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We present new predictions for the galaxy three-point correlation function (3PCF) using high-resolution dissipationless cosmological simulations of a flat LCDM Universe which resolve galaxy-size halos and subhalos. We create realistic mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe Marin , Risa Wechsler , Joshua Frieman , Robert Nichol

We measure the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for a flux-limited sample of 118,000 galaxies and for a volume limited subset of 22,000 galaxies with absolute magnitude M_r<-21. Both correlation…

We investigate the radial distribution of galaxies within their host dark matter halos by modeling their small-scale clustering, as measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Specifically, we model the Jiang et al. (2011) measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Douglas F. Watson , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , David W. Hogg , Tao Jiang

McKay et al. (2002) have recently used measurements of weak galaxy-galaxy lensing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to estimate the cross correlation between galaxies and the projected dark matter density field. They derive a relation between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 XiaoHu Yang , H. J. Mo , Guinevere Kauffmann , YaoQuan Chu

We use the Millennium Simulation to study the relation of galaxies and dark matter haloes to the cosmic web. We define the web as the unique, fully connected, percolating object with (unsmoothed) matter density everywhere exceeding 5.25…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Navdha , Philipp Busch , Simon D. M. White

(abridged) We present measurements of galaxy-galaxy lensing from early commissioning imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We measure a mean tangential shear around a stacked sample of foreground galaxies in three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 SDSS Collaboration , Fischer

Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation function xi_gg(r) to constrain Omega_m and sigma_8, going beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaiyul Yoo , Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Zheng Zheng , Neal Katz , Romeel Davé

Weak gravitational lensing is now established as a powerful method to measure mass fluctuations in the universe. It relies on the measurement of small coherent distortions of the images of background galaxies. Even low-level correlations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Alan Heavens , Alexandre Refregier , Catherine Heymans

Here I summarize constraints on the nature of the dark matter halos of field galaxies that have been obtained from the most recent investigations of (i) weak galaxy-galaxy lensing and (ii) the dynamics of satellite galaxies in orbit about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tereasa G. Brainerd

We present measurements of the angular correlation function of galaxies selected from a B_J=23.5 multicolour survey of two 5 degree by 5 degree fields located at high galactic latitudes. The galaxy catalogue of approximately 400,000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. I. Brown , R. L. Webster , B. J. Boyle

We present a simple method for evaluating the nonlinear biasing function of galaxies from a redshift survey. The nonlinear biasing is characterized by the conditional mean of the galaxy density fluctuation given the underlying mass density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yair Sigad , Enzo Branchini , Avishai Dekel

We explore the possibility that an intrinsic correlation between galaxy ellipticities arising during the galaxy formation process may account for part of the shear signal recently reported by several groups engaged in weak lensing surveys.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Rupert A. C. Croft , Chris Metzler

We use the Millennium Simulation to measure the cross-correlation between halo centres and mass (or equivalently the average density profiles of dark haloes) in a LCDM cosmology. We present results for radii in the range 10 kpc/h < r < 30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Hayashi , S. D. M. White

The methods of determining the fractal dimension and irregularity scale in simulated galaxy catalogs and the application of these methods to the data of the 2dF and 6dF catalogs are analyzed. Correlation methods are shown to be correctly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nikita Yu. Lovyagin

Deep multi-color galaxy surveys with photometric redshifts will provide a large number of two-point correlation observables: galaxy-galaxy angular correlations, galaxy-shear cross correlations, and shear-shear correlations between all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Bhuvnesh Jain

The gravitational lensing, as well as the velocity field and the cosmological light-cone warp, changes the observed correlation function of high-redshift objects. We present an analytical expression of 3D correlation function,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takahiko Matsubara

We present new estimates of the spatial two-point correlation function of rich clusters of galaxies selected from the APM Galaxy Survey. We have measured redshifts for a sample of $364$ clusters out to a depth of $\sim 450\hmpc$. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 G. B. Dalton , R. A. C. Croft , G. Efstathiou , W. J. Sutherland , S. J. Maddox , M. Davis

There is accumulating evidence that the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function might be very different in different locations. The luminosity function might be rising in rich clusters and flat or declining in regions of low density. If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Brent Tully , Rachel S. Somerville , Neil Trentham , Marc A. W. Verheijen

We characterize galaxy correlations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by measuring several moments of galaxy counts in spheres. We firstly find that the average counts grows as a power-law function of the distance with an exponent D= 2.1+-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Francesco Sylos Labini

The angular two-point correlation function between background QSOs and foreground galaxies induced by gravitational lensing is derived. It is shown that the shape of this correlation function depends sensitively on the spectrum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann