Co-evolution of galaxies and their dark matter environment: constraining the standard structure formation paradigm through simulation and analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing
Final Report Abstract
We studied the propagation of light within one of the largest cosmological simulations, the Millennium Run, by performing ray-tracing. The main goal of the project was a quantitative investigation of galaxy-galaxy lensing and the dependence of the lensing signal on the properties of galaxies. For this purpose, the dark matter simulations were populated with semi-analytically modeled galaxies which allowed us to simulate the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal. Several results were derived, including that the mass profiles of galaxies, groups and clusters derived from these lensing simulations are in good agreement with observational results, and that the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal depends sensitively on the properties of the galaxy population, making it a sensitive probe of model assumptions and parameters. In addition, a large variety of additional results have been found, including new systematics in cosmic shear measurements, strong lensing optical depths, covariances of shear measurements, and the accuracy of the Born approximation. The results and methods of the project have led, and will continue to lead, to many spin-off projects.
Publications
- (2007). Imaging the cosmic matter distribution using gravitational lensing of pre-galactic H i. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 382(4), 1494-1502
Hilbert, S., Metcalf, R.B. & White, S.D.M.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12615.x) - (2007). Strong lensing optical depths in a ΛCDM universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 382(1), 121-132
Hilbert, S., White, S.D.M., Hartlap, J. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12391.x) - (2008). Strong-lensing optical depths in a ΛCDM universe–II. The influence of the stellar mass in galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386(4), 1845-1854
Hilbert, S., J., White, S.D.M., Hartlap, J. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13190.x) - (2009). Cluster strong lensing in the Millennium simulation: the effect of galaxies and structures along the line-of-sight. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 398(3), 1298-1308
Puchwein, E. & Hilbert, S.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15227.x) - (2009): Ray-tracing through the Millennium Simulation: Born corrections and lens-lens coupling in cosmic shear and galaxy-galaxy lensing. In: A&A 499 (1), S. 31–43
Hilbert, S., Hartlap, J., White, S.D.M. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811054) - (2009): The non-Gaussianity of the cosmic shear likelihood or how odd is the Chandra Deep Field South? In: A&A 504 (3), S. 689–703
Hartlap, J., Schrabback, T., Simon, P. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200911697) - (2010). Abundances, masses and weak-lensing mass profiles of galaxy clusters as a function of richness and luminosity in ΛCDM cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 404(1), 486-501
Hilbert, S. & White, S.D.M.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16310.x) - (2010). Cosmology with the shear-peak statistics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 402(2), 1049-1058
Dietrich, J. P.; Hartlap, J.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15948.x) - (2010). Dissecting the gravitational lens B1608+ 656. II. Precision measurements of the Hubble constant, spatial curvature, and the dark energy equation of state. The Astrophysical Journal, 711(1), 201
Suyu, S.H., Marshall, P.J., Auger, M.W., Hilbert, S., Blandford, R.D., Koopmans, L.V.E., Fassnacht, C.D. & Treu, T.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/711/1/201) - (2010). Evidence of the accelerated expansion of the Universe from weak lensing tomography with COSMOS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 516, A63
Schrabback, T., Hartlap, J., Joachimi, B. et al.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913577) - (2010): A fitting formula for the non-Gaussian contribution to the lensing power spectrum covariance. In: A&A 514, A79
Pielorz, J., Rödiger, J., Tereno, I. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912854) - (2011): A bias in cosmic shear from galaxy selection: results from ray-tracing simulations. In: A&A 528, A51
Hartlap, J., Hilbert, S., Schneider, P. & Hildebrandt, H.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015850) - (2011): Cosmic shear covariance: the log-normal approximation. In: A&A 536, A85
Hilbert, S., Hartlap, J. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117294) - (2011): Probing the dark-matter halos of cluster galaxies with weak lensing. In: A&A 531, A169
Pastor Mira, E., Hilbert, S., Hartlap, J. & Schneider, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116851) - (2012). Galaxy-galaxy (-galaxy) lensing as a sensitive probe of galaxy evolution. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 547, A77
Saghiha, H., Hilbert, S., Schneider, P. & Simon, P.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219358)
