Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies

van Kampen, E.; Smith, D.J.B.; Maddox, S.; Hopkins, A.M.; Valtchanov, I.; Peacock, J.A.; Michałowski, M.J.; Norberg, P.; Eales, S.; Dunne, L.; Liske, J.; Baes, M.; Scott, D.; Rigby, E.; Robotham, A.; van der Werf, P.; Ibar, E.; Jarvis, M.J.; Loveday, J.; Auld, R.; Baldry, I.K.; Bamford, S.; Cameron, E.; Croom, S.; Buttiglione, S.; Cava, A.; Cooray, A.; Driver, S.; Dunlop, J.S.; Dariush, A.; Fritz, J.; Ivison, R.J.; Pascale, E.; Pohlen, M.; Rodighiero, G.; Temi, P.; Bonfield, D.G.; Hill, D.; Jones, D.H.; Kelvin, L.; Parkinson, H.; Prescott, M.; Sharp, R.; de Zotti, G.; Serjeant, S.; Popescu, C.C.; Tuffs, R.J.

Abstract

We have measured the clustering properties of low-redshift (z < 0.3) submm galaxies detected at 250 μm in the Herschel-ATLAS science demonstration phase field. We selected a sample for which we have high-quality spectroscopic redshifts, obtained from reliably matching the 250-μm sources to a complete (for r < 19.4) sample of galaxies from the GAMA data base. Both the angular and spatial clustering strength are measured for all z < 0.3 sources as well as for five redshift slices with thickness Δz = 0.05 in the range 0.05 < z < 0.3. Our measured spatial clustering length r0 is comparable to that of optically selected, moderately star-forming (blue) galaxies: we find values around 5 Mpc. One of the redshift bins contains an interesting structure, at z = 0.164.

Citation

van Kampen, E., Smith, D., Maddox, S., Hopkins, A., Valtchanov, I., Peacock, J., …Tuffs, R. (2012). Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426(4), 3455-3463. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21949.x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Nov 11, 2012
• Deposit Date: Jun 3, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 22, 2014
• Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Print ISSN: 0035-8711
• Electronic ISSN: 1365-2966
• Publisher: Royal Astronomical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 426
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 3455-3463
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21949.x
• Keywords: Surveys, Galaxies: statistics, Large-scale structure of Universe, Submillimetre: galaxies.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1426590