Baryonic Imprints on DM Halos: the concentration-mass relation and its dependence on 28 model parameters in the CAMELS suite

arXiv:2610.03544 · astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-10-02 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-10-02

Updated: 2026-10-02

Code: https://github.com/afarahi/KLLR

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: The evolution of baryons in halos, as well as their gravitational impact on the total-matter phase space, has a rich phenomenology and is vital in answering many questions in both cosmology and

Abstract

The evolution of baryons in halos, as well as their gravitational impact on the total-matter phase space, has a rich phenomenology and is vital in answering many questions in both cosmology and astrophysics. We use the CAMELS simulation suite to quantify the impact of twenty-three different galaxy formation parameters/processes (as well as five cosmological parameters) on the concentration--mass relation, c vir - M vir, which characterizes the radial density distribution in halos. We construct a simulation-informed nonlinear model for concentration as a function of halo mass, redshift, and twenty-eight cosmological/astrophysical parameters. This is done using 2048 simulations of the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation model from the CAMELS suite. We extract the imprints of galaxy formation across a wide range in mass M vir in [10 11, 10 14.5] M/h and in redshift z in [0, 3], finding clear mass- and redshift-dependent features in each of the different feedback mechanisms. From our measurements, we construct a three-component phenomenological model that can include astrophysical imprints in the concentration--mass relation in a fast and simple manner.

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