Cake Talk by Adele Basturk from Caltech
Analyzing the clustering behavior of galaxies across a wide redshift range allows us to model the gravitational assembly of such structures over cosmic time. We achieve this by measuring the 2-point correlation of galaxies at 0.01 < z < 8.5, gravitationally lensed by the foreground cluster Abell370 in BUFFALO. With this understanding, we can probe our current model of Cold Dark Matter (CDM), specifically the assumption that it interacts solely through gravitation. More importantly, studying galaxies at high redshift gives us a more complete picture of clustering at various snapshots in time. In this talk, I will summarize how the correlation function informs us about galaxy clustering behavior, my results from running correlation functions in both the COSMOS 2020 and BUFFALO surveys, and share how predictive clustering calculations at different redshift and mass bins compare to measured correlations.