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Modeling Galaxy Clustering by Color

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We extend the mass-halo formalism for analytically generating power spectra to allow for the different clustering behavior observed in galaxy sub-populations. Although applicable to other separations, we concentrate our methods on a simple separation by rest-frame color into ``red'' and ``blue'' sub-populations through modifications to the <N(M)> relations and halo distribution functions for each of the sub-populations. This sort of separation is within the capabilities of the current generations of simulations as well as galaxy surveys, suggesting a potentially powerful observational constraint for current and future simulations. In anticipation of this, we demonstrate the sensitivity of the resulting power spectra to the choice of model parameters.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0108266,
  title  = {Modeling Galaxy Clustering by Color},
  author = {Ryan Scranton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0108266},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS; minor typos corrected