Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-10-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. 17 pages, 17 figures, minor revisions to match published version available
Scientific paper
(abridged) We present a new near-infrared survey covering the 2 deg sq COSMOS field. Combining our survey with Subaru B and z images we construct a deep, wide-field optical-infrared catalogue. At Ks<23 (AB magnitudes) our survey completeness is greater than 90% and 70% for stars and galaxies respectively and contains 143,466 galaxies and 13,254 stars. At z~2 our catalogues contain 3931 quiescent and 25,757 star-forming BzK-selected galaxies representing the largest and most secure sample of these objects to date. Our counts of quiescent galaxies turns over at Ks~22 an effect which we demonstrate cannot be due to sample incompleteness. In our survey both the number of faint and bright quiescent objects exceeds the predictions of a semi-analytic galaxy formation model, indicating potentially the need for further refinements in the amount of merging and AGN feedback at z~2 in these models. We measure the angular correlation function for each sample and find that at small scales the correlation function for passive BzK galaxies exceeds the clustering of dark matter. We use 30-band photometric redshifts to derive the spatial correlation length and the redshift distributions for each object class. At Ks<22 we find r_0^{\gamma/1.8}=7.0 +/-0.5h^{-1} Mpc for the passive BzK candidates and 4.7+/-0.8h^{-1} Mpc for the star-forming BzK galaxies. Our pBzK galaxies have an average photometric redshift of z_p~1.4, in approximate agreement with the limited spectroscopic information currently available. The stacked Ks image will be made publicly available from IRSA.
Aussel Herve
Capak Peter
Cook Richard
Daddi Emanuele
Ilbert Olivier
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