We demonstrate the application of CMB techniques to measure the clustering of infrared emitting star-forming galaxies. We detect correlations in the cosmic far-infrared background due to the clustering of star-forming galaxies in observations made with the Balloon-borne
Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, BLAST, at 250, 350, and 500μm. We perform
jackknife and other tests to confirm the reality of the signal. The measured correlations are well fit by a power law over scales of 5–25 arcminutes, with ∆I/I = 15.1 ± 1.7%. We adopt a specific model for submillimeter sources in which the contribution to clustering comes from sources in the redshift ranges 1.3≤z≤2.2, 1.5≤z≤2.7,and1.7≤z≤3.2,at 250, 350 and 500 μm, respectively. With these distributions, our measurement of the power spectrum, P(kθ), corresponds to linear bias parameters, b = 3.8±0.6,3.9±0.6 and 4.4±0.7,
respectively. We further interpret the results in terms of the halo model, and find that at the smaller scales, the simplest halo model fails to fit our results. One way to improve the fit is to increase the radius at which dark matter halos are artificially truncated in the model, which is equivalent to having some star-forming galaxies at z ≥ 1 located in the outskirts of groups and clusters. In the context of this model we find a minimum halo mass required to host a
galaxy is log(Mmin/M⊙) = 11.5+0.4, and we derive effective biases beff = 2.2 ± 0.2, 2.4 ± 0.2, −0.1 and 2.6 ± 0.2, and effective masses log(Meff/M⊙) = 12.9 ± 0.3, 12.8 ± 0.2, and 12.7 ± 0.2 , at 250, 350 and 500 μm, corresponding to spatial correlation lengths of r0 = 4.9, 5.0, and 5.2 ±0.7 h−1 Mpc, respectively. Finally, we discuss implications for clustering measurement strategies with Herschel and Planck.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/26335 |
| Date | 23 February 2011 |
| Creators | Viero, Marco Paolo |
| Contributors | Netterfield, Calvin Barth |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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