Red Galaxies Growing in Dark Matter Halos
Abstract
To understand the slow growth of massive galaxies at z < 1, we have modeled how these galaxies populate dark matter halos. The models are constrained with the observed luminosity function and clustering of z < 1 red galaxies. In the most massive halos, much of the stellar mass resides within multiple satellite galaxies rather than a single central galaxy. Consequently, massive galaxies grow slowly within rapidly growing dark matter halos.
- Publication:
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Highlights of Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- November 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921310008409
- Bibcode:
- 2010HiA....15...87B
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- cD;
- galaxies: evolution;
- (cosmology:) dark matter