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银河系环境的措施- I。什么是“环境”?

Measures of Galaxy Environment - I. What is "Environment"?

Stuart I. Muldrew, Darren J. Croton, Ramin A. Skibba, Frazer R. Pearce, Hong Bae Ann, Ivan K. Baldry, Sarah Brough, Yun-Young Choi, Christopher J. Conselice, Ni… 展开作者

Stuart I. Muldrew, Darren J. Croton, Ramin A. Skibba, Frazer R. Pearce, Hong Bae Ann, Ivan K. Baldry, Sarah Brough, Yun-Young Choi, Christopher J. Conselice, Nicolas B. Cowan, Anna Gallazzi, Meghan E. Gray, Ruth Grützbauch, I-Hui Li, Changbom Park, Sergey V. Pilipenko, Bret J. Podgorzec, Aaron S. G. Robotham, David J. Wilman, Xiaohu Yang, Youcai Zhang, Stefano Zibetti

摘要:

星系的环境对其演化的影响已经在文献中进行了广泛的研究和比较,尽管经常使用不同的技术来定义环境。大多数方法分为两大类:使用最近邻探测底层密度场的方法和使用固定孔径的方法。两者之间的差异阻碍了分析之间的清晰比较,并留下了即使使用相同数据,实际测量不同属性的可能性。在这项工作中,我们将20个已发表的环境定义应用于一个共同的模拟星系目录,该目录被限制为看起来像本地宇宙。我们发现,最近邻为基础的措施,最好的探测高质量晕的内部密度,而在低质量的晕间分离占主导地位,并采取行动,以消除局部密度变化。由此产生的相关性还表明,最近邻星系的环境在很大程度上是独立的暗物质晕质量。相反,探测超晕尺度的基于孔径的方法准确地识别了对应于高质量晕的高密度区域。这两种方法都显示了致密环境中的星系如何倾向于更红,除了最大的光圈,但这些光圈在恢复背景暗物质环境方面是最强的。我们还警告不要使用光度红移来定义环境中的所有,但dennial地区。当考虑环境时,有两种制度:最好用最近邻测量的晕内部的“局部环境”和最好用孔径测量的晕外部的“大规模环境”。这导致的结论是,没有普遍的环境措施,最合适的方法取决于规模正在探索。

英文摘要:

The influence of a galaxy's environment on its evolution has been studied and compared extensively in the literature, although differing techniques are often used to define environment. Most methods fall into two broad groups: those that use nearest neighbours to probe the underlying density field and those that use fixed apertures. The differences between the two inhibit a clean comparison between analyses and leave open the possibility that, even with the same data, different properties are actually being measured. In this work we apply twenty published environment definitions to a common mock galaxy catalogue constrained to look like the local Universe. We find that nearest neighbour-based measures best probe the internal densities of high-mass haloes, while at low masses the inter-halo separation dominates and acts to smooth out local density variations. The resulting correlation also shows that nearest neighbour galaxy environment is largely independent of dark matter halo mass. Conversely, aperture-based methods that probe super-halo scales accurately identify high-density regions corresponding to high mass haloes. Both methods show how galaxies in dense environments tend to be redder, with the exception of the largest apertures, but these are the strongest at recovering the background dark matter environment. We also warn against using photometric redshifts to define environment in all but the densest regions. When considering environment there are two regimes: the 'local environment' internal to a halo best measured with nearest neighbour and 'large-scale environment' external to a halo best measured with apertures. This leads to the conclusion that there is no universal environment measure and the most suitable method depends on the scale being probed.

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