Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-05-30
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 410
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06174.x
We present halo model predictions for the expected angular clustering and associated errors from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric galaxy sample. These results are used to constrain halo model parameters under the assumption of a fixed LCDM cosmology using standard Fisher matrix techniques. Given the ability of the five-color SDSS photometry to separate galaxies into sub-populations by intrinsic color, we also use extensions of the standard halo model formalism to calculate the expected clustering of red and blue galaxy sub-populations as a further test of the galaxy evolution included in the semi-analytic methods for populating dark matter halos with galaxies. The extremely small sample variance and Poisson errors from the completed SDSS survey should result in very impressive constraints (~1-10%) on the halo model parameters for a simple magnitude-limited sample and should provide an extremely useful check on the behavior of current and future N-body simulations and semi-analytic techniques. We also show that similar constraints are possible using a narrow selection function, as would be possible using photometric redshifts, without making linear assumptions regarding the evolution of the underlying power spectra. In both cases, we explore the effects of uncertainty in the selection function on the resulting constraints and the degeneracies between various combinations of parameters.
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