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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 483, Issue 3, Pages 3390-3403Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3306
Keywords
dark matter; cosmology theory
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowskaw-Curie grant [734374]
- Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (MINECO/FEDER, UE) in Spain [AYA2015-63810-P]
- Spanish Red Consolider MultiDark [FPA2017-90566-REDC]
- Australia Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence (CoE) ASTRO 3D [CE170100013]
- STFC [ST/L000695/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Recent numerical studies of the dark matter density profiles of massive galaxy clusters (M-halo > 10(15) M-circle dot) show that their median radial mass density profile remains unchanged up to z > 1, displaying a highly self-similar evolution. We verify this by using the data set of the THE THREE HUNDRED project, i.e. 324 cluster-sized haloes as found in full physics hydrodynamical simulations. We track the progenitors of themass-complete sample of clusters at z = 0, and find that their median shape is already in place by z = 2.5. However, selecting a dynamically relaxed subsample (similar to 16 per cent of the clusters), we observe a shift of the scale radius r(s) towards larger values at earlier times. Classifying the whole sample by formation time, this evolution is understood as a result of a two-phase halo mass accretion process. Early-forming clusters-identified as relaxed today - have already entered their slow accretion phase, hence their mass growth occurs mostly at the outskirts. Late-forming clusters - which are still unrelaxed today - are in their fast accretion phase, thus the central region of the clusters is still growing. We conclude that the density profile of galaxy clusters shows a profound self-similarity out to redshifts z similar to 2.5. This result holds for both gas and total density profiles when including baryonic physics, as reported here for two rather distinct sub-grid models.
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