Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-07-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
9 Pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ Part 1 after referee's comments
Scientific paper
Observations of the clustering of galaxies can provide useful information about the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. In order to extract accurate cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys, it is important to understand how the distribution of galaxies is biased with respect to the matter distribution. The large-scale bias of galaxies can be quantified either by directly measuring the large-scale ({\lambda} >~ 60 hinv Mpc) power spectrum of galaxies or by modeling the halo occupation distribution of galaxies using their clustering on small scales ({\lambda} <~ 30 hinv Mpc). We compare the luminosity dependence of the galaxy bias (both the shape and the normalization) obtained by these methods and check for consistency. Our comparison reveals that the bias of galaxies obtained by the small scale clustering measurements is systematically larger than that obtained from the large scale power spectrum methods. We also find systematic discrepancies in the shape of the galaxy bias-luminosity relation. We comment on the origin and possible consequences of these discrepancies which had remained unnoticed thus far.
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