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Building accurate and flexible galaxy-halo connection models is crucial in modeling galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. Recent studies have found that halo concentration by itself cannot capture the full galaxy assembly bias effect and…

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We use a large dark matter simulation of a LambdaCDM model to investigate the clustering and environmental dependence of the number of substructures in a halo. Focusing on redshift z=1, we find that the halo occupation distribution is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rupert Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Nishikanta Khandai , Volker Springel , Anirban Jana , Jeffrey Gardner

Recently, Leauthaud et al discovered that the small-scale lensing signal of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) galaxies is up to 40% lower than predicted by the standard models of the galaxy-halo connections that reproduced the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-08 Ying Zu

Clusters of galaxies as gravitational lenses allow to study the stellar content and properties of high-z galaxies much fainter than the usual spectroscopic field surveys. We review the recent results obtained on the identification and study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roser Pello

We study the bias and scatter in mass measurements of galaxy clusters resulting from fitting a spherically-symmetric Navarro, Frenk & White model to the reduced tangential shear profile measured in weak lensing observations. The reduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Matthew R. Becker , Andrey V. Kravtsov

The recent measurement of the gravitational redshifts of galaxies in galaxy clusters by Wojtak et al. has opened a new observational window on dark matter and modified gravity. By stacking clusters this determination effectively used the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rupert A. C. Croft

We explore the enhanced self-calibration of photometric galaxy redshift distributions, $n(z)$, through the combination of up to six two-point functions. Our $\rm 3\times2pt$ configuration is comprised of photometric shear, spectroscopic…

Optical galaxy cluster identification algorithms such as redMaPPer promise to enable an array of astrophysical and cosmological studies, but suffer from biases whereby galaxies in front of and behind a galaxy cluster are mistakenly…

Galaxy clusters are usually detected in blind optical surveys via suitable filtering methods. We present an optimal matched filter which maximizes their signal-to-noise ratio by taking advantage of the knowledge we have of their intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Bellagamba , Matteo Maturi , Takashi Hamana , Massimo Meneghetti , Satoshi Miyazaki , Lauro Moscardini

We measure the small-scale (comoving separation 10 kpc/h < r_p < 200 kpc/h) two-point correlation function of quasars using a sample of 26 spectroscopically confirmed binary quasars at 0.6<z<2.2 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Issha Kayo , Masamune Oguri

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

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is rapidly becoming one of the most promising means to accurately measure the average relation between galaxy properties and halo mass. In order to obtain a signal of sufficient signal-to-noise, one needs to stack many…

Measurements of galaxy clustering are now becoming possible over a range of redshifts out to z=3. We use a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation to compute the expected evolution of the galaxy correlation function with redshift. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Baugh , A. J. Benson , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

We investigate potential gains in cosmological constraints from the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing by optimizing the lens galaxy sample selection using information from Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data and…

The abundance of clusters and the clustering of galaxies are two of the important cosmological probes for current and future large scale surveys of galaxies, such as the Dark Energy Survey. In order to combine them one has to account for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Fabien Lacasa , Rogerio Rosenfeld

We cross-correlate a low-contamination subset of the VST ATLAS g < 22.5 quasar catalogue with g < 21.5 galaxy clusters, r < 21 galaxies and r < 19.5 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) to probe their halo mass profiles via quasar magnification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Alice M. Eltvedt , T. Shanks , 1 N. Metcalfe , B. Ansarinejad , L. F. Barrientos , D. N. A. Murph , D. M. Alexander

This article is the second in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our aim is to quantify the…