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We employ high-resolution dissipationless simulations of the concordance LCDM cosmology to model the observed luminosity dependence and evolution of galaxy clustering through most of the age of the universe, from z~5 to z~0. We use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charlie Conroy , Risa H. Wechsler , Andrey V. Kravtsov

The data on spectroscopic galaxy clustering collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will allow the significant detection of subtle features in the galaxy two-point correlation in redshift space, beyond the "standard"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Camille Bonvin , Francesca Lepori , Sebastian Schulz , Isaac Tutusaus , Julian Adamek , Pablo Fosalba

We use more than 110500 galaxies from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) to estimate the b_J-band galaxy luminosity function at redshift z=0, taking account of evolution, the distribution of magnitude measurement errors and small…

Photometric galaxy surveys are an essential tool to further our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe, its matter and energy content and its evolution. These surveys necessitate the determination of the galaxy redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 Pol Martí , Ramon Miquel , Anne Bauer , Enrique Gaztañaga

We characterize the luminosity distribution, halo mass dependence, and redshift evolution of red galaxies in galaxy clusters using the SDSS Data Release 8 RedMaPPer cluster sample. We propose a simple prescription for the relationship…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-30 Chun-Hao To , Rachel M. Reddick , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Risa H. Wechsler

We present a simple method for measuring cosmological bulk flows from large redshift surveys, based on the apparent dimming or brightening of galaxies due to their peculiar motion. It is aimed at estimating bulk flows of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adi Nusser , Enzo Branchini , Marc Davis

We explore the nature of the evolution of faint field galaxies by assuming that the local luminosity function is not well defined. We use a non-negative least squares technique to derive a near optimal set of local luminosity functions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Caryl Gronwall , David C. Koo

This paper presents stellar mass functions and i-band luminosity functions for Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies at $i < 21$ using clustering redshifts, from which we also compute targeting completeness measurements for the Baryon…

Measuring the evolution in the clustering of galaxies over a large redshift range is a challenging problem. We have developed a new technique which uses photometric redshifts to measure the angular correlation function in redshift shells.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert J. Brunner , Alex S. Szalay , Andrew J. Connolly

We investigate the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass in the redshift range 0.5<z<1.1, using the first ~55000 redshifts from the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We measured the redshift-space…

Magnification bias, an observational effect of gravitational lensing in the weak regime, allows testing the cosmological model through angular correlations of sources at different redshifts. This effect has been observed in various…

(Summary) Using the conditional luminosity function (CLF) -- the luminosity distribution of galaxies in a dark matter halo -- as the fundamental building block, we present an empirical model for the galaxy distribution. The model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asantha Cooray

In the theory of structure formation, galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying matter density field. The statistical relation between galaxy and matter density field is commonly referred as galaxy bias. In this paper, we test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eric Jullo , Jason Rhodes , Alina Kiessling , James E. Taylor , Richard Massey , Joel Berge , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Paul Kneib , Nick Scoville

We determine the cross-correlation function between galaxies and galaxy groups, using both the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We study the cross-correlation as a function of group…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Simone M. Weinmann , Cheng Li , Y. P. Jing

A new method is presented to obtain a non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate of the luminosity function and the selection function of a flux limited redshift survey. The method parameterizes the selection function as a series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Volker Springel , Simon D. M. White

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…

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

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 present a group-galaxy cross-correlation analysis using a group catalog produced from the 16,500 spectra from the optical zCOSMOS galaxy survey. Our aim is to perform a consistency test in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.8 between the…