CORRELATIONS OF FAINT GALAXIES - A MONTE-CARLO APPROACH

Monte Carlo methods are employed to study the angular correlations ari sing from simulated galaxy clusters in flux-limited samples. In partic ular, we show that the models of Chokshi and coworkers that best repro duce the general characteristics of the observed deep blue photometric counts and redshift distributions also satisfy the observed angular c orrelation constraints of faint galaxies, under a stable clustering hy pothesis. In particular, the diminished clustering of faint simulated galaxies (24 < b(j) < 26) in the blue band arises from a extended high -redshift tail of simulated galaxies, in agreement with the models of Roche and coworkers.