Most massive halos with Gumbel Statistics

We present an analytical calculation of the extreme value statistics for dark matter halos - that is, the probability distribution of the most massive halo within some region of the universe of specified shape and size. Our calculation makes use of the counts-in-cells formalism for the correlation f...

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Main Authors: Davis, O, Devriendt, J, Colombi, S, Silk, J, Pichon, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011