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Home Search Quick Search Advanced Fulltext Browse Collections Persons My eDoc Session History Login Name: Password: Documentation Help Support Wiki Direct access to document ID:	Institute: MPI für Astronomie     Collection: Publikationen_mpia     Display Documents ID: 731575.0, MPI für Astronomie / Publikationen_mpia Galaxy alignment on large and small scales Authors: Kang, X.; Lin, W. P.; Dong, X.; Wang, Y. O.; Dutton, A.; Macciò, A.; Shandarin, S.; Saar, E.; Einasto, J. Place of Publication: Cambridge Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): 2016 Audience: Not Specified Abstract / Description: Galaxies are not randomly distributed across the universe but showing different kinds of alignment on different scales. On small scales satellite galaxies have a tendency to distribute along the major axis of the central galaxy, with dependence on galaxy properties that both red satellites and centrals have stronger alignment than their blue counterparts. On large scales, it is found that the major axes of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) have correlation up to 30Mpc/h. Using hydro-dynamical simulation with star formation, we investigate the origin of galaxy alignment on different scales. It is found that most red satellite galaxies stay in the inner region of dark matter halo inside which the shape of central galaxy is well aligned with the dark matter distribution. Red centrals have stronger alignment than blue ones as they live in massive haloes and the central galaxy-halo alignment increases with halo mass. On large scales, the alignment of LRGs is also from the galaxy-halo shape correlation, but with some extent of mis-alignment. The massive haloes have stronger alignment than haloes in filament which connect massive haloes. This is contrary to the naive expectation that cosmic filament is the cause of halo alignment. Free Keywords: large-scale structure of universe; dark matter halo; numerical simulation External Publication Status: published Document Type: Other Communicated by: N. N. Affiliations: MPI für Astronomie Identifiers: URL:http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2016IAUS..308..448K The scope and number of records on eDoc is subject to the collection policies defined by each institute - see "info" button in the collection browse view.