The correlation function of radio sources

Abstract

We investigate the large-scale clustering of radio sources in the Green Bank and Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85 GHz surveys by measuring the angular two-point correlation function w(θ). Excluding contaminated areas, the two surveys together cover 70 per cent of the whole sky. We find both surveys to be reasonably complete above 50 mJy. On the basis of previous studies, the radio sources are galaxies and radio-loud quasars lying at redshifts up to z \sim 4, with a median redshift z \sim 1. This provides the opportunity to probe large-scale structures in a volume far larger than that within the reach of present optical and infrared surveys. We detect a clustering signal w(θ) \approx 0.01 for θ= 1\degr. By assuming an evolving power-law spatial correlation function in comoving coordinates ξ(r_c,z) = ( r_c / r_0 )^{-γ} (1+z)^{γ-(3+ε)}, where γ= 1.8, and the redshift distribution N(z) of the radio galaxies, we constrain the r_0--εparameter space. For `stable clustering' (ε= 0), we find the correlation length r_0 \approx 18 Mpc/h, larger than the value for nearby normal galaxies and comparable to the cluster-cluster correlation length.

8 pages, 7 ps figures included, LaTeX (mn,sty). Accepted by MNRAS

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