The bias field of dark matter haloes

Details The bias field of dark matter haloes The bias field of dark matter haloes

1997-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9708067v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 297 (1998) 692-712

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, LaTeX (included psfig.tex), 4 figures. Few comments and references have been added, and minor typos and errors corre

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01455.x

This paper presents a stochastic approach to the clustering evolution of dark matter haloes in the Universe. Haloes, identified by a Press-Schechter-type algorithm in Lagrangian space, are described in terms of `counting fields', acting as non-linear operators on the underlying Gaussian density fluctuations. By ensemble averaging these counting fields, the standard Press-Schechter mass function as well as analytic expressions for the halo correlation function and corresponding bias factors of linear theory are obtained, thereby extending the recent results by Mo and White. The non-linear evolution of our halo population is then followed by solving the continuity equation, under the sole hypothesis that haloes move by the action of gravity. This leads to an exact and general formula for the bias field of dark matter haloes, defined as the local ratio between their number density contrast and the mass density fluctuation. Besides being a function of position and `observation' redshift, this random field depends upon the mass and formation epoch of the objects and is both non-linear and non-local. The latter features are expected to leave a detectable imprint on the spatial clustering of galaxies, as described, for instance, by statistics like bispectrum and skewness. Our algorithm may have several interesting applications, among which the possibility of generating mock halo catalogues from low-resolution N-body simulations.

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