Clustering of Galaxies in a Hierarchical Universe: I. Methods and Results at z=0

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1998-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805283v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

43 pages, Latex, 16 figures included, 2 additional GIF format figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02202.x

We introduce a new technique for following the formation and evolution of galaxies in cosmological N-body simulations. Dissipationless simulations are used to track the formation and merging of dark matter halos as a function of redshift. Simple prescriptions, taken directly from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation, are adopted for cooling, star formation, supernova feedback and the merging of galaxies within the halos. This scheme enables us to study the clustering properties of galaxies and to investigate how selection by type, colour or luminosity influences the results. In this paper, we study properties of the galaxy distribution at z=0. These include luminosity functions, colours, correlation functions, pairwise peculiar velocities, cluster M/L ratios and star formation rates. We focus on two variants of a CDM cosmology: a high- density model with Gamma=0.21 (TCDM) and a low-density model with Omega=0.3 and Lambda=0.7 (LCDM). Both are normalized to reproduce the I-band Tully-Fisher relation near a circular velocity of 220 km/s. Our results depend strongly both on this normalization and on the prescriptions for star formation and feedback. Very different assumptions are required to obtain an acceptable model in the two cases. For TCDM, efficient feedback is required to suppress the growth of galaxies low-mass field halos. Without it, there are too many galaxies and the correlation function turns over below 1 Mpc. For LCDM, feedback must be weak, otherwise too few L* galaxies are produced and the correlation function is too steep. Given the uncertainties in modelling some of the key physical processes, we conclude that it is not yet possible to draw conclusions about the values of cosmological parameters from studies of this kind. Further work on global star formation and feedback effects is required to narrow the range of possibilities

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