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We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs from these samples, which include…

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We use data from the SDSS to investigate the evolution of the large-scale galaxy bias as a function of luminosity for red galaxies. We carefully consider correlation functions of galaxies selected from both photometric and spectroscopic…

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We study the clustering properties of the recently compiled SDSS cluster catalog using the two point correlation function in redshift space. We divide the total SDSS sample into two richness subsamples, roughly corresponding to Abell $R\ge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis

The assumption that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large scales is one of the fundamental postulates of cosmology. We have tested the large scale homogeneity of the galaxy distribution in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Yadav , S. Bharadwaj , B. Pandey , T. R. Seshadri

We investigate the large-scale distribution of galaxy clusters taken from several X-ray catalogs. Different statistics of clustering like the conditional correlation function (CCF) and the minimal spanning tree (MST) as well as void…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-16 A. V. Tikhonov , A. I. Kopylov , S. Gottlober , G. Yepes

We extend the real-space mapping method developed in Shi et at. (2016) so that it can be applied to flux-limited galaxy samples. We use an ensemble of mock catalogs to demonstrate the reliability of this extension, showing that it allows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Feng Shi , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Youcai Zhang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Wentao Luo , Dylan Tweed , Shijie Li , Chengze Liu , Yi Lu , Lei Yang

We perform a fractal analysis of the Southern Sky Redshift Survey 2, following the methods prescribed by Pietronero and collaborators, to check their claim that the galaxy distribution is fractal at all scales, and we discuss and explain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cappi , C. Benoist , L. N. da Costa , S. Maurogordato

We quantify galaxy correlations using two distinct three-dimensional samples from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): the Bright Galaxy Sample (BGS) and the Luminous Red Galaxy Sample (LRGS).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Francesco Sylos Labini , Tibor Antal

Differences in clustering properties between galaxy subpopulations complicate the cosmological interpretation of the galaxy power spectrum, but can also provide insights about the physics underlying galaxy formation. To study the nature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Molly E. C. Swanson , Max Tegmark , Michael Blanton , Idit Zehavi

We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. The aim of our analysis is to consider how well we can…

We analyze different volume-limited samples extracted from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2), using counts-in-cells to compute the Count Probability Distribution Function (CPDF).From the CPDF we derive volume-averaged correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Benoist , A. Cappi , L. N. da Costa , S. Maurogordato , F. R. Bouchet , R. Schaeffer

The number density and correlation function of galaxies are two key quantities to characterize the distribution of the observed galaxy population. High-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, which usually involve complex target selection and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-05 Jiacheng Meng , Cheng Li , Houjun Mo , Yangyao Chen , Kai Wang

We present a simple and efficient phenomenological model for the two-dimensional two-point galaxy correlation function that works well over a wide range of scales, from large scales down to scales as small as 25Mpc/h. Our model incorporates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Chia-Hsun Chuang , Yun Wang

We have investigated the dependence of galaxy clustering on their stellar mass at z~1, using the data from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). We have measured the projected two-point correlation function of galaxies, wp(rp) for a set of…

We constrain the linear and quadratic bias parameters from the configuration dependence of the three-point correlation function (3PCF) in both redshift and projected space, utilizing measurements of spectroscopic galaxies in the Sloan…

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements over scales 0.025 to 10 Mpc/h in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using a flux-limited sample of 127,001 lens galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts and mean luminosity <L> = L_* and 9,020,388…

We investigate the cosmological constraining power of combined weak galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering probes, i.e. $3\times2$-point analyses, assuming flexible models for redshift uncertainty, and Lagrangian perturbation theory and…

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