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Wiley, Monthly Notice- Royal Astronomical Society -Letters-, 1(376), p. L20-L24

DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00278.x

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Number counts and clustering properties of bright distant red galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Early Data Release

Journal article published in 2007 by S. Foucaud, O. Almaini ORCID, I. Smail ORCID, C. J. Conselice ORCID, K. P. Lane, A. C. Edge, C. Simpson, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, M. Cirasuolo, P. Hirst, Michael G. Watson, M. J. Page,
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Abstract

We describe the number counts and spatial distribution of 239 distant red galaxies ( DRGs), selected from the Early Data Release of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey. The DRGs are identified by their very red infrared colours with (J - K)(AB) > 1.3, selected over 0.62 deg(2) to a 90 per cent completeness limit of K(AB) similar or equal to 20.7. This is the first time that a large sample of bright DRGs has been studied within a contiguous area, and we provide the first measurements of their number counts and clustering. The population shows strong angular clustering, intermediate between those of K-selected field galaxies and optical/infrared-selected extremely red galaxies. Adopting the redshift distributions determined from other recent studies, we infer a high correlation length of r(0) similar to 11 h(-1) Mpc. Such strong clustering could imply that our galaxies are hosted by very massive dark matter haloes, consistent with the progenitors of present-day L greater than or similar to L(*) elliptical galaxies.