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We measure the two-point angular correlation function of a sample of 4,289,223 galaxies with r < 19.4 mag from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of photometric redshift, absolute magnitude and colour down to M_r - 5log h = -14 mag.…

We determine the evolution of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) as a function of spectral type using the Autofib redshift survey, a compendium of over 1700 galaxy redshifts in various magnitude-limited samples spanning b_J=11.5-24.0. To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jeremy Heyl , Matthew Colless , Richard S. Ellis , Tom Broadhurst

From as early as the 1930s, astronomers have tried to quantify the statistical nature of the evolution and large-scale structure of galaxies by studying their luminosity distribution as a function of redshift - known as the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-04 Russell Johnston

We explore a variety of statistics of clusters selected with cosmic shear measurement by utilizing both analytic models and large numerical simulations. We first develop a halo model to predict the abundance and the clustering of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

We present the first study of GALEX far ultra-violet (FUV) luminosity functions of individual star-forming regions within a sample of 258 nearby galaxies spanning a large range in total stellar mass and star formation properties. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 David O. Cook , Daniel A. Dale , Janice C. Lee , David Thilker , Daniela Calzetti , Robert C. Kennicutt

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

We study the galaxy cosmological mass function (GCMF) in a semi-empirical relativistic approach using observational data provided by galaxy redshift surveys. Starting from the theory of Ribeiro & Stoeger (2003, arXiv:astro-ph/0304094)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-04 Amanda R. Lopes , Alvaro Iribarrem , Marcelo B. Ribeiro , William R. Stoeger

We compute optical galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) in the B, V, R, and I rest-frame bands for one of the largest medium-to-high-redshift (0.4 < z < 0.9) cluster samples to date in order to probe the abundance of faint galaxies in…

This paper aims to connect the theory of relativistic cosmology number counts with the astronomical data, practice, and theory behind the galaxy luminosity function (LF). We treat galaxies as the building blocks of the Universe, but ignore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marcelo B. Ribeiro , William R. Stoeger

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) with galaxy clustering is one of the most promising routes to determining the amplitude of matter clustering at low redshifts. We show that extending clustering+GGL analyses from the linear…

Two new luminosity functions of galaxies can be built starting from three and four parameter generalized gamma distributions. In the astrophysical conversion, the number of parameters increases by one, due to the addition of the overall…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Lorenzo Zaninetti

We show that current clustering observations of quasars and luminous AGN can be explained by a merger model augmented by feedback from outflows. Using numerical simulations large enough to study clustering out to 25 comoving h^{-1} Mpc, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert J. Thacker , Evan Scannapieco , H. M. P. Couchman , Mark Richardson

We present here initial results on the X-ray Cluster Luminosity Function (XCLF) from the Bright SHARC sample of distant X-ray clusters of galaxies. This sample is 97% complete in its optical identifications and contains 12 X-ray luminous…

Our previous study of the faint end (R$\leq$21.5) of the galaxy luminosity function (GLF) was based on spectroscopic data in a small region near the Coma cluster center. In this previous study Adami et al. (1998) suggested, with moderate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Adami , M. P. Ulmer , F. Durret , R. C. Nichol , A. Mazure , B. P. Holden , A. K. Romer , C. Savine

We present a study on the robustness of the covariance matrix estimation for galaxy clustering measurements depending on the cosmological parameters and galaxy bias. To this end, we have produced 9000 galaxy mock catalogues relying on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Falk Baumgarten , Chia-Hsun Chuang

The joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-shear cross-correlations (galaxy-galaxy lensing) in imaging surveys constitutes one of the main avenues to obtain cosmological information. Analyses from Stage III surveys have assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Shivam Pandey , Carles Sánchez , Bhuvnesh Jain , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We present an in-depth investigation of galaxy clustering based on a new suite of realistic large-box galaxy-formation simulations in $f(R)$ gravity, with a subgrid physics model that has been recalibrated to reproduce various observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Michael Collier , Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li

We present the methodology for a joint cosmological analysis of weak gravitational lensing from the fourth data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) and galaxy clustering from the partially overlapping BOSS and 2dFLenS surveys.…

We calculated spatial correlation functions of galaxies, $\xi(r)$, structure functions, $g(r)=1 +\xi(r)$, gradient functions, $\gamma(r)= d \log g(r)/ d \log r$, and fractal dimension functions, $D(r)= 3+\gamma(r)$, using dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 J. Einasto , G. Hütsi , T. Kuutma , M. Einasto

We combine a large set of quasar luminosity function (QLF) measurements from the rest-frame optical, soft and hard X-ray, and near- and mid-infrared bands to determine the bolometric QLF in the redshift interval z=0-6. Accounting for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Philip F. Hopkins , Gordon T. Richards , Lars Hernquist