The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)

Measuring the Conditional Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions of Galaxies by Combining the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9, Survey Validation 3, and Year 1 Data

  • Yirong Wang,
  • Xiaohu Yang,
  • Yizhou Gu,
  • Xiaoju Xu,
  • Haojie Xu,
  • Yuyu Wang,
  • Antonios Katsianis,
  • Jiaxin Han,
  • Min He,
  • Yunliang Zheng,
  • Qingyang Li,
  • Yaru Wang,
  • Wensheng Hong,
  • Jiaqi Wang,
  • Zhenlin Tan,
  • Hu Zou,
  • Johannes Ulf Lange,
  • ChangHoon Hahn,
  • Peter Behroozi,
  • Jessica Nicole Aguilar,
  • Steven Ahlen,
  • David Brooks,
  • Todd Claybaugh,
  • Shaun Cole,
  • Axel de la Macorra,
  • Biprateep Dey,
  • Peter Doel,
  • Jaime E. Forero-Romero,
  • Klaus Honscheid,
  • Robert Kehoe,
  • Theodore Kisner,
  • Andrew Lambert,
  • Marc Manera,
  • Aaron Meisner,
  • Ramon Miquel,
  • John Moustakas,
  • Jundan Nie,
  • Claire Poppett,
  • Mehdi Rezaie,
  • Graziano Rossi,
  • Eusebio Sanchez,
  • Michael Schubnell,
  • Gregory Tarlé,
  • Benjamin Alan Weaver,
  • Zhimin Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5294
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 971, no. 1
p. 119

Abstract

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In this investigation, we leverage the combination of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9, Survey Validation 3, and Year 1 data sets to estimate the conditional luminosity functions and conditional stellar mass functions (CLFs and CSMFs) of galaxies across various halo mass bins and redshift ranges. To support our analysis, we utilize a realistic DESI mock galaxy redshift survey (MGRS) generated from a high-resolution Jiutian simulation. An extended halo-based group finder is applied to both MGRS catalogs and DESI observation. By comparing the r - and z -band luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) derived using both photometric and spectroscopic data, we quantified the impact of photometric redshift (photo- z ) errors on the galaxy LFs and SMFs, especially in the low-redshift bin at the low-luminosity/mass end. By conducting prior evaluations of the group finder using MGRS, we successfully obtain a set of CLF and CSMF measurements from observational data. We find that at low redshift, the faint-end slopes of CLFs and CSMFs below ∼10 ^9 h ^−2 L _⊙ (or h ^−2 M _⊙ ) evince a compelling concordance with the subhalo mass functions. After correcting the cosmic variance effect of our local Universe following Chen et al., the faint-end slopes of the LFs/SMFs turn out to also be in good agreement with the slope of the halo mass function.

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