We obtain cosmological constraints from a measurement of the spherically averaged power spectrum (PS) of the distribution of about 90000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) across 7646 deg2 in the Northern Galactic Cap from the DR7 of the SDSS. The errors and mode correlations are estimated thanks to the 160 LasDamas mock catalogues, created in order to simulate the same galaxies and to have the same selection as the data. We apply a model, that can accurately describe the full shape of the PS with the use of a small number of free parameters. Using the LRG PS, in combination with the latest measurement of the temperature and polarisation anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the luminosity-distance relation from the largest available type 1a supernovae (SNIa) dataset and a precise determination of the local Hubble parameter, we obtain cosmological constraints for five different parameter spaces. When all the four experiments are combined, the flat LCDM model is characterised by Omega_M=0.259+-0.016, Omega_b=0.045+-0.001, n_s=0.963+-0.011, sigma_8=0.802+-0.021 and h=0.712+-0.014. When we consider curvature as a free parameter, we do not detect deviations from flatness: Omega_k=(1.6+-5.4)*10^{-3}, when only CMB and the LRG PS are used; the inclusion of the other two experiments do not improve this result. Considering the dark energy equation of state w_DE as time independent, we measure w_DE=-1.025+-0.065, for a flat geometry, w_DE=-0.981+-0.083 otherwise. When describing w_DE through a linear function of the scale factor, our results do not evidence any time evolution. In the next few years new experiments will allow to measure the clustering of galaxies with a precision much higher than achievable today. Models like the one used here will be a valuable tool in order to achieve the full potentials of the observations and obtain unbiased constraints on the cosmological parameters.
Constraint on the cosmological f(R) model from the multipole power spectrum of the SDSS luminous red galaxy sample and prospects for a future redshift survey
Photometric Redshifts and Systematic Variations in the SEDs of Luminous Red Galaxies from the SDSS DR7
利用贝叶斯模板拟合方法构造了一组光谱能量分布(SED)模板,用于估算亮红星系(LRGs)的光度红移。通过检查几个公开可用的SED集的颜色属性在0<z<0.5的红移范围内,并将它们与SDSS DR 7数据进行比较,我们发现,只有一些研究的SED近似匹配的颜色的LRG数据在整个红移范围内,但不是在定量水平所需的精确光度红移。我们产生新的SED叠加模型SED的复合恒星星族与爆发模型,允许两个组件被红的灰尘,以匹配的数据在五个不同的红移箱。我们选择了一组代表LRG数据在颜色空间中的五个红移箱,从而定义了我们的新的SED模板集光度红移估计。我们用新的模板集和我们的贝叶斯模板拟合光度红移代码(PhotoZ)得到的结果几乎是无偏的,σ(Δz)=0.027(包括离群值),和一小部分灾难性离群值(|z光-z光谱|/(1+z_spec)>0.15)。我们发现,最佳描述最亮星系(-24.5<M_R<-22.7)的模板确实在z=0.1到z=0.5之间变化,与恒星星族的老化一致。此外,我们发现,最佳描述z<0.1的星系的模板作为星系绝对星等的函数存在很大差异,这表明亮度较低的星系的恒星形成活动增加。我们的研究结果的基础上测光的SDSS LRG和我们的SED模板拟合的平均SDSS LRG光谱在不同的光度和红移箱的比较支持。
The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR16 luminous red galaxy and emission line galaxy samples: cosmic distance and structure growth measurements using multiple tracers in configuration space
The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the growth rate of structure from the small-scale clustering of the luminous red galaxy sample
Golden gravitational lensing systems from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey. I. SDSS J1538+5817: one lens for two sources
我们提出了一个特殊的系统SDSS J1538+5817的透镜和测光研究,确定的SLACS调查。透镜是一个明亮的椭圆,红移z=0.143。使用两种不同的过滤器中的HST公共图像,两个背景源透镜到爱因斯坦环和双系统的存在被确定。我们在NOT进行的新光谱观测表明,这两个源位于相同的红移z=0.531。我们调查的总质量分布的透镜之间的1和4千秒差距的星系中心的参数和非参数透镜编码,描述的多个图像的点状物体。几种不同的透镜模型一致认为:(1)精确地再现了观察到的图像位置;(2)预测了一个接近轴对称的总质量分布,其中心和方向与光分布相同;(3)测量出在2.5 kpc的爱因斯坦半径内投影的总质量的值为8.11 x 10^{10} M_{Sun};(4)估计总质量密度分布比等温分布稍陡。将SDSS测光与CSP模型进行拟合,得出星系的恒星总质量为20 x 10^{10} M_{Sun},爱因斯坦半径内的总质量中投射光的比例为0.9。通过结合透镜和光度质量测量,我们区分透镜的质量含量的发光和暗物质组件。这种双组分模型,这是可行的,只有在特殊的系统,如SDSS J1538+5817,导致描述的星系暗物质晕的全球性质。将这些结果推广到更大数量的透镜将大大提高我们对LCDM情景中星系形成和演化过程的理解。
The Spatial Clustering of ROSAT All-Sky Survey AGN: I. The cross-correlation function with SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
We investigate the clustering properties of ~1550 broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at <z>=0.25 detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) through their measured cross- correlation function with ~46,000 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. By measuring the cross-correlation of our AGN sample with a larger tracer set of LRGs, we both minimize shot noise errors due to the relatively small AGN sample size and avoid systematic errors due to the spatially varying Galactic absorption that would affect direct measurements of the auto- correlation function (ACF) of the…
The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: geometry and growth from the anisotropic void-galaxy correlation function in the luminous red galaxy sample
The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the luminous red galaxy sample from the anisotropic correlation function between redshifts 0.6 and 1
Modeling the Anisotropic Two-Point Galaxy Correlation Function on Small Scales and Improved Measurements of H(z), D_A(z), and f(z)sigma_8(z) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Luminous Red Galaxies
The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the luminous red galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshifts 0.6 and 1.0
A Robust Distance Measurement and Dark Energy Constraints from the Spherically-Averaged Correlation Function of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxies
We measure the effective distance to z=0.35, D_V(0.35), from the overall shape of the spherically-averaged two-point correlation function of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample. We find D_V(0.35)=1428_{-73}^{+74} without assuming a dark energy model or a flat Universe. We find that the derived measurement of r_s(z_d)/D_V(0.35)=0.1143 \pm 0.0030 (the ratio of the sound horizon at the drag epoch to the effective distance to z=0.35) is more tightly constrained and more robust with respect to possible systematic effects. It is also nearly uncor…
The age-redshift relation for Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
我们对从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)数据发布7(DR 7)中选择的17,852个静态发光红星系(LRGs)进行了详细的分析,其红移范围为0.0 < z < 0.4。这些星系被共同加入到四个速度色散和光度相等的箱中,以产生高信噪比的光谱(> 100 A ^{-1}),从而有助于标准利克吸收线指数的精确测量。特别是,我们已经仔细地校正和校准这些指数到常用的舔/IDS系统,从而使我们能够比较这些数据与其他测量文献中,并获得现实的年龄,金属丰度([Z/H])和α-元素丰度比([α/Fe])为这些星系使用简单的恒星星族(SSP)模型。我们使用这些数据来研究这些星系参数与红移的关系,并发现很少的证据,在金属丰度或α-元素(特别是对于我们的中间质量的样品)的演变。这表明我们的子样本与纯被动演化(即没有化学演化)一致,并代表了在此红移范围内的均匀种群。我们还提出了这些LRGs的年龄红移关系,并清楚地看到他们的年龄与红移(5陀螺在这里研究的红移范围),这是完全一致的宇宙学回望时间在一个和谐的Lambda CDM宇宙的减少。我们还看到,与质量较低的星系相比,我们最大的LRG样本是最年轻的。我们现在提供这些数据,以帮助未来的宇宙学和星系演化的LRGs的研究,并在本文的附录中提供所需的方法和信息,以校准SDSS光谱到舔/IDS系统。
Galaxy-Galaxy Weak Lensing Measurements from SDSS: I. Image Processing and Lensing signals
作为斯隆数字巡天数据发布7(SDSS DR 7)的星系-星系透镜研究系列中的第一篇论文,我们提出了我们的图像处理流水线,该流水线校正了主要由点扩散函数(PSF)引入的系统学。利用该流水线对SDSS DR 7成像数据进行了$r$波段的处理,生成了包含各星系形状信息的背景星系表。基于我们自己的形状测量的星系图像从SDSS DR 7,我们提取的星系星系(GG)透镜信号周围的前景分光星系在不同的光度和恒星质量。总体信号与SDSS DR 4中\citet{Mandelbaum2005, Mandelbaum2006}获得的信号一致。本文的结果具有较高的信噪比,这是由于比SDSS DR 4更大的调查区域,证实了更多的发光/质量星系具有更强的GG透镜信号。我们还将前景星系分为红/蓝和恒星形成/淬火子样本,并分别测量了它们的GG透镜信号。我们发现,在一个特定的恒星质量/光度,红色/淬火星系有相对较强的GG透镜信号比他们的同行,特别是在大半径。这些GG透镜信号可以用来探测星系晕质量关系及其在晕占据或条件光度函数框架中的环境依赖性。
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: modeling of the luminosity and colour dependence in the Data Release 10
我们在斯隆数字巡天-III重子振荡光谱巡天第十次数据发布中研究了CMASS星系团的亮度和颜色依赖性。采用晕占据分布框架来模拟小尺度和中尺度(从$0.02$到$60\,h^{-1}{\rm {Mpc}}$)的投影两点关联函数测量,并解释观测趋势和推断星系与暗物质晕的联系。我们发现,明亮的红色星系居住在质量$M{\sim}10^{13}$ -$10^{14}\,h^{-1}{\rm M_\odot}$的大质量晕和更明亮的星系更集群和更大质量的晕托管。强烈的小规模集群需要这些星系中的一小部分是大质量晕中的卫星,比例在5%-8%的水平上,并随着光度的增加而减少。平均有一个卫星星系的晕的特征质量高于光度阈值,大约是一个中心星系的特征质量的$8.7$倍。在固定的光度下,逐渐变红的星系在小尺度上更强烈地聚集在一起,这可以解释为这些星系中有更大部分以卫星的形式存在于大质量晕中。我们的聚类测量尺度低于$0.4\,h^{-1}{\rm {Mpc}}$,使我们能够研究小规模的空间分布的卫星晕内。虽然亮度阈值样本的聚集可以通过Navarro-Frenk-White(NFW)轮廓很好地描述,但最红的星系更喜欢更陡或更集中的轮廓。最后,我们还利用不同红移下的常数密度星系样本研究了亮星系的演化,发现在$0.5 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.6$的红移范围内,星系成团与被动演化是一致的。