Issue |
A&A
Volume 422, Number 2, August I 2004
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Page(s) | 453 - 463 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20035933 | |
Published online | 09 July 2004 |
An overdensity of extremely red objects around faint mid-IR galaxies
1
European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Casilla 19001, Santiago, Chile emailpvaisane@eso.org
2
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile
3
Observatory, PO Box 14, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
4
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK
Received:
23
December
2004
Accepted:
28
April
2004
We have searched for Extremely Red Objects (EROs) around
faint mid-IR selected galaxies in ELAIS fields. We find a
significant overdensity, by factors of 2 to 5, of these EROs compared to field EROs in the same region and literature random field ERO counts. The excess is similar to that found previously in the fields of known high redshift quasars and AGN. While with the present data it cannot be definitely shown whether the overdensity is physically connected to the mid-IR source, a derived radial
distribution does suggest this. The fraction of EROs among K-selected galaxies is high in the mid-IR fields in agreement with the picture that the EROs responsible for the overdensity are members of high redshift clusters of galaxies. We find selected EROs to be more clustered around the mid-IR galaxies than
EROs, though statistics are weak because of small numbers. However, this would be consistent with a cluster/galaxy group scenario if, as we argue, the former colour selection finds preferentially more strongly clustered early type galaxies, whereas the latter selection includes a larger fraction of dusty EROs. Finally, using the mid-IR data, we are able to limit the fraction of ULIRG type very dusty EROs at
mag to less than ~10% of the total ERO population.
Key words: galaxies: evolution / infrared: galaxies / cosmology: observations / galaxies: clusters: general
© ESO, 2004
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