Galactic angular momenta and angular momentum couplings in the large-scale structure

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2011-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1101.4584v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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In this paper, we revisit the aquisition of angular momentum of galaxies by tidal shearing and compute the angular momentum variance sigma_L^2 as well as the angular momentum correlation function C_L(r) from a peak-restricted Gaussian random process. This stochastic process describing the initial conditions treats both the tidal shear as well as the inertia as dynamical fields and explicitly accounts for the discreteness of the inertia field. We describe the way in which the correlations in angular momentum result from an interplay of long-ranged correlations in the tidal shear, and short ranged correlations in the inertia field and which reflects the correlation between the eigensystems of these two symmetric tensors. We propose a new form of the angular momentum correlation function which is able to distinguish between parallel and antiparallel alignment of angular momentum vectors, and comment on implications of intrinsic alignments for weak lensing measurements. We confirm the scaling L/M propto. M^{2/3} and find the angular momentum distribution of Milky Way-sized haloes to be correlated on scales of ~1 Mpc/h. The correlation function can be well fitted by an empirical relation of the form C_L(r) propto. exp(-[r/r_0]^beta).

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