Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-06
Astrophys.J. 585 (2003) 191-204
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
41 pages, including 12 figs, 10 tables, to appear in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/345986
We present measurements of the two-point galaxy angular correlation function as a function of apparent magnitude, color, and morphology. We present new galaxy number counts to limiting magnitudes of I=24.0 and V=25.0. We find $\omega(\theta)$ to be well described by a power-law of slope -0.8. We find the amplitude of the correlation function to decrease monotonically with increasingly faint apparent magnitude. We compare with predictions utilizing redshift distributions based on deep spectroscopic observations. We conclude that simple redshift-dependent models which characterize evolution by means of the epsilon parameter inadequately describe the observations. We find a strong clustering dependence on V-I color because galaxies of extreme color lie at similar redshifts and the angular correlation functions for these samples are minimally diluted by chance projections. We then present the first attempt to investigate the redshift evolution of clustering, utilizing a population of galaxies of the same morphological type and absolute luminosity. We study the dependence of $\omega(\theta)$ on redshift for Lstar early-type galaxies in the redshift range 0.2
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