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A Comparison of Simulated and Analytic Major Merger Counts

J. D. Cohn, J. S. Bagla, Martin White

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0009381

Abstract

We use large volume, high resolution, N-body simulations of 3 different ΛCDM models, with different clustering strengths, to generate dark matter halo merging histories. Over the reliable range of halo masses, roughly galaxy groups to rich clusters of galaxies, we quantify the number density of major mergers for two different time intervals and compare with analytic predictions based on the extended Press-Schechter (1974) theory.

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