Halo-model signatures from 380,000 SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies with photometric redshifts

Details Halo-model signatures from 380,000 SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies with photometric redshifts Halo-model signatures from 380,000 SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies with photometric redshifts

2007-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3377v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.385:1257-1269,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 figures, corrections made to modeling resulting in changes to numerical results but not conclusions

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11925.x

We analyze the small-scale clustering in "MegaZ-LRG", a large photometric-redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies extracted from the imaging dataset of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. MegaZ-LRG, presented in a companion paper, spans the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with an r.m.s. redshift error dz ~ 0.03(1+z), covering 5,914 deg^2 to map out a total cosmic volume 2.5 h^-3 Gpc^3. In this study we use 380,000 photometric redshifts to measure significant deviations from the canonical power-law fit to the angular correlation function in a series of narrow redshift slices, in which we construct volume-limited samples. These deviations are direct signatures of the manner in which these galaxies populate the underlying network of dark matter haloes. We cleanly delineate the separate contributions of the "1-halo" and "2-halo" clustering terms and fit our measurements by parameterizing the halo occupation distribution N(M) of the galaxies. Our results are successfully fit by a "central" galaxy contribution with a "soft" transition from zero to one galaxies, combined with a power-law "satellite" galaxy component, the slope of which is a strong function of galaxy luminosity. The large majority of galaxies are classified as central objects of their host dark matter haloes rather than satellites in more massive systems. The effective halo mass of MegaZ-LRG galaxies lies in the range log_10 (M_eff / h^-1 M_sol) = 13.61 - 13.8 (increasing with redshift, assuming large-scale normalization sigma_8 = 0.8) for corresponding number densities in the range n_g = 5.03 - 0.56 x 10^-4 h^3 Mpc^-3. Our results confirm the usefulness of the halo model for gaining physical insight into the patterns of galaxy clustering.

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