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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 692, Issue 1, Pages 265-282Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/265
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cosmology: observations; galaxies: clusters: individual (MaxBCG); large-scale structure of universe
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Participating Institutions
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
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We measure the two-point spatial correlation function for clusters selected from the photometric MaxBCG galaxy cluster catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We evaluate the correlation function for several cluster samples using different cuts in cluster richness. Fitting the results to power laws, xi cc(r) = (r/R-0)(-gamma), the estimated correlation length R-0 as a function of richness is broadly consistent with previous cluster observations and with expectations from N-body simulations. We study how the linear bias parameter scales with richness and compare our results to theoretical predictions. Since these measurements extend to very large scales, we also compare them to models that include the baryon acoustic oscillation feature and that account for the smoothing effects induced by errors in the cluster photometric redshift estimates. For the largest cluster sample, corresponding to a richness threshold of N-200 >= 10, we find only weak evidence, of about 1.4 sigma-1.7 sigma significance, for the baryonic acoustic oscillation signature in the cluster correlation function.
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