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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 465, Issue 3, Pages 2833-2848Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2826
Keywords
galaxies evolution; galaxies haloes; galaxies statistics; cosmology theory large; scale structure of Universe
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Funding
- European Commission's Framework
- Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme LACEGA [PIRSES- GA- 2010269264]
- STFC/ Newton Fund [ST/M007995/1]
- NSF [AST- 1612085]
- European Research Council [DEGAS259586]
- Science and Technology Facilities Counci [ST/L00075X/1]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I001573/1, ST/M007995/1, ST/L00075X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/P000541/1, ST/I001573/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/M007995/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1612085] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We use the halo occupation distribution ( HOD) framework to characterize the predictions from two independent galaxy formation models for the galactic content of dark matter haloes and its evolution with redshift. Our galaxy samples correspond to a range of fixed number densities defined by stellar mass and span 0 <= z <= 3. We find remarkable similarities between the model predictions. Differences arise at low galaxy number densities which are sensitive to the treatment of heating of the hot halo by active galactic nuclei. The evolution of the form of the HOD can be described in a relatively simple way, and we model each HOD parameter using its value at z = 0 and an additional evolutionary parameter. In particular, we find that the ratio between the characteristic halo masses for hosting central and satellite galaxies can serve as a sensitive diagnostic for galaxy evolution models. Our results can be used to test and develop empirical studies of galaxy evolution, and can facilitate the construction of mock galaxy catalogues for future surveys.
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