The Two-Point Correlation Function at Redshift 1/3

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1996-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9601014v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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23 pages including 6 Postscript figures, uses aaspp4.sty, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, also available at http://m

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We present the results of a study of the two-point correlation function for a sample of field galaxies taken from the CNOCI cluster survey. The sample consists of 144 galaxies within a contiguous region of space subtending 225 square arcminutes. The objects have r-band magnitudes 17.0 < r < 21.7 and redshifts 0.21 < z < 0.53. The median redshift of the sample is 0.36. The real space correlation function is found to be consistent with a power law \xi(r) = (r/r_0)^-1.7 with r_0 = 2.1 +0.6/-0.3 (\Omega_0=1), or r_0 = 2.5 +0.7/-0.4 (\Omega_0=0.2). Uncertainties are estimated using the bias-corrected bootstrap resampling method, with 300 resamplings. This low correlation length implies strong evolution since z~0.36 has occurred in either the correlation function or the luminosity function; if the observed correlation function is modeled as \xi(r,z) = \xi(r,0) * (1+z)^-(3+\epsilon) with \xi(r,0) = (r/5.1 h^-1Mpc)^-1.7, then \epsilon = 0.8 +1.0/-1.3. Comparison of the redshift space and real space correlation function indicates that the one-dimensional pairwise peculiar velocity dispersion \sigma at z~0.36 is weakly inconsistent with 770 km s^-1, the value predicted by the Cosmic Virial Theorem if \Omega_0=1. The observed correlation function is, however, consistent with \sigma=400 km s^-1, the value expected if \Omega_0=0.2.

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