Galaxy Formation and Large-Scale Bias

Details Galaxy Formation and Large-Scale Bias Galaxy Formation and Large-Scale Bias

1995-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9512009v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 286 (1997) 795-811

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

29 pages, uuencoded postscript file, 15 figures, 12 figures included, submitted to MNRAS, complete version available at http

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We outline a simple approach to understanding the physical origin of bias in the distribution of galaxies relative to that of dark matter. The first step is to specify how collapsed, virialized halos of dark matter trace the overall matter distribution. The next step is to make a connection between halos and the luminous galaxies we observe. We appeal to the results of semi-analytic models of galaxy formation that are tuned to fit the observed luminosity functions of local groups and clusters. We have also used a high-resolution N-body simulation of a cold dark matter (CDM) universe to study the bias relation in more detail. The differences between the galaxy and dark matter distributions are quantified using a number of different clustering statistics. We arrive at the following general conclusions: 1) A comparison of the galaxy and dark matter density fields shows that linear biasing is a good description on large scales. 2) The bias factor b depends on the shape and normalization of the power spectrum. The lower the normalization, the larger the bias. More bias is obtained for spectra with more power on large scales. For "realistic" models, b ranges from 1 to 2.5. 3) Galaxies of different luminosity or morphology have different bias factors. 4) The scale dependence of the bias factor is weak.

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