Nonlinear stochastic biasing from the formation epoch distribution of dark halos

Details Nonlinear stochastic biasing from the formation epoch distribution of dark halos Nonlinear stochastic biasing from the formation epoch distribution of dark halos

2000-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004288v1

Astrophys.J.542:559-577,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages, 11 figures, ApJ (2000) in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/317043

We propose a physical model for nonlinear stochastic biasing of one-point statistics resulting from the formation epoch distribution of dark halos. In contrast to previous works on the basis of extensive numerical simulations, our model provides for the first time an analytic expression for the joint probability function. Specifically we derive the joint probability function of halo and mass density contrasts from the extended Press-Schechter theory. Since this function is derived in the framework of the standard gravitational instability theory assuming the random-Gaussianity of the primordial density field alone, we expect that the basic features of the nonlinear and stochastic biasing predicted from our model are fairly generic. As representative examples, we compute the various biasing parameters in cold dark matter models as a function of a redshift and a smoothing length. Our major findings are (1) the biasing of the variance evolves strongly as redshift while its scale-dependence is generally weak and a simple linear biasing model provides a reasonable approximation roughly at $R\simgt 2(1+z)\himpc$, and (2) the stochasticity exhibits moderate scale-dependence especially on $R\simlt 20\himpc$, but is almost independent of $z$. Comparison with the previous numerical simulations shows good agreement with the above behavior, indicating that the nonlinear and stochastic nature of the halo biasing is essentially understood by taking account of the distribution of the halo mass and the formation epoch.

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