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Title:
AzTEC Millimetre Survey of the COSMOS field - II. Source count overdensity and correlations with large-scale structure
Authors:
Austermann, J. E.; Aretxaga, I.; Hughes, D. H.; Kang, Y.; Kim, S.; Lowenthal, J. D.; Perera, T. A.; Sanders, D. B.; Scott, K. S.; Scoville, N.; Wilson, G. W.; Yun, M. S.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA), AB(Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Aptdo. Postal 51 y 216, 72000 Puebla, Pue., Mexico), AC(Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Aptdo. Postal 51 y 216, 72000 Puebla, Pue., Mexico), AD(Astronomy & Space Science Department, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea), AE(Astronomy & Space Science Department, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea), AF(Department of Astronomy, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA), AG(Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA), AH(Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA), AI(Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA), AJ(California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA), AK(Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA), AL(Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 393, Issue 4, pp. 1573-1583. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2009
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
gravitational lensing , surveys , galaxies: evolution , cosmology: miscellaneous , infrared: galaxies , submillimeter
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14284.x
Bibliographic Code:
2009MNRAS.393.1573A

Abstract

We report an overdensity of bright submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) in the 0.15 deg2 AzTEC/COSMOS survey and a spatial correlation between the SMGs and the optical-IR galaxy density at z <~ 1.1. This portion of the COSMOS field shows a ~3σ overdensity of robust SMG detections when compared to a background, or `blank-field', population model that is consistent with SMG surveys of fields with no extragalactic bias. The SMG overdensity is most significant in the number of very bright detections (14 sources with measured fluxes S1.1mm > 6 mJy), which is entirely incompatible with sample variance within our adopted blank-field number densities and infers an overdensity significance of >> 4σ. We find that the overdensity and spatial correlation to optical-IR galaxy density are most consistent with lensing of a background SMG population by foreground mass structures along the line of sight, rather than physical association of the SMGs with the z <~ 1.1 galaxies/clusters. The SMG positions are only weakly correlated with weak-lensing maps, suggesting that the dominant sources of correlation are individual galaxies and the more tenuous structures in the survey region, and not the massive and compact clusters. These results highlight the important roles cosmic variance and large-scale structure can play in the study of SMGs.
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