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Formation times and masses of dark matter haloes

Formation times and masses of dark matter haloes

The most commonly used definition of halo formation is the time when the most massive progenitor of a halo first contains at least half the final mass of its parent. Reasonably accurate formulae for the distribution of formation times of haloes of fixed mass have been available for some time. …