The MUNICs project -- a multicolor survey of distant galaxies

Abstract

The MUNICS project is an ongoing imaging survey designed to cover 3 sq. degrees in V,R,I,J,K&#39;. We describe here partial results of the project concerning the clustering properties of K&#39; < 19.5 galaxies in scales of 3.6&#39;&#39; to 63.0&#39;&#39; over an area of $\sim 800 arcmin^2$. We present K&#39; data for a sample of 20 fields, five of which contain $z > 0.5$ radio-loud quasars with steep spectra, eight contain $z > 0.5$ radio-loud quasars with flat spectra and seven are high-galactic latitude fields with no quasars in them. The two-point angular correlation function for the total sample shows significant clustering at $\sim 5 σ$ level of K&#39;=19.5 galaxies. The correlation angle of the galaxies is $θ_0 = 1.7&#39;&#39; \pm 0.4&#39;&#39;$ for K&#39; < 19 mag and $θ_0 = 1.0&#39;&#39; \pm 0.2&#39;&#39;$ for K&#39; < 19.5 mag. When the correlation functions for the subsamples are considered, the mean $ω(θ)$ amplitude of the fields which contain steep-spectra $z > 0.5$ radio-loud quasars is determined to be $\sim 2.0 - 2.5$ that of the high-galactic latitude fields.