The Vimos VLT Deep Survey: Compact structures in the CDFS

Details The Vimos VLT Deep Survey: Compact structures in the CDFS The Vimos VLT Deep Survey: Compact structures in the CDFS

2005-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507690v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 17 figures, accepted in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053202

We have used the Vimos VLT Deep Survey in combination with other spectroscopic, photometric and X-ray surveys from literature to detect several galaxy structures in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). Both a friend-of-friend based algorithm applied to the spectroscopic redshift catalog and an adaptative kernel galaxy density and colour maps correlated with photometric redshift estimates have been used. We mainly detect a chain-like structure at z=0.66 and two massive groups at z=0.735 and 1.098 showing signs of ongoing collapse. We also detect two galaxy walls at z=0.66 and at z=0.735 (extremely compact in redshift space). The first one contains the chain-like structure and the last one contains in its center one of the two massive groups. Finally, other galaxy structures that are probably loose low mass groups are detected. We compare the group galaxy population with simulations in order to assess the richness of these structures and we study their galaxy morphological contents. The higher redshift structures appear to probably have lower velocity dispersion than the nearby ones. The number of moderatly massive structures we detect is consistent with what is expected for an LCDM model, but a larger sample is required to put significant cosmological constraints.

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