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2004ApJ...605L..93S - Astrophys. J., 605, L93-L96 (2004/April-3)

Large cosmic variance in the clustering properties of Lyα emitters at z ≃ 5.

SHIMASAKU K., HAYASHINO T., MATSUDA Y., OUCHI M., OHTA K., OKAMURA S., TAMURA H., YAMADA T. and YAMAUCHI R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We reported in a previous paper the discovery of a large-scale structure of Lyα emitters (LAEs) at z=4.86±0.03 with a projected size of 20 h–170 Mpcx50 h–170Mpc in narrowband data of a 25'x45' area of the Subaru Deep Field (Ω0=0.3, λ0=0.7, and H0=70 h70km/s/Mpc). However, the surveyed area, which corresponds to 55 h–170Mpc x100 h–170Mpc, was not large enough to conclude that what we were seeing was a typical distribution of z≃5 LAEs. In this Letter, we report the results of follow-up imaging of the same sky area using a new narrowband filter (NB704, λc=7046 Å and FWHM=100 Å) to detect LAEs at z=4.79, i.e., LAEs lying closer to us by 39 h–170Mpc on average than the z=4.86 objects. We detect 51 LAEs at z=4.79±0.04 down to NB704=25.7, and we find that their sky distribution is quite different from the z=4.86 LAEs'. The clustering of z=4.79 LAEs is very weak on any scale, and there is no large-scale high-contrast structure. The shape and the amplitude of the angular correlation function are thus largely different between the two samples. These results demonstrate a large cosmic variance in the clustering properties of LAEs on scales of ∼50 h–170Mpc.

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Journal keyword(s): Cosmology: Observations - Cosmology: Early Universe - Galaxies: Evolution - Galaxies: High-Redshift - Galaxies: Photometry - Cosmology: Large-Scale Structure of Universe

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