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We compute the power spectrum of galaxy density fluctuations in a recently completed redshift survey of optically-selected galaxies in the southern hemisphere (SSRS2). The amplitude and shape of the SSRS2 power spectrum are consistent with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 L. N. da Costa , M. S. Vogeley , M. J. Geller , J. P. Huchra , C. Park

We present the galaxy two-point angular correlation function for galaxies selected from the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy sample was selected with $r$-band apparent magnitudes between 17 and 21; and we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. Wang , R. J. Brunner , J. C. Dolence

We measure the angular power spectrum of radio galaxies in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) using two independent methods: direct spherical harmonic analysis and maximum likelihood estimation. The results are consistent and can be understood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Blake , Pedro G. Ferreira , Julian Borrill

We extract the galaxy density and momentum power spectra from a subset of early-type galaxies in the SDSS DR7 main galaxy catalog. Using galaxy distance information inferred from the improved fundamental plane described in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Stephen Appleby , Motonari Tonegawa , Changbom Park , Sungwook E. Hong , Juhan Kim , Yongmin Yoon

We constrain cosmological parameters by analysing the angular power spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 galaxies, a spectroscopic follow-up of around 1.3 million SDSS galaxies over 9,376 deg$^2$ with an effective…

We present the measurement and interpretation of the angular power spectrum of nearby galaxies in the 2MASS Redshift Survey catalog with spectroscopic redshifts up to $z\approx 0.1$. We detect the angular power spectrum up to a multipole of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Shin'ichiro Ando , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Eiichiro Komatsu

Large-scale peculiar motion modulates the observed luminosity distribution of galaxies. Using about half a million SDSS galaxies, this can be harnessed to obtain bounds on peculiar velocity moments, the amplitude of the linear matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Martin Feix

The APM Galaxy Survey maps the angular positions of more than one million galaxies to $b_{J} = 20$, covering a volume comparable to the forthcoming Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A numerical algorithm has been developed to estimate the power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Baugh , E. Gaztanaga

We have analysed the Rhodes/HartRAO survey at 2326 MHz and derived the global angular power spectrum of Galactic continuum emission. In order to measure the angular power spectrum of the diffuse component, point sources were removed from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Giardino , A. J. Banday , P. Fosalba , K. M. Gorski , J. L. Jonas , W. O'Mullane , J. Tauber

We summarize the detection rates at wavelengths other than optical for \~99,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 ``main'' spectroscopic sample. The analysis is based on positional cross-correlation with…

We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological parameters from the Wilkinson Microwave…

We calculate the redshift-space power spectrum of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 4 (DR4) Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample, finding evidence for a full series of acoustic features down to the scales of \sim 0.2 hMpc^{-1}.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gert Huetsi

We obtain cosmological constraints from a measurement of the spherically averaged power spectrum (PS) of the distribution of about 90000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) across 7646 deg2 in the Northern Galactic Cap from the DR7 of the SDSS.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-13 Francesco Montesano , Ariel G. Sanchez , Stefanie Phleps

We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra of 22,000 luminous, red, bulge-dominated galaxies to get high S/N average spectra in the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (2600A to 7000A). The average spectra of these massive, quiescent…

We present a power spectrum analysis of the final 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, employing a direct Fourier method. The sample used comprises 221,414 galaxies with measured redshifts. We investigate in detail the modelling of the sample…

We present initial results for counts in cells statistics of the angular distribution of galaxies in early data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze a rectangular stripe $2.5^\circ$ wide, covering approximately 160 sq.…

We measure the real-space galaxy power spectrum on large scales at redshifts 0.5 to 1.2 using optical colour-selected samples from the CFHT Legacy Survey. With the redshift distributions measured with a preliminary ~14000 spectroscopic…

The angular power spectrum C_l is extracted from the 4 year COBE DMR data with a 20 degree galactic cut, using the narrowest window functions possible. The average power in eight multipole bands is also computed, and plotted together with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Max Tegmark

We create a sample of spectroscopically identified galaxies with $z < 0.2$ from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, covering 6813 deg$^2$. Galaxies are chosen to sample the highest mass haloes, with an effective bias of 1.5,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ashley J. Ross , Lado Samushia , Cullan Howlett , Will J. Percival , Angela Burden , Marc Manera

We present the methodology and data behind the photometric redshift database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12). We adopt a hybrid technique, empirically estimating the redshift via local regression on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-21 Róbert Beck , László Dobos , Tamás Budavári , Alexander S. Szalay , István Csabai