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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 382, 期 4, 页码 1738-1750出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12479.x
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cosmology : theory; large-scale structure of Universe
We investigate halo mass selection properties of red-sequence cluster finders using galaxy populations of the Millennium Simulation ( MS). A clear red sequence exists for MS galaxies in massive haloes at redshifts z < 1, and we use this knowledge to inform a cluster-finding algorithm applied to 500 h(-1) Mpc projections of the simulated volume. At low redshift (z = 0.4), we find that 90 per cent of the clusters found have galaxy membership dominated by a single, real-space halo, and that 10 per cent are blended systems for which no single halo contributes a majority of a cluster's membership. At z = 1, the fraction of blends increases to 22 per cent, as weaker redshift evolution in observed colour extends the comoving length probed by a fixed range of colour. Other factors contributing to the increased blending at high z include broadening of the red sequence and confusion from a larger number of intermediate-mass haloes hosting bright red galaxies of magnitude similar to those in higher mass haloes. Our method produces catalogues of cluster candidates whose halo mass selection function, p(M vertical bar N-gal, z), is characterized by a bimodal lognormal model with a dominant component that reproduces well the real-space distribution, and a redshift-dependent tail that is broader and displaced by a factor of similar to 2 lower in mass. We discuss implications for X-ray properties of optically selected clusters and offer ideas for improving both mock catalogues and cluster finding in future surveys.
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