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星系潮汐排列

Tidal alignment of galaxies

Jonathan Blazek, Zvonimir Vlah, Uroš Seljak

摘要:

基于潮汐排列理论,建立了一个星系内禀排列的解析模型。我们计算了所有相关的非线性校正在一个循环的顺序,包括非线性密度演化,星系偏置,和源密度加权的影响。密度加权的贡献被发现是特别重要的,并导致IA振幅的偏置依赖性,即使在大尺度上。这种效应可能是负责IA观测中的光度依赖性。IA振幅的增加,更高度偏置的星系反映了它们的位置在大潮汐场的地区。我们还考虑了平滑潮汐场对晕尺度的影响。我们比较了这种一致的非线性模型在描述所观察到的发光的红色星系的线性模型,以及经常使用的“非线性对准模型”的性能,发现一个显着的改善小,中尺度。我们还表明,密度和IA(“GI”项)之间的互相关可以有效地分离成源对齐和源聚类,我们准确地建模所观察到的对齐到一个晕制度使用潮汐场从完全非线性的晕物质互相关。在一个光环制度,密度示踪剂的星系的平均对齐不再遵循潮汐对齐预测,可能反映了非线性过程,必须考虑在这些尺度上建模IA。最后,我们讨论了宇宙剪切测量的背景下,潮汐对齐。

英文摘要:

We develop an analytic model for galaxy intrinsic alignments (IA) based on the theory of tidal alignment. We calculate all relevant nonlinear corrections at one-loop order, including effects from nonlinear density evolution, galaxy biasing, and source density weighting. Contributions from density weighting are found to be particularly important and lead to bias dependence of the IA amplitude, even on large scales. This effect may be responsible for much of the luminosity dependence in IA observations. The increase in IA amplitude for more highly biased galaxies reflects their locations in regions with large tidal fields. We also consider the impact of smoothing the tidal field on halo scales. We compare the performance of this consistent nonlinear model in describing the observed alignment of luminous red galaxies with the linear model as well as the frequently used "nonlinear alignment model," finding a significant improvement on small and intermediate scales. We also show that the cross-correlation between density and IA (the "GI" term) can be effectively separated into source alignment and source clustering, and we accurately model the observed alignment down to the one-halo regime using the tidal field from the fully nonlinear halo-matter cross correlation. Inside the one-halo regime, the average alignment of galaxies with density tracers no longer follows the tidal alignment prediction, likely reflecting nonlinear processes that must be considered when modeling IA on these scales. Finally, we discuss tidal alignment in the context of cosmic shear measurements.

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