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We use SDSS-DR14 to construct a sample of galaxy systems consisting of a central object and two satellites. We adopt projected distance and radial velocity difference criteria and impose an isolation criterion to avoid membership in larger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-01 Valeria Mesa , Sol Alonso , Georgina Coldwell , Diego García Lambas , Jose Luis Nilo Castellón

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

It has been shown, both in simulations and observationally, that the tidal field of a large galaxy can torque its satellites such that the major axis of satellite galaxies points towards their hosts. This so-called `shape alignment' has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-22 Peng Wang , Quan Guo , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Chengliang Wei , Xi Kang

We use a sample of galaxy groups selected from the SDSS DR 4 with an adaptive halo-based group finder to probe how the clustering strength of groups depends on their masses and colors. In particular, we determine the relative biases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Yu Wang , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Simone M. Weinmann , Yaoquan Chu

Galaxy clustering contains information on cosmology, galaxy evolution, and the relationship between galaxies and their dark matter hosts. On small scales, the detailed kinematics of galaxies within their host halos determines the galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 K. J. Kwon , ChangHoon Hahn

We present an analysis of the z ~ 0 morphology-environment relation for 911 bright (M_B < -19) galaxies, matching classical RC3 morphologies to the SDSS-based group catalog of Yang et al. We study how the relative fractions of spirals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 David J. Wilman , Peter Erwin

We present the measurements and modelling of the small-to-intermediate scale (0.1--25 Mpc/h) projected and three-dimensional (3D) redshift-space two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) of local galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

In the past years several authors studied the abundance of satellites around galaxies in order to better estimate the halo masses of host galaxies. To investigate this connection, we analyze galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Adelheid F. Teklu , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Klaus Dolag , Andreas Burkert

We investigate the angular distribution of satellite galaxies in and around pairs of galaxy groups in SDSS and compare the results with the satellite distribution in pairs of dark matter halos by constructing mock catalogs that account for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-01 Yanhan Guo , Qinglin Ma , Cheng Li

We study the abundance of satellite galaxies as a function of primary stellar mass using the SDSS/DR7 spectroscopic catalogue. In contrast with previous studies, which focussed mainly on bright primaries, our central galaxies span a wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Laura V. Sales , Wenting Wang , Simon D. M. White , Julio F. Navarro

We explore the color dependence of the radial profile of satellite galaxies around isolated parent galaxies. Samples of potential satellites selected from large galaxy redshift surveys are significantly contaminated by interlopers --…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacqueline Chen

We exploit the SDSS galaxy groups catalogue of Yang et al. to study how the gas-phase metallicities of star-forming galaxies depend on environment. We find that satellite and central galaxies follow a qualitatively similar stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Anna Pasquali , Anna Gallazzi , Frank C. van den Bosch

A recent observational result finds that the quenching of satellites in groups at $z=0.08$ has an angular dependence relative to the semi-major axis of the central galaxy. This observation is described as `anisotropic quenching' or `angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 John P. Stott

Investigations of intrinsic alignments suggest a link between the alignment of a central galaxy's major axis with the galaxy distribution and its internal galaxy-halo shape alignment. In contrast, blue central galaxies typically exhibit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Agustina V. Marsengo-Colazo , Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán

By linking galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to subhaloes in the ELUCID simulation, we investigate the relation between subhalo formation time and the galaxy properties, and the dependence of galaxy properties on the cosmic web…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-14 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo

We investigate the clustering of galaxy groups and clusters in the SDSS using the Berlind et al. (2006) group sample, which is designed to identify galaxy systems that each occupy a single dark matter halo. We estimate group masses from…

The early--type galaxy (ETG) mass--size relation has been largely studied to understand how these galaxies have assembled their mass. One key observational result of the last years is that massive galaxies increased their size by a factor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Marc Huertas-Company , Francesco Shankar , Simona Mei , Mariangela Bernardi , J. A. L. Aguerri , Alan Meert , Vinu Vikram

In this paper, we use photometric data from the S-PLUS DR4 survey to identify isolated galaxy pairs and analyse their characteristics and properties. Our results align with previous spectroscopic studies, particularly in luminosity function…

We study the alignment of galaxies relative to their local environment in SDSS-DR8 and, using these data, we discuss evolution scenarios for different types of galaxies. We defined a vector field of the direction of anisotropy of the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 A. Hirv , J. Pelt , E. Saar , E. Tago , A. Tamm , E. Tempel , M. Einasto

We discuss the environmental dependence of galaxy evolution based on deep panoramic imaging of two distant clusters taken with Suprime-Cam as part of the PISCES project. By combining with the SDSS data as a local counterpart for comparison,…