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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 685, Issue 1, Pages L1-L4Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/592383
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift; infrared: galaxies large-scale structure of universe
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- UKIDSS
- SXDS
- SWIRE
- NOVA
- National Science Foundation [CAREER AST-0449678]
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Recent studies have shown that distant red galaxies ( DRGs), which dominate the high-mass end of the galaxy population at, are more strongly clustered than the population of blue star-forming galaxies at similar redshifts. z similar to 2.5 However, these studies have been severely hampered by the small sizes of fields having deep near-infrared imaging. Here we use the large UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey to study the clustering of DRGs. The size and depth of this survey allow for an unprecedented measurement of the angular clustering of DRGs at 2 < z(phot) < 3 and K < 21. The correlation function shows the expected power-law behavior, but with an apparent upturn at theta less than or similar to 10 ''. We deproject the angular clustering to infer the spatial correlation length, finding 10.6 +/- 106 h(-1) Mpc. We use the halo occupation distribution framework to demonstrate that the observed strong clustering of DRGs is not consistent with standard models of galaxy clustering, confirming previous suggestions that were based on smaller samples. Inaccurate photometric redshifts could artificially enhance the observed clustering; however, significant systematic redshift errors would be required to bring the measurements into agreement with the models. Another possibility is that the underlying assumption that galaxies interact with their large-scale environment only through halo mass is not valid and that other factors drive the evolution of the oldest, most massive galaxies at z similar to 2
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