2013

Impacts of satellite galaxies on the redshift-space distortions

Hikage, Chiaki, Yamamoto, Kazuhiro

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We study the impacts of the satellite galaxies on the redshift-space distortions.

  • In our multipole power spectrum analysis of the luminous red galaxies (LRGs) samples of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we have clearly detected the non-zero signature of the hexadecapole and tetrahexadecapole spectrum, which almost disappears in the power spectrum with the sample of the brightest LRGs only.
  • We thus demonstrate that the satellite LRGs in multiple systems make a significant contribution to the multipole power spectrum though its fraction is small.
  • The behavior can be understood by a simple halo model, in which the one-halo term, describing the Finger of God (FoG) effect from the satellite galaxies, makes the dominant contribution to the higher multipole spectra.

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