Comparison of the Large Scale Clustering in the APM and the EDSGC Galaxy Surveys

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1997-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712256v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages with 3 figures included. Submitted for MNRAS 'pink pages'

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01917.x

Clustering statistics are compared in the Automatic Plate Machine (APM) and the Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue (EDSGC) angular galaxy surveys. Both surveys were independently constructed from scans of the same adjacent UK IIIa--J Schmidt photographic plates with the APM and COSMOS microdensitometers, respectively. The comparison of these catalogs is a rare practical opportunity to study systematic errors, which cannot be achieved via simulations or theoretical methods. On intermediate scales, $0.1^\circ < \theta < 0.5^\circ$, we find good agreement for the cumulants or reduced moments of counts in cells up to sixth order. On larger scales there is a small disagreement due to edge effects in the EDSGC, which covers a smaller area. On smaller scales, we find a significant disagreement that can only be attributed to differences in the construction of the surveys, most likely the dissimilar deblending of crowded fields. The overall agreement of the APM and EDSGC is encouraging, and shows that the results for intermediate scales should be fairly robust. On the other hand, the systematic deviations found at small scales are significant in a regime, where comparison with theory and simulations is possible. This is an important fact to bear in mind when planning the construction of future digitized galaxy catalogs.

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