We present a model for the halo--mass correlation function that explicitly incorporates halo exclusion. We assume that halos trace mass in a way that can be described using a single scale-independent bias parameter. However, our model exhibits scale dependent biasing due to the impact of halo-exclusion, the use of a ``soft'' (i.e. not infinitely sharp) halo boundary, and differences in the one halo term contributions to $ξ_{\rm hm}$ and $ξ_{\rm mm}$. These features naturally lead us to a redefinition of the halo boundary that lies at the ``by eye'' transition radius from the one--halo to the two--halo term in the halo--mass correlation function. When adopting our proposed definition, our model succeeds in describing the halo--mass correlation function with $\approx 2\%$ residuals over the radial range $0.1\ h^{-1}{\rm Mpc} < r < 80\ h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$, and for halo masses in the range $10^{13}\ h^{-1}{\rm M}_{\odot} < M < 10^{15}\ h^{-1}{\rm M}_{\odot}$. Our proposed halo boundary is related to the splashback radius by a roughly constant multiplicative factor. Taking the 87-percentile as reference we find $r_{\rm t}/R_{\rm sp} \approx 1.3$. Surprisingly, our proposed definition results in halo abundances that are well described by the Press-Schechter mass function with $δ_{\rm sc}=1.449\pm 0.004$. The clustering bias parameter is offset from the standard background-split prediction by $\approx 10\%-15\%$. This level of agreement is comparable to that achieved with more standard halo definitions.
The Environmental Dependence of Halo Intrinsic Alignments: Stronger Signals in Underdense Regions
The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Center for Data-Driven Discovery (CD3), Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo（数据驱动发现中心 (CD3)，Kavli宇宙物理数学研究所 (WPI)，UTIAS，东京大学）；Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), The University of Tokyo（Kavli宇宙物理数学研究所 (WPI)，东京大学高级研究学院 (UTIAS)，东京大学）；Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik（马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所）
Galaxy and black hole coevolution in dark matter haloes not captured by cosmological simulations
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海天文台）；Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo（东京大学宇宙物质量子研究科 Kavli 研究所）；Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University（北京大学天体物理研究所 Kavli 研究所）；International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia（西澳大利亚大学国际射电天文研究中心）
The concentration-mass (c-M) relation encodes the key information of the assembly history of the dark matter halos, however its behavior at the high mass end has not been measured precisely in observations yet. In this paper, we report the measurement of halo c-M relation with galaxy-galaxy lensing method, using shear catalog of the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) Data Release 8, which covers a sky area of 9500 deg^2. The foreground lenses are selected from redMaPPer, LOWZ, and CMASS catalogs, with halo mass range from 10^{13} to 10^{15} M_sun and redshift range from z=0.08 to z=0.65…
The First Systematic Survey of Stellar Halos in High-Inclination Galaxies Reveals Unusually Quiescent Merger Histories of Nearby Galaxies
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias（加那利天体物理研究所）；Universidad de La Laguna（拉各拉纳大学）
Small- and Large-Scale Galactic Conformity in SDSS DR7
星系整合是指星系性质在距离上表现出比预期的更多的相关性，如果这些性质只依赖于晕质量。我们进行了全面的研究一致性在低红移使用星系群目录从SDSS DR 7光谱样本。我们研究了中央星系和它们的卫星星系（1-晕）之间的相关性，以及中央星系在单独的晕（2-晕）之间的相关性。我们使用淬火分数和显着的关联函数（MCF），探测符合三个星系的属性，$(g-r)$颜色，特定的恒星形成率（sSFR），和形态。我们评估了一套模拟星系目录，没有内置的一致性，但包含相同的组发现和质量分配错误的真实数据的一致性信号的统计意义。在1-晕一致性的情况下，淬火馏分在所有组质量显示出强信号。然而，这些信号在模拟星表中同样强烈，表明一致性信号是虚假的，可能完全是由群体发现系统学引起的，这对以前的1-halo一致性检测提出了质疑。MCF揭示了大量群体内的径向分离的显著检测，但没有一致性的证据。在2-卤素一致性的情况下，淬火馏分显示没有显着的证据一致性的颜色或sSFR一旦与模拟目录相比，但使用形态学的明确信号。相比之下，MCF揭示了低质量组和$0.8-4\ h^{-1}\textrm{Mpc}$标度中所有三种性质的小但高度显著的信号，可能代表2-晕一致性的首次稳健检测。
