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Galaxy clustering provides a powerful way to probe cosmology. This requires understanding of the background mean density of galaxy samples, which is estimated from the survey itself by averaging the observed galaxy number density over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Jaiyul Yoo , Daniel Eisenstein

We measure the monopole moment of the three-point correlation function on scales $1\mpc-70\mpc$ in the Two degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). Volume limited samples are constructed using a series of integral magnitudes bins…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun Pan , Istvan Szapudi

We investigate the clustering properties of galaxies in the recently completed ELAIS-S1 redshift survey through their spatial two point autocorrelation function. We used a sub-sample of the ELAIS-S1 catalog covering approximately 4 deg^2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. D'Elia , E. Branchini , F. La Franca , V. Baccetti , I. Matute , F. Pozzi , C. Gruppioni

The two-point angular correlation function, $\w$, is constructed from a catalog of 13,000 objects in 24 fields distributed over an area of 4 deg$^2$ and complete to a limit of $R = 23.5$. The amplitude and slope of our correlation function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Daniel Hudon , Simon J. Lilly

We investigate the clustering of galaxies selected in the 3.6 micron band of the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) legacy survey. The angular two-point correlation function is calculated for eleven samples with flux limits of…

We present an analysis of the X-ray emission for a complete sample of 288 Abell clusters spanning the redshift range 0.016<= z <= 0.09 from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. This sample is based on our 20cm VLA survey of nearby Abell clusters. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael J. Ledlow , Wolfgang Voges , Frazer N. Owen , Jack O. Burns

We measure the two-point spatial correlation function for clusters selected from the photometric MaxBCG galaxy cluster catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We evaluate the correlation function for several cluster samples using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Juan Estrada , Emiliano Sefusatti , Joshua A. Frieman

We analyse the two--dimensional all--sky distribution of rich Abell and ACO galaxy clusters by using counts in cells and measuring the high--order area--averaged angular correlation functions. Confirming previous results, we find a well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Cappi , S. Maurogordato

An analysis of R >= 1 Abell clusters is presented for samples containing recent redshifts from the MX Northern Abell Cluster Survey. The newly obtained redshifts from the MX Survey as well as those from the ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. J. Miller , D. J. Batuski , K. A. Slinglend , J. M. Hill

The FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) survey now covers 1550 square degrees of sky where $07^{h}16 < \alpha < 17^{h}40$ and $28^{\circ}.3 < \delta < 42^{\circ}$. This yields a catalog of 138,665 sources above the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. M. Cress , D. J. Helfand , R. H. Becker , M. D. Gregg , R. L. White

The distribution of Abell-ACO clusters of galaxies shows that clusters located in rich superclusters form a quasiregular network with step size 120 Mpc. The power spectrum of clusters of galaxies has a sharp peak at a wavelength equal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Einasto

We present the three-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering using measurements of the angular correlation function from the second incremental release of the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). The angular positions of galaxies out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 B. Allgood , G. Blumenthal , J. R. Primack

The 2-point angular correlation function of galaxies, \wt, has been computed on equatorial fields observed with the CTIO 4m prime focus, within a total area of 2.31 deg$^2$. In the magnitude range $19\le m_R \le 21.5$, corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Infante , D. F. de Mello , F. Menanteau

We analyze subsamples of Abell and ACO cluster catalogs, in order to study the spatial properties of the large scale matter distribution. The subsamples analyzed are estimated to be nearly complete and are the standard ones used in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 M. Montuori , F. Sylos Labini , A. Amici

We report Suzaku observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1795 that extend to r_200 ~ 2 Mpc, the radius within which the mean cluster mass density is 200 times the cosmic critical density. These observations are the first to probe the state…

We present an analysis of the two-point angular correlation function of the ELAIS S1 survey. The survey covers 4 deg$^2$ and contains 462 sources detected at 15$\mu$m to a 5$\sigma$ flux limit of 0.45 mJy. Using the 329 extragalactic…

We study the clustering properties of the recently compiled HIPASS neutral hydrogen (HI) sources catalogue using the two point correlation function in redshift space. If the two point correlation is modelled as a power law,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Basilakos , K. Kovac , M. Aragon , R. van de Weygaert , J. M. van der Hulst

We present a novel technique for calculating the two-point autocorrelation function of the Lyman-alpha forest based on the relation between the two-point correlation function and the Neighbor Probability Distribution Functions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Avery Meiksin , Francois R. Bouchet

On five K-band Omega camera images, covering a total of 162.2 sq. arcmin to K=19.5, we investigate (i) the clustering environment of 5 radio galaxies at 0.7<z<0.8 and (ii) the galaxy angular correlation function. We detect a cluster of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nathan Roche , Steve Eales , Hans Hippelein , Chris Willott

The 2-point spatial correlation function (CF), $\xi(s)$, has been used to study the clustering of the galaxies in the preliminary version of the HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalogue (HIPASS BGC), which includes the 1,000 HI brightest galaxies in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tantisrisuk , R. Webster