Haloes gone MAD★: The Halo-Finder Comparison Project

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Alexander Knebe · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Steffen R. Knollmann · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Stuart I. Muldrew · Los Alamos National Laboratory

F. R. Pearce · Los Alamos National Laboratory

Miguel A. Aragón-Calvo · Johns Hopkins University

Y. Ascasíbar · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Peter Behroozi

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We present a detailed comparison of fundamental dark matter halo properties retrieved by a substantial number of different halo finders. These codes span a wide range of techniques including friends-of-friends, spherical-overdensity and phase-space-based algorithms. We

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Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

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Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume 415, Issue 3, pp. 2293-2318

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18858.x

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