The Three-point Correlation Function of Galaxies: Comparing Halo Occupation Models with Observations

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2004-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404143v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 353 (2004) 287

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 13 figures. 1 figure added, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08141.x

We present models for the three-point correlation function (3PCF) of both dark matter and galaxies. We show that models based on the halo model can reasonably match the dark matter 3PCF obtained from high-resolution $N$-body simulations. On small scales ($r\la 0.5\mpch$) the 3PCF is sensitive to details regarding the density distributions of dark matter haloes. On larger scales ($r \ga 2.0\mpch$) the results are very sensitive to the abundance of the few most prominant haloes. Using the conditional luminosity function, we also construct models for the 3PCF of galaxies, which we test against large mock galaxy samples. The bias of the galaxy distrubution with respect to the dark matter, and the finite number of galaxies that can be hosted by individual haloes, significantly reduce the normalized three-point correlation function with respect to that of dark matter. Contrary to the 3PCF of the dark matter, the galaxy 3PCF is much less sensitive to details regarding the spatial number density distribution of galaxies in individual haloes or to the abundance of the few most massive systems. Finally, we show that our model based on the conditional luminosity function is in good agreement with results obtained from the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey. In particular, the model nicely reproduces the observational finding that the 3PCF for early-type galaxies is slightly higher than that of late-type galaxies, and that there is no significant dependence of the 3PCF on galaxy luminosity.

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