2013

Galaxy Assembly Bias: A Significant Source of Systematic Error in the Galaxy-Halo Relationship

Zentner, Andrew R., Hearin, Andrew P., Bosch, Frank C. van den

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It is common practice for methods that use galaxy clustering to constrain the galaxy-halo relationship, such as the halo occupation distribution (HOD) and/or conditional luminosity function (CLF), to assume that halo mass alone suffices to determine a halo's resident galaxy population.

Yet, the clustering strength of cold dark matter halos depends upon halo properties in addition to mass, such as formation time, an effect referred to as assembly bias.
If galaxy characteristics are correlated with any of these auxiliary halo properties, the basic assumption of HOD/CLF methods is violated.
We estimate the potential for assembly bias to induce systematic errors in inferred halo occupation statistics.

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