Dark Matter 5

Dark Matter halo formation and peculiar velocity analysis (volumetric map)

Simulation: GADGET-4

Graph / Animation: Plotly

Number of particles: 48³  (32³ on Smartphone, Tablet, Old OS)
Box length: 5.0 Mpc/h
Softnening length: 1.0 kpc/h
Particle mass: 9.66 x 10 ⁷ M_☉/h  (3.26 x 10 ⁸ M_☉/h on Smartphone, Tablet, Old OS)
Redshift: from 63 to 0
Coordinates: comoving
Velocity grid size: 100 kpc/h  (167 kpc/h on Smartphone, Tablet, Old OS)

References:

• Springel V. et al. “Simulating cosmic structure formation with the GADGET-4 code” – MNRAS (2021)
• Weinberg S. “Cosmology” – Oxford University Press (2008)