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晕内卫星星系团的空间分布:测量SDSS星系团的极小尺度角簇

The Spatial Distribution of Satellite Galaxies Within Halos: Measuring the Very Small Scale Angular Clustering of SDSS Galaxies

Jennifer A. Piscionere, Andreas A. Berlind, Cameron K. McBride, Roman Scoccimarro

摘要:

我们从斯隆数字巡天数据第7版测量星系的角聚类,以探测卫星星系的空间分布在其暗物质晕。具体地说,我们测量的角度关联函数在非常小的尺度(7 - 320 ")的亮度阈值样本的范围内(绝对r-带幅度-18至-21),从SDSS的子集,已被光谱观察一次以上(所谓的板块重叠区域)构建。我们选择在这个减少的调查足迹,以最大限度地减少纤维碰撞不完整性的影响,这是否则这些小尺度上的实质性的测量角聚类。我们使用一个完全数值的晕模型,填充暗物质晕在N体模拟,以创建逼真的模拟星系目录我们的聚类测量。该模型具有自由参数,指定其宿主晕内星系的数量和空间分布。我们采用了灵活的密度分布的卫星星系的空间分布,类似于暗物质Navarro-Frenk-White(NFW)的配置文件,除了内部的斜率是允许变化。我们发现,我们最明亮的样本(Mr <-20和-21)的角聚类表明,明亮的卫星星系有实质上比NFW更陡峭的内部密度分布。然而,较低亮度的样本限制较少,并且与具有浅密度轮廓的卫星星系一致。我们的研究结果证实了Watson et al. 2012的发现,同时使用不同的聚类测量和建模方法。

英文摘要:

We measure the angular clustering of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 in order to probe the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies within their dark matter halos. Specifically, we measure the angular correlation function on very small scales (7-320") in a range of luminosity threshold samples (absolute r-band magnitudes of -18 up to -21) that are constructed from the subset of SDSS that has been spectroscopically observed more than once (the so-called plate overlap region). We choose to measure angular clustering in this reduced survey footprint in order to minimize the effects of fiber collision incompleteness, which are otherwise substantial on these small scales. We model our clustering measurements using a fully numerical halo model that populates dark matter halos in N-body simulations to create realistic mock galaxy catalogs. The model has free parameters that specify both the number and spatial distribution of galaxies within their host halos. We adopt a flexible density profile for the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies that is similar to the dark matter Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile, except that the inner slope is allowed to vary. We find that the angular clustering of our most luminous samples (Mr< -20 and -21) suggests that luminous satellite galaxies have substantially steeper inner density profiles than NFW. Lower luminosity samples are less constraining, however, and are consistent with satellite galaxies having shallow density profiles. Our results confirm the findings of Watson et al. 2012 while using different clustering measurements and modeling methodology.

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