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We develop a novel abundance matching method to construct a mock catalog of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in SDSS, using catalogs of halos and subhalos in N-body simulations for a LCDM model. Motivated by observations suggesting that LRGs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Shogo Masaki , Chiaki Hikage , Masahiro Takada , David N. Spergel , Naoshi Sugiyama

[Abridged] We use mock catalogues based on the GALICS model (Hatton et al. 03) to explore the nature of galaxy clustering observed in the SDSS. We measure low and high order angular clustering statistic from these mock catalogues, after…

(Summary) Using the conditional luminosity function (CLF) -- the luminosity distribution of galaxies in a dark matter halo -- as the fundamental building block, we present an empirical model for the galaxy distribution. The model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asantha Cooray

We review how dark matter is distributed in our local neighbourhood from an observational and theoretical perspective. We will start by describing first the dark matter halo of our own galaxy and in the Local Group. Then we proceed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman

The study of dark matter substructure through strong gravitational lensing has shown enormous promise in probing the properties of dark matter on sub-galactic scales. This approach has already been used to place strong constraints on a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Charles Gannon , Anna Nierenberg , Andrew Benson , Ryan Keeley , Xiaolong Du , Daniel Gilman

Context: Several observations of the local Universe (LU) point towards the existence of very prominent structures. The presence of massive galaxy clusters and local super clusters on the one hand, but also large local voids and…

Applying halo models to analyze the small-scale clustering of galaxies is a proven method for characterizing the connection between galaxies and their host halos. Such works are often plagued by systematic errors or are limited to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Adam O. Szewciw , Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Manodeep Sinha

We analyzed the spatial distribution of 28500 photometrically selected galaxies with AB magnitude 23.5<R<25.5 and redshift 1.4<z<3.5 in 21 fields with a total area of 0.81 square degrees. The galaxies were divided into three subsamples,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Adelberger , C. C. Steidel , M. Pettini , A. E. Shapley , N. A. Reddy , D. K. Erb

This article concerns the formation and structure of dark matter halos, including (1) their radial density profiles, (2) their abundance, and (3) their merger rates. The last topic may be relevant to the nature of the small, bright,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Primack , J. S. Bullock , A. A. Klypin , A. V. Kravtsov

We compare the properties of galaxy groups extracted from the Updated Zwicky Catalogue (UZC) with those of groups extracted from N-body simulations of the local Universe, in a LambdaCDM and a tauCDM cosmology. In the simulations, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Casagrande , A. Diaferio

We study the relationship between galaxy luminosity, color, and environment in a cosmological simulation of galaxy formation. We compare the predicted relationship with that found for SDSS galaxies and find that the model successfully…

We measure the angular clustering of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 in order to probe the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies within their dark matter halos. Specifically, we measure the angular correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-29 Jennifer A. Piscionere , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , Roman Scoccimarro

Aims: We present a new method that uses luminosity or stellar mass functions combined with clustering measurements to select samples of galaxies at different redshifts likely to follow a progenitor-to-descendant relationship. As the method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nelson Padilla , Daniel Christlein , Eric Gawiser , Danilo Marchesini

The clustering of galaxies and the matter distribution around them can be described using the halo model complemented with a realistic description of the way galaxies populate dark matter haloes. This has been used successfully to describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marcello Cacciato , Edo van Uitert , Henk Hoekstra

We develop empirical methods for modeling the galaxy population and populating cosmological N-body simulations with mock galaxies according to the observed properties of galaxies in survey data. We use these techniques to produce a new set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Brian F. Gerke , Risa H. Wechsler , Peter S. Behroozi , Michael C. Cooper , Renbin Yan , Alison L. Coil

In the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm, pure dark matter simulations predict dwarf galaxies should inhabit dark matter haloes with a centrally diverging density `cusp'. This is in conflict with observations that typically favour a…

We use cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations with the SPH code gasoline of four haloes of mass M_{200} \sim 10^{13}\Msun to study the response of the dark matter to elliptical galaxy formation. Our simulations include metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Macciò , Gregory S. Stinson , Thales A. Gutcke , Camilla Penzo , Tobias Buck

What galaxy lives in what halo? The answer to this simple question holds important information regarding galaxy formation and evolution. We describe a new statistical technique to link galaxies to their dark matter haloes, or light to mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo

We investigate the clustering properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at $z\sim6$ - $8$. Using the semi-analytical model {\scshape Meraxes} constructed as part of the Dark-ages Reionization And Galaxy-formation Observables from Numerical…