Intrinsic alignments of galaxies in the Illustris simulation

We study intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxy image shapes within the Illustris cosmic structure formation simulations. We investigate how IA correlations depend on observable galaxy properties such as stellar mass, apparent magnitude, redshift and photometric type, and on the employed shape measurem...

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Hauptverfasser: Hilbert, Stefan (VerfasserIn) , Springel, Volker (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 27 February 2017
In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 468, Heft: 1, Pages: 790-823
ISSN:1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stx482
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx482
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Verfasserangaben:Stefan Hilbert, Dandan Xu, Peter Schneider, Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger and Lars Hernquist

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