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On The Clustering Of Sub-Millimeter Galaxies, Christina C. Williams, Mauro Giavalisco, Cristiano Porciani, Min S. Yun, Alexandra Pope, Kimberly S. Scott, Jason E. Austermann, Itziar Aretxaga, Bunyo Hatsukade, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Grant W. Wilson, J. Ryan Cybulski, David H. Hughes, Ryo Kawabe, Kotaro Kohno, Thushara Perera, F. Peter Schloerb

Thushara A. Perera

We measure the angular two-point correlation function of sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) from 1.1-millimeter imaging of the COSMOS field with the AzTEC camera and ASTE 10-meter telescope. These data yields one of the largest contiguous samples of SMGs to date, covering an area of 0.72 degrees^2 down to a 1.26 mJy/beam (1-sigma) limit, including 189 (328) sources with S/N greater than 3.5 (3). We can only set upper limits to the correlation length r_0, modeling the correlation function as a power-law with pre-assigned slope. Assuming existing redshift distributions, we derive 68.3% confidence level upper limits of r_0 < 6-8 h^-1 Mpc at …