We investigate the luminosity dependent clustering of rest-frame UV selected galaxies at z~4, 3, 2.2, and 1.7 in the Keck Deep Fields (KDFs), which are complete to R = 27 and cover 169 arcmin^2. We find that at z~4 and 3, UV-bright galaxies cluster more strongly than UV-faint ones, but at z~2.2 and 1.7, the UV-bright galaxies are no longer the most strongly clustered. We derive mass estimates for objects in our sample by comparing our measurements to the predicted clustering of dark matter haloes in the Millennium Simulation. From these estimates, we infer relationships between halo mass and star formation rate (SFR), and find that the most massive dark matter haloes in our sample host galaxies with high SFRs (M_1700 < -20, or > 50 M_sun/yr) at z~3 and 4, moderate SFRs (-20<M_1700<-19, or ~20 M_sun/yr) at z~2.2, and lower SFRs (-19<M_1700<-18, or ~2 M_sun/yr) at z~1.7. We believe our measurements may provide a new line of evidence for galaxy downsizing by extending that concept from stellar to halo mass. We also find that the objects with blue UV colors in our sample are much more strongly clustered than those with red UV colors, and we propose that this may be due to the presence of the 2175A dust absorption bump in more massive halos, which contain the older stellar populations and dust needed to produce the feature. The relatively small area covered by the survey means that the absolute values of the correlation lengths and halo masses we derive are heavily dependent on the "integral constraint" correction, but the uniformly deep coverage across a large redshift interval allows us to detect several important trends that are independent of this correction.
Clustering properties of galaxies selected in stellar mass: Breaking down the link between luminous and dark matter in massive galaxies from z=0 to z=2
New constraints on the evolution of the stellar-to-dark matter connection: a combined analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing, clustering, and stellar mass functions from z=0.2 to z=1
Quasar clustering in a galaxy and quasar formation model based on ultra high-resolution N-body simulations
我们研究了类星体的聚类特性，使用我们的半解析模型的星系和类星体的形成与国家的最先进的宇宙学N体模拟的新版本。在这项研究中，我们假设一个主要的星系合并触发冷气体吸积到一个超大质量黑洞和类星体活动。我们的模型可以再现类星体演化的缩小趋势。我们发现，类星体宿主暗物质晕的质量中值随宇宙时间的增加而增加，从z=4（几个1 e +11 Msun）到z=1（几个1 e +12 Msun）的数量级，并且仅微弱地依赖于类星体的光度。通过模型中的类星体-星系交叉关联函数推导出类星体的偏差，我们发现类星体的偏差不依赖于类星体的光度，与观测到的趋势相似。这一结果反映了这样一个事实，即具有固定光度的类星体具有不同的爱丁顿比，因此具有不同的主晕质量，这主要决定了类星体的偏差。我们还表明，类星体的偏见增加红移，这是在定性的协议与观察。我们的偏置值低于观测值在高红移，这意味着我们需要一些机制，使类星体在低质量晕不活跃和/或使它们在高质量晕更活跃。
Properties of QSO Metal Line Absorption Systems at High Redshifts: Nature and Evolution of the Absorbers and New Evidence on Escape of Ionizing Radiation from Galaxies
使用Voigt轮廓拟合程序对9个类星体的Keck HIRES谱进行拟合，我们识别出1099个CIV吸收体成分，它们聚集在莱曼森林外的201个系统中，分布范围为1.6 < z < 4.4。与相关的SiIV，CII，SiII和NV在可用的情况下，我们调查散装统计和电离特性的组件和系统，并发现没有显着的变化，而CII，SiII和NV的红移CIV和SiIV的变化很大。CIV组件表现出很强的集群，但没有集群检测到系统的规模从150公里/秒到50000公里/秒。我们的结论是集群完全是由于气体存在于星系的环星系介质的奇特速度。使用特定的组合的离子比，我们比较我们的观察与模型电离预测的吸收暴露于metagalactic电离辐射背景增强邻近辐射从其相关的星系，并发现普遍接受的辐射逃逸的透明通道从内部恒星形成网站的手段是光谱上不可行的，我们更强的吸收。我们开发了一个积极的方案的基础上失控的恒星与由此产生的辐射，自然使所需的光谱收敛，并反过来提供相关星系的形态演化的经验指标的流出的变化。再加上我们样本中较弱的吸收体所指示的相对紧凑的星系共存的种群，辐射的集体逃逸足以维持IGM在1.9 < z < 4.4的整个范围内电离。
