Abstract
The passage from angular to spatial correlations, in the case of spatial clustering length depending on the average distance between nearby objects is studied. We show that, in a number of cases, the scaling law of angular correlation amplitudes, which holds for constant spatial clustering length, is still true also for a luminosity dependent spatial correlation. If the Limber equation is then naively used to obtain 'the' spatial clustering length from the angular function amplitude, a quantity close to the average object separation is obtained. The case of cluster clustering is explicitly considered.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 557-562 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | New Astronomy |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1999 |
Keywords
- 98.65.Cw
- 98.80.-k
- Galaxies: clusters
- Large-scale structure of the universe
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Instrumentation
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science