The Spatial Clustering of Distant, z~1, Early-Type Galaxies

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2001-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107340v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 11 figures. A&A, in press

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20011029

We examine the spatial clustering of extremely red objects (EROs) found in a relatively large survey of 700 arcmin^2, containing 400 galaxies with R-Ks>5 to Ks=19.2. A comoving correlation length r_0=12\pm3 /h Mpc is derived, under the assumption that the selection function is described by a passively evolving early-type galaxy population, with an effective redshift of z~1.2. This correlation length is very similar to that of local L* elliptical galaxies implying, at face value, no significant clustering evolution in comoving coordinates of early-type galaxies to the limiting depth of our sample, z~1.5. A rapidly evolving clustering bias can be designed to reproduce a null result; however, our data do not show the corresponding strong reduction in the average population density expected for consistency with underlying growth of the mass-function. We discuss our data in the context of recent ideas regarding bias evolution. The uncertainty we quote on r_0 accounts for the spikey redshift distribution expected along relatively narrow sightlines, which we quantify with detailed simulations. This is an improvement over the standard use of Limber's equation which, because of its implicit assumption of a smooth selection function, underestimates the true noise by a factor of ~ 3 for the parameters of our survey. We propose a general recipe for the analysis of angular clustering, suggesting that any measurement of the angular clustering amplitude, A, has an intrinsic additional uncertainty of \sigma_A/A=\sqrt{AC}, where AC is the appropriate integral constraint.

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