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We summarize the detection rates at wavelengths other than optical for \~99,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 ``main'' spectroscopic sample. The analysis is based on positional cross-correlation with…

We present the results of an all-sky, deep optical survey for faint Local Group dwarf galaxies. Candidate objects were selected from the second Palomar survey (POSS-II) and ESO/SRC survey plates and follow-up observations performed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan B. Whiting , George K. T. Hau , Mike Irwin , Miguel Verdugo

A detailed study of stellar populations in Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies remains an observational challenge due to their faintness and fewer spectroscopically confirmed member stars. We use unsupervised machine learning methods to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Devika K Divakar , Pallavi Saraf , Sivarani Thirupathi , Vijayakumar H Doddamani

We have identified eighty-four small, high density groups of galaxies out to z ~ 0.2 in a region of ~ 2000 square degrees around the north galactic pole using DPOSS (the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey). The groups have at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Iovino , R. de Carvalho , R. Gal , S. Odewahn , P. Lopes , A. Mahabal , S. Djorgovski

We present the results of our search for faint Local Group dwarf galaxies in compact high-velocity clouds (HVCs). We used digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) data to examine 1 square degree of sky around each of ~250 northern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua D. Simon , Leo Blitz

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and non- luminous matter in the Universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital imaging survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. G. York

We analyze photometric data in SDSS-DR7 to infer statistical properties of faint satellites associated to isolated bright galaxies (M_r<-20.5) in the redshift range 0.03<z<0.1. The mean projected radial profile shows an excess of companions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Lares , D. G. Lambas , M. J. L. Dominguez

Using a nearest neighbor analysis, we construct a sample of void galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compare the photometric properties of these galaxies to the population of non-void (wall) galaxies. We trace the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Randall R. Rojas , Michael S. Vogeley , Fiona Hoyle , Jon Brinkmann

The Milky Way has at least twenty-three known satellite galaxies that shine with luminosities ranging from about a thousand to a billion times that of the Sun. Half of these galaxies were discovered in the past few years in the Sloan…

We describe a procedure for background subtracting Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging that improves the resulting detection and photometry of large galaxies on the sky. Within each SDSS drift scan run, we mask out detected sources and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Michael R. Blanton , Eyal Kazin , Demitri Muna , Benjamin A. Weaver , Adrian Price-Whelan

We investigate the photometric properties of 456 bright galaxies using imaging data recorded during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphological classification is carried out by correlating results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 K. Shimasaku , M. Fukugita , M. Doi , M. Hamabe , T. Ichikawa , S. Okamura , M. Sekiguchi , N. Yasuda

(abridged) We studied a large sample of ~14000 dwarf star-forming galaxies with strong emission lines selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and distributed in the redshift range of z~0-0.6. We modelled spectral energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Y. I. Izotov , N. G. Guseva , K. J. Fricke , C. Henkel

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR5 photometric data with $120^{\circ} < \alpha < 270^{\circ}$, $25^{\circ} < \delta < 70^{\circ}$ are searched for new Milky Way companions or substructures in the Galactic halo. Five candidates are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 C. Liu , J. Hu , H. Newberg , Y. Zhao

The incidence of sub-galactic level substructures is an important quantity, as it is a generic prediction of high-resolution Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models which is susceptible to observational test. Confrontation of theory with observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Jackson , S. E. Bryan , S. Mao , C. Li

We predict the sensitivity of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to faint, resolved Milky Way satellite galaxies and outer-halo star clusters. We characterize the expected sensitivity using simulated LSST…

Imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is used to measure the empirical size-richness relation for a large sample of galaxy clusters. Using population subtraction methods, we determine the radius at which the cluster galaxy number…

In order to estimate the contribution of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies to the local (z<0.1) galaxy number density, we performed an optical search for LSB candidates in a 15.5 deg^2 part of the region covered by the 65 deg^2 blind…

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we probe the halo mass distribution by studying the velocities of satellites orbiting isolated galaxies. In a subsample that covers 2500 sq. degrees on the sky, we detect about 3000 satellites with…

We present number counts, luminosity functions (LFs) and luminosity densities of galaxies obtained using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Sixth Data Release in all SDSS photometric bands. Thanks to the SDSS DR6, galaxy statistics have increased…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francisco Prada

Aims. We aim at finding candidates of potential survivors of high-redshift compact galaxies in SDSS, as targets for more detailed follow-up observations. Methods. From the virial theorem it is expected that for a given mass, compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Christoph Saulder , Remco C. E. van den Bosch , Steffen Mieske