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Abell 2744: too much substructure for ΛCDM?

Schwinn, J.; Jauzac, M.; Baugh, C.M.; Bartelmann, M.; Eckert, D.; Harvey, D.; Natarajan, P.; Massey, R.

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Authors

J. Schwinn

M. Bartelmann

D. Eckert

D. Harvey

P. Natarajan



Abstract

The massive substructures found in Abell 2744 by Jauzac et al. present a challenge to the cold dark matter paradigm due to their number and proximity to the cluster centre. We use one of the biggest N-body simulations, the Millennium XXL, to investigate the substructure in a large sample of massive dark matter haloes. A range of effects that influence the comparison with the observations is considered, extending the preliminary evaluation carried out by Jauzac et al. There are many tens of haloes in the simulation with a total mass comparable with or larger than that of Abell 2744. However, we find no haloes with a number and distribution of massive substructures (>5 × 1013 M⊙) that is close to that inferred from the observations of Abell 2744. The application of extreme value statistics suggests that we would need a simulation of at least 10 times the volume of the Millennium XXL to find a single dark matter halo with a similar internal structure to Abell 2744. Explaining the distribution of massive substructures in clusters is a new hurdle for hierarchical models to negotiate, which is not weakened by appeals to baryonic physics or uncertainty over the nature of the dark matter particle.

Citation

Schwinn, J., Jauzac, M., Baugh, C., Bartelmann, M., Eckert, D., Harvey, D., …Massey, R. (2017). Abell 2744: too much substructure for ΛCDM?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(3), 2913-2923. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx277

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 30, 2017
Online Publication Date Feb 2, 2017
Publication Date Jun 1, 2017
Deposit Date May 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date May 17, 2017
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 467
Issue 3
Pages 2913-2923
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx277
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1359369
Related Public URLs https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02790

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This article has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.






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