Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-04-01
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 1302
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Section added to discuss impact of anisotropies. Otherwise few small ch
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08021.x
Using detailed mock galaxy redshift surveys we investigate to what extent the kinematics of large samples of satellites galaxies extracted from flux-limited surveys can be used to constrain halo masses. Previous host-satellite selection criteria yield relatively large fractions of interlopers and with a velocity distribution that, contrary to what has typically been assumed, differs strongly from uniform. A new adaptive selection criterion is proposed which yields much larger host-satellite samples and with strongly reduced interloper fractions. We show that satellite weighting, which occurs naturally when stacking many host-satellite pairs, introduces a bias towards higher velocity dispersions compared to the true, host-averaged mean. A further bias, in the same direction, is introduced when using flux-limited, rather than volume-limited surveys. We apply our adaptive selection criterion to the 2dFGRS and obtain a sample of 12613 satellite galaxies and 8004 host galaxies. The satellite kinematics are in excellent agreement with predictions based on the conditional luminosity function (CLF), providing independent, dynamical confirmation of the average mass-to-light ratios predicted by the CLF formalism.
Mo Hou-Jun
Norberg Peder
van den Bosch Frank C.
Yang Xiaohu
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