期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 732, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/732/2/112
关键词
cosmology: theory; large-scale structure of universe
资金
- Korea government (MEST) [2010-0007819]
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- DFG
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0029392, 2010-0007819] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
We investigate the effects of a coupled dark energy (cDE) scalar field on the alignment between satellites and matter distributions in galaxy clusters. Using high-resolution N-body simulations for Delta CDM and cDE cosmological models, we compute the probability density distribution for the alignment angle between the satellite galaxies and underlying matter distributions, finding a difference between the two scenarios. With respect to Delta CDM, in cDE cosmologies the satellite galaxies are less preferentially located along the major axis of the matter distribution, possibly reducing the tension with observational data. A physical explanation is that the coupling between dark matter and dark energy (DE) acts as an additional tidal force on the satellite galaxies, diminishing the alignments between their distribution and the matter one. Through a Wald test based on the generalized chi(2) statistics, the null hypothesis that the two probability distributions come from the same parent population is rejected at the 99% confidence level. It is concluded that the galaxy-matter alignment in clusters may provide a unique probe of dark sector interactions as well as the nature of DE.
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