Published May 11, 2015 | Version Accepted Version
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The galaxy-halo connection from a joint lensing, clustering and abundance analysis in the CFHTLenS/VIPERS field

  • 1. ROR icon University of Geneva
  • 2. ROR icon Aix-Marseille University
  • 3. ROR icon University of British Columbia
  • 4. ROR icon University of Bonn
  • 5. ROR icon Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
  • 6. ROR icon Brera Astronomical Observatory
  • 7. ROR icon University of Milano-Bicocca
  • 8. ROR icon University of Edinburgh
  • 9. ROR icon Leiden University
  • 10. ROR icon CEA Saclay
  • 11. ROR icon University College London
  • 12. ROR icon Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
  • 13. ROR icon Sorbonne University
  • 14. ROR icon University of Oxford
  • 15. ROR icon Institute for High Energy Physics
  • 16. ROR icon Roma Tre University
  • 17. ROR icon INFN Sezione di Roma III
  • 18. ROR icon Astronomical Observatory of Rome
  • 19. ROR icon University of Bologna
  • 20. ROR icon Trieste Astronomical Observatory
  • 21. ROR icon Shanghai Normal University
  • 22. ROR icon University of Waterloo
  • 23. ROR icon Perimeter Institute
  • 24. ROR icon Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
  • 25. ROR icon INFN Sezione di Bologna

Abstract

We present new constraints on the relationship between galaxies and their host dark matter haloes, measured from the location of the peak of the stellar-to-halo mass ratio (SHMR), up to the most massive galaxy clusters at redshift z ∼ 0.8 and over a volume of nearly 0.1 Gpc3. We use a unique combination of deep observations in the CFHTLenS/VIPERS field from the near-UV to the near-IR, supplemented by ∼60 000 secure spectroscopic redshifts, analysing galaxy clustering, galaxy–galaxy lensing and the stellar mass function. We interpret our measurements within the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework, separating the contributions from central and satellite galaxies. We find that the SHMR for the central galaxies peaks at Mh,peak=1.9+0.2−0.1×1012M⊙ Mh,peak=1.9−0.1+0.2×1012M⊙ with an amplitude of 0.025, which decreases to ∼0.001 for massive haloes ( Mh>1014M⊙ Mh>1014M⊙ ). Compared to central galaxies only, the total SHMR (including satellites) is boosted by a factor of 10 in the high-mass regime (cluster-size haloes), a result consistent with cluster analyses from the literature based on fully independent methods. After properly accounting for differences in modelling, we have compared our results with a large number of results from the literature up to z = 1: we find good general agreement, independently of the method used, within the typical stellar-mass systematic errors at low to intermediate mass ( M⋆<1011M⊙ M⋆<1011M⊙ ) and the statistical errors above. We have also compared our SHMR results to semi-analytic simulations and found that the SHMR is tilted compared to our measurements in such a way that they over- (under-) predict star formation efficiency in central (satellite) galaxies.

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