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z~0.6大质量星系大尺度排列的探测

Detection of the large scale alignment of massive galaxies at z~0.6

Cheng Li, Y. P. Jing, A. Faltenbacher, Jie Wang

摘要:

我们报告的检测星系之间的对齐和大尺度结构在z~0.6的基础上的CMASS星系样本的重子振荡光谱调查数据发布9。我们使用两个统计量来量化校准信号:1)校准两点关联函数,它探测在红移空间中给定间距的星系团对星系取向与连接到其他星系的线之间的投影角(theta_p)的依赖性,以及2)cos(2 θ)统计量,它估计在给定间距的所有相关对的cos(2 θ_p)的平均值。我们在两个统计中发现了约70 Mpc/h的显著对齐信号。在一个大型宇宙学模拟中,将同样的统计数据应用于质量超过10^12 M_sun/h的暗物质晕,显示出与观测结果相似的尺度相关排列信号,但在探测的所有尺度上都有更高的振幅。我们发现,这种差异可能部分解释了中央星系和它们的宿主晕之间的错位角,虽然需要详细的建模,以更好地了解星系和宿主晕的方向之间的联系。此外,我们发现系统的趋势与恒星质量的CMASS星系的对准统计,在这个意义上说,更大质量的星系更强烈地与大尺度结构。

英文摘要:

We report on the detection of the alignment between galaxies and large-scale structure at z~0.6 based on the CMASS galaxy sample from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopy Survey data release 9. We use two statistics to quantify the alignment signal: 1) the alignment two-point correlation function which probes the dependence of galaxy clustering at a given separation in redshift space on the projected angle (theta_p) between the orientation of galaxies and the line connecting to other galaxies, and 2) the cos(2theta)-statistic which estimates the average of cos(2theta_p) for all correlated pairs at given separation. We find significant alignment signal out to about 70 Mpc/h in both statistics. Applications of the same statistics to dark matter halos of mass above 10^12 M_sun/h in a large cosmological simulation show similar scale-dependent alignment signals to the observation, but with higher amplitudes at all scales probed. We show that this discrepancy may be partially explained by a misalignment angle between central galaxies and their host halos, though detailed modeling is needed in order to better understand the link between the orientations of galaxies and host halos. In addition, we find systematic trends of the alignment statistics with the stellar mass of the CMASS galaxies, in the sense that more massive galaxies are more strongly aligned with the large-scale structure.

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