Galaxy Environments in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS)

Abstract

We present a study of galaxy environments to z~2, based on a sample of over 33,000 K-band selected galaxies detected in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS). The combination of infrared depth and area in the UDS allows us to extend previous studies of galaxy environment to z>1 without the strong biases associated with optical galaxy selection. We study the environments of galaxies divided by rest frame (U-B) colours, in addition to `passive' and `star-forming' subsets based on template fitting. We find that galaxy colour is strongly correlated with galaxy overdensity on small scales (<1Mpc diameter), with red/passive galaxies residing in significantly denser environments than blue/star-forming galaxies to z~1.5. On smaller scales (<0.5Mpc diameter) we also find a relationship between galaxy luminosity and environment, with the most luminous blue galaxies at z~1 inhabiting environments comparable to red, passive systems at the same redshift. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that these conclusions are robust to the uncertainties introduced by photometric redshift errors.

Accepted for publication in MNRAS. The paper contains 9 pages, 11 figures and 1 table

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