Bibcode
Arnalte-Mur, P.; Martínez, V. J.; Norberg, P.; Fernández-Soto, A.; Ascaso, B.; Merson, A. I.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Castander, F. J.; Hurtado-Gil, L.; López-Sanjuan, C.; Molino, A.; Montero-Dorta, A. D.; Stefanon, M.; Alfaro, E.; Aparicio-Villegas, T.; Benítez, N.; Broadhurst, T.; Cabrera-Caño, J.; Cepa, J.; Cerviño, M.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; del Olmo, A.; González Delgado, R. M.; Husillos, C.; Infante, L.; Márquez, I.; Masegosa, J.; Moles, M.; Perea, J.; Pović, M.; Prada, F.; Quintana, J. M.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 441, Issue 2, p.1783-1801
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2014
Citations
27
Refereed citations
25
Description
We study the clustering of galaxies as function of luminosity and
redshift in the range 0.35 < z < 1.25 using data from the Advanced
Large Homogeneous Area Medium-Band Redshift Astronomical (ALHAMBRA)
survey. The ALHAMBRA data used in this work cover 2.38 deg2
in seven independent fields, after applying a detailed angular selection
mask, with accurate photometric redshifts, σz ≲
0.014(1 + z), down to IAB < 24. Given the depth of the
survey, we select samples in B-band luminosity down to Lth
≃ 0.16L* at z = 0.9. We measure the real-space clustering using the
projected correlation function, accounting for photometric redshifts
uncertainties. We infer the galaxy bias, and study its evolution with
luminosity. We study the effect of sample variance, and confirm earlier
results that the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and European Large
Area ISO Survey North 1 (ELAIS-N1) fields are dominated by the presence
of large structures. For the intermediate and bright samples,
Lmed ≳ 0.6L*, we obtain a strong dependence of bias on
luminosity, in agreement with previous results at similar redshift. We
are able to extend this study to fainter luminosities, where we obtain
an almost flat relation, similar to that observed at low redshift.
Regarding the evolution of bias with redshift, our results suggest that
the different galaxy populations studied reside in haloes covering a
range in mass between log10[Mh/( h-1
M⊙)] ≳ 11.5 for samples with Lmed ≃
0.3L* and log10[Mh/( h-1
M⊙)] ≳ 13.0 for samples with Lmed ≃
2L*, with typical occupation numbers in the range of ˜1-3 galaxies
per halo.
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