CAROLLO , C. M.

We present a group-galaxy cross-correlation analysis using a group catalog produced from the 16,500 spectra from the optical zCOSMOS galaxy survey. Our aim is to perform a consistency test in the redshift range 0.2 \textless= z \textless= 0.8 between the clustering strength of the groups and mass estimates that are based on the richness of the...

We identify 42 "candidate groups" lying between 1.8\textlessz\textless3.0 from a sample of 3502 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the zCOSMOS-deep redshift survey within this same redshift interval. These systems contain three to five spectroscopic galaxies that lie within 500 kpc in projected distance (in physical space) and within 700...