Bibcode
Maddox, S. J.; Dunne, L.; Rigby, E.; Eales, S.; Cooray, A.; Scott, D.; Peacock, J. A.; Negrello, M.; Smith, D. J. B.; Benford, D.; Amblard, A.; Auld, R.; Baes, M.; Bonfield, D.; Burgarella, D.; Buttiglione, S.; Cava, A.; Clements, D.; Dariush, A.; de Zotti, G.; Dye, S.; Frayer, D.; Fritz, J.; Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.; Herranz, D.; Ibar, E.; Ivison, R.; Jarvis, M. J.; Lagache, G.; Leeuw, L.; Lopez-Caniego, M.; Pascale, E.; Pohlen, M.; Rodighiero, G.; Samui, S.; Serjeant, S.; Temi, P.; Thompson, M.; Verma, A.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 518, id.L11
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2010
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We present measurements of the angular correlation function of galaxies
selected from the first field of the H-ATLAS survey. Careful removal of
the background from galactic cirrus is essential, and currently
dominates the uncertainty in our measurements. For our 250
μm-selected sample we detect no significant clustering, consistent
with the expectation that the 250 μm-selected sources are mostly
normal galaxies at z ⪉ 1. For our 350 μm and 500 μm-selected
samples we detect relatively strong clustering with correlation
amplitudes A of 0.2 and 1.2 at 1', but with relatively large
uncertainties. For samples which preferentially select high redshift
galaxies at z~2-3 we detect significant strong clustering, leading to an
estimate of r0 ~ 7-11 h-1 Mpc. The slope of our
clustering measurements is very steep, δ ~ 2. The measurements are
consistent with the idea that sub-mm sources consist of a low redshift
population of normal galaxies and a high redshift population of highly
clustered star-bursting galaxies.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided
by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important
participation from NASA.
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