Global analysis of luminosity- and colour-dependent galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Abstract

We present a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the luminosity- and colour-dependent galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A novelty of our technique is that it uses a combination of clustering measurements in luminosity bins to perform a global likelihood analysis, simultaneously constraining the HOD parameters for a range of luminosity thresholds. We present simple, smooth fitting functions which accurately describe the resulting luminosity dependence of the best-fit HOD parameters. To minimise systematic halo modelling effects, we use theoretical halo 2-point correlation functions directly measured and tabulated from a suite of $N$-body simulations spanning a large enough dynamic range in halo mass and spatial separation. Thus, our modelling correctly accounts for non-linear and scale-dependent halo bias as well as any departure of halo profiles from universality, and we additionally account for halo exclusion using the hard sphere approximation. Using colour-dependent clustering information, we constrain the satellite galaxy red fraction in a model-independent manner which does not rely on any group-finding algorithm. We find that the resulting luminosity dependence of the satellite red fraction is significantly shallower than corresponding measurements from galaxy group catalogues, and we provide a simple fitting function to describe this dependence. Our fitting functions are readily usable in generating low-redshift mock galaxy catalogues, and we discuss some potentially interesting applications as well as possible extensions of our technique.

arXiv comment16 pages, 16 figures. (Accepted version in MNRAS with minor changes)

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