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We describe and present initial results of a weak lensing survey of nearby ($\rm{z}\lesssim0.1$) galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this first study, galaxy clusters are selected from the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy…

We use a sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Extended Source Catalog to refine a matched filter method of finding galaxy clusters that takes into account each galaxy's position, magnitude, and redshift if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Jeffrey A. Blackburne , Christopher S. Kochanek

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey has now been completed and has mapped the three-dimensional distribution, and hence clustering, of galaxies in exquisite detail over an unprecedentedly large ($\sim 10^{8} h^{-3}$ Mpc$^{3}$) volume of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Warrick Couch , Matthew Colless , Roberto De Propris

The Millennium N-body simulation and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey seventh data release (SDSS DR7) galaxy and galaxy group catalogues are compared to study the properties of galaxy groups and the distribution of galaxies in groups. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. Nurmi , P. Heinämäki , T. Sepp , E. Tago , E. Saar , M. Gramann , M. Einasto , E. Tempel , J. Einasto

Differences in clustering properties between galaxy subpopulations complicate the cosmological interpretation of the galaxy power spectrum, but can also provide insights about the physics underlying galaxy formation. To study the nature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Molly E. C. Swanson , Max Tegmark , Michael Blanton , Idit Zehavi

We present a selection of candidates of clusters and protoclusters of galaxies identified in the photometric data of the HSC-SSP Wide Public Data Release 3 (PDR3), spanning the redshift range $\rm 0.1 \leq z \leq 2$. The selection method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Marcelo C. Vicentin , Laerte Sodré , Michael A. Strauss , Erik V. R. de Lima , Pablo Araya-Araya

We investigate the environmental dependence of galaxy population properties in a complete volume-limited sample of 91566 galaxies in the redshift range 0.05 <= z <= 0.095 and with M_r <= -20.0, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sorrentino , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Rifatto

We extract groups of galaxies from the SDSS Data Release 5 with the purpose of studying the supercluster-void network and environmental properties of groups therein. We use a modified friends-of-friends (FoF) method with adopted variable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. Tago , J. Einasto , E. Saar , E. Tempel , M. Einasto , J. Vennik , V. Müller

We use Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data to investigate galaxy cluster properties of systems first detected within DPOSS. With the high quality photometry of SDSS we derived new photometric redshifts and estimated richness and optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-10 P. A. A. Lopes , R. R. de Carvalho , J. L. Kohl-Moreira , C. Jones

We present a study on the clustering of a stellar mass selected sample of 18,482 galaxies with stellar masses M*>10^10M(sun) at redshifts 0.4<z<2.0, taken from the Palomar Observatory Wide-field Infrared Survey. We examine the clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 S. Foucaud , C. J. Conselice , W. G. Hartley , K. P. Lane , S. P. Bamford , O. Almaini , K. Bundy

The detection of galaxy clusters in present and future surveys enables measuring mass-to-light ratios, clustering properties or galaxy cluster abundances and therefore, constraining cosmological parameters. We present a new technique for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-17 Begoña Ascaso , David Wittman , Narciso Benítez , the DLS collaboration

We present the first sample of 882 optically selected galaxy clusters in the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), selected with the Bayesian Cluster Finder. We create mock DLS data to assess completeness and purity rates, and find that both are at least…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Begoña Ascaso , David Wittman , William Dawson

Wide-angle, moderately deep redshift surveys such as that conducted as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) allow study of the relationship between the structural elements of the large-scale distribution of galaxies -- including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael S. Vogeley , Fiona Hoyle , Randall R. Rojas , David M. Goldberg

We develop a galaxy cluster finding algorithm based on spectral clustering technique to identify optical counterparts and estimate optical redshifts for X-ray selected cluster candidates. As an application, we run our algorithm on a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-15 Eman Mahmoud , Ali Takey , Amin Shoukry

In order to enlarge publicly available optical cluster catalogs, in particular at high redshift, we have performed a systematic search for clusters of galaxies in the CFHTLS. We used the Le Phare photometric redshifts for the galaxies…

This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes ~130,000 objects between redshift 0.1 and…

We present the largest publicly available catalogue of compact groups of galaxies identified using the original selection criteria of Hickson, selected from the Sixth Data Release (DR6) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan McConnachie , David Patton , Sara Ellison , Luc Simard

We study the clustering properties of groups and of galaxies in groups in the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey dataset at z~1. Four clustering measures are presented: 1) the group correlation function for 460 groups with estimated velocity…

A generic prediction of hierarchical clustering models is that the mass function of dark haloes in dense regions in the Universe should be top-heavy. We provide a novel test of this prediction using a sample of galaxies drawn from the Sloan…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ummi Abbas , Ravi K. Sheth