Dependence of GAMA galaxy halo masses on the cosmic web environment from 100 deg2 of KiDS weak lensing data

Brouwer, M.M.; Cacciato, M.; Dvornik, A.; Eardley, L.; Heymans, C.; Hoekstra, H.; Kuijken, K.; McNaught-Roberts, T.; Sifón, C.; Viola, M.; Alpaslan, M.; Bilicki, M.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Brough, S.; Choi, A.; Driver, S.P.; Erben, T.; Grado, A.; Hildebrandt, H.; Holwerda, B.W.; Hopkins, A.M.; de Jong, J.T.A.; Liske, J.; McFarland, J.; Nakajima, R.; Napolitano, N.R.; Norberg, P.; Peacock, J.A.; Radovich, M.; Robotham, A.S.G.; Schneider, P.; Sikkema, G.; van Uitert, E.; Verdoes Kleijn, G.; Valentijn, E.A.

Abstract

Galaxies and their dark matter haloes are part of a complex network of mass structures, collectively called the cosmic web. Using the tidal tensor prescription these structures can be classified into four cosmic environments: voids, sheets, filaments and knots. As the cosmic web may influence the formation and evolution of dark matter haloes and the galaxies they host, we aim to study the effect of these cosmic environments on the average mass of galactic haloes. To this end we measure the galaxy–galaxy lensing profile of 91 195 galaxies, within 0.039 < z < 0.263, from the spectroscopic Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, using ∼100deg2∼100deg2 of overlapping data from the Kilo-Degree Survey. In each of the four cosmic environments we model the contributions from group centrals, satellites and neighbouring groups to the stacked galaxy–galaxy lensing profiles. After correcting the lens samples for differences in the stellar mass distribution, we find no dependence of the average halo mass of central galaxies on their cosmic environment. We do find a significant increase in the average contribution of neighbouring groups to the lensing profile in increasingly dense cosmic environments. We show, however, that the observed effect can be entirely attributed to the galaxy density at much smaller scales (within 4 h−1 Mpc), which is correlated with the density of the cosmic environments. Within our current uncertainties we find no direct dependence of galaxy halo mass on their cosmic environment.

Citation

Brouwer, M., Cacciato, M., Dvornik, A., Eardley, L., Heymans, C., Hoekstra, H., …Valentijn, E. (2016). Dependence of GAMA galaxy halo masses on the cosmic web environment from 100 deg2 of KiDS weak lensing data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(4), 4451-4463. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1602

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jul 20, 2016
• Publication Date: Nov 11, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 28, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 6, 2016
• 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: 462
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 4451-4463
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1602
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1373663