Bibcode
Schaller, Matthieu; Frenk, Carlos S.; Bower, Richard G.; Theuns, Tom; Jenkins, Adrian; Schaye, Joop; Crain, Robert A.; Furlong, Michelle; Dalla Vecchia, C.; McCarthy, I. G.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 2, p.1247-1267
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2015
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341
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Description
We investigate the internal structure and density profiles of haloes of
mass 1010-1014 M⊙ in the Evolution
and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environment (EAGLE) simulations.
These follow the formation of galaxies in a Λ cold dark matter
Universe and include a treatment of the baryon physics thought to be
relevant. The EAGLE simulations reproduce the observed present-day
galaxy stellar mass function, as well as many other properties of the
galaxy population as a function of time. We find significant differences
between the masses of haloes in the EAGLE simulations and in simulations
that follow only the dark matter component. Nevertheless, haloes are
well described by the Navarro-Frenk-White density profile at radii
larger than ˜5 per cent of the virial radius but, closer to the
centre, the presence of stars can produce cuspier profiles. Central
enhancements in the total mass profile are most important in haloes of
mass 1012-1013 M⊙, where the
stellar fraction peaks. Over the radial range where they are well
resolved, the resulting galaxy rotation curves are in very good
agreement with observational data for galaxies with stellar mass
M* < 5 × 1010 M⊙. We
present an empirical fitting function that describes the total mass
profiles and show that its parameters are strongly correlated with halo
mass.
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