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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 321, Issue 2, Pages 372-384Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04029.x
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gravitation; methods : numerical; cosmology : theory; dark matter
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We combine data from a number of N-body simulations to predict the abundance of dark haloes in cold dark matter (CDM) universes over more than four orders of magnitude in mass. A comparison of different simulations suggests that the dominant uncertainty in our results is systematic and is smaller than 10-30 per cent at all masses, depending on the halo definition used. In particular, our 'Hubble volume' simulations of tau CDM and Lambda CDM cosmologies allow the abundance of massive clusters to be predicted with uncertainties well below those expected in all currently planned observational surveys. We show that for a range of CDM cosmologies and for a suitable halo definition, the simulated mass function is almost independent of epoch, of cosmological parameters and of the initial power spectrum when expressed in appropriate variables. This universality is of exactly the kind predicted by the familiar Press-Schechter model, although this model predicts a mass function shape that differs from our numerical results, overestimating the abundance of 'typical' haloes and underestimating that of massive systems.
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