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Using the equatorial Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) dataset, we investigate how the low-redshift galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) varies across different galaxy populations and as a function of halo mass. We find that: (i) The GSMF of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 A. Sbaffoni , J. Liske , A. S. G. Robotham , L. J. M. Davies , S. P. Driver , E. N. Taylor

Low-mass dwarf galaxies ($M_{\rm vir} \lesssim 10^9\rm\ M_\odot$) are fundamental cosmological building blocks, yet the physical processes driving their structural diversity remain poorly understood. Recent numerical simulations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Chi-Hong Lin , Michiko S Fujii , Takayuki R Saitoh , Yutaka Hirai

We apply a halo-based group finder to four large redshift surveys, the 2MRS, 6dFGS, SDSS and 2dFGRS, to construct group catalogs in the low-redshift Universe. The group finder is based on that of Yang et al. but with an improved halo mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Seunghwan Lim , Houjun Mo , Yi Lu , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang

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 estimate the Mass Function of void galaxies in the second public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from a sample of 1000 galaxies with local density contrasts of delta_v < -0.6. The galaxy sample is split into ellipticals and…

We summarize our modelling of galaxy photometric evolution (GRASIL code). By including the effects of dust grains and PAHs molecules in a two phases clumpy medium, where clumps are associated to star forming regions, we reproduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. L. Granato , L. Silva , L. Danese , G. Rodighiero , A. Franceschini , G. Fasano , A. Bressan

The stellar mass assembly of galaxies can be affected by both secular and environmental processes. In this study, for the first time, we investigate the stellar mass assembly of $\sim90,000$ low redshift, central galaxies selected from SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-13 Thomas M. Jackson , A. Pasquali , C. Pacifici , C. Engler , A. Pillepich , E. K. Grebel

We place limits on the mean density of the universe and the slope of the linear power spectrum around a megaparsec scale by comparing the universal mass function to the observed luminosity function. Numerical simulations suggest that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uros Seljak

Dark-matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have cusp-like inner density profiles, while observations of low-mass galaxies have found a range of inner slopes that are typically much shallower. It is still not well…

We present new measurements of the very low-mass end of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) at $z\sim6-7$ computed from a rest-frame ultraviolet selected sample of dropout galaxies. These galaxies lie behind the six Hubble Frontier…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-18 Lukas J. Furtak , Hakim Atek , Matthew D. Lehnert , Jacopo Chevallard , Stéphane Charlot

In this paper we study the impact of cosmic variance and observational uncertainties in constraining the mass and occupation fraction, $f_{\rm occ}$, of dark matter halos hosting Ly-$\alpha$ Emitting Galaxies (LAEs) at high redshift. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Julian E. Mejia-Restrepo , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

Deep pencil beam surveys (<1 deg^2) are of fundamental importance for studying the high-redshift universe. However, inferences about galaxy population properties are in practice limited by 'cosmic variance'. This is the uncertainty in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Benjamin P. Moster , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeffrey A. Newman , Hans-Walter Rix

In a hierarchical, dark matter-dominated Universe, stellar mass functions (SMFs), galaxy merger rates, star formation histories (SFHs), satellite abundances, and intracluster light, should all be intimately connected observables. However,…

There are mainly two different approaches to measure the cosmic star formation history: direct star formation rate density (SFRD) and stellar mass density rhostar as functions of redshift. Compilations of current observations seem to show a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-13 Jun-Hwan Choi , Kentaro Nagamine

Large-scale structure of Universe includes galaxy clusters connected by filaments. Voids occupy the rest of cosmic volume. The search of any dependencities in filament structure can give answer to more general questions about origin of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. V. Voitsekhovskiy , A. V. Tugay

Based on galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and subhalos in the corresponding reconstructed region from the constrained simulation of ELUCID, we study the alignment of central galaxies relative to their host groups in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo

Using the stellar photometry catalogue based on the latest data release (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a study of the Galactic structure using star counts is carried out for selected areas of the sky. The sample areas are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Xu , L. C. Deng , J. Y. Hu

We present a systematic analysis of the statistical properties of cosmic voids using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) and subhaloes from the ELUCID constrained simulation. By comparing voids identified in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Peng Wang , Feng Shi

We demonstrate that accurate and precise cosmological information can be extracted from the cell count analysis of the 3D spatial clustering of galaxies once the second-order ratio between one- and two-point moments of the smoothed galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-13 J. Bel , C. Marinoni