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In this work we introduce a new method to perform the identification of groups of galaxies and present results of the identification of galaxy groups in the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR7). Our methodology…

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In the standard model of non-linear structure formation, a cosmic web of dark-matter dominated filaments connects dark matter halos. In this paper, we stack the weak lensing signal of an ensemble of filaments between groups and clusters of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-12 Seth D. Epps , Michael J. Hudson

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a blind joint analysis of three two-point correlation functions measured from the Year 3 Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC-Y3) imaging data, covering 416 deg$^2$, and the SDSS DR11 spectroscopic…

Galaxy group masses are important to relate these systems with the dark matter halo hosts. However, deriving accurate mass estimates is particularly challenging for low-mass galaxy groups. Moreover, calibration of bservational mass-proxies…

In this work we analyze a sample of close galaxy pairs (relative projected separation $<25 h^{-1}$kpc and relative radial velocities $< 350$ km s$^{-1}$) using a weak lensing analysis based on the CFHT Stripe 82 Survey. We determine halo…

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an optical wide-field survey designed to map the matter distribution in the Universe using weak gravitational lensing. In this paper, we use these data to measure the density profiles and masses of a sample…

We perform a measurement of the mass--richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Melanie Simet , Tom McClintock , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Erin Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample…

We use a sample of galaxy groups selected from the SDSS DR 4 with an adaptive halo-based group finder to probe how the clustering strength of groups depends on their masses and colors. In particular, we determine the relative biases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Yu Wang , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Simone M. Weinmann , Yaoquan Chu

Weak gravitational lensing is a valuable probe of galaxy formation and cosmology. Here we quantify the effects of using photometric redshifts (photo-z) in galaxy-galaxy lensing, for both sources and lenses, both for the immediate goal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Nakajima , R. Mandelbaum , U. Seljak , J. D. Cohn , R. Reyes , R. Cool

We present a weak lensing analysis of a sample of SDSS Compact Groups (CGs). Using the measured radial density contrast profile, we derive the average masses under the assumption of spherical symmetry, obtaining a velocity dispersion for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-03 Martín Chalela , Elizabeth Johana Gonzalez , Diego Garcia Lambas , Gael Foëx

We examine the projected correlation of galaxies with mass from small scales (<few hundred kpc) where individual dark matter halos dominate, out to 15 Mpc where correlated large-scale structure dominates. We investigate these profiles as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ami Choi , J. Anthony Tyson , Chris B. Morrison , M. James Jee , Samuel J. Schmidt , Vera E. Margoniner , David M. Wittman

Ridges in galaxy density fields measured by photometric surveys are 2D projections of filaments in the cosmic web, and so should lens light from background galaxies. We report on a detection of this effect in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Mehraveh Nikjoo , Joe Zuntz , Ben Moews

We calculate the expected lensing statistics of the galaxy population in large, low-redshift surveys. Galaxies are modeled using realistic, multiple components: a dark matter halo, a bulge component and disc. We use semi-analytic models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ole Moeller , Manfred Kitzbichler , Priyamvada Natarajan

Based on galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and subhalos in the corresponding reconstructed region from the constrained simulation of ELUCID, we study the alignment of central galaxies relative to their host groups in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo

We investigate galaxy clustering and galaxy-mass correlations in the LCDM cosmological model using a large volume SPH simulation. For the most part, the predicted biases between galaxies and dark matter lead to good agreement with current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David H. Weinberg , Romeel Dav'e , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist

We present new results of our program to systematically search for strongly lensed galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. In this study six strong lens systems are presented which we have confirmed with follow-up…

We use galaxy-galaxy lensing to study the dark matter halos surrounding a sample of Locally Brightest Galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We measure mean halo mass as a function of the stellar mass and colour of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Rachel Mandelbaum , Wenting Wang , Ying Zu , Simon White , Bruno Henriques , Surhud More

We revise and extend the stochastic approach to cumulative weak lensing (hereafter the sGL method) first introduced in Ref. [1]. Here we include a realistic halo mass function and density profiles to model the distribution of mass between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-19 Kimmo Kainulainen , Valerio Marra

Based on observed rotation curves of galaxies and theoretical simulations of dark matter halos, there are reasons for believing that at least three different types of dark matter halos exist in the Universe classified by their masses M and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li , Jeremiah P. Ostriker