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z=0时光环历史与星系特性的比较II:大尺度星系整合

Halo Histories vs. Galaxy Properties at z=0 II: Large-Scale Galactic Conformity

Jeremy L. Tinker, ChangHoon Hahn, Yao-Yuan Mao, Andrew R. Wetzel, Charlie Conroy

摘要:

利用SDSS DR 7的群星表,我们试图测量银河系在本地宇宙的整合。我们测量孤立的主星系周围的邻近星系的淬灭分数,将孤立的样本分为恒星形成和静止的对象。我们限制我们的测量尺度$>1$ Mpc探测不同的晕形成历史之间的相关性。在恒星质量范围$10^{9.7} \le M_\ast/M_\odot \le 10^{10.9}$,我们发现最小的统计证据一致。我们进一步比较这些数据的晕年龄匹配模型的预测,其中最古老的星系与最古老的晕在固定的$M_\ast$。对于晕和恒星年龄之间有很强相关性的模型,一致性信号太大,与数据不一致。对于较弱的年龄匹配的实现,银河系的一致性是不是一个敏感的诊断晕组装偏差,并不会产生可检测的信号在SDSS数据。我们重现了考夫曼等人2013年的结果,其中当主星系本身是低恒星形成者时,邻近星系的恒星形成率在主星系周围显着降低。然而,我们发现这一结果主要是由隔离标准中的污染驱动的,当使用我们的群目录去除样本中的一小部分卫星星系时,一致性信号基本上消失了。最后,我们表明,小的一致性信号,即,2-5%的差异,在淬火分数的邻居星系,可以产生的机制以外的晕组装的偏见。例如,如果被动星系比相同恒星质量的恒星形成星系占据更多的质量晕,则可以产生与PRIMUS(Berti et al 2016)最近测量一致的一致性信号。

英文摘要:

Using group catalogs from the SDSS DR7, we attempt to measure galactic conformity in the local universe. We measure the quenched fraction of neighbor galaxies around isolated primary galaxies, dividing the isolated sample into star-forming and quiescent objects. We restrict our measurements to scales $>1$ Mpc to probe the correlations between the formation histories of distinct halos. Over the stellar mass range $10^{9.7} \le M_\ast/M_\odot \le 10^{10.9}$, we find minimal statistical evidence for conformity. We further compare these data to predictions of the halo age-matching model, in which the oldest galaxies are associated with the oldest halos at fixed $M_\ast$. For models with strong correlations between halo and stellar age, the conformity signal is too large to be consistent with the data. For weaker implementations of age-matching, galactic conformity is not a sensitive diagnostic of halo assembly bias, and would not produce a detectable signal in SDSS data. We reproduce the results of Kauffmann et al 2013, in which the star formation rates of neighbor galaxies are significantly reduced around primary galaxies when the primaries are themselves low star formers. However, we find this result is mainly driven by contamination in the isolation criterion, when using our group catalog to remove the small fraction of satellite galaxies in the sample, the conformity signal largely goes away. Lastly, we show that small conformity signals, i.e., 2-5% differences in the quenched fractions of neighbor galaxies, can be produced by mechanisms other than halo assembly bias. For example, if passive galaxies occupy more massive halos than star forming galaxies of the same stellar mass, a conformity signal that is consistent with recent measurements from PRIMUS (Berti et al 2016) can be produced.

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