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a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 3 0 5 1 8 7 v 3 6 D e c 2 0 0 4 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1–7 (2003) Printed 2 February 2008 (MN LATEX style file v2.2) Modeling peculiar velocities of dark matter halos? Takashi Hamana1,2, Issha Kayo3, Naoki Yoshida2,4, Yasushi Suto3,5 and Y.P. Jing6 1 Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98bis Boulevard Arago, F 75014 Paris, France 2 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan 3 Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 4 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 5 Research Center for the Early Universe(RESCEU), School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 6 Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, the Partner Group of MPI fu?r Astrophysik, Nandan Road 80, Shanghai 200030, China Accepted 2003 May 5, Received 2003 April 16; in original form 2003 January 9 ABSTRACT We present a simple model that accurately describes various statistical properties of peculiar velocities of dark matter halos. We pay particular attention to the following two effects. First, the evolution of the halo peculiar velocity depends on the local matter density, instead of the global density. Secondly, dark matter halos are biased tracers of the underlying mass distribution, thus halos tend to be located preferentially at high density regions. For the former, we develop an empirical model calibrated with N -body simulations, while for the latter, we use a conventional halo bias model based on the extended Press-Schechter model combined with an empirical log-normal prob- ability distribution function of the mass density distribution. We find that, compared with linear theory, the present model significantly improves the accuracy of predic- tions of statistical properties of the halo peculiar velocity field including the velocity dispersion, the probability distribution function, and the pairwise velocity dispersion at large separations. Thus, our