The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Exploring the dependence of the three-point correlation function on stellar mass and luminosity at $0.5 < z < 1.1$

M. Moresco , F. Marulli , L. Moscardini , E. Branchini , A. Cappi (1) , I. Davidzon (2) , B.R. Granett , S. de La Torre (2) , L. Guzzo , U. Abbas , C. Adami (2) , S. Arnouts (2) , J. Bel (3, 4) , M. Bolzonella , D. Bottini , J. Coupon , O. Cucciati , G. de Lucia , P. Franzetti , A. Fritz , M. Fumana , B. Garilli , O. Ilbert (2) , A. Iovino , J. Krywult , V. Le Brun (2) , O. Le Fèvre (2) , K. Małek , H. J. Mccracken (5) , M. Polletta , A. Pollo , M. Scodeggio , L.A.M. Tasca (2) , R. Tojeiro , D. Vergani , A. Zanichelli

1 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
2 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
3 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
4 UTLN - Université de Toulon
5 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Aims. The three-point correlation function (3PCF) is a powerful probe to investigate the clustering of matter in the Universe in a complementary way with respect to lower-order statistics, providing additional information with respect to the two-point correlation function and allowing us to shed light on biasing, non-linear processes, and deviations from Gaussian statistics. In this paper, we analyse the first data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), determining the dependence of the three-point correlation function on luminosity and stellar mass at z = [ 0.5,1.1 ].Methods. We exploit the VIPERS Public Data Release 1, consisting of more than 50 000 galaxies with B-band magnitudes in the range − 21.6 ≲ MB − 5log (h) ≲ − 19.9 and stellar masses in the range 9.8 ≲ log (M⋆ [ h-2M⊙ ] ) ≲ 10.7. We measure both the connected 3PCF and the reduced 3PCF in redshift space, probing different configurations and scales, in the range 2.5

Mots clés: galaxies: distances and redshifts; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: statistics; large-scale structure of Universe; cosmology: observations

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

M. Moresco, F. Marulli, L. Moscardini, E. Branchini, A. Cappi, et al.. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Exploring the dependence of the three-point correlation function on stellar mass and luminosity at $0.5 < z < 1.1$. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2017, 604, pp.A133. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201628589⟩. ⟨hal-01582680⟩