Semi-analytic galaxy formation in coupled dark energy cosmologies
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Description
FF acknowledges financial support from the grants PRIN INAF 2010 ‘From the dawn of galaxy formation’ and PRIN MIUR 2012 ‘The Intergalactic Medium as a probe of the growth of cosmic structures’. VS acknowledges financial support from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through Transregio 33, ‘The Dark Universe’. During the development of this work MB has been partly supported by the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship ‘SIDUN’ within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The numerical simulations presented in this work have been performed on the VIP and on the Hydra clusters at the RZG supercomputing centre in Garching.
Abstract
Among the possible alternatives to the standard cosmological model (ΛCDM), coupled dark energy models postulate that dark energy (DE), seen as a dynamical scalar field, may interact with dark matter (DM), giving rise to a `fifth-force', felt by DM particles only. In this paper, we study the impact of these cosmologies on the statistical properties of galaxy populations by combining high-resolution numerical simulations with semi-analytic models (SAMs) of galaxy formation and evolution. New features have been implemented in the reference SAM in order to have it run self-consistently and calibrated on these cosmological simulations. They include an appropriate modification of the mass-temperature relation and of the baryon fraction in DM haloes, due to the different virial scalings and to the gravitational bias, respectively. Our results show that the predictions of our coupled-DE SAM do not differ significantly from theoretical predictions obtained with standard SAMs applied to a reference Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) simulation, implying that the statistical properties of galaxies provide only a weak probe for these alternative cosmological models. On the other hand, we show that both galaxy bias and the galaxy pairwise velocity distribution are sensitive to coupled DE models: this implies that these probes might be successfully applied to disentangle among quintessence, f(R)-gravity and coupled DE models.
Volume
452
Issue
1
Start page
978
Issn Identifier
0035-8711
Ads BibCode
2015MNRAS.452..978F
Rights
open.access
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