Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-21
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:1869-1879,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 9 figures; accepted for publication in Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.; low resolution figures submitted here. A pdf fil
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10437.x
Using the conditional luminosity function (CLF) -- the luminosity distribution of galaxies in a dark matter halo -- as a way to model galaxy statistics, we study how z=4 Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) are distributed in dark matter halos. For this purpose, we measure luminosity-dependent clustering of LBGs in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field by separating a sample of 16,920 galaxies to three magnitude bins in i'-band between 24.5 and 27.5. Our models fits to data show a possible trend for more luminous galaxies to appear as satellites in more massive halos. The satellite fraction of galaxies at z=4 in these magnitude bins is 0.13 to 0.3, 0.09 to 0.22, and 0.03 to 0.14, respectively, where the 1 sigma ranges account for differences coming from two different estimates of the z=4 LF from the literature. To jointly explain the LF and the large-scale linear bias factor of z=4 LBGs as a function of rest-UV luminosity requires central galaxies to be brighter in UV at z =4 than present-day galaxies in same dark matter mass halos. Moreover, UV luminosity of central galaxies in halos with total mass greater than roughly 10^{12} M_sun must decrease from z=4 to today by an amount more than the luminosity change for galaxies in halos below this mass. This mass-dependent luminosity evolution is preferred at more than 3 sigma confidence level compared to a pure-luminosity evolution scenario where all galaxies decrease in luminosity by the same amount from z=4 to today. The scenario preferred by the data is consistent with the ``down-sizing'' picture of galaxy evolution.
Cooray Asantha
Ouchi Masami
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