A Halo Model with Environment Dependence: Theoretical Considerations
  We present a modification of the standard halo model with the goal of
providing an improved description of galaxy clustering. Recent surveys, like
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Anglo-Australian Two-degree survey
(2dF), have shown that there seems to be a correlation between the clustering
of galaxies and their properties such as metallicity and star formation rate,
which are believed to be environment-dependent. This environmental dependence
is not included in the standard halo model where the host halo mass is the only
variable specifying galaxy properties. In our approach, the halo properties
i.e., the concentration, and the Halo Occupation Distribution --HOD--
prescription, will not only depend on the halo mass (like in the standard halo
model) but also on the halo environment. We examine how different environmental
dependence of halo concentration and HOD prescription affect the correlation
function. We see that at the level of dark matter, the concentration of haloes
affects moderately the dark matter correlation function only at small scales.
However the galaxy correlation function is extremely sensitive to the HOD
details, even when only the HOD of a small fraction of haloes is modified.
