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用成员星系光度作为星系团晕质量的代用指标

Using member galaxy luminosities as halo mass proxies of galaxy groups

Yi Lu, Xiaohu Yang, Shiyin Shen

摘要:

星系晕质量的可靠估计在宇宙学和星系形成研究中起着重要的作用。在这里,我们开始寻找方法,可以改善这些星系系统的最亮的成员星系被观察到的晕质量估计。使用四个模拟星系样本构造的半解析形成模型,subhalo丰度匹配方法和条件光度函数,分别,我们发现,最亮的和随后的最亮的成员星系之间的光度差距的晕(组)可以用来显着减少分散在晕质量估计的基础上的最亮的星系的光度单独。测试表明,这些修正可以显着减少散射的晕质量估计的$\sim 50\%$,$\sim 70\%$在大规模的晕取决于成员星系被认为是。与传统的排序方法相比,我们发现该方法更适合于小于5个成员的群体,或者具有非常明亮的震级切割的观测。

英文摘要:

Reliable halo mass estimation for a given galaxy system plays an important role both in cosmology and galaxy formation studies. Here we set out to find the way that can improve the halo mass estimation for those galaxy systems with limited brightest member galaxies been observed. Using four mock galaxy samples constructed from semi-analytical formation models, the subhalo abundance matching method and the conditional luminosity functions, respectively, we find that the luminosity gap between the brightest and the subsequent brightest member galaxies in a halo (group) can be used to significantly reduce the scatter in the halo mass estimation based on the luminosity of the brightest galaxy alone. Tests show that these corrections can significantly reduce the scatter in the halo mass estimations by $\sim 50\%$ to $\sim 70\%$ in massive halos depending on which member galaxies are considered. Comparing to the traditional ranking method, we find that this method works better for groups with less than five members, or in observations with very bright magnitude cut.

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