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Cosmology

the radius where recently accreted matter reaches its first orbital apocentre, marked by a sharp density drop and proposed as a physical halo boundary.

In cosmology, splashback radius refers to the radius where recently accreted matter reaches its first orbital apocentre, marked by a sharp density drop and proposed as a physical halo boundary. This meaning comes from More (2015) in The Astrophysical Journal.[1]

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References

More, S., Diemer, B., & Kravtsov, A. V. (2015). The Splashback Radius as a Physical Halo Boundary and the Growth of Halo Mass. The Astrophysical Journal, 810(1), 36. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/810/1/36

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