Subhaloes in Scale-Free Cosmologies
We explore the dependence of the subhalo mass function on the spectral index n of the linear matter power spectrum using scale-free Einstein-de Sitter simulations with n=-1 and n=-2.5. We carefully consider finite volume effects that may call into question previous simulations of n=-0.75. We infer t...
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| description | We explore the dependence of the subhalo mass function on the spectral index n of the linear matter power spectrum using scale-free Einstein-de Sitter simulations with n=-1 and n=-2.5. We carefully consider finite volume effects that may call into question previous simulations of n=-0.75. We infer that although the subhalo mass function appears to be independent of n so long as n>=-2, it begins to flatten as n->-3. Thus, the common practice of using alpha=-1.0 may greatly overestimate the number of subhaloes at the smallest scales in the CDM hierarchy. |
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