The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection: A Cosmological Perspective

Details The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection: A Cosmological Perspective The Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection: A Cosmological Perspective

2012-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/1204.0786v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

8 Pages, 2 figures, A shorter version will be submitted to the proceedings of the International Conference on Gravitation and

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We present a method that uses observations of galaxies to simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters and the galaxy-dark matter connection (aka halo occupation statistics). The latter describes how galaxies are distributed over dark matter haloes, and is an imprint of the poorly understood physics of galaxy formation. A generic problem of using galaxies to constrain cosmology is that galaxies are a biased tracer of the mass distribution, and this bias is generally unknown. The great advantage of simultaneously constraining cosmology and halo occupation statistics is that this effectively allows cosmological constraints marginalized over the uncertainties regarding galaxy bias. Not only that, it also yields constraints on the galaxy-dark matter connection, this time properly marginalized over cosmology, which is of great value to inform theoretical models of galaxy formation. We use a combination of the analytical halo model and the conditional luminosity function to describe the galaxy-dark matter connection, which we use to model the abundance, clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing properties of the galaxy population. We use a Fisher matrix analysis to gauge the complementarity of these different observables, and present some preliminary results from an analysis based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our results are complementary to and perfectly consistent with the results from the 7 year data release of the WMAP mission, strengthening the case for a true 'concordance' cosmology.

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