Galaxy Clustering at z~3
Abstract
Galaxies at very high redshift (z~3 or greater) are now accessible to wholesale observation, making possible for the first time a robust statistical assessment of their spatial distribution at lookback times approaching ~90% of the age of the Universe. This paper summarizes recent progress in understanding the nature of these early galaxies, concentrating in particular on the clustering properties of photometrically selected ``Lyman break'' galaxies. Direct comparison of the data to predictions and physical insights provided by galaxy and structure formation models is particularly straightforward at these early epochs, and results in critical tests of the ``biased'', hierarchical galaxy formation paradigm.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9805267,
title = {Galaxy Clustering at z~3},
author = {C. Steidel and K. Adelberger and M. Giavalisco and M. Dickinson and M. Pettini and M. Kellogg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9805267},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Presented at Royal Society Discussion Meeting, March 1998, "Large Scale Structure in the Universe", 14 pages LaTeX, 7 ps figures, uses rspublic.sty (included)