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Galaxy and Mass Assembly: the evolution of bias in the radio source population to z 1.5

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posted on 2023-06-08, 21:15 authored by S N Lindsay, M J Jarvis, M G Santos, M J I Brown, S M Croom, S P Driver, A M Hopkins, J Liske, Jonathan LovedayJonathan Loveday, P Norberg, A S G Robotham
We present a large-scale clustering analysis of radio galaxies in the Very Large Array Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm survey over the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey area, limited to S1.4?GHz > 1?mJy with spectroscopic and photometric redshift limits up to r < 19.8 and <22 mag, respectively. For the GAMA spectroscopic matches, we present the redshift space and projected correlation functions, the latter of which yielding a correlation length r0 ~ 8.2?h-1?Mpc and linear bias of ~1.9 at z ~ 0.34. Furthermore, we use the angular two-point correlation function w(?) to determine spatial clustering properties at higher redshifts. We find r0 to increase from ~6 to ~14?h-1?Mpc between z = 0.3 and 1.55, with the corresponding bias increasing from ~2 to ~10 over the same range. Our results are consistent with the bias prescription implemented in the SKA Design Study simulations at low redshift, but exceed these predictions at z > 1. This is indicative of an increasing (rather than fixed) halo mass and/or active galactic nuclei fraction at higher redshifts or a larger typical halo mass for the more abundant Fanaroff and Riley Class I sources.

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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0035-8711

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Oxford University Press

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2

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440

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1527-1541

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2015-06-24

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2015-06-24

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2015-06-24

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