The angular correlations of galaxies in the COSMOS field

Details The angular correlations of galaxies in the COSMOS field The angular correlations of galaxies in the COSMOS field

2007-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/0704.2545v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Six pages, five figures. Accepted for publication in the ApJS COSMOS special issue, Sept. 2007

Scientific paper

10.1086/518693

We present measurements of the two-point galaxy angular correlation function w(\theta) in the COSMOS field. Independent determinations of w(\theta) as a function of magnitude limit are presented for both the HST ACS catalog and also for the ground-based data from Subaru and the CFHT. Despite having significantly different masks, these three determinations agree well. At bright magnitudes (IAB<22), our data generally match very well with existing measurements and with mock catalogs based on semi-analytic galaxy formation calculations of Kitzbichler and White from the Millennium Simulation. The exception is that our result is at the upper end of the expected cosmic variance scatter for \theta > 10 arcmin, which we attribute to a particularly rich structure known to exist at z~0.8. For fainter samples, however, the level of clustering is somewhat higher than reported by some previous studies: in all three catalogues we find w(\theta=1')~0.014 at a median IAB magnitude of 24. At these very faintest magnitudes, our measurements agree well with the latest determinations from the Canada-France Legacy Survey. This level of clustering is approximately double what is predicted by the semi-analytic catalogs (at all angles). The semi-analytic results allow an estimate of cosmic variance, which is too small to account for the discrepancy. We therefore conclude that the mean amplitude of clustering at this level is higher than previously estimated.

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