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Galaxy groups and clusters are the main tools used to test cosmological models and to study the environmental effect of galaxy formation. This work provides a catalogue of galaxy groups and clusters, as well as potentially merging systems…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Elmo Tempel , Taavi Tuvikene , Rain Kipper , Noam I. Libeskind

We investigate various halo occupation statistics using a large galaxy group catalogue constructed from the SDSS DR4 with an adaptive halo-based group finder. The conditional luminosity function (CLF) is measured separately for all, red and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

We present an automated method to detect populations of groups in galaxy redshift catalogs. This method uses both analysis of the redshift distribution along lines of sight in fixed cells to detect elementary structures and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Adami , A. Mazure

Recent large-scale galaxy spectroscopic surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), enable us to execute a systematic, relatively-unbiased search for galaxy clusters. Such surveys make it possible to measure the 3-d distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joo H. Yoon , Kevin Schawinski , Yun-Kyeong Sheen , Chang H. Ree , Sukyoung K. Yi

We present the largest publicly available catalogue of compact groups of galaxies identified using the original selection criteria of Hickson, selected from the Sixth Data Release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan McConnachie , David Patton , Sara Ellison , Luc Simard

We investigate the clustering of galaxy groups and clusters in the SDSS using the Berlind et al. (2006) group sample, which is designed to identify galaxy systems that each occupy a single dark matter halo. We estimate group masses from…

The Millennium N-body simulation and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey seventh data release (SDSS DR7) galaxy and galaxy group catalogues are compared to study the properties of galaxy groups and the distribution of galaxies in groups. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. Nurmi , P. Heinämäki , T. Sepp , E. Tago , E. Saar , M. Gramann , M. Einasto , E. Tempel , J. Einasto

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friends linking lengths to recover galaxy systems that occupy the…

We present a machine learning (ML) approach for the prediction of galaxies' dark matter halo masses that achieves an improved performance over conventional methods. We train three ML algorithms (\texttt{XGBoost}, Random Forests, and neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Victor F. Calderon , Andreas A. Berlind

We study the three-dimensional and projected shapes of galaxy groups in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4, and examine the alignment between the orientation of the central galaxy and the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-09 Yougang Wang , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Frank C. van den Bosch , Zuhui Fan , Xuelei Chen

We construct a galaxy groups catalogue from the public 100K data release of the 2dF galaxy redshift survey. The group identification is carried out using a slightly modified version of the group finding algorithm developed by Huchra &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Merchan , Ariel Zandivarez

Reliable halo mass estimation for a given galaxy system plays an important role both in cosmology and galaxy formation studies. Here we set out to find the way that can improve the halo mass estimation for those galaxy systems with limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yi Lu , Xiaohu Yang , Shiyin Shen

We present a maximum-likelihood weak lensing analysis of the mass distribution in optically selected spectroscopic Galaxy Groups (G$^3$Cv5) in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, using background Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

We apply a friends-of-friends algorithm to an enhanced SDSS DR12 spectroscopic catalog including redshift from literature to construct a catalog of $1588~N\ge3$ compact groups of galaxies containing 5179 member galaxies and covering the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Jubee Sohn , Margaret J. Geller , Ho Seong Hwang , H. Jabran Zahid , Myung Gyoon Lee

Understanding the mechanisms that lead dense environments to host galaxies with redder colors, more spheroidal morphologies, and lower star formation rates than field populations remains an important problem. As most candidate processes…

Based on a large group/cluster catalog recently constructed from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR9 using an extended halo-based group finder, we measure and model the group-galaxy weak lensing signals for groups/clusters in a few redshift…

The majority of galaxy group catalogues available in the literature use the popular friends-of-friends algorithm which links galaxies using a linking length. One potential drawback to this approach is that clusters of point can be link with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 Mark T. Graham , Michele Cappellari

Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the study of dense galaxian environments…

We introduce a new method for the identification of galaxy systems in redshift surveys based on the halo model. This method is a modified version of the K-means identification algorithm developed by Yang et al (2005). We have calibrated and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-20 Mariano Javier de León Domínguez Romero , Diego García Lambas , Hernán Muriel