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Título: | The ALHAMBRA survey: An empirical estimation of the cosmic variance for merger fraction studies based on close pairs |
Autor: | López-Sanjuan, Carlos; Cenarro, A. J.; Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos; Varela, Jesús CSIC; Molino, Alberto CSIC ORCID; Arnalte-Mur, P. CSIC ORCID; Ascaso, Begoña CSIC ORCID; Castander, Francisco J. CSIC ORCID; Fernández-Soto, Alberto CSIC ORCID CVN ; Huertas-Company, M.; Márquez, Isabel CSIC ORCID; Martínez, Vicente J. CSIC ORCID; Masegosa, Josefa CSIC ORCID ; Moles, Mariano CSIC; Pović, Mirjana; Aguerri, J.A.L.; Alfaro, Emilio J. CSIC ORCID CVN ; Aparicio Villegas, Teresa CSIC; Benítez, Narciso CSIC ORCID; Broadhurst, Tom; Cabrera-Caño, Jesús; Cepa, Jordi; Cerviño, Miguel CSIC ORCID ; Cristóbal-Hornillos, David CSIC; Olmo, Ascensión del CSIC ORCID; González Delgado, Rosa M. CSIC ORCID ; Husillos, César CSIC ORCID; Infante, Leopoldo; Perea, Jaime CSIC ORCID; Prada, Francisco CSIC ORCID ; Quintana, José María CSIC | Palabras clave: | Galaxies: fundamental parameters Galaxies: interactions Galaxies: statistics |
Fecha de publicación: | 2014 | Editor: | EDP Sciences | Citación: | Astronomy and Astrophysics 564: A127 (2014) | Resumen: | [Aims]: Our goal is to estimate empirically the cosmic variance that affects merger fraction studies based on close pairs for the first time. [Methods]: We compute the merger fraction from photometric redshift close pairs with 10 h−1 kpc ≤ rp ≤ 50 h−1 kpc and Δv ≤ 500 km s−1 and measure it in the 48 sub-fields of the ALHAMBRA survey. We study the distribution of the measured merger fractions that follow a log-normal function and estimate the cosmic variance σv as the intrinsic dispersion of the observed distribution. We develop a maximum likelihood estimator to measure a reliable σv and avoid the dispersion due to the observational errors (including the Poisson shot noise term). [Results]: The cosmic variance σv of the merger fraction depends mainly on (i) the number density of the populations under study for both the principal (n1) and the companion (n2) galaxy in the close pair and (ii) the probed cosmic volume Vc. We do not find a significant dependence on either the search radius used to define close companions, the redshift, or the physical selection (luminosity or stellar mass) of the samples. Conclusions. We have estimated the cosmic variance that affects the measurement of the merger fraction by close pairs from observations. We provide a parametrisation of the cosmic variance with n1, n2, and Vc, σv α n-0.54 1 V-0.48 c (n2/n1)-0.37. Thanks to this prescription, future merger fraction studies based on close pairs could properly account for the cosmic variance on their results. © ESO 2014. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322474 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/110040 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201322474 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322474 e-issn: 1432-0746 issn: 0004-6361 |
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