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On the shape of dark matter haloes from MultiDark Planck simulations

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The halo shape plays a central role in determining important observational properties of the haloes such as mass, concentration and lensing cross-sections. The triaxiality of lensing galaxy clusters has a substantial impact on the distribution of the largest Einstein radii, while weak lensing techniques are sensitive to the intrinsic halo ellipticity. In this work, we provide scaling relations for the shapes of dark matter haloes as a function of mass (peak height) and redshift over more than four orders of magnitude in halo masses, namely from 10^11.5 to 10^15.8 h^−1 M_⊙. We have analysed four dark matter only simulations from the MultiDark cosmological simulation suite with more than 56 billion particles within boxes of 4.0, 2.5, 1.0 and 0.4 h^−1 Gpc size assuming Planck cosmology. The dark matter haloes have been identified in the simulations using the rockstar halo finder, which also determines the axis ratios in terms of the diagonalization of the inertia tensor. In order to infer the shape for a hypothetical halo of a given mass at a given redshift, we provide fitting functions to the minor-to-major and intermediate-to-major axis ratios as a function of the peak height.

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hal-01554257 , version 1 (03-07-2017)

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Jesús Vega-Ferrero, Gustavo Yepes, Stefan Gottlöber. On the shape of dark matter haloes from MultiDark Planck simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017, 467 (3), pp.3226-3238. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stx282⟩. ⟨hal-01554257⟩
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