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Mon.Not.R.Astron.Soc.000,000–000 (0000) Printed5February2008 (MNLATEXstylefilev1.4) Assembly bias in the clustering of dark matter haloes ⋆ Liang Gao 1 , Simon D. M. White2 1 Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH13LE 2 Max–Planck–Institut fu¨r Astrophysik, D-85748 Garching, Germany 5February2008 7 0 ABSTRACT 0 We use a very large simulation of structure growth in a ΛCDM universe – the Mil- 2 lennium Simulation – to study assembly bias, the fact that the large-scale clustering n of haloes of given mass varies significantly with their assembly history. We extend a earlier work based on the same simulation by superposing results for redshifts from J 0 to 3, by defining a less noisy estimator of clustering amplitude, and by considering 2 halo concentration, substructure mass fraction and spin, as well as formation time, 2 as additional parameters. These improvements lead to results with less noise than previous studies and coveringa wider range of halo masses and structural properties. 2 We find significant and significantly different assembly bias effects for all the halo v properties we consider, although in all cases the dependences on halo mass and on 1 redshift are adequately described as a dependence on equivalent peak height ν(M,z). 2 9 Theν-dependencesfordifferenthalopropertiesdifferqualitativelyandarenotrelated 1 as might naively be expected given the relations between formation time, concentra- 1 tion, substructure fraction and spin found for the halo population as a whole. These 6 results suggest that it will be difficult to build models for the galaxy populations of 0 dark haloes which can robustly relate the amplitude of large-scale galaxy clustering h/ to that for mass clustering at better than the 10% level. p Key words: methods: N-body simulations – methods: numerical –dark matter – - o galaxies: haloes – galaxies:clustering r t s a : v 1 INTRODUCTION (2006)demonstratedadependenceofhaloclusteringonhalo i X concentration,notingittohavesimilarstrengthathighand Gao, Springel & White (2005) used the very large Millen- low mass, but opposite sign; concentrated haloes are the r nium Simulation of Springel et al. (2005) to demonstrate a most clustered at low mass, but the least clustered at high that the standard ΛCDM paradigm predicts the clustering mass.Thisisalsosurprisingsincethereisatightcorrelation ofdarkmatterhaloestodependnotonlyontheirmassbut between halo formation time and halo concentration (e.g. also on their formation time. The effect is strong for low- Navarro, Frenk & White 1997; Wechsler et al. 2001; Zhao mass haloes but weak or absent at high mass. This result et al. 2003) so one might expect a similar dependence on is surprising since it is incompatible with the standard ex- the two properties. More recently, Bett et al. (2007) stud- cursion set theory for the growth of structure (e.g. Bond ied clustering as a function of halo spin and shape, find- et al. 1991; Lacey & Cole 1993, Mo & White 1996), and it ing stronger clustering at given mass for larger spin and contradicts a fundamental assumption of the halo occupa- for smaller major-to-minor axis ratio. (See also Hahn et al. tion distribution (HOD) models often used to study galaxy (2007) foraslightlydifferentapproachtostudyingenviron- clustering,namelythatthegalaxycontentofahaloofgiven mental effects on halo spin.) Interestingly, the dependences mass is statistically independent of its larger scale environ- on shape and spin are stronger for high-mass haloes. ment (e.g. Kauffmann, Nusser & Steinmetz 1997; Jing, Mo We use the term “assembly bias” to describe all such &Boerner1998;Peacock&Smith2000;Bensonetal.2000; dependences, since they show that the spatial distribution Berlind et al. 2003; Yang,Mo & van den Bosch 2003). of haloes depends not only on their mass but also on the Subsequent studies confirmed this result (Harker et al. details of their assembly history. Such details are undoubt- 2006; Zhu et al. 2006; Wechsler et al. 2006; Wetzel et al. edly reflected in the galaxy populations they host, so one 2007; Jing, Suto & Mo 2007). In addition, Wechsler et al. may expect assembly bias to affect galaxy clustering in a waywhichisnoteasilyrepresentedinasimpleHODmodel. A first assessment of the strength of such effects was made ⋆ Email:[email protected] byCroton,Gao&White(2006)usingadirectsimulationof (cid:13)c 0000RAS 2 L. Gao & S. D. M. White galaxy formation within the Millennium Simulation, while (together with galaxy data from two independent galaxy possible observational evidence for them has been cited by formationmodels)throughadatabaseathttp://www.mpa- Yang,Mo&vandenBosch(2006),Blanton,Berlind&Hogg garching.mpg.de/millennium (2007) and Berlind et al. (2007). Some recent theoretical work has explored extensions of excursion set theory which may allow a description of halo assembly bias (Wang, Mo 3 HALO ASSEMBLY BIAS & Jing 2007, Sandvik et al. 2007, Zentner 2007) but it re- Intheone-dimensionalexcursionsetmodelforstructurefor- mainsunclearwhethertheseapproachescanaccountforthe mation (e.g. Bond et al. 1991; Lacey & Cole 1993), the for- results discussed above and in this paper. mation history of a halo is encoded in the random walk at In this Letter we extend the work of Gao, Springel & higher mass resolution than that which defines the halo it- White (2005), again using the Millennium Simulation, by self,andisthusstatisticallyindependentoftheenvironment, definingalessnoisyestimatorofclusteringstrength,bycom- which is encoded in the random walk at lower resolution bining results for a numberof redshifts, and byconsidering (White1996). This is inconsistent with thedependenceson clusteringasafunctionofhalopropertiesotherthanforma- formationtimeandconcentrationfoundinsimulations(Gao tion time. As a result, we can study assembly bias in more et al. 2005; Wechsler et al. 2006). Here we extend the work detail and over a substantially wider halo mass range than ofGaoetal.(2005) bydefiningalessnoisymeasureofclus- intheearlierpaper.InSection2wesummarisetherelevant tering strength, by analysing data at z=1, 2 and 3 as well properties of the simulation and of the halo database that as z = 0, and by examining assembly bias as a function of we study. In Section 3, we explore halo assembly bias as properties other than formation time. a function of halo mass and of a variety of halo structural The specific halo properties which we will consider in properties.Finallywegiveashortsummaryanddiscussion. thisLetter are: (1) FormationTime FollowingGaoetal.(2004,2005), we define the formation time of a dark halo as the redshift 2 THE SIMULATION when half of its final mass was first assembled into a single The Millennium Simulation was carried out by the Virgo object. We use the stored merging tree to find the earliest Consortium in 2004 on an IBM Regatta system at the time when its most massive progenitor had more than half Max Planck Society’s supercomputer centre in Garching the final mass, then interpolate linearly between this and (Springel et al. 2005). It adopted concordance values for the immediately preceding output to estimate the redshift theparameters of aflat ΛCDMcosmological model,Ωdm = when this progenitor had exactly half the final mass. This 0.205, Ωb = 0.045 for the current densities in Cold Dark we defineas theformation time. Matter and baryons,h=0.73 for thepresent dimensionless (2) Concentration We characterise the concentration value of the Hubble constant, σ8 = 0.9 for the rms linear ofadarkhalobytheratioVmax/V200ofthepeakvalueofits mass fluctuation in a sphere of radius 8h−1Mpc extrapo- circular velocity curve to the circular velocity at r200. Here lated to z = 0, and n = 1 for the slope of the primordial Vc(r) = (GM(r)/r)1/2 and V200 = Vc(r200), where r200 is fluctuation spectrum. The simulation followed 21603 dark the radius enclosing a mean overdensity 200 times the crit- matter particles from z = 127 to the present-day within ical value. Vmax is the maximum value of Vc for r < r200, a cubic region 500h−1Mpc on a side. The individual parti- evaluated using only particles bound to the main subhalo cle mass is thus 8.6 108h−1M⊙. The gravitational force of the FOF halo. This definition has the advantages of be- had a Plummer-equiv×alent comoving softening of 5h−1kpc. ing robust and of not requiring any model to be fit to the Initial conditions were set using the Boltzmann code CMB- simulation data. FAST (Seljak & Zaldarriaga 1996) to generate a realisation (3) Subhalo mass fraction within r200 As one mea- of the desired power spectrum which was then imposed on sure of the amount substructure, we consider the fraction a glass-like uniform particle load (White 1996). Fr200 ofthetotalmasswithinr200 intheformofself-bound TheTREE-PMN-bodycodeGADGET2(Springel2005) substructures detected by SUBFIND. Note that we exclude was usedto carry outthesimulation andthefull datawere the main subhalo, which we identify with the body of the stored at 64 times spaced approximately equally in thelog- halo itself, and that SUBFIND only catalogues subhaloes arithm of the expansion factor at early times and at ap- made up of 20 or more particles. In practice, we find that proximately 200 Myr intervals after z = 1. At run time all thismeasurecanonlybeusedeffectivelytorankhaloeswith collapsed haloes with at least 20 particles were identified FOFmassesabove5000particles.Wewillnotconsiderlower using a friends-of-friends (FOF) group-finder with linking masshaloeswhenstudyingclusteringasafunctionofFr200. parameter b=0.2 (Davis et al. 1985). Post-processing with (4) Mass fraction in the main subhalo As an al- the substructure algorithm SUBFIND (Springel et al. 2001) ternative measure of the amount of substructure in a halo, allowedavarietyofinternalstructuralpropertiestobemea- we use the ratio F of the mass of the main self-bound FOF sured for all these haloes and for their resolved subhaloes. subhalo to the mass of the original FOF halo. This defini- This in turn allowed trees to be built which store detailed tion contrasts with the previous one in being sensitive to assembly histories for every object and its substructure. In neighboringstructuresbeyondr200 whichare“fortuitously” this paper we concentrate on haloes with small FOF mass joinedtothemainhalobytheFOFlinkingprocedure.With corresponding to 65 particles or more. At redshifts 3, 2, 1 this measure we can study clustering as a function of sub- and0thereare4.6 106,5.8 106,6.2 106and5.7 106such structurefraction to a FOF mass limit of 2000 particles. × × × × FOF haloes, respectively. The halo/subhalo data and their (5) Halo spin Halo spin can be conveniently defined associated structureformation treesarepublicallyavailable through λ= J~/(√2MVr200) where angular momentum J~ | | (cid:13)c 0000RAS,MNRAS000,000–000 Halo assembly bias 3 Figure1.Biasfactorasafunctionofhalomassandhaloproperties.Halomassisgivenparametricallythroughtheequivalentpeakheight ν(M,z)=δ(M)/δc(z). The additional properties inthe firstfive panels are: (a) formationredshift, (b) concentration, (c) substructure massfractionwithinr200,(d)massfractioninthemainsubhalooftheFOFhalo,and(e) spin.Thesymbolsrepeatedinallfivepanels are bias factors defined for all haloes of the relevant mass. The solid and dashed curves in these panels are bias factors for haloes in the lowerandupper 20% tailsofthe distributions ofthe particular propertyconcerned. Panel (f) plots halomassas afunctionof ν at the fourredshiftswe combined tomake these plots.Both the linesinthis panel and the symbolsinthe earlierpanels arecolour-coded according to redshift, as indicated by the labels. The numbers in parentheses following the redshift labels in each panel give the rms scatter in b among 100 bootstrap resamplings of the halo subsamples used to obtain b-values for the solid and dashed curves at the centralandatthelargestν-valuesplottedforeachredshift. (cid:13)c 0000RAS,MNRAS000,000–000 4 L. Gao & S. D. M. White and mass M are the values within a sphere of radius r200 massesabove1015h−1M⊙ at z=0.Thereisahintthatthe and the circular velocity V is also evaluated at this radius dependencemayreverseatthesemasses, withyounghaloes (Bullock et al. 2001). beingmore clustered than old ones as argued byJing, Suto & Mo (2007), but any such reversal is clearly very weak. As in Gao et al. (2005), we examine assembly bias by Theirsuggestion thatreversaloccursnearν 1.7 isclearly comparingthespatialclusteringofasubsetofhaloesofgiven ∼ not supported by our data. masstothatofthesetasawhole.Intheearlierpaperwees- The dependence of assembly bias on concentration dif- timatedabiasfactorbforeachsubsetofhaloesasthesquare fers qualitatively from that on formation time. The most root of the separation-averaged ratio of its spatial autocor- concentrated haloes are the most clustered for ν < 1, but relation function tothatofthedarkmatter.Thisestimator theyaretheleastclusteredforν >1.Wehavecheckedthat becomes quitenoisy when thenumberof haloes in thesub- at each ν our halo samples obey the relation between con- setissmall.Inthispaperweprefertoestimatebastheratio centration and formation time first pointed out by Navarro of the halo-mass cross-correlation to the mass autocorrela- et al. (1997); concentrated haloes of a given mass typically tion.Specifically,weestimatebastherelativenormalisation formed earlier than less concentrated haloes. Nevertheless, factor which minimizes the mean square of the difference there is clearly a range of ν (roughly 1 < ν < 2) where ltohgeξchomm−ovloigngbξsmepmafroartifoonurraenqugeal6whi−d1tMhbpicn<sinrl<og2r0shp−a1nMnipncg. clustering is significantly stronger for older yet also for less concentrated haloes. Overall, our results for concentration Thisestimatorhasimprovednoisecharacteristicsbecauseof agree well with those of Wechsler et al. (2006) and Jing, thelargenumberofdarkmatterparticlesavailable.Accord- Suto&Mo(2007),thoughtheyarelessnoisybecauseofthe ing to standard halo bias models it should be equivalent to betterstatistics provided by theMillennium Simulation. the earlier estimator (e.g. Mo & White 1996) and we have Thedependenceofassemblybiasonsubstructureisdif- verified that the two give consistent b values for our halo ferentagain inshape,andmoreoverdiffersbetweenourtwo data. In these models the large-scale bias depends on mass substructuremeasures.Forboth,thedependencevariesonly and redshift through theequivalent “peak height” slowly with ν, and haloes with more substructure are al- mostalwaysthemorestronglyclustered.Thedependenceis ν(M,z)=δ (z)/σ(M), (1) c stronger, however, when substructure is measured by the where σ(M) is the rms linear overdensity (extrapolated to fraction of FOF mass in the main subhalo (FFOF) than z=0)withinaspherewhichinthemeancontainsmassM, when it is measured by the subhalo mass fraction within and δc(z) is the linear overdensity threshold for collapse at r200 (Fr200),anditgetsweakerwithincreasingν inthefirst redshiftz,again extrapolatedtothecorrespondingvalueat case, while it strengthens in the second. Indeed, thedepen- z =0. σ(M) depends only on thepower spectrum of initial denceappearstoreverseatν <1intheFr200case,although densityfluctuations,whileδ (z)dependsonthecurrentden- thisneedstobeconfirmedbyasimulation of higherresolu- c sities in gravitating matter and dark energy (e.g. Eke, Cole tion. Note that at all ν our halo samples obey the kind of & Frenk 1996). Gao et al. (2005) showed that halo cluster- correlationofsubstructurewithformationtimeandconcen- ingintheMillenniumSimulationobeysthisscalingoverthe tration pointed out out by Gao et al. (2004). Haloes with redshiftrange0 z 5.Wewilluseittosuperposeresults moresubstructuretendtobeyoungerandtohavelowercon- ≤ ≤ from different redshifts. centrations. Thus the dependence of assembly bias on sub- Halo assembly bias is shown in Fig. 1 as a function of structure is the opposite of what might naively have been ν(M,z) and of the various halo properties discussed above. inferred from its dependence on formation time, and also These plots combine results for redshifts 0, 1, 2 and 3. In differs qualitatively from that on concentration. each of the first five panels we repeat bias values for all Assemblybiasalsodependsonhalospin;rapidlyrotat- haloes of a given mass from Figure 1 of Gao et al. (2005). ing haloes cluster more strongly than slowly rotating ones, The haloes in each ν bin are ranked in terms of each of the withlittledependenceonν.Thisagreesreasonablywellwith five properties in turn, and bias values are then estimated theresultsofBettetal.(2007)whofindasomewhatstronger using our cross-correlation method for subsets consisting of trend with halo mass. This may reflect their slightly differ- haloes in the upper and lower 20% tails of the distribution ent(andcleaner)definitionofhalospin,theirdifferent(and inthisadditionalproperty.Dashedlinesshowbiasvaluesfor noisier) estimator of bias, or the fact that they only used thehaloes with thehighest formation redshifts, thehighest numerical data for z =0. concentrations, the most substructure and the most spin. Theseplotsshowclearlythatassemblybiasdependson Solid lines give bias values for the opposite tails. Colours the physical properties of haloes in a complex way. Typical (both for symbols and for lines) denote the redshift of the effects are at the 10 to 30% level in b (20 to 70% in corre- outputfrom whichthedataweretaken,asindicated bythe lationorpowerspectrumamplitude)anddependonseveral labels.Notethegoodagreementbetweenresultsfordifferent additional parameters at fixed halo mass. Our results are, redshifts where theseoverlap. Finally, thelast panelof Fig. however, consistent with the hypothesis that dependences 1 gives halo mass as a function of ν for the four redshifts onmassandredshiftcanbecombinedintoadependenceon usedtomakethisfigure.Withthesecurvesonecanconvert thesingle parameter ν. thex-axesin theother panels to halo mass for 0 z 3. Finally we note that because of the large size of the ≤ ≤ The results for formation time in Fig. 1 confirm those Millennium Simulation the formal errors on thebias curves ofGao etal(2005) andextendthem toconsiderably higher of Figure 1 are very small. We can see this in several ways. ν.Assemblybiasisstrongonlyforlow-masshaloes,withthe There is little fluctuation along each dashed or solid curve, oldest haloes being themost clustered. It is weak or absent even though neighboring points refer to disjoint ν ranges at the highest masses. 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