Luminous red galaxies in simulations: cosmic chronometers?

被引:27
作者
Crawford, S. M. [1 ,2 ]
Ratsimbazafy, A. L. [3 ,4 ]
Cress, C. M. [3 ,4 ]
Olivier, E. A. [1 ,3 ]
Blyth, S. -L. [5 ]
van der Heyden, K. J. [5 ]
机构
[1] S African Astron Observ, ZA-7935 Cape Town, South Africa
[2] So African Large Telescope, ZA-7935 Cape Town, South Africa
[3] Univ Western Cape, Dept Phys, ZA-7535 Bellville, South Africa
[4] Ctr High Performance Comp, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa
[5] Univ Cape Town, Dept Astron, ACGC, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
galaxies: evolution; cosmological parameters; cosmology: observations; galaxies; DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; STELLAR POPULATION SYNTHESIS; INITIAL MASS FUNCTION; EQUATION-OF-STATE; 2DF-SDSS LRG; QSO SURVEY; DARK ENERGY; EVOLUTION; MODELS; UNCERTAINTIES;
D O I
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16849.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
There have been a number of attempts to measure the expansion rate of the Universe at high redshift using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) as 'chronometers'. The method generally assumes that stars in LRGs are all formed at the same time. In this paper, we quantify the uncertainties on the measurement of H(z) which arise when one considers more realistic, extended star formation histories. In selecting galaxies from the Millennium simulation for this study, we show that using rest-frame criteria significantly improves the homogeneity of the sample and that H(z) can be recovered to within 3 per cent at z similar to 0.42 even when extended star formation histories are considered. We demonstrate explicitly that using single stellar populations (SSPs) to age-date galaxies from the semi-analytical simulations provides insufficient accuracy for this experiment but accurate ages are obtainable if the complex star formation histories extracted from the simulation are used. We note, however, that problems with SSP fitting might be overestimated since the semi-analytical models tend to overpredict the late-time star formation in LRGs. Finally, we optimize an observational programme to carry out this experiment.
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页码:2569 / 2577
页数:9
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