The Physical Origin of Scale Dependent Bias in Cosmological Simulations

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1998-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807029v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

38 pages of text and figures; accepted by ApJ; revised text

Scientific paper

10.1086/307660

Using large-scale hydrodynamic simulations with heuristic criteria for galaxy formation, we investigate how the galaxy field is related to the mass density and the gas temperature. We find that the bias b(R) = sigma_g(R)/sigma(R), where sigma_g(R) is the variance of galaxy counts in spheres of radius R and sigma(R) is the same for mass, varies from 2.6 at 1 h^{-1} Mpc to 1.2 at 30 h^{-1} Mpc. Including the dependence of the galaxy density on local gas temperature as well as on local mass density can fully account for this scale dependence. Galaxy density depends on temperature because gas which is too hot cannot cool to form galaxies; this causes scale dependence of b(R) because local gas temperature is related to the gravitational potential, and thus contains information about the large scale density field. We show that temperature dependence generally causes b(R) to vary on quasilinear and nonlinear scales, indicating that scale dependence of bias may be a generic effect in realistic galaxy formation scenarios. We find that the relationship between the galaxy and mass density fields is also a function of galaxy age. On large scales, the older galaxies are highly biased (b ~ 1.7) and highly correlated (r ~ 1.0) with the mass density field; younger galaxies are not biased (b ~ 0.8) and are poorly correlated (r ~ 0.5) with the mass. We argue that linear bias is inadequate to describe the relationship between galaxies and mass. (Abridged)

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