Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-04-01
Astrophys.J. 619 (2005) 147-160
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 20 figures, to be published in ApJ January 20th, revision included two new figures, version with high resolution fig
Scientific paper
10.1086/426181
We calculate the angular correlation function of galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Survey. We minimize the possible contamination by stars, dust, seeing and sky brightness by studying their cross correlation with galaxy density, and limiting the galaxy sample accordingly. We measure the correlation function at scales between 1-18 arcdegs using a half million galaxies. We find a best fit power law to the correlation function has a slope of 0.76 and an amplitude of 0.11. However, there are statistically significant oscillations around this power law. The largest oscillation occurs at about 0.8 degrees, corresponding to 2.8 h^{-1} Mpc at the median redshift of our survey, as expected in halo occupation distribution descriptions of galaxy clustering. We invert the angular correlation function using Singular Value Decomposition to measure the three-dimensional power spectrum and find that it too is in good agreement with previous measurements. A dip seen in the power spectrum at small wavenumber k is statistically consistent with CDM-type power spectra. A fit of CDM-type power spectra to k < 0.2 h Mpc^{-1} give constraints of \Gamma_{eff}=0.116 and \sigma_8=0.96. This suggest a K_s-band linear bias of 1.1+/-0.2. This \Gamma_{eff} is different from the WMAP CMB derived value. On small scales the power-law shape of our power spectrum is shallower than that derived for the SDSS. These facts together imply a biasing of these different galaxies that might be nonlinear, that might be either waveband or luminosity dependent, and that might have a nonlocal origin.
Katz Neal
Maller Ariyeh H.
McIntosh Daniel H.
Weinberg Martin D.
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