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The anisotropic galaxy 2-point correlation function (2PCF) allows measurement of the growth of large-scale structures from the effect of peculiar velocities on the clustering pattern. We present new measurements of the auto- and cross-…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Felipe A. Marín , Florian Beutler , Chris Blake , Jun Koda , Eyal Kazin , Donald P. Schneider

Context: With the data releases from the astrometric space mission Gaia, the exploration of the structure of the Milky Way has developed in unprecedented detail and unveiled many previously unknown structures in the Galactic disc and halo.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-08 S. Alinder , P. J. McMillan , T. Bensby

We investigate how well the redshift distributions of galaxies sorted into photometric redshift bins can be determined from the galaxy angular two-point correlation functions. We find that the uncertainty in the reconstructed redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Schneider , L. Knox , H. Zhan , A. Connolly

We investigate whether neighbor-density-weighted marked correlation functions (MCFs) can extract cosmological information beyond the standard redshift-space two-point correlation function (2PCF). Using the Kun suite of 129 $w_0w_a$CDM$+\sum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Xu Xiao , Xiao-Dong Li , Yiqi Huang , Le Zhang

Our recent studies of axial-symmetry breaking in the nearby ($d <3 \,{\rm kpc}$) star counts are sensitive to the distortions of stellar orbits perpendicular and parallel to the orientation of the bar just within and beyond the outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-20 Austin Hinkel , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny

In order to quantify the error budget in the measured probability distribution functions of cell densities, the two-point statistics of cosmic densities in concentric spheres is investigated. Bias functions are introduced as the ratio of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau , Christophe Pichon

Galaxy redshift surveys encode a wealth of information generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution, galaxy bias, and redshift-space distortions, only part of which is accessible through standard two-point statistics. Motivated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Davide Bianchi

We have developed a new analytic method to calculate the galaxy two-point correlation functions (TPCFs) accurately and efficiently, applicable to surveys with finite, regular, and mask-free geometries. We have derived simple, accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Chong-Chong He

We use the 2MASS extended source catalogue to determine angular correlation functions, w_p, to high orders (p<=9). The main sample contains 650,745 galaxies and represents an order of magnitude increase in solid angle over previous samples…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. J. Frith , P. J. Outram , T. Shanks

The two-particle angular correlations in the $\Delta$y,$\Delta\varphi$ space provide valuable insights into the properties of hadronization mechanisms and quark-gluon plasma properties. The correlation functions are influenced by several…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-06 Daniela Ruggiano

Near-future surveys promise a dramatic improvement in the number and precision of astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic measurements of stars in the Milky Way's disk. We examine the impact of such surveys on our understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Sumi , K. V. Johnston , S. Tremaine , D. N. Spergel , S. R. Majewski

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Universe. In this Letter we present some of the initial results on…

Base on Gaia Second Data Release and the combination of nonparametric bivariate density estimation with the least square ellipse fitting, we derive the shape parameters of the sample clusters. By analyzing the dislocation of the sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Qingshun Hu , Yu Zhang , Ali Esamdin

We measure the Galactic rotation curve and its first two vertical derivatives in the first and fourth quadrants of the Milky Way using the 21 cm VGPS and SGPS. We find tangent velocities of the atomic gas as a function of galactic longitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. S. Levine , Carl Heiles , Leo Blitz

We develop a novel method to explore the galaxy-halo connection using the galaxy imaging surveys by modeling the projected two-point correlation function measured from the galaxies with reasonable photometric redshift measurements. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , Hong Guo , Zheng Zheng , Ying Zu , Zhigang Li , Chengze Liu

We investigate how different galaxy properties - luminosities in u, g, r, J, K-bands, stellar mass, star formation rate and specific star formation rate trace the environment in the local universe. We also study the effect of survey flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 U. Sureshkumar , A. Durkalec , A. Pollo , M. Bilicki , J. Loveday , D. J. Farrow , B. W. Holwerda , A. M. Hopkins , J. Liske , K. A. Pimbblet , E. N. Taylor , A. H. Wright

We use stellar proper motions (PM) from Gaia Data Release 2 for studying the internal kinematics of Milky Way globular clusters. In addition to statistical measurement errors, there are significant spatially correlated systematic errors,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Eugene Vasiliev

We use machine learning methods to search for parity violations in the Large-Scale Structure (LSS) of the Universe, motivated by recent claims of chirality detection using the 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF), which would suggest new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Samuel Hewson , Will J. Handley , Christopher G. Lester

We develop a theoretical framework to provide observational constraints on the early Universe galaxy-halo connection by combining measurements of the UV luminosity function (UVLF) and galaxy clustering via the 2-point correlation function…

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the dynamics of the satellites of the Milky Way. We focus here on…