Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-12
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 356 (2005) 1293-1307
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08560.x
We use the halo occupation model to calibrate galaxy group finders in magnitude-limited redshift surveys. Since, according to the current scenario of structure formation, galaxy groups are associated with cold dark matter halos, we make use of the properties of the halo population in the design of our group finder. The method starts with an assumed mass-to-light ratio to assign a tentative mass to each group. This mass is used to estimate the size and velocity dispersion of the underlying halo that hosts the group, which in turn is used to determine group membership (in redshift space). This procedure is repeated until no further changes occur in group memberships. We find that the final groups selected this way are insensitive to the mass-to-light ratio assumed. We use mock catalogues, constructed using the conditional luminosity function (CLF), to test the performance of our group finder in terms of completeness of true members and contamination by interlopers. Our group finder is more successful than the conventional Friends-of-Friends group finder in assigning galaxies in common dark matter halos to a single group. We apply our group finder to the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey and compare the resulting group properties with model predictions based on the CLF. For the $\Lambda$CDM `concordance' cosmology we find a clear discrepancy between the model and data in the sense that the model predicts too many rich groups. In order to match the observational results we have to either increase the mass-to-light ratios of rich clusters to a level significantly higher than current observational estimates, or to assume $\sigma_8 \simeq 0.7$, compared to the `concordance' value of 0.9.
Jing Yi-Peng
Mo Hou-Jun
van den Bosch Frank C.
Yang Xiaohu
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