Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-09
Astrophys.J.647:201-214,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages 11 figures, ApJ in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/503602
We employ high-resolution dissipationless simulations of the concordance LCDM cosmology to model the observed luminosity dependence and evolution of galaxy clustering through most of the age of the universe, from z~5 to z~0. We use a simple, non-parametric model which monotonically relates galaxy luminosities to the maximum circular velocity of dark matter halos (V_max) by preserving the observed galaxy luminosity function in order to match the halos in simulations with observed galaxies. The novel feature of the model is the use of the maximum circular velocity at the time of accretion, V_max,acc, for subhalos, the halos located within virial regions of larger halos. We argue that for subhalos in dissipationless simulations, V_max,acc reflects the luminosity and stellar mass of the associated galaxies better than the circular velocity at the epoch of observation, V_max,now. The simulations and our model L-V_max relation predict the shape, amplitude, and luminosity dependence of the two-point correlation function in excellent agreement with the observed galaxy clustering in the SDSS data at z~0 and in the DEEP2 samples at z~1 over the entire probed range of projected separations, 0.1
Conroy Charlie
Kravtsov Andrey V.
Wechsler Risa H.
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