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We present the results of methodological works on automated analysis of the large scale distribution of galaxies. Selecting candidates for clusters and groups of galaxies was carried out using two complementary methods of determining the…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for photorealistic view synthesis, representing scenes with spatially distributed Gaussian primitives. While highly effective for rendering, achieving accurate and…

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In this paper, we investigate the impact of survey strategy on the performance of self-calibration when the goal is to produce accurate photometric catalogs from wide-field imaging surveys. This self-calibration technique utilizes multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rory Holmes , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix

The majority of galaxy group catalogues available in the literature use the popular friends-of-friends algorithm which links galaxies using a linking length. One potential drawback to this approach is that clusters of point can be link with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 Mark T. Graham , Michele Cappellari

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

Galaxy surveys probe both structure formation and the expansion rate, making them promising avenues for understanding the dark universe. Photometric surveys accurately map the 2D distribution of galaxy positions and shapes in a given…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-19 Samuel Passaglia , Alessandro Manzotti , Scott Dodelson

We present the largest Wiener reconstruction of the cosmic density field made to date. The reconstruction is based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 6 covering the northern Galactic cap. We use a novel supersampling algorithm to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Francisco S. Kitaura , Jens Jasche , Cheng Li , Torsten A. Ensslin , R. Benton Metcalf , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Gerard Lemson , Simon D. M. White

We compute the bispectrum of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and use it to measure the bias parameter of the galaxies. This parameter quantifies the strength of clustering of the galaxies relative to the mass in the Universe. By…

The cosmological exploitation of modern photometric galaxy surveys requires both accurate (unbiased) and precise (narrow) redshift probability distributions derived from broadband photometry. Existing methodologies do not meet those…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg , Risa H. Wechsler , Joe DeRose

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) are fundamental in galaxy surveys to address different topics, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), i.e. the ESO public survey on the…

Galaxy redshift surveys are designed to map cosmic structures in three dimensions for large-scale structure studies. Nevertheless, limitations due to sampling and the survey window are unavoidable and degrade the cosmological constraints.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-01 N. Estrada , B. R. Granett , L. Guzzo

Large photometric surveys will image billions of galaxies, but we currently lack quick, reliable automated ways to infer their physical properties like morphology, stellar mass, and star formation rates. Simulations provide galaxy images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-25 Kaley Brauer , Aditya Prasad Dash , Meet J. Vyas , Ahmed Salim , Stiven Briand Massala

We present a new method to measure the redshift-dependent galaxy bias by combining information from the galaxy density field and the weak lensing field. This method is based on Amara et al. (2012), where they use the galaxy density field to…

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Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, that is essential not only for the full spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational cosmology. While a rich literature exists on…

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Using a sample of galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we examine the alignment between the orientation of galaxies and their surrounding large scale structure in the context of the cosmic web.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-05 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Lei Wang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch

Gravitational lensing magnification alters the observed spatial distribution of galaxies and must be accounted for to prevent biases in cosmological probes of the large-scale structure. We investigate its effects on the Dark Energy Survey…

Model fitting is frequently used to determine the shape of galaxies and the point spread function, for examples, in weak lensing analyses or morphology studies aiming at probing the evolution of galaxies. However, the number of parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Guoliang Li , Bo Xin , Wei Cui

We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Britta Zieser , Matthias Bartelmann

The magnification of galaxies in modern galaxy surveys induces additional correlations in the cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing and clustering observables used in modern lensing "3x2pt" analyses, due to sample selection. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Christopher A. J. Duncan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Lance Miller