Clustering studies of radio-selected galaxies

We investigate the clustering of HI-selected galaxies in the ALFALFA survey and compare results with those obtained for HIPASS. Measurements of the angular correlation function and the inferred 3D-clustering are compared with results from direct spatial-correlation measurements. We are able to measure clustering on smaller angular scales and for galaxies with lower HI masses than was previously possible. We calculate the expected clustering of dark matter using the redshift distributions of HIPASS and ALFALFA and show that the ALFALFA sample is somewhat more anti-biased with respect to dark matter than the HIPASS sample. We are able to conform the validity of the dark matter correlation predictions by performing simulations of the non-linear structure formation. Further we examine how the bias evolves with redshift for radio galaxies detected in the the first survey.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of the Western Cape

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Passmoor, Sean Stuart

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Cress, Catherine

• Neutral-Hydrogen
• Radio Astronomy
• Radio Spectral Line
• Radio Continuum
• Clustering Statistics
• Large Scale Structure
• Bias-Statistics
• Correlation Function
• Evolution-Bias