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视界活动星系核星系内禀排列的红移和光度演化

Redshift and luminosity evolution of the intrinsic alignments of galaxies in Horizon-AGN

Nora Elisa Chisari, Clotilde Laigle, Sandrine Codis, Yohan Dubois, Julien Devriendt, Lance Miller, Karim Benabed, Adrianne Slyz, Raphael Gavazzi, Christophe Pichon

摘要:

在宇宙学大尺度结构中,由于潮汐相互作用或星系形成过程,可能会出现星系的内禀形状和角动量排列。宇宙流体动力学模拟作为研究这些排列及其对弱引力透镜的污染的工具,最近已经成熟。本文研究了视界活动星系核中r带绝对星等小于-20的星系在z=0和z=3之间内禀排列的红移和光度演化。在低红移和高光度下,由椭圆星系的贡献主导的径向对准过渡到在高红移和低光度下的切向对准,其中圆盘主导信号。这不能用椭圆星系和盘状星系部分的演化来解释:排列幅度的内在演化是必要的。单独的椭圆星系的排列幅度要小2倍,但在投影距离大于1 Mpc时,与当前观测和非线性潮汐排列模型中的光度和红移演化相似。圆盘的排列在投影中为零,与目前的低红移观测结果一致。这两个群体的组合产生的整体振幅的一个因素的~4低于观测到的发光的红色星系与一个陡峭的光度依赖性的路线。精确星系形状的限制意味着模拟中的星系数量只有在r波段绝对星等<-20时才是完整的。更高分辨率的模拟将是必要的,以避免外推的内在对齐预测的范围内的光度探测未来的调查。

英文摘要:

Intrinsic galaxy shape and angular momentum alignments can arise in cosmological large-scale structure due to tidal interactions or galaxy formation processes. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have recently come of age as a tool to study these alignments and their contamination to weak gravitational lensing. We probe the redshift and luminosity evolution of intrinsic alignments in Horizon-AGN between z=0 and z=3 for galaxies with an r-band absolute magnitude of <-20. Alignments transition from being radial at low redshifts and high luminosities, dominated by the contribution of ellipticals, to being tangential at high redshift and low luminosities, where discs dominate the signal. This cannot be explained by the evolution of the fraction of ellipticals and discs alone: intrinsic evolution in the amplitude of alignments is necessary. The alignment amplitude of elliptical galaxies alone is smaller in amplitude by a factor of ~2, but has similar luminosity and redshift evolution as in current observations and in the nonlinear tidal alignment model at projected separations of > 1 Mpc. Alignments of discs are null in projection and consistent with current low redshift observations. The combination of the two populations yields an overall amplitude a factor of ~4 lower than observed alignments of luminous red galaxies with a steeper luminosity dependence. The restriction on accurate galaxy shapes implies that the galaxy population in the simulation is complete only to an r-band absolute magnitude of <-20. Higher resolution simulations will be necessary to avoid extrapolation of the intrinsic alignment predictions to the range of luminosities probed by future surveys.

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