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星系椭圆度内禀排列的晕模型

A halo model for intrinsic alignments of galaxy ellipticities

Michael D. Schneider, Sarah Bridle

摘要:

星系的内禀椭圆率之间的相关性是一个潜在的重要系统误差时,约束暗能量的性质从弱引力透镜(宇宙剪切)调查。在没有完全已知的星系红移的情况下,可能需要对星系的内在排列进行一些建模,以足够准确地提取透镜信号。我们提出了一个新的模型的基础上放置的星系到暗物质晕。中心星系的椭圆率遵循大尺度势,在最简单的情况下,卫星星系指向晕中心。双晕项则由线性对准模型主导,而单晕项提供了内在对准模型向小尺度的有动机的扩展。我们提供的空间投影源功率谱的内在(II)和剪切固有(GI)的相关性的拟合公式。我们说明了潜在的影响,忽略内在的宇宙学参数的约束,从非断层扫描的调查,发现sigma_8可能被低估的宇宙剪切,如果非常小的尺度包括在分析中的当前1-sigma误差棒的大小。最后,我们强调感兴趣的领域的数值模拟的暗物质集群和星系形成,可以进一步限制内在的对齐信号。

英文摘要:

Correlations between intrinsic ellipticities of galaxies are a potentially important systematic error when constraining dark energy properties from weak gravitational lensing (cosmic shear) surveys. In the absence of perfectly known galaxy redshifts some modeling of the galaxy intrinsic alignments is likely to be required to extract the lensing signal to sufficient accuracy. We present a new model based on the placement of galaxies into dark matter halos. The central galaxy ellipticity follows the large scale potential and, in the simplest case, the satellite galaxies point at the halo center. The two-halo term is then dominated by the linear alignment model and the one-halo term provides a motivated extension of intrinsic alignment models to small scales. We provide fitting formulae for the spatial projected source power spectra for both intrinsic-intrinsic (II) and shear-intrinsic (GI) correlations. We illustrate the potential impact of ignoring intrinsic alignments on cosmological parameter constraints from non-tomographic surveys, finding that sigma_8 could be underestimated by up to the size of the current 1-sigma error bar from cosmic shear if very small scales are included in the analysis. Finally, we highlight areas of interest for numerical simulations of dark matter clustering and galaxy formation that can further constrain the intrinsic alignment signal.

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