Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-10-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
37pages, 20 figures, major revision, data updated to SDSS DR7, main conclusions remain unchanged
Scientific paper
We present a new model to describe the galaxy-dark matter connection across cosmic time, which unlike the popular subhalo abundance matching technique is self-consistent in that it takes account of the facts that (i) subhalos are accreted at different times, and (ii) the properties of satellite galaxies may evolve after accretion. Using observations of galaxy stellar mass functions out to $z \sim 4$, the conditional stellar mass function at $z\sim 0.1$ obtained from SDSS galaxy group catalogues, and the two-point correlation function (2PCF) of galaxies at $z \sim 0.1$ as function of stellar mass, we constrain the relation between galaxies and dark matter halos over the entire cosmic history from $z \sim 4$ to the present. This relation is then used to predict the median assembly histories of different stellar mass components within dark matter halos (central galaxies, satellite galaxies, and halo stars). We also make predictions for the 2PCFs of high-$z$ galaxies as function of stellar mass. Our main findings are the following: (i) Our model reasonably fits all data within the observational uncertainties, indicating that the $\Lambda$CDM concordance cosmology is consistent with a wide variety of data regarding the galaxy population across cosmic time. (ii) ... [abridged]
Han Jiaxin
Mo Hou-Jun
van den Bosch Frank C.
Yang Xiaohu
Zhang Youcai
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