2009

The velocity function in the local environment from LCDM and LWDM constrained simulations

Zavala, J., Jing, Y. P., Faltenbacher, A. et al.

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Using constrained simulations of the local Universe for generic cold dark matter and for 1keV warm dark matter, we investigate the difference in the abundance of dark matter halos in the local environment.

  • We find that the mass function within 20 Mpc/h of the Local Group is ~2 times larger than the universal mass function in the 10^9-10^13 M_odot/h mass range.
  • Imposing the field of view of the on-going HI blind survey ALFALFA in our simulations, we predict that the velocity function in the Virgo-direction region exceeds the universal velocity function by a factor of 3.
  • Furthermore, employing a scheme to translate the halo velocity function into a galaxy velocity function, we compare the simulation results with a sample of galaxies from the early catalog release of ALFALFA.

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