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The Splashback Radius of Halos from Particle Dynamics. III. Halo Catalogs, Merger Trees, and Host–Subhalo Relations

  • Authors: Benedikt Diemer

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 251 17.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Evolution of SO and splashback radii (top) and masses (bottom) prior to infall into a larger halo. The figure corresponds to the left-hand side of Figure 7 for ﹩{M}_{200{\rm{m}},\mathrm{bnd}}﹩ and ﹩{M}_{200{\rm{m}},\mathrm{all}}﹩ (blue and purple lines), but we are not showing the evolution after infall because splashback radii are not physically meaningful for subhalos. The solid lines show the median evolution, the dashed lines the mean. For SO definitions such as ﹩{M}_{200{\rm{m}},\mathrm{all}}﹩, the inclusion of material belonging to the future host leads to a growth in both radius and mass. For the splashback definitions (red and orange lines), the situation is quite different: while the mean mass does grow significantly, the splashback radius follows a smooth trajectory that does not seem to be impacted much by the future merger.

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