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The two-point angular correlation function of galaxies, \wte, has been computed from a new survey of faint galaxies covering a 2 deg$^2$ area near the North Galactic Pole. This survey, which is complete to limiting magnitudes \jmag=24 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Infante , C. J. Pritchet

The angular clustering of faint field galaxies is investigated using deep imaging (I~25) obtained with the 10-m Keck-I telescope. The autocorrelation function is consistent with w(theta) ~ theta^-0.8 and, although less steep correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tereasa G. Brainerd , Ian Smail

The two-point angular correlation function, $\w$, is constructed from a catalog of 13,000 objects in 24 fields distributed over an area of 4 deg$^2$ and complete to a limit of $R = 23.5$. The amplitude and slope of our correlation function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Daniel Hudon , Simon J. Lilly

We present results for the two-point angular correlation function of galaxies to a limiting magnitude of r=26. The final sample is 97% complete to r=26.0, yielding 5730 galaxies over a 90.1 sq. arcmin field. The correlation function for our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tereasa G. Brainerd , Ian Smail , Jeremy R. Mould

For faint photometric surveys our ability to quantify the clustering of galaxies has depended on interpreting the angular correlation function as a function of the limiting magnitude of the data. Due to the broad redshift distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay , R. J. Brunner

The 2-point angular correlation function of galaxies, \wt, has been computed on equatorial fields observed with the CTIO 4m prime focus, within a total area of 2.31 deg$^2$. In the magnitude range $19\le m_R \le 21.5$, corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Infante , D. F. de Mello , F. Menanteau

We present measurements of the angular correlation function of galaxies selected from a B_J=23.5 multicolour survey of two 5 degree by 5 degree fields located at high galactic latitudes. The galaxy catalogue of approximately 400,000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. I. Brown , R. L. Webster , B. J. Boyle

We investigate the angular correlation function, omega(theta), and third and fourth-order hierarchical moments of a survey with approx. 70000 faint galaxies detected on a total area 1.74 sq. deg. to a limit of R=23.5. The omega(theta)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nathan Roche , Steve Eales

(abridged) We present a study of the angular correlation function as measured in the William Herschel Deep Field. This field covers 50 arcmin$^2$ and with it we are able to investigate the scaling of the angular correlation function to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. J. McCracken , T. Shanks , N. Metcalfe , R. Fong , A. Campos

We present measurements of the two-point galaxy angular correlation function as a function of apparent magnitude, color, and morphology. We present new galaxy number counts to limiting magnitudes of I=24.0 and V=25.0. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gillian Wilson

The UH8K wide field camera of the CFHT was used to image 0.68 deg^2 of sky. From these images, ~20,000 galaxies were detected to completeness magnitudes V<23.5 and I<22.5. The angular correlation function of these galaxies is well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Remi A. Cabanac , Valerie de Lapparent , Paul Hickson

We present a preliminary measurement of the angular clustering of faint ($R \le 25$) field galaxies in which we concentrate on the behavior of $w(\theta)$ on small angular scales ($\theta \ls 10''$). The galaxies are strongly clustered and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tereasa G. Brainerd , Casey J. Law , James Brauher , S. G. Djorgovski , Ken Banas

Significant uncertainties exist in the measured amplitude of the angular two-point correlation function of galaxies at magnitudes $I\approx26$ and fainter. Published results from HST and ground-based galaxy catalogs seem to differ by as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. U. Fynbo , W. Freudling , P. Moller

We present the first measurement of the angular correlation function in a $K$-selected galaxy survey, from two fields covering almost 10 square degrees. The angular correlation function at small angles is well described by a $\theta^{-0.8}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 C. M. Baugh , J. P. Gardner , C. S. Frenk , R. M. Sharples

Measurements of galaxy clustering are now becoming possible over a range of redshifts out to z=3. We use a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation to compute the expected evolution of the galaxy correlation function with redshift. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Baugh , A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

(abridged) Using the UH8K mosaic camera, we have measured the angular correlation function \omega(\theta) for 100,000 galaxies over four widely separated fields totalling ~1\deg^2 and reaching IAB~25.5. With this sample we investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. McCracken , O. Le Fevre , M. Brodwin , S. Foucaud , S. J. Lilly , D. Crampton , Y. Mellier

We compute the two-point angular correlation function $w(\theta)$ for a sample of $\sim$ 1700 galaxies to a magnitude-limit equivalent to $R \sim 29.5$ using a catalog derived from the Hubble Deep Field images. A non zero value of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jens V. Villumsen , Wolfram Freudling , Luiz N. da Costa

Weak gravitational lensing by large scale structure affects the number counts of faint galaxies through the ``magnification bias'' and thus affects the measurement of the angular two-point correlation function $\w $. At faint magnitudes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Verner Villumsen

The angular correlation function \wth of faint galaxies is affected both by nonlinear gravitational evolution and by magnification bias due to gravitational lensing. We compute the resulting \wth for different cosmological models and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Moessner , B. Jain , J. V. Villumsen

We investigate the clustering of galaxies selected in the 3.6 micron band of the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) legacy survey. The angular two-point correlation function is calculated for eleven samples with flux limits of…

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