[工程科技]Angularandthree--dimensionalcorrelationfunctions_determinedfromtheMuensterRedSky.pdfVIP

1 0 0 2 g u A 8 2 1 Angular and three–dimensional correlation functions, v 9 determined from the Muenster Red Sky Survey 3 4 8 0 1 Peter Bosch´an 0 Department of Theoretical Physics, Westf¨alische Wilhelms Universit¨at, / h D48149 Muenster, Germany p- boschan@uni-muenster.de o r t February 1, 2008 s a : v i X r a Abstract We measured the two dimensional galaxy–galaxy correlation function from the Muenster Red Sky Survey (Ungruhe 1999). This survey has a slightly larger surface as the APM survey and complete up to rF 18.3 mag (zmed ∼0.14). The large dynamical range of the survey made it possible to examine sub-catalogues with different limiting magnitudes. The positive part of our measured angular correlation functions (after the colour correction) agree excellently with those measured by Maddox, Efstathiou and Shutherland 1996 from the APM galaxy catalogue (Maddox et al. 1990). From the measured angular correlation functions the three dimensional two-point correlation function ξ (r) was calculated. We have chosen the evolution parameter ǫ so that the change of the correlation length r0 with the depth of the sub-catalogue were minimal. This prescription gives r0 = 5.82±0.05 h−1 Mpc and a very high, positive evolution parameter ǫ = 2.6. The position of the point, where the 3d correlation function breaks away from the power law depends on the depth of the sub-catalogues: for low magnitude limits the break-down comes earlier, for higher later. 1. Introduction Since almost half a century the two-point correlation function has been the most popular statistic to desc