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SDSS星系群中最亮星系团和最亮卫星星系的光度

The luminosities of the brightest cluster galaxies and brightest satellites in SDSS groups

Aseem Paranjape, Ravi K. Sheth

摘要:

我们发现,在基于SDSS的星系群星表中,BCG星系团的光度分布表明,BCG光度只是星系群光度函数的统计极值。后者恰好可以用全星系光度函数(限制在Mr<-19.9)很好地近似,只要我们使用这个函数的参数化,在亮端是准确的。对Brilliant卫星星系的光度分布的类似分析表明,它们最好被认为是来自相同光度分布的第二亮的选择,其中BCGs是最亮的。即,BSG并不是一些通用的卫星光度函数中最亮的,与Halo模型分析的聚类光度依赖性相反。然而,我们然后使用标记相关性来提供这些顺序统计量的一种新的测试,表明从BCGs和BSG绘制的普遍光度函数(即没有晕质量依赖性)的假设与数据不兼容,尽管BCG和BSG光度分布本身并没有暗示这一点。我们还讨论了为什么,因为极端值统计量是明确的函数的绘制数量,BCG光度与极端值统计的一致性是最清楚地看到,如果一个是小心地执行测试在固定组丰富度N。测试,例如,固定的总群光度Ltot通常会有偏差,并可能导致错误的结论。

英文摘要:

We show that the distribution of luminosities of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in an SDSS-based group catalog suggests that BCG luminosities are just the statistical extremes of the group galaxy luminosity function. This latter happens to be very well approximated by the all-galaxy luminosity function (restricted to Mr<-19.9), provided one uses a parametrization of this function that is accurate at the bright end. A similar analysis of the luminosity distribution of the Brightest Satellite Galaxies suggests that they are best thought of as being the second brightest pick from the same luminosity distribution of which BCGs are the brightest. I.e., BSGs are not the brightest of some universal satellite luminosity function, in contrast to what Halo Model analyses of the luminosity dependence of clustering suggest. However, we then use mark correlations to provide a novel test of these order statistics, showing that the hypothesis of a universal luminosity function (i.e. no halo mass dependence) from which the BCGs and BSGs are drawn is incompatible with the data, despite the fact that there was no hint of this in the BCG and BSG luminosity distributions themselves. We also discuss why, since extreme value statistics are explicitly a function of the number of draws, the consistency of BCG luminosities with extreme value statistics is most clearly seen if one is careful to perform the test at fixed group richness N. Tests at, e.g., fixed total group luminosity Ltot, will generally be biased and may lead to erroneous conclusions.

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