Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : Spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies

Smith, Daniel, Maddox, S., Dunne, L., Rigby, E., Bamford, S., Jarvis, M.J., Bonfield, D.G., Hill, D., Hopkins, A.M., Sharp, R., Valtchanov, I., Peacock, J.A., Michałowski, M. J., van der Werf, P., Auld, R., Dunlop, J.S., Parkinson, H., Norberg, P., Eales, S., Pascale, E., Pohlen, M., Baes, M., Fritz, J., Scott, D., Robotham, A., Driver, S., Kelvin, L., Ibar, E., Ivison, R.J., Loveday, J., Baldry, I.K., Prescott, M., Cameron, E., Croom, S., Buttiglione, S., de Zotti, G., Cava, A., Cooray, A., Dariush, A., Rodighiero, G., Temi, P., Serjeant, S., Popescu, C.C., Tuffs, R. J., van Kampen, E. and Liske, J. (2012) Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA : Spatial clustering of low-redshift submm galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 426 (4). pp. 3455-3463. ISSN 0035-8711

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We have measured the clustering properties of low-redshift (z <0.3) submm galaxies detected at 250 μm in the Herschel-ATLAS science demonstration phase field. We selected a sample for which we have high-quality spectroscopic redshifts, obtained from reliably matching the 250-μm sources to a complete (for r <19.4) sample of galaxies from the GAMA data base. Both the angular and spatial clustering strength are measured for all z <0.3 sources as well as for five redshift slices with thickness Δz = 0.05 in the range 0.05 <z <0.3. Our measured spatial clustering length r is comparable to that of optically selected, moderately star-forming (blue) galaxies: we find values around 5Mpc. One of the redshift bins contains an interesting structure, at z = 0.164.

Item Type	Article
Identification Number	10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21949.x
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Date Deposited	15 May 2025 12:33
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