A New Stellar Mass Proxy for Subhalo Abundance Matching
Abstract Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) has played an important role in improving our understanding of how galaxies populate their host dark matter halos. In essence, the SHAM framework is to find a dark matter halo property that best correlates with an attribute of galaxies, such as stellar mass...
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| Published in: | The Astrophysical journal 2023-02, Vol.944 (2), p.207 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Abstract Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) has played an important role in improving our understanding of how galaxies populate their host dark matter halos. In essence, the SHAM framework is to find a dark matter halo property that best correlates with an attribute of galaxies, such as stellar mass. The peak value of the maximum circular velocity ( V max ) a halo/subhalo has ever attained throughout its lifetime, V peak , has been a popular choice for SHAM. A recent study by Tonnesen & Ostriker suggested that quantity ϕ , which combines the present-day V max and the peak value of halo dark matter mass, performs better in predicting stellar mass than V peak . Inspired by their approach, in this work, we find that further improvement can be achieved by a quantity ψ 5 that combines the 90th percentile of V max a halo/subhalo has ever achieved with the 60th percentile of the dark matter halo time variation rate. Tests based on the simulation TNG300 of the IllustrisTNG project show that our new SHAM scheme, with just three free parameters, can improve the stellar mass prediction and mass-dependent clustering by 15% and 18% from ϕ , respectively, over the redshift range z = 0–2. |
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| ISSN: | 0004-637X 1538-4357 |