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Clusters, Galaxies and the COSMOS J Berian James (IfA Edinburgh), John Peacock, Alexis Finoguenov, Henry Joy McCracken & Gigi Guzzo for the COSMOS collaboration
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) COSMOS – The Cosmic Evolution Survey The primary goal of COSMOS is to study the relationship between large-scale structure and the formation of galaxies, dark matter, and nuclear activity in galaxies. 0.5 < z < 3 2 million objects (I AB ~ 27) Volume ~ SDSS/2dFGRS
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) COSMOS & Large-scale structure The assembly of galaxies, clusters and dark matter on mass scales up to 10 14 ; Reconstruction of the dark matter distribution and content at z ~ 1.5; The redshift and environment evolution of galaxy morphology, merger rates and star formation; The evolution of AGN and dependence of black hole growth on galaxy morphology and environment; and The clustering, mass and luminosity distribution of the earliest galaxies, AGN and intergalactic gas at 3 < z < 6. VLA Spitzer HST (ACS) Subaru UKIRT ESO-VLT CHFT NOAO Galex XMM Chandra Scoville et al., astro-ph/0612305
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) Data product: Catalogue of approximately 150 cluster locations, including photometric redshifts. Clusters and galaxy groups VLA Spitzer HST (ACS) Subaru UKIRT ESO-VLT CHFT NOAO Galex XMM Chandra e.g. Finoguenov et al., astro-ph/0612360
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) Optical galaxies Observations Subaru broad-bands (B, V, r+, i+, z+) Intermediate- and narrow-bands (redshift refinement and high-redshift galaxy search) Data products Photometric, flux-calibrated images (.05 mag rms) with absolute astrometry (0.1 x ACS pixel) over the full COSMOS field; Million-source photometric redshift catalogue. VLA Spitzer HST (ACS) Subaru UKIRT ESO-VLT CFHT NOAO Galex XMM Chandra e.g. Capak et al., astro-ph/0704.2430
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) The galaxy-cluster cross-correlation
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) Projected cross-correlation function Phleps et al.., A&A 468 113 Decompose the separation into line- of-sight (redshift) and transverse components; The uncertainties in photometric redshifts cause distortion along line-of-sight; To remove this effect, integrate along the line-of- sight.
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) The galaxy-cluster cross-correlation Using 110 clusters at 0.3 < z < 1 Measurement is relative to cluster- random galaxy pairs; the latter reproduces the selection effects of the survey, but is otherwise Poisson- distributed. Separation Correlation amplitude
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) Evolution with mass and redshift 3 redshift bins for 0 < z < 1.0 3 bins in log M from ~10 12 to 10 14 For each bin, measure w p with just the clusters in that bin; To examine the trend in clustering, compare the amplitude at a fixed value of r p. z increasing M increasing
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) Adaptive binning in the M-z plane Division of the plane based on clusters available; For each bin, measure w p with just the clusters in that bin; Trends not obvious, but can be improved by optimising the number of clusters per bin z M
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Berian James (IfA Edinburgh) Summary The cluster-galaxy correlation displays evolution with mass and with redshift; But at higher redshift, the survey probes higher mass clusters, so how much of the redshift trend is really a trend in mass? Can adaptive binning simultaneously capture the features of the trends in both mass and redshift? The generation of random cluster catalogues would go some way to improving the result, by allowing the use of more sophisticated cross- correlation measures.
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