期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 413, 期 3, 页码 1678-1686出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18241.x
关键词
galaxies: evolution; infrared: galaxies
资金
- STFC
- Royal Society
- European Research Council
- STFC [ST/H002391/1, PP/E001149/1, ST/I001212/1, ST/G001979/1, ST/F007043/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G001979/1, ST/H002391/1, ST/F007043/1, PP/E001149/1, ST/I001212/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We present a study of galaxy environments to z similar to 2, based on a sample of over 33 000 K-band-selected galaxies detected in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS). The combination of infrared depth and area in the UDS allows us to extend previous studies of galaxy environment to z > 1 without the strong biases associated with optical galaxy selection. We study the environments of galaxies divided by rest-frame (U - B) colours, in addition to 'passive' and 'star-forming' subsets based on template fitting. We find that galaxy colour is strongly correlated with galaxy overdensity on small scales (< 1-Mpc diameter), with red/passive galaxies residing in significantly denser environments than blue/star-forming galaxies to z similar to 1.5. On smaller scales (< 0.5-Mpc diameter) we also find a relationship between galaxy luminosity and environment, with the most luminous blue galaxies at z similar to 1 inhabiting environments comparable to red, passive systems at the same redshift. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that these conclusions are robust to the uncertainties introduced by photometric redshift errors.
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