Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-09
Astrophys.J.734:88,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
38 pages, 12 figures, published in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/734/2/88
We develop a new method which measures the projected density distribution w_p(r_p)n of photometric galaxies surrounding a set of spectroscopically-identified galaxies, and simultaneously the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) between the two populations. In this method we are able to divide the photometric galaxies into subsamples in luminosity intervals when redshift information is unavailable, enabling us to measure w_p(r_p)n and w_p(r_p) as a function of not only the luminosity of the spectroscopic galaxy, but also that of the photometric galaxy. Extensive tests show that our method can measure w_p(r_p) in a statistically unbiased way. The accuracy of the measurement depends on the validity of the assumption in the method that the foreground/background galaxies are randomly distributed and thus uncorrelated with those galaxies of interest. Therefore, our method can be applied to the cases where foreground/background galaxies are distributed in large volumes, which is usually valid in real observations. We applied our method to data from SDSS including a sample of 10^5 LRGs at z~0.4 and a sample of about half a million galaxies at z~0.1, both of which are cross-correlated with a deep photometric sample drawn from the SDSS. On large scales, the relative bias factor of galaxies measured from w_p(r_p) at z~0.4 depends on luminosity in a manner similar to what is found at z~0.1, which are usually probed by autocorrelations of spectroscopic samples. On scales smaller than a few Mpc and at both z~0.4 and z~0.1, the photometric galaxies of different luminosities exhibit similar density profiles around spectroscopic galaxies at fixed luminosity and redshift. This provides clear support for the assumption commonly-adopted in HOD models that satellite galaxies of different luminosities are distributed in a similar way, following the dark matter distribution within their host halos.
Han Jiaxin
Jing Yi-Peng
Li Cheng
Okumura Teppei
Wang Wenting
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