Measuring galaxy environment with the synergy of future photometric and spectroscopic surveys

Autor: Cucciati, O., Marulli, F., Cimatti, A., Merson, A. I., Norberg, P., Pozzetti, L., Baugh, C. M., Branchini, E.
Rok vydání: 2016
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1729
Popis: We exploit the synergy between low-resolution spectroscopy and photometric redshifts to study environmental effects on galaxy evolution in slitless spectroscopic surveys from space. As a test case, we consider the future Euclid Deep survey (~40deg$^2$), which combines a slitless spectroscopic survey limited at H$\alpha$ flux $\geq5\times 10^{-17}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ and a photometric survey limited in H-band ($H\leq26$). We use Euclid-like galaxy mock catalogues, in which we anchor the photometric redshifts to the 3D galaxy distribution of the available spectroscopic redshifts. We then estimate the local density contrast by counting objects in cylindrical cells with radius from 1 to 10 h$^{-1}$Mpc over the redshift range 0.9Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Databáze: arXiv