Issue |
A&A
Volume 646, February 2021
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Article Number | A71 | |
Number of page(s) | 28 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038119 | |
Published online | 10 February 2021 |
CFHTLenS: Galaxy bias as function of scale, stellar mass, and colour⋆
Conflicts with predictions by semi-analytic models
1
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany
e-mail: psimon@astro.uni-bonn.de
2
Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 München, Germany
3
Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
Received:
8
April
2020
Accepted:
17
November
2020
Galaxy models predict a tight relation between the clustering of galaxies and dark matter on cosmological scales, but predictions differ notably in the details. We used this opportunity and tested two semi-analytic models by the Munich and Durham groups with data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). For the test we measured the scale-dependent galaxy bias factor b(k) and correlation factor r(k) from linear to non-linear scales of k ≈ 10 h Mpc−1 at two redshifts z̄ = 0.35, 0.51 for galaxies with stellar mass between 5 × 109 and 3 × 1011 h70−2 M⊙. Our improved gravitational lensing technique accounts for the intrinsic alignment of sources and the magnification of lens galaxies for better constraints for the galaxy-matter correlation r(k). Galaxy bias in CFHTLenS increases with k and stellar mass; it is colour-dependent, revealing the individual footprints of galaxy types. Despite a reasonable model agreement for the relative change with both scale and galaxy properties, there is a clear conflict for b(k) with no model preference: the model galaxies are too weakly clustered. This may flag a model problem at z ≳ 0.3 for all stellar masses. As in the models, however, there is a high correlation r(k) between matter and galaxy density on all scales, and galaxy bias is typically consistent with a deterministic bias on linear scales. Only our blue and low-mass galaxies of about 7 × 109 h70−2 M⊙ at z̄ = 0.51 show, contrary to the models, a weak tendency towards a stochastic bias on linear scales where rls = 0.75 ± 0.14 (stat.) ± 0.06 (sys.). This result is of interest for cosmological probes, such as EG, that rely on a deterministic galaxy bias. We provide Monte Carlo realisations of posterior constraints for b(k) and r(k) in CFHTLenS for every galaxy sample in this paper at the CDS.
Key words: gravitational lensing: weak / cosmology: observations / large-scale structure of Universe / galaxies: evolution
Galaxy bias and galaxy redshift distribution functions are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/646/A71
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