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 measure...

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Hauptverfasser: Hilbert, Stefan (VerfasserIn) , Springel, Volker (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2017
In: Arxiv

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Verfasserangaben:Stefan Hilbert, Dandan Xu, Peter Schneider, Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger, and Lars Hernquist

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