Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-04-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
12 pages, 11 figures, ApJ in press, Full resolution preprint available at this http URL (http://astro.kias.re.kr/~kjhan/0904Po
Scientific paper
We extend the concept of galaxy environment from the local galaxy number density to the gravitational potential and its functions like the shear tensor. For this purpose we examine whether or not one can make an accurate estimation of the gravitational potential from an observational sample which is finite in volume, biased due to galaxy biasing, and subject to redshift space distortion. Dark halos in a $\Lambda$CDM simulation are used in this test. We find that one needs to stay away from the sample boundaries by more than 30$h^{-1}$Mpc to reduce the error within 20% of the root mean square values of the potential or the shear tensor. The error due to the galaxy biasing can be significantly reduced by using the galaxy mass density field instead of the galaxy number density field. The error caused by the redshift space distortion can be effectively removed by correcting galaxy positions for the peculiar velocity effects. We inspect the dependence of dark matter halo properties on four environmental parameters; local density, gravitational potential, and the ellipticity and prolateness of the shear tensor. We find the local density has the strongest correlation with halo properties. This is evidence that the internal physical properties of dark halos are mainly controlled by small-scale physics. In high density regions dark halos are on average more massive and spherical, and have higher spin parameter and velocity dispersion. In high density regions dark halos are on average more massive and spherical, and have higher spin parameter and velocity dispersion. We also study the relation between the environmental parameters and the subtypes of dark halos. The spin parameter of satellite halos depends only weakly on the local density for all mass ranges studied while that of isloated or central halos depends more sensitively on the local density. (abridged)
Kim Juhan
Park Changbom
Park Hyunbae
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