Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
16 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
We combine the GALFORM semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, which predicts the star formation and merger histories of galaxies, the GRASIL spectro-photometric code, which calculates the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies self-consistently including reprocessing of radiation by dust, and artificial neural networks (ANN), to investigate the clustering properties of galaxies selected by their emission at submillimetre wavelengths (SMGs). We use the Millennium Simulation to predict the spatial and angular distribution of SMGs. At redshift z = 2, we find that these galaxies are strongly clustered, with a comoving correlation length of r0 = 5.6 \pm 0.9 Mpc/h for galaxies with 850{\mu}m flux densities brighter than 5 mJy, in agreement with observations. We predict that at higher redshifts these galaxies trace denser and increasingly rarer regions of the universe. We present the predicted dependence of the clustering on luminosity, submillimetre colour, halo and total stellar masses. Interestingly, we predict tight relations between correlation length and halo and stellar masses, independent of sub-mm luminosity.
Almeida Cesario
Baugh Carlton M.
Lacey Cedric G.
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