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Volume 583, November 2015
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Article Number | A128 | |
Number of page(s) | 19 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425343 | |
Published online | 04 November 2015 |
Evolution of clustering length, large-scale bias, and host halo mass at 2 < z < 5 in the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS)⋆,⋆⋆
1 Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388 Marseille, France
2 INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani,1, 40127 Bologna, Italy
3 INAF–IASF, via Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy
4 INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via di Frascati 33, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
5 University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA), V.le Berti Pichat, 6/2 - 40127 Bologna, Italy
6 INAF–IASF Bologna, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
7 Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98 bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
8 Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie – IRAP, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, 14, avenue E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
9 Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, ch. d’Ecogia 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
10 Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, ch. des Maillettes 51, 290 Versoix, Switzerland
11 Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, 44001 Teruel, Spain
12 Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., MC 249–17, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
13 Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
14 Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, 85741 Garching bei München, Germany
15 Research Center for Space and Cosmic Evolution, Ehime University, Bunkyo-cho 2-5, 790-8577 Matsuyama, Japan
16 SUPA, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK
17 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
18 Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaiso, Av. Gran Bretana 1111, Casilla 5030, Valparaiso, Chile
19 Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University, Orla 171, 30-001 Cracow, Poland
20 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Astrophysics Division, ul. Hoza 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland
Received: 14 November 2014
Accepted: 12 August 2015
We investigate the evolution of galaxy clustering for galaxies in the redshift range 2.0 <z< 5.0 using the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS). We present the projected (real-space) two-point correlation function wp(rp) measured by using 3022 galaxies with robust spectroscopic redshifts in two independent fields (COSMOS and VVDS-02h) covering in total 0.8deg2. We quantify how the scale dependent clustering amplitude r0 changes with redshift making use of mock samples to evaluate and correct the survey selection function. Using a power-law model ξ(r) = (r/r0)− γ we find that the correlation function for the general population is best fit by a model with a clustering length r0 = 3.95+0.48-0.54 h-1 Mpc and slope γ = 1.8+0.02-0.06 at z ~ 2.5, r0 = 4.35 ± 0.60 h-1 Mpc and γ = 1.6+0.12-0.13 at z ~ 3.5. We use these clustering parameters to derive the large-scale linear galaxy bias bLPL, between galaxies and dark matter. We find bLPL = 2.68 ± 0.22 at redshift z ~ 3 (assuming σ8 = 0.8), significantly higher than found at intermediate and low redshifts for the similarly general galaxy populations. We fit a halo occupation distribution (HOD) model to the data and we obtain that the average halo mass at redshift z ~ 3 is Mh = 1011.75 ± 0.23 h-1M⊙. From this fit we confirm that the large-scale linear galaxy bias is relatively high at bLHOD = 2.82 ± 0.27. Comparing these measurements with similar measurements at lower redshifts we infer that the star-forming population of galaxies at z ~ 3 should evolve into the massive and bright (Mr< −21.5)galaxy population, which typically occupy haloes of mass ⟨ Mh ⟩ = 1013.9 h-1M⊙ at redshift z = 0.
Key words: large-scale structure of Universe / cosmology: observations / methods: statistical / galaxies: evolution
Based on data obtained with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, Paranal, Chile, under Large Program 185.A-0791.
Appendices are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
© ESO, 2015
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