The zCOSMOS Survey. The dependence of clustering on luminosity and stellar mass at z=0.2-1

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We study the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass at redshifts z ~ [0.2-1] using the first zCOSMOS 10K sample.

• We measure the redshift-space correlation functions xi(rp,pi) and its projection wp(rp) for sub-samples covering different luminosity, mass and redshift ranges.
• We quantify in detail the observational selection biases and we check our covariance and error estimate techniques using ensembles of semi-analytic mock catalogues.
• We finally compare our measurements to the cosmological model predictions from the mock surveys.