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This paper addresses the problem of detecting high-redshift clustering in deep photometric surveys. We have used photometric redshifts to select different samples of galaxies in the HDF, in order to study their clustering properties within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Miralles , R. Pello

The fractal structure of star formation on large scales in disk galaxies is studied using the size distribution function of stellar aggregates in kpc-scale star fields. Achival HST images of 10 galaxies are Gaussian smoothed to define the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Debra Meloy Elmegreen

We use a combination of N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter and semi-analytic modelling of the physics of galaxy formation to probe the relationship between the galaxy distribution and the mass distribution. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Benson , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

We carry out CCD photometry of galaxies in the 5.25 square region centered on Coma cluster down to $M_R=-16.0$, beyond the limit of conventional morphological classification. We use the angular two-point correlation function as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Kashikawa , M. Sekiguchi , M. Doi , Y. Komiyama , S. Okamura , K. Shimasaku , M. Yagi , N. Yasuda

We investigate galaxy clustering and galaxy-mass correlations in the LCDM cosmological model using a large volume SPH simulation. For the most part, the predicted biases between galaxies and dark matter lead to good agreement with current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David H. Weinberg , Romeel Dav'e , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist

The relative orientation of clusters' major elongation axes and clusters' angular momentum is studied using a large N-body simulation in a box of 500 Mpc/h base length for a standard LambdaCDM model. Employing the technique of mark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Faltenbacher , Martin Kerscher , Stefan Gottloeber , Volker Mueller

We measure the evolution of galaxy clustering out to a redshift of z~1.5 using data from two MUSYC fields, the Extended Hubble Deep Field South (EHDF-S) and the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDF-S). We use photometric redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nelson Padilla , Daniel Christlein , Eric Gawiser , Roberto González , Lucia Guaita , Leopoldo Infante

I outline the connections between some of the most widely used statistical measures of galaxy clustering and the fundamental issues in the theory of structure formation. I devote particular attention to the problem of biasing, i.e. to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Weinberg

We analyse the correlation function of mock galaxy clusters in redshift space. We constructed several mock catalogues designed to mimic the selection biases inherent in a variety of observational surveys. We explore different effects that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. D. Padilla , D. G. Lambas

We address the question of whether massive red and blue galaxies trace the same large-scale structure at z~0.6 using the CMASS sample of galaxies from Data Release 12 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. After splitting the catalog into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Anna Patej , Daniel Eisenstein

[Abridged] We use data on massive galaxy clusters ($M_{\rm cluster} > 8 \times 10^{14} h^{-1} M_\odot$ within a comoving radius of $R_{\rm cluster} = 1.5 h^{-1}\Mpc$) in the redshift range $0.05 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.83$ to place…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Campanelli , G. L. Fogli , T. Kahniashvili , A. Marrone , Bharat Ratra

We present results for the two-point angular correlation function of galaxies to a limiting magnitude of r=26. The final sample is 97% complete to r=26.0, yielding 5730 galaxies over a 90.1 sq. arcmin field. The correlation function for our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tereasa G. Brainerd , Ian Smail , Jeremy R. Mould

A large sample of young stellar groups is analysed aiming to investigate their clustering properties and dynamical evolution. A comparison of the Q statistical parameter, measured for the clusters, with the fractal dimension estimated for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem , T. Santos-Silva , B. Fernandes

The aim of this review article is to give a comprehensive description of the scaling properties detected for the distribution of cosmic structures. Due to the great variety of statistical methods to describe the large-scale structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Borgani

We have studied the properties of clusters of colloidal magnetic particles generated from a 2D aggregation model with dipolar interparticle interactions. Particles diffuse off-lattice, experiencing dipolar interactions with the already…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Pastor-Satorras , J. M. Rubi

Using accurate positions from very deep radio observations to guide multi-object Keck spectroscopy, we have determined a substantially complete redshift distribution for very luminous, distant submillimeter(submm)-selected galaxies (SMGs).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Andrew W. Blain , Scott S. Chapman , Ian Smail , Rob Ivison

We study the physical properties derived from interstellar cloud complexes having a fractal structure. We first generate fractal clouds with a given fractal dimension and associate each clump with a maximum in the resulting density field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Enrique Perez

We present measurements of the two-point galaxy angular correlation function as a function of apparent magnitude, color, and morphology. We present new galaxy number counts to limiting magnitudes of I=24.0 and V=25.0. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gillian Wilson

Over the past two decades or so, it has become increasingly appparent that, out to quite large distances, galaxies are distributed in a quasi-fractal fashion with fractal dimension $D \approx 2$. Whether or not this behaviour continues onto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D F Roscoe

We report results from 21-cm intensity maps acquired from the Parkes radio telescope and cross-correlated with galaxy maps from the 2dF galaxy survey. The data span the redshift range $0.057<z<0.098$ and cover approximately 1,300 square…