Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-05-31
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 387
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 15 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06217.x
McKay et al. (2002) have recently used measurements of weak galaxy-galaxy lensing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to estimate the cross correlation between galaxies and the projected dark matter density field. They derive a relation between aperture mass within a radius of $260\kpch$, $M_{260}$, and lens galaxy luminosity, that does not depend on galaxy luminosity, type or environment. In this paper, we study the cross-correlation between galaxies and dark matter using galaxy catalogs constructed from a high-resolution N-body simulation of a $\Lambda$CDM Universe. We show that our simulations reproduce the McKay et al. results reasonably well. In the simulation, $M_{260}$ is approximately equal to the halo virial mass for $L_*$ galaxies. $M_{260}$ overestimates the virial mass for fainter galaxies and underestimates it for brighter galaxies. We use the simulations to show that under certain circumstances the halo virial mass may be recovered by fitting an NFW profile to the projected galaxy-mass correlation function. If we apply our method to the observations, we find that $L_*$ galaxies typically reside in halos of $\sim 2\times 10^{12} h^{-1} \msun$, consistent with halo masses estimated from the observed Tully-Fisher relation. In the simulations, the halo virial mass scales with galaxy luminosity as $L^{1.5}$ for central galaxies in halos and for galaxies in low-density regions. For satellite galaxies, and for galaxies in high-density regions, there is no simple relation between galaxy luminosity and halo mass and care must be exercised when interpreting the lensing results.
Chu Yao-Quan
Kauffmann Guinevere
Mo Hou-Jun
Yang Xiaohu
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