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We compile a sample of X-ray-selected galaxy groups and clusters from the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue (2XMMi-DR3) with optical confirmation and redshift measurement from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The X-ray cluster…

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We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5,700 km/s < cz < 39,000 km/s, distributed in several long but narrow…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is collecting photometry and intermediate resolution spectra for ~ 10**5 stars in the thick-disk and stellar halo of the Milky Way. This massive dataset can be used to infer the properties of the stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Allende Prieto , T. C. Beers , Y. Li , H. J. Newberg , R. Wilhelm , B. Yanny

Using the TNG50 cosmological simulation and observations from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), we investigate the connection between galaxy mergers and optical morphology in the local Universe over a wide range of galaxy stellar masses…

(Abridged) We probe the merging channel of massive galaxies over the z=0.3-1.3 redshift window by studying close pairs in a sample of 238 galaxies with stellar mass >1E11Msun, from the deep (m<26.5AB, 3 sigma) SHARDS survey. SHARDS provides…

The Spectral Galaxy Pairs (SGPs) are defined as the composite galaxy spectra which contain two independent redshift systems. These spectra are useful for studying dust properties of the foreground galaxies. In this paper, a total of 165…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-04 Haifeng Yang , Ali Luo , Xiaoyan Chen , Jifu Zhang , Wen Hou , Jianghui Cai , Peng Wei , Juanjuan Ren , Xiaojie Liu , Yongheng Zhao

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is making a multi-colour, three dimensional map of the nearby Universe. The survey is in two parts. The first part is imaging one quarter of the sky in five colours from the near ultraviolet to the near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jon Loveday

We present two wide-field catalogs of photometrically-selected emission line galaxies (ELGs) at z=0.8 covering about 2800 deg^2 over the south galactic cap. The catalogs were obtained using a Fisher discriminant technique described in a…

We investigate the quality of associations of astronomical sources from multi-wavelength observations using simulated detections that are realistic in terms of their astrometric accuracy, small-scale clustering properties and selection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sebastien Heinis , Tamas Budavari , Alexander S. Szalay

Based on the photometric redshift catalog of Zou H. et al. (2019), we apply a fast clustering algorithm to identify 540,432 galaxy clusters at $z\lesssim1$ in the DESI legacy imaging surveys, which cover a sky area of about 20,000 deg$^2$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Hu Zou , Jinghua Gao , Xin Xu , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Zhimin Zhou , Tianmeng Zhang , Jundan Nie , Jiali Wang , Suijian Xue

We provide flux-limited and volume-limited galaxy group and cluster catalogues, based on the spectroscopic sample of the SDSS data release 10 galaxies. We used a modified friends-of-friends (FoF) method with a variable linking length in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-04 E. Tempel , A. Tamm , M. Gramann , T. Tuvikene , L. J. Liivamägi , I. Suhhonenko , R. Kipper , M. Einasto , E. Saar

Recently, much attention has been given to double-peaked narrow emission-line galaxies, some of which are suggested to be related with merging galaxies. We make a systematic search to build the largest sample of these sources from Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jun-Qiang Ge , Chen Hu , Jian-Min Wang , Jin-Ming Bai , Shu Zhang

The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions of order 10^8 galaxies in five bands, adding significantly…

The Early Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky survey provides one of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently available to the astronomical community. In this paper we present the first application of photometric redshifts…

We have assembled a large, high quality catalogue of galaxy colours from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7, and have identified 21,347 galaxies in pairs spanning a range of projected separations (r_p < 80 h_{70}^{-1} kpc),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 David R. Patton , Sara L. Ellison , Luc Simard , Alan W. McConnachie , J. Trevor Mendel

We conduct a comparison of the merging galaxy populations detected by a sample of visual identification of tidal features around galaxies as well as spectroscopically-detected close pairs of galaxies to determine whether our method of…

We select a close "major-merger candidate" galaxy pair sample in order to calculate the K_{s} luminosity function (LF) and pair fraction representative of the merger/interaction component of galaxy evolution in the local universe. The pair…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-29 Donovan L. Domingue , C. K. Xu , T. H. Jarrett , Y. Cheng

Scaling relations are fundamental tools for exploring the morphological properties of galaxies and understanding their formation and evolution. Typically, galaxies follow a scaling relation between mass and size, measured by effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Daya Nidhi Chhatkuli , Sanjaya Paudel , Binil Aryal , Binod Adhikari , Nau Raj Pokhrel , Rajendra Adhikari

We present an automated method to detect populations of groups in galaxy redshift catalogs. This method uses both analysis of the redshift distribution along lines of sight in fixed cells to detect elementary structures and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Adami , A. Mazure

We present the rest-frame optical galaxy merger fraction between 0.2<z<1.2, as a function of stellar mass and optical luminosity, as observed by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Deep Survey (CFHTLS-Deep). We developed a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Carrie R. Bridge , Raymond G. Carlberg , Mark Sullivan