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Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Legacy Survey, we study the alignment of luminous galaxies with spectroscopic data with the surrounding larger-scale structure as defined by galaxies with only photometric data. We find…

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The alignment between satellites and central galaxies has been studied in detail both in observational and theoretical works. The widely accepted fact is that the satellites preferentially reside along the major axis of their central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Peng Wang , Yu Luo , Xi Kang , Noam I. Libeskind , Lei Wang , Youcai Zhang , Elmo Tempel , Quan Guo

We investigate one-halo galactic conformity (the tendency for satellite galaxies to mirror the properties of their central) in both star-formation and morphology using a sample of 8230 galaxies in 1266 groups with photometry and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-07 Justin A. Otter , Karen L. Masters , Brooke Simmons , Chris J. Lintott

We study the alignments of satellite galaxies, and their anisotropic distribution, with respect to location and orientation of their host central galaxy in MassiveBlack-II and IllustrisTNG simulations. We find that: the shape of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ananth Tenneti , Thomas D. Kitching , Benjamin Joachimi , Tiziana Di Matteo

Observations have shown that the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies is not random, but aligned with the major axes of central galaxies. This alignment is dependent on galaxy properties, such that red satellites are more strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-11 Yang Ocean Wang , Weipeng Lin , Xi Kang , Aaron Dutton , Yu Yu , Andrea. V. Macciò

Torques acting on galaxies lead to physical alignments, but the resulting ellipticity correlations are difficult to predict. As they constitute a major contaminant for cosmic shear studies, it is important to constrain the intrinsic…

We analyse a high redshift sample ($0.4<z<0.5$) of LRG's extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 and their surrounding structures to explore the presence of alignment effects of these bright galaxies with neighbor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emilio Donoso , Ana L. O'Mill , Diego G. Lambas

We use the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the orientations of 4289 satellite galaxies with respect to their hosts. The orientation of the satellites is inconsistent with a random distribution at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ingolfur Agustsson , Tereasa G. Brainerd

Analyzing the halo and galaxy catalogs from the Millennium simulations at redshifts $z=0,\ 0.5,\ 1$, we determine the alignment profiles of cluster galaxies by measuring the average alignments between the major axes of the pseudo inertia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hyunmi Song , Jounghun Lee

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…

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We investigate the radial distribution of galaxies within their host dark matter halos by modeling their small-scale clustering, as measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Specifically, we model the Jiang et al. (2011) measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Douglas F. Watson , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , David W. Hogg , Tao Jiang

The anisotropic distribution of satellites around the central galaxy of their host halo is well-documented. However the relative impact of baryons and dark matter in shaping this distribution is still debated. Using the simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-22 Charlotte Welker , Chris Power , Christophe Pichon , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Sandrine Codis

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is rapidly becoming one of the most promising means to accurately measure the average relation between galaxy properties and halo mass. In order to obtain a signal of sufficient signal-to-noise, one needs to stack many…

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 (SDSS) and Millennium Simulation (MS) we investigate the alignment between galaxies and large-scale structure. For this purpose we develop two new statistical tools, namely the alignment correlation…

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We measure the angular clustering of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 in order to probe the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies within their dark matter halos. Specifically, we measure the angular correlation…

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We report the discovery of a statistically significant radial alignment of cluster galaxies in a sample of 85 X-ray selected clusters observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The tendency for alignment is a robust feature of our sample and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Pereira , J. R. Kuhn

Satellites are not randomly distributed around their central galaxies but show polar and planar structures. In this paper, we investigate the axis-asymmetry or lopsidedness of satellite galaxy distributions around isolated galaxies in a…

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