A Test of Correspondence Model with the HorizonRun 4 Simulation

  • Park, Jisook (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kim, Juhan (Center for Advanced Computation, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Park, Changbom (School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Kim, Sungsoo S. (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2015.04.10

Abstract

'The one to one correspondence model' defines the relation between a dark matter halo (DM halo) and a galaxy. A basic assumption of this model is that a more massive DM subhalo hosts a brighter galaxy. In a more improved version of the model we may be able to assign a mock galaxy with a morphological type. In this study, we are building a mock galaxy catalog using massive halo merging trees from the Horizon Run 4. We test various merging models to calculate the merging time scale of a subhalo along its merging tree. And we obtain the halo mass functions for major subhalos and satellite subhalos, separately, and compare them with the observed luminosity functions of major galaxies and satellite galaxies from the SDSS group catalog. Furthermore, we are going to make a range of mock galaxy catalogs and investigate their properties, such as spatial distributions, environmental effects, and morphologies.

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