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论本域宇宙中大尺度星系整合的证据

On the evidence for large-scale galactic conformity in the local Universe

Larry P. T. Sin, Simon J. Lilly, Bruno M. B. Henriques

摘要:

我们重新审视了Kauffmann et al.(2013)中提出的本地宇宙中大尺度(4 Mpc)星系整合的观测证据。我们发现,他们的分析的方法的一些功能的行为产生一个误导性的高振幅的一致性信号。这些包括在非常高密度的区域中有利于中心星系的权重,在相同的高密度区域中可能将卫星星系误分类为中心星系,以及使用中位数来表征双峰分布。我们表明,在考夫曼等人的大尺度一致性信号。显然,起源于一个非常小的中央星系在附近的几个非常大的集群,其效果是强烈放大的方法问题,我们已经确定。其中一些“中心”可能是错误分类的卫星,但有些可能是真正的中心,显示出真正的整合效应。无论如何,这一分析表明,在4 Mpc尺度上的一致性最好被视为与这些非常大的邻近晕相关的相对短程效应(维里半径),而不是与分析中名义上的中央星系相对低质量的晕相关的非常长程效应(维里半径为数十)。一个模拟目录从最近的半解析模型构建显示非常相似的整合效果的数据时,以同样的方式进行分析,这表明没有必要引入新的物理过程来解释银河系的整合4百万秒差距尺度。

英文摘要:

We re-examine the observational evidence for large-scale (4 Mpc) galactic conformity in the local Universe, as presented in Kauffmann et al. (2013). We show that a number of methodological features of their analysis act to produce a misleadingly high amplitude of the conformity signal. These include a weighting in favour of central galaxies in very high-density regions, the likely misclassification of satellite galaxies as centrals in the same high-density regions, and the use of medians to characterize bimodal distributions. We show that the large-scale conformity signal in Kauffmann et al. clearly originates from a very small number of central galaxies in the vicinity of just a few very massive clusters, whose effect is strongly amplified by the methodological issues that we have identified. Some of these 'centrals' are likely misclassified satellites, but some may be genuine centrals showing a real conformity effect. Regardless, this analysis suggests that conformity on 4 Mpc scales is best viewed as a relatively short-range effect (at the virial radius) associated with these very large neighbouring haloes, rather than a very long-range effect (at tens of virial radii) associated with the relatively low-mass haloes that host the nominal central galaxies in the analysis. A mock catalogue constructed from a recent semi-analytic model shows very similar conformity effects to the data when analysed in the same way, suggesting that there is no need to introduce new physical processes to explain galactic conformity on 4 Mpc scales.

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