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We explore the clustering of galaxy groups in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to investigate the dependence of group bias and profile on separation scale and group mass. Due to the inherent uncertainty in estimating the group…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-14 S. D. Riggs , R. W. Y. M. Barbhuiyan , J. Loveday , S. Brough , B. W. Holwerda , A. M. Hopkins , S. Phillipps

The two point angular correlation function is an excellent measure of structure in the universe. To extract from it the three dimensional power spectrum, one must invert Limber's Equation. Here we perform this inversion using a Bayesian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Enrique Gaztanaga

The 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue of ~29000 objects is used to study the luminous content of galaxy systems of various sizes. Mock galaxy catalogues constructed from cosmological simulations are used to gauge…

We present measurements of the angular two-point galaxy correlation function, $w(theta)$, from the APM Galaxy Survey. The performance of various estimators of $w$ is assessed using simulated galaxy catalogues and analytic arguments. Several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. J. Maddox , G. Efstathiou , W. J. Sutherland

We introduce a two-particle correlation function (2PCF) for the Milky Way, constructed to probe spatial correlations in the orthogonal directions of the stellar disk in the Galactic cylindrical coordinates of $R$, $\phi$, and $z$. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Austin Hinkel , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny

We produce mock angular catalogues from simulations with different initial power spectra to test methods that recover measures of clustering in three dimensions, such as the power spectrum, variance and higher order cumulants. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 E. Gaztanaga , C. M. Baugh

We present an analysis of large-scale structure from the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic legacy survey, SWIRE. The two-point angular correlation functions were computed for galaxies detected in the 3.6-micron IRAC band, on angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ian Waddington

We use the 2dF Galaxy Group Catalogue constructed by Merch\'an & Zandivarez to study the large scale structure of the Universe traced by galaxy groups. We concentrate on the computation of the power spectrum and the two point correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ariel Zandivarez , Manuel E. Merchan , Nelson D. Padilla

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

We detect angular galaxy-QSO cross-correlations between the APM Galaxy Catalogue and a preliminary release (consisting of roughly half of the anticipated final catalogue) of the Hamburg-ESO Catalogue of Bright QSOs as a function of source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua G. Nollenberg , Liliya L. R. Williams

Significant uncertainties exist in the measured amplitude of the angular two-point correlation function of galaxies at magnitudes $I\approx26$ and fainter. Published results from HST and ground-based galaxy catalogs seem to differ by as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. U. Fynbo , W. Freudling , P. Moller

The APM Cluster Survey was based on a modification of Abell's original classification scheme for galaxy clusters. Here we discuss the results of an investigation of the stability of the statistical properties of the cluster catalogue to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. B. Dalton

We estimate J-point galaxy averaged correlation functions $\wbar_J(\theta)$ for $J=2,...,9$, in a sample of the APM Galaxy Survey with more than $1.3 \times 10^6$ galaxies and a depth $ \calD \sim 400 \Mpc$. The hierarchical amplitudes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Enrique Gaztanaga

We apply a new statistics, the factorial moment correlators, to density maps obtained from the APM survey. The resulting correlators are all proportional to the two point correlation function, substantially amplified, with an amplification…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 István Szapudi , Gavin Dalton , George Efstathiou , Alexander Szalay

We investigate to which accuracy it is possible to recover the real-space two-point correlation function of galaxy clusters from cluster catalogues based on photometric redshifts, and test our ability to measure the redshift and mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Srivatsan Sridhar , Sophie Maurogordato , Christophe Benoist , Alberto Cappi , Federico Marulli

Lyman-Break Galaxy (LBG) samples observed during reionization ($z\gtrsim6$) with Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 are reaching sizes sufficient to characterize their clustering properties. Using a combined catalog from the…

Probabilistic cross-identification has been successfully applied to a number of problems in astronomy from matching simple point sources to associating stars with unknown proper motions and even radio observations with realistic morphology.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-30 Neil Mallinar , Tamas Budavari , Gerard Lemson

We cross-correlate APM and SDSS galaxies with background QSOs from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey, and detect a significant (2.8sigma) anti-correlation. The lack of a signal between 2dF stars and our galaxy samples suggests the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 A. D. Myers , P. J. Outram , T. Shanks , B. J. Boyle , S. M. Croom , N. S. Loaring , L. Miller , R. J. Smith

The angular cross-correlation between two galaxy samples separated in redshift is shown to be a useful measure of weak lensing by large-scale structure. Angular correlations in faint galaxies arise due to spatial clustering of the galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Moessner , Bhuvnesh Jain

In this paper, we discuss improvements of the Suto et al. (2000) model, in the light of recent theoretical developments (new theoretical mass functions, a more accurate mass-temperature relation and an improved bias model) to predict the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 A. Del Popolo , N. Ercan , S. Yesilyurt