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大星系红移巡天中的空洞统计:场星系的晕占据依赖于环境吗?

Void Statistics in Large Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Does Halo Occupation of Field Galaxies Depend on Environment?

Jeremy L. Tinker, Charlie Conroy, Peder Norberg, Santiago G. Patiri, David H. Weinberg, Michael S. Warren

摘要:

我们使用投影星系关联函数w_p和星系空隙统计的测量来测试固定质量晕的星系含量在低密度环境中是否系统性地不同。我们提出了新的测量的空概率函数(VPF)和欠密度概率函数(UPF)的数据发布四的斯隆数字巡天,以及新的测量的VPF的完整数据发布的2度场星系红移调查。我们比较这些测量的预测计算的模型的晕占领分布(HOD)的约束,以匹配两个w_p和星系的空间密度。HOD的标准实现假设星系的占有率仅取决于晕质量,而与局部环境无关。对于光度定义的样本,我们发现,标准的HOD预测是一个很好的匹配的意见,和数据排除模型,其中星系形成效率降低在低密度环境。更值得注意的是,我们发现红星系和蓝星系(L ~ 0.4L *)的空洞统计可以用与这些样本的关联函数相匹配的标准HOD模型完美地预测,排除了在固定晕质量下星系颜色与大尺度环境相关的“装配偏差”模型。我们的结论是,场星系的光度和颜色主要是由它们所处的晕的质量决定的,并且对宿主晕形成的环境几乎没有直接的依赖性。从广义上讲,我们的结果表明,在L > 0.2L * 星系中发现的空洞的大小和空洞的分布与星系和暗物质晕之间有简单联系的标准宇宙学模型的预言非常一致。(节略)

英文摘要:

We use measurements of the projected galaxy correlation function w_p and galaxy void statistics to test whether the galaxy content of halos of fixed mass is systematically different in low density environments. We present new measurements of the void probability function (VPF) and underdensity probability function (UPF) from Data Release Four of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as well as new measurements of the VPF from the full data release of the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey. We compare these measurements to predictions calculated from models of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) that are constrained to match both w_p and the space density of galaxies. The standard implementation of the HOD assumes that galaxy occupation depends on halo mass only, and is independent of local environment. For luminosity-defined samples, we find that the standard HOD prediction is a good match to the observations, and the data exclude models in which galaxy formation efficiency is reduced in low-density environments. More remarkably, we find that the void statistics of red and blue galaxies (at L ~ 0.4L_*) are perfectly predicted by standard HOD models matched to the correlation function of these samples, ruling out "assembly bias" models in which galaxy color is correlated with large-scale environment at fixed halo mass. We conclude that the luminosity and color of field galaxies are determined predominantly by the mass of the halo in which they reside and have little direct dependence on the environment in which the host halo formed. In broader terms, our results show that the sizes and emptiness of voids found in the distribution of L > 0.2L_* galaxies are in excellent agreement with the predictions of a standard cosmological model with a simple connection between galaxies and dark matter halos. (abridged)

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