The angular clustering of galaxy pairs

Leopoldo Infante; Michael A. Strauss; Neta A. Bahcall; Gillian R. Knapp; Robert H. Lupton; Rita S.J. Kim; Michael S. Vogeley; J. Brinkmann; Istvan Csabai; Masataka Fukugita; Gregory Hennessy; Željko Ivezić; Don Q. Lamb; Brian C. Lee; Jeffrey R. Pier; D. G. York

doi:10.1086/338424

The angular clustering of galaxy pairs

Leopoldo Infante
, Michael A. Strauss
, Neta A. Bahcall
, Gillian R. Knapp
, Robert H. Lupton
, Rita S.J. Kim
, Michael S. Vogeley
, J. Brinkmann
, Istvan Csabai
, Masataka Fukugita
, Gregory Hennessy
, Željko Ivezić
, Don Q. Lamb
, Brian C. Lee
, Jeffrey R. Pier
, D. G. York

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Abstract

We identify close pairs of galaxies from 278 deg² of Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning imaging data. The pairs are drawn from a sample of 330,041 galaxies with 18 < r* < 20. We determine the angular correlation function of galaxy pairs and find it to be stronger than the correlation function of single galaxies by a factor of 2.9 ± 0.4. The two correlation functions have the same logarithmic slope of 0.77. We invert Limber's equation to estimate the three-dimensional correlation functions; we find clustering lengths of r₀ = 4.2 ± 0.4 h ^-1 Mpc for galaxies and 7.8 ± 0.7 h^-1 Mpc for galaxy pairs. These results agree well (with the global richness dependence of the correlation functions of galaxy systems.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	155-162
Number of pages	8
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	567
Issue number	1 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/338424
State	Published - Mar 1 2002

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

Galaxies: clusters: general
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: formation
Galaxies: interactions

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