Schneider lines) are all plotted in Fig. 4. For the case of CDM (black), the sharp-k mass function closely follows both the simulation measure- ments and the Sheth–Tormen model. For the case of WDM (red, cyan, purple, pink), MDM (green, magenta, blue), and WIMP DM (brown, orange), the sharp-k mass function gives a reasonably good match to simulations, while the Sheth–Tormen approach fails to match the flattening or the turnaround visible in simulations. In Schneider et al. (2013), the sharp-k model has been reported to underestimate the halo abundance when the suppression scale lies in the exponential tail of the halo mass function (i.e. for ν 1), which generally happens at very high redshift. It turns out, however, that this discrepancy between the sharp-k model and the data is greatly reduced for haloes defined by a spherical overdensity instead of a friends-of-friends linking criterion (see Watson et al. 2013, for a comparison of the two). We therefore do not use the correction model proposed by Schneider et al. (2013). 4.3 Conditional mass function Another important application of the EPS model is the conditional mass function, which gives the abundance of haloes per mass and look-back redshift z1 , eventually ending up in a single host halo at redshift z0 . As the conditional mass function provides a connection between haloes at different redshifts, it acts as the starting point of more evolved quantities such as the halo collapse redshift, the number of satellites, and halo merger trees. The conditional mass function is given by dN(M|M0 ) d ln M = − M0 M Sf (δc, S|δc,0, S0 ) d ln S d ln M (13) (Lacey & Cole 1993). For the sharp-k model this can be simplified to dNSK (M|M0 ) d ln M = 1 6π2 M0 M f (δc, S|δc,0, S0 ) P(1/R) R3 , (14) where the filter scale R and the mass M are related by equation (12). The conditional first-crossing distribution again depends on the assumed model for non-linear collapse. The case of spherical col- lapse is given by f (δc, S|δc,0, S0 ) = δc − δc,0 √ 2π(S − S0 ) exp − (δc − δc,0 )2 2(S − S0 ) , (15) Figure 5. Conditional mass functions for a M0 = 1013 h−1 M host and a look-back redshift of z = 1.1. Coloured symbols refer to simulation outputs (with circumjacent shaded regions representing the uncertainty due to arte- fact subtraction), while the solid and dotted lines represent the sharp-k model and the standard Press–Schechter model, respectively. The colour-coding is the same as in the previous plots. 4.4 Estimating the number of dwarf satellites Each DM scenario has to produce a sufficient amount of substruc- tures to account for the observed MW satellites. While some (or most) of the substructures could be dark due to inefficient star for- mation, fewer substructures than observed means the failure of the DM scenario. In the case of WDM, comparing numbers of simulated substructures with observed satellites has led to tight constraints on the thermal particle mass ruling out masses below 2 keV (Polisen- sky & Ricotti 2011; Kennedy et al. 2014). The EPS approach can be used to estimate the average number of dwarf galaxies orbiting a galaxy like the MW. This means it is possible to check whether a certain DM scenario is likely to be in agreement with observations without running expensive numerical zoom-simulations of an MW halo. In principle, finding the number CDM 2.0 keV 5.3 keV - - - - [/] () Particle model ℒSM + ℒDM Linear perturbation ؍ଌྔ (ྫ:αςϥΠτۜՏͷ) Non-linear growth (e.g., N-body simulation) P(k): linear matter power spectrum ֤εέʔϧͰͷߏͷଟ͞Λද͢ྔ