Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: spatial clustering of low-redshift sub-mm galaxies
Abstract
We have measured the clustering properties of low-redshift (z < 0.3) sub-mm galaxies detected at 250 micron in the Herschel-ATLAS Science Demonstration Phase (SDP) field. We selected a sample for which we have high-quality spectroscopic redshifts, obtained from reliably matching the 250-micron sources to a complete (for r < 19.4) sample of galaxies from the GAMA database. Both the angular and spatial clustering strength are measured for all z < 0.3 sources as well as for five redshift slices with thickness delta z=0.05 in the range 0.05 < z < 0.3. Our measured spatial clustering length r_0 is comparable to that of optically-selected, moderately star-forming (blue) galaxies: we find values around 5 Mpc. One of the redshift bins contains an interesting structure, at z = 0.164.
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@article{arxiv.1209.3213,
title = {Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: spatial clustering of low-redshift sub-mm galaxies},
author = {E. van Kampen and D. J. B. Smith and S. Maddox and A. M. Hopkins and I. Valtchanov and J. A. Peacock and M. J. Michalowski and P. Norberg and S. Eales and L. Dunne and J. Liske and M. Baes and D. Scott and E. Rigby and A. Robotham and P. van der Werf and E. Ibar and M. J. Jarvis and J. Loveday and R. Auld and I. K. Baldry and S. Bamford and E. Cameron and S. Croom and S. Buttiglione and A. Cava and A. Cooray and S. Driver and J. S. Dunlop and A. Dariush and J. Fritz and R. J. Ivison and E. Pascale and M. Pohlen and G. Rodighiero and P. Temi and D. G. Bonfield and D. Hill and D. H. Jones and L. Kelvin and H. Parkinson and M. Prescott and R. Sharp and G. de Zotti and S. Serjeant and C. C. Popescu and R. J. Tuffs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3213},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS