Dark-ages Reionization & Galaxy Formation Simulation VIII. Suppressed
  growth of dark matter halos during the Epoch of Reionization
  We investigate how the hydrostatic suppression of baryonic accretion affects
the growth rate of dark matter halos during the Epoch of Reionization. By
comparing halo properties in a simplistic hydrodynamic simulation in which gas
only cools adiabatically, with its collisionless equivalent, we find that halo
growth is slowed as hydrostatic forces prevent gas from collapsing. In our
simulations, at the high redshifts relevant for reionization (between ${\sim}6$
and ${\sim}11$), halos that host dwarf galaxies ($\lesssim 10^{9}
\mathrm{M_\odot}$) can be reduced by up to a factor of 2 in mass due to the
hydrostatic pressure of baryons. Consequently, the inclusion of baryonic
effects reduces the amplitude of the low mass tail of the halo mass function by
factors of 2 to 4. In addition, we find that the fraction of baryons in dark
matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies at high redshift never exceeds ${\sim}90\%$
of the cosmic baryon fraction. When implementing baryonic processes, including
cooling, star formation, supernova feedback and reionization, the suppression
effects become more significant with further reductions of ${\sim}30\%$ to
60\%. Although convergence tests suggest that the suppression may become weaker
in higher resolution simulations, this suppressed growth will be important for
semi-analytic models of galaxy formation, in which the halo mass inherited from
an underlying N-body simulation directly determines galaxy properties. Based on
the adiabatic simulation, we provide tables to account for these effects in
N-body simulations, and present a modification of the halo mass function along
with explanatory analytic calculations.
