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恒星光质在z~0和z ~1的自相关:从SDSS到DEEP2

Autocorrelations of stellar light and mass at z~0 and ~1: From SDSS to DEEP2

Cheng Li, Simon D. M. White, Yanmei Chen, Alison L. Coil, Marc Davis, Gabriella De Lucia, Qi Guo, Y. P. Jing, Guinevere Kauffmann, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Wei Zhang

摘要:

利用DEEP 2星系红移巡天第三次数据发布和斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)最终数据发布的数据,给出了星系质量及其光在U、B和V波段的投影自相关函数w_p(r_p)的测量结果。我们调查的恒星质量和光的集群偏差,通过比较这些预测的自相关暗物质估计千年模拟(MS)在z=1和0.07,我们的星系样本的中值红移。所有的自相关函数和偏置函数都表现出与空间尺度和波段的系统趋势,这在两个红移处是惊人的相似。这表明,在z=1时,本机宇宙中恒星星族对环境的依赖性已经得到了很好的证实。Guo et al.(2011)最近基于MS的星系形成模拟在所有波段和两个红移下再现了亮度的尺度依赖聚类,准确度超过30%,但在分离度低于2 Mpc时大大高估了质量自相关。进一步比较我们的恒星质量偏差函数与模型预测的结果表明,SDSS和DEEP 2数据都倾向于σ_8 = 0.8的波动幅度,而不是MS假设的σ_8 =0.9。

英文摘要:

We present measurements of projected autocorrelation functions w_p(r_p) for the stellar mass of galaxies and for their light in the U, B and V bands, using data from the third data release of the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey and the final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We investigate the clustering bias of stellar mass and light by comparing these to projected autocorrelations of dark matter estimated from the Millennium Simulations (MS) at z=1 and 0.07, the median redshifts of our galaxy samples. All of the autocorrelation and bias functions show systematic trends with spatial scale and waveband which are impressively similar at the two redshifts. This shows that the well-established environmental dependence of stellar populations in the local Universe is already in place at z=1. The recent MS-based galaxy formation simulation of Guo et al. (2011) reproduces the scale-dependent clustering of luminosity to an accuracy better than 30% in all bands and at both redshifts, but substantially overpredicts mass autocorrelations at separations below about 2 Mpc. Further comparison of the shapes of our stellar mass bias functions with those predicted by the model suggests that both the SDSS and DEEP2 data prefer a fluctuation amplitude of sigma_8 0.8 rather than the sigma_8=0.9 assumed by the MS.

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