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The Galaxy Halo Connection in Modified Gravity Cosmologies: Environment Dependence of Galaxy Luminosity function

Devi, N. Chandrachani; Rodríguez-Puebla, Aldo; Valenzuela, O.; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Hernández-Aguayo, César; Li, Baojiu

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Authors

N. Chandrachani Devi

Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla

O. Valenzuela

Vladimir Avila-Reese

César Hernández-Aguayo



Abstract

We investigate the dependence of the galaxy–halo connection and galaxy density field in modified gravity models using the N-body simulations for f(R) and nDGP models at z = 0. Because of the screening mechanisms employed by these models, chameleon and Vainshtein, haloes are clustered differently in the non-linear regime of structure formation. We quantify their deviations in the galaxy density field from the standard Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model under different environments. We populate galaxies in haloes via the (sub)halo abundance matching. Our main results are as follows: (1) The galaxy–halo connection strongly depends on the gravity model; a maximum variation of ∼40 per cent is observed between halo occupational distribution (HOD) parameters; (2) f(R) gravity models predict an excess of galaxies in low-density environments of ∼10 per cent but predict a deficit of ∼10 per cent at high-density environments for |fR0| = 10−4 and 10−6 while |fR0| = 10−5 predicts more high-density structures; nDGP models are consistent with ΛCDM; (3) different gravity models predict different dependences of the galaxy luminosity function (GLF) with the environment, especially in void-like regions we find differences around ∼10 per cent for the f(R) models while nDPG models remain closer to ΛCDM for low-luminosity galaxies but there is a deficit of ∼11 per cent for high-luminosity galaxies in all environments. We conclude that the dependence of the GLF with environment might provide a test to distinguish between gravity models and their screening mechanisms from the ΛCDM. We provide HOD parameters for the gravity models analysed in this paper.

Citation

Devi, N. C., Rodríguez-Puebla, A., Valenzuela, O., Avila-Reese, V., Hernández-Aguayo, C., & Li, B. (2019). The Galaxy Halo Connection in Modified Gravity Cosmologies: Environment Dependence of Galaxy Luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(1), 782-802. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1664

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 10, 2019
Online Publication Date Jun 16, 2019
Publication Date Sep 30, 2019
Deposit Date Jun 17, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jul 16, 2019
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 488
Issue 1
Pages 782-802
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1664
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1294246
Related Public URLs https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02121

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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.






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