Title: The Spatial Range of Conformity,
Abstract: Properties of galaxies like their absolute magnitude and their stellar mass
content are correlated. These correlations are tighter for close pairs of
galaxies, which is called galactic conformity. In hierarchical structure
formation scenarios, galaxies form within dark matter halos. To explain the
amplitude and the spatial range of galactic conformity two--halo terms or
assembly bias become important. With the scale dependent correlation
coefficients the amplitude and the spatial range of conformity are determined
from galaxy and halo samples. The scale dependent correlation coefficients are
introduced as a new descriptive statistic to quantify the correlations between
properties of galaxies or halos, depending on the distances to other galaxies
or halos. These scale dependent correlation coefficients can be applied to the
galaxy distribution directly. Neither a splitting of the sample into
subsamples, nor an a priori clustering is needed. This new descriptive
statistic is applied to galaxy catalogues derived from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey III and to halo catalogues from the MultiDark simulations. In the galaxy
sample the correlations between absolute Magnitude, velocity dispersion,
ellipticity, and stellar mass content are investigated. The correlations of
mass, spin, and ellipticity are explored in the halo samples. Both for galaxies
and halos a scale dependent conformity is confirmed. Moreover the scale
dependent correlation coefficients reveal a signal of conformity out to 40Mpc
and beyond. The halo and galaxy samples show a differing amplitude and range of
conformity.