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In this study, we explore the potential of utilizing the four Minkowski functionals, which can fully describe the morphological properties of the large-scale structures, as a robust tool for investigating the modified gravity, particularly…

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Brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are very massive elliptical galaxies found at the centers of clusters. Their study gives clues on the formation and evolution of the clusters in which they are embedded. We analysed here in a homogeneous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Aline Chu , Florian Sarron , Florence Durret , Isabel Márquez

We study the morphology of luminous and massive galaxies at 0.3<z<0.7 targeted in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using publicly available Hubble Space Telescope imaging from COSMOS. Our sample (240 objects) provides a…

We report here the first systematic study of the supercluster-void network in the LCDM concordance cosmology in which voids and superclusters are treated on an equal footing. Superclusters are defined as individual members of an over-dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 S. F. Shandarin , J. V. Sheth , V. Sahni

We measure and analyze galaxy clustering and the dependence on luminosity, color, age, stellar mass and specific star formation rate using Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) galaxies at $0.48<z<0.62$. We fit the monopole and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Zhongxu Zhai , Will J. Percival , Hong Guo

It is known that the large-scale structure (LSS) mapped by a galaxy redshift survey is subject to distortions by galaxies' peculiar velocities. Besides the signatures generated in common N-point statistics, such as the anisotropy in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Aoxiang Jiang , Wei Liu , Wenjuan Fang , Wen Zhao

Imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey are used to characterize the population of galaxies in groups and clusters detected with the MaxBCG algorithm. We investigate the dependence of Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) luminosity, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Sarah M. Hansen , Erin S. Sheldon , Risa H. Wechsler , Benjamin P. Koester

We analyze a sample of 105 clusters having virial mass homogeneously estimated and for which galaxy magnitudes are available with a well defined high degree of completeness. In particular, we consider a subsample of 89 clusters with B_j…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Girardi , S. Borgani , G. Giuricin , F. Mardirossian , M. Mezzetti , ;

We present the first results from our HST Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) survey of seven central supergiant cluster galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems. We measure a total of 48000 GCs in all seven galaxies, representing the…

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered unexpectedly abundant luminous galaxies at high redshift, posing possibly a severe challenge to popular galaxy formation models. We study early structure formation in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-25 Shingo Hirano , Naoki Yoshida

The characterization of the internal structure of the superclusters of galaxies (walls, filaments and knots where the clusters are located) is paramount for understanding the formation of the Large Scale Structure and for outlining the…

Deep imaging data from the Keck II telescope are employed to study the globular cluster (GC) populations in the cores of six rich Abell clusters. The sample includes A754, A1644, A2124, A2147, A2151, and A2152, and spans the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John P. Blakeslee

We investigate properties of superclusters of galaxies found on the basis of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, and compare them with properties of superclusters from the Millennium Simulation. We study the dependence of various…

Generally the dynamical state of superclusters is poorly known. We study properties of superclusters and select a sample of quasi-spherical superclusters, the dynamics of which can be studied using the $\Lambda$ significance diagram. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Pekka Heinämäki , Pekka Teerikorpi , Marian Douspis , Pasi Nurmi , Maret Einasto , Mirt Gramann , Jukka Nevalainen , Enn Saar

The improvements in the sensitivity of the gravitational wave (GW) network enable the detection of several large redshift GW sources by third-generation GW detectors. These advancements provide an independent method to probe the large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoyun Shao , Zhoujian Cao , Xilong Fan , Shichao Wu

We report the first detection of a redshift-depth enhancement of background galaxies magnified by foreground clusters. Using 300,000 BOSS-Survey galaxies with accurate spectroscopic redshifts, we measure their mean redshift depth behind…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jean Coupon , Tom Broadhurst , Keiichi Umetsu

We probe the higher-order clustering of the galaxies in the final data release (DR12) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using the method of germ-grain Minkowski Functionals (MFs). Our sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Alexander Wiegand , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We develop an automatic bubble-recognition routine based on Minkowski functionals (MF) and tensors (MT) to detect bubble-like interstellar structures in optical emission line images. Minkowski functionals and MT are powerful mathematical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-01 Caroline Collischon , Manami Sasaki , Klaus Mecke , Sean D. Points , Michael A. Klatt

Galaxy clusters exhibit a rich morphology during the early and intermediate stages of mass assembly, especially beyond their boundary. A classification scheme based on shapefinders deduced from the Minkowski functionals is examined to fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 C. Schimd , M. Sereno