in halos by tracing particle trajectories in a simulation run to the far future (a = 100). We find that the traditional sum of kinetic and potential energies is a very poor predictor of which dark matter particles will eventually become unbound from halos. We also study the mass fraction of unbound particles, which increases strongly towards the edges of halos, and decreases significantly at higher redshifts. We discuss implications for dark matter detection experiments, precision calibrations of the halo mass function, the use of baryon fractions to constrain dark energy, and searches for intergalactic supernovae.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1076824
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-15442; arXiv:1208.0334
• Journal Information: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 06; ISSN 1475-7516
• Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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