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Title:
Slow galaxy growth within rapidly growing dark matter halos
Authors:
Brown, Michael J. I.
Affiliation:
AA(School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia)
Publication:
5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1178, pp. 57-63 (2009). (AIPC Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2009
Origin:
AIP
Keywords:
dark matter, cosmology, redshift, galaxies
PACS Keywords:
Dark energy, Cosmology, Distances, redshifts, radial velocities; spatial distribution of galaxies, Mass and mass distribution
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2009: American Institute of Physics
DOI:
10.1063/1.3264557
Bibliographic Code:
2009AIPC.1178...57B

Abstract

In cold dark matter cosmologies, the most massive dark matter halos undergo rapid growth between a redshift of z = 1 and z = 0, corresponding to the past 7 billion years of cosmic time. There is thus an expectation that the stellar masses of the most massive galaxies will also rapidly grow via merging over this redshift range. While there are examples of massive merging galaxies at low redshift, recent observations show that the stellar masses of massive galaxies have grown by only ~30% since z = 1. Some of the literature claims that the slow growth of massive galaxies is contrary to the ΛCDM paradigm, although this is not necessarily the case. To determine why massive galaxies are not growing rapidly, we have modeled how galaxies populate dark matter halos. To do this, we have measured the space density and spatial clustering of redshift z<1 galaxies in the Boötes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. We have then modeled the observations using the halo occupation distribution (HOD) formalism. We find that the stellar masses of the largest galaxies are proportional to dark matter halo mass to the power of a third. In the most massive dark matter halos, we also find that the stellar mass is distributed mostly among ``satellite'' galaxies. As a consequence, the stellar masses of large galaxies are expected to increase relatively slowly, even though they reside within rapidly growing dark matter halos.
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