The Mass Function

2002/07/08 by Martin White · 11 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Biology #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Estimator #Function (biology) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Halo #Halo mass function #Identification (biology) #Materials science #Mathematics #Physics #Range (aeronautics) #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Statistics #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/342752

published as Astrophys.J.Suppl.143:241,2002 · 14 pages, 12 figures, to appear in ApJS

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Abstract

We present the mass functions for different mass estimators for a range of cosmological models. We pay particular attention to how universal the mass function is, and how it depends on the cosmology, halo identification, and mass estimator chosen. We investigate quantitatively how well we can relate observed masses to theoretical mass functions.

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