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Using the cosmological hydrodynamics simulation Horizon-AGN, we investigate the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies relative to their central counterpart in the redshift range between 0.3 and 0.8. We find that, on average, these…

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We study satellite galaxy abundances in SDSS by counting photometric galaxies around isolated bright primaries. We present results as a function of the luminosity, stellar mass and colour of the satellites, and of the stellar mass and…

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In this study, galaxy samples have been generated using mock observation techniques based on the results of TNG100-1 simulations to investigate three forms of intrinsic alignment: satellite-central alignment between the orientation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanyao Lan , Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Junyu Gong

The alignment between satellite and central galaxies serves as a proxy for addressing the issue of galaxy formation and evolution and has been investigated abundantly in observations and theoretical works. Most scenarios indicate that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-11 Mingge Zhang , Yang Wang

The standard cosmological model based on cold dark matter (CDM) predicts a large number of subhalos for each galaxy-size halo. It is well known that matching the subhalos to the observed properties of luminous satellites of galaxies in the…

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Satellite galaxies in rich clusters are subject to numerous physical processes that can significantly influence their evolution. However, the typical L* satellite galaxy resides in much lower mass galaxy groups, where the processes capable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Douglas F. Watson , Charlie Conroy

We compare the stellar masses of central and satellite galaxies predicted by three independent semianalytical models with observational results obtained from a large galaxy group catalogue constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Lei Liu , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Volker Springel

We characterize the luminosity distribution, halo mass dependence, and redshift evolution of red galaxies in galaxy clusters using the SDSS Data Release 8 RedMaPPer cluster sample. We propose a simple prescription for the relationship…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-30 Chun-Hao To , Rachel M. Reddick , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Risa H. Wechsler

We develop a new empirical methodology to study the relation between the stellar mass of galaxies and the mass of their host subhaloes. Our approach is similar to abundance matching, and is based on assigning a stellar mass to each subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Eyal Neistein , Cheng Li , Sadegh Khochfar , Simone M. Weinmann , Francesco Shankar , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Using a sample of galaxy groups found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4, we measure the following four types of alignment signals: (1) the alignment between the distributions of the satellites of each group relative to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Yougang Wang , Changbom Park , Xiaohu Yang , Yun-Young Choi , Xuelei Chen

The anisotropic distribution of satellites around the central galaxy of their host halo is well-documented. However the relative impact of baryons and dark matter in shaping this distribution is still debated. Using the simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-22 Charlotte Welker , Chris Power , Christophe Pichon , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Sandrine Codis

As demonstrated in Paper I, the quenching properties of central and satellite galaxies are quite similar as long as both stellar mass and halo mass are controlled. Here we extend the analysis to the size and bulge-to-total light ratio (B/T)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Enci Wang , Huiyuan Wang , Houjun Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang

Using a large galaxy group catalogue based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 we measure three different types of intrinsic galaxy alignment within groups: halo alignment between the orientation of the brightest group galaxies…

We use a SDSS galaxy group catalogue to study the dependence of galaxy activity on stellar mass, halo mass, and group hierarchy (centrals vs. satellites). We split our galaxy sample in star-forming galaxies, galaxies with optical AGN…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna Pasquali , Frank C. van den Bosch , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Rachel Somerville

Observations suggest that red central galaxies align closely with their group galaxies and the large-scale environment.This finding was also replicated in simulations, which added information about the alignment of the stars that form the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , M. Celeste Artale

Using a large galaxy group catalogue constructed from the SDSS, we investigate the correlation between various galaxy properties and halo mass. We split the population of galaxies in early types, late types, and intermediate types, based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Simone M. Weinmann , Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo

We infer the local stellar-to-halo/subhalo mass relations (MRs) for central and satellite galaxies separately. We constraint this relations by using several combinations of observational data, consisting of the total galaxy stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Rodriguez-Puebla , V. Avila-Reese , N. Drory

Using a sample of galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we examine the alignment between the orientation of galaxies and their surrounding large scale structure in the context of the cosmic web.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-05 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Lei Wang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

Investigations of intrinsic alignments suggest a link between the alignment of a central galaxy's major axis with the galaxy distribution and its internal galaxy-halo shape alignment. In contrast, blue central galaxies typically exhibit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Agustina V. Marsengo-Colazo , Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán

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…