arXiv Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
arXiv Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
5 years ago

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Small-scale anisotropic galaxy clustering and the pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies.

J. Liske, E.N. Taylor, M. Colless, J. Loveday, P.R. Kafle, S.P. Driver, J.A. Peacock, B.W. Holwerda, M.J.I. Brown, L. Christodoulou, A.R. Lopez-Sanchez, P. Norberg, I.K. Baldry, A.M. Hopkins, J. Bland-Hawthorn

The galaxy pairwise velocity dispersion (PVD) can provide important tests of non-standard gravity and galaxy formation models. We describe measurements of the PVD of galaxies in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey as a function of projected separation and galaxy luminosity. Due to the faint magnitude limit ($r < 19.8$) and highly-complete spectroscopic sampling of the GAMA survey, we are able to reliably measure the PVD to smaller scales ($r_\bot = 0.01$ Mpc/h) than previous work. The measured PVD at projected separations $r_\bot <~ 1$ Mpc/h increases near-monotonically with increasing luminosity from $\sigma \approx 200$ km/s at $M_r = -17$ mag to $\sigma \approx 600$ km/s at $M_r \approx -22$ mag. Analysis of the Gonzalez-Perez (2014) GALFORM semi-analytic model yields no such trend of PVD with luminosity: the model over-predicts the PVD for faint galaxies. This is most likely a result of the model placing too many low-luminosity galaxies in massive halos.

Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05636

DOI: arXiv:1711.05636v1

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