The Three-Point Correlation Function of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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2007-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703340v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.378:1196-1206,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages. Accepted for publication to the MNRAS. Data accompanying paper can be found at http://www.dsg.port.ac.uk/~nicholb/3p

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11872.x

We present measurements of the redshift-space three-point correlation function of 50,967 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Data Release 3 (DR3) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We have studied the shape dependence of the reduced three-point correlation function (Qz(s,q,theta)) on three different scales, s=4, 7 and 10 h-1 Mpc, and over the range of 1 < q < 3 and 0 < theta < 180. On small scales (s=4 h-1 Mpc), Qz is nearly constant, with little change as a function of q and theta. However, there is evidence for a shallow U-shaped behaviour (with theta) which is expected from theoretical modeling of Qz . On larger scales (s=7 and 10 h-1 Mpc), the U-shaped anisotropy in Qz (with theta) is more clearly detected. We compare this shape-dependence in Qz(s,q,theta) with that seen in mock galaxy catalogues which were generated by populating the dark matter halos in large N-body simulations with mock galaxies using various Halo Occupation Distributions (HOD). We find that the combination of the observed number density of LRGs, the (redshift-space) two-point correlation function and Qz provides a strong constraint on the allowed HOD parameters (M_min, M_1, alpha) and breaks key degeneracies between these parameters. For example, our observed Qz disfavors mock catalogues that overpopulate massive dark matter halos with many LRG satellites. We also estimate the linear bias of LRGs to be b=1.87+/-0.07 in excellent agreement with other measurements.

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