  We explore the radial alignment of subhalos in 2-dimensional projections of
cosmological simulations. While most other recent studies focussed on
quantifying the signal utilizing the full 3-dimensional spatial information any
comparison to observational data has to be done in projection along random
lines-of-sight. We have a suite of well resolved host dark matter halos at our
disposal ranging from 6 x 10^14 Msun/h down to 6 x 10^13Msun/h. For these host
systems we do observe that the major axis of the projected 2D mass distribution
of subhalos aligns with its (projected) distance vector to the host's centre.
The signal is actually stronger than the observed alignment. However, when
considering only the innermost 10-20% of the subhalo's particles for the 2D
shape measurement we recover the observed correlation. We further acknowledge
that this signal is independent of subhalo mass.
