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astro-ph.CO2025

The miniJPAS survey quasar selection V: combined algorithm

Ignasi Pérez-Rà fols, L. Raul Abramo, Ginés Martínez-Solaeche +27

Aims. Quasar catalogues from narrow-band photometric data are used in a variety of applications, including targeting for spectroscopic follow-up, measurements of supermassive black…

astro-ph2002

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The environmental dependence of galaxy star formation rates near clusters

Ian Lewis, Michael Balogh, Roberto De Propris +30

We have measured the equivalent width of the H-alpha emission line for 11006 galaxies brighter than M_b=-19 (LCDM) at 0.05<z<0.1 in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dF), in the fie…

astro-ph2001

MAXIMUS: Exploiting the Full Power of OzPoz

Matthew Colless, Keith Taylor

We propose a new multi-object spectrograph for the VLT. MAXIMUS (MAXimum MUltiplex Spectrograph) will fully exploit the multiplexing capabilities of the OzPoz fibre positioner in o…

astro-ph2003

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Wiener Reconstruction of the Cosmic Web

Pirin Erdogdu, Ofer Lahav, Saleem Zaroubi +27

We reconstruct the underlying density field of the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) for the redshift range 0.035<z<0.200 using the Wiener Filtering method. The Wiener…

astro-ph2002

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Number and Luminosity Density of Galaxies

Nicholas Cross, Simon P. Driver, Warrick Couch +29

We present the bivariate brightness distribution (BBD) for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) based on a preliminary subsample of 45,000 galaxies. The BBD is an extension of t…

astro-ph.GA2026

J-PAS: unprecedented precision in stellar populations of diffuse tidal features

Sepideh Eskandarlou, Mohammad Akhlaghi, Francisco Arizo-Borillo +38

Galaxies frequently interact with nearby systems, a process that can significantly alter their morphology and star formation activity. However, spectroscopic studies of their faint…

astro-ph.IM2025

The miniJPAS and J-NEP surveys: Machine learning for star-galaxy separation

Ana Paula Jeakel, Gabriel Vieira dos Santos, Valerio Marra +27

We present a supervised machine learning classification of sources from the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) Pathfinder datasets: miniJP…

astro-ph.GA2023

The miniJPAS survey quasar selection II: Machine learning classification with photometric measurements and uncertainties

Natália V. N. Rodrigues, L. Raul Abramo, Carolina Queiroz +23

Astrophysical surveys rely heavily on the classification of sources as stars, galaxies or quasars from multi-band photometry. Surveys in narrow-band filters allow for greater discr…

astro-ph.IM2023

The miniJPAS survey quasar selection IV: Classification and redshift estimation with SQUEzE

Ignasi Pérez-Rà fols, L. Raul Abramo, Ginés Martínez-Solaeche +24

We present a list of quasar candidates including photometric redshift estimates from the miniJPAS Data Release constructed using SQUEzE. This work is based on machine-learning clas…

astro-ph.GA2024

Multiwavelength exploration of Extreme Emission Line Galaxies detected in miniJPAS survey

Iris Breda, Stergios Amarantidis, José M. Vilchez +24

Extreme Emission Line Galaxies (EELGs) stand as remarkable objects due to their extremely metal poor environment and intense star formation. Considered as local analogues of high-r…

astro-ph2004

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Clustering properties of radio galaxies

Manuela Magliocchetti, Steve J. Maddox, Ed Hawkins +24

The clustering properties of local, S_{1.4 GHz} > 1 mJy, radio sources are investigated for a sample of 820 objects drawn from the joint use of the FIRST and 2dF Galaxy Redshift su…

math.RT2015

Integrable wavelet transforms with abelian dilation groups

Bradley Currey, Hartmut Führ, Keith Taylor

We consider a class of semidirect products , with a suitably chosen abelian matrix group. The choice of ensures that there is a wavelet inversio…

astro-ph.GA2024

The miniJPAS Survey: The radial distribution of star formation rates in faint X-ray active galactic nuclei

Nischal Acharya, Silvia Bonoli, Mara Salvato +35

We study the impact of black hole nuclear activity on both the global and radial star formation rate (SFR) profiles in X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the field of m…

astro-ph.IM2026

J-PAS: Semi-Supervised Sim-to-Obs Transfer for Robust Star--Galaxy--Quasar Classification

Daniel López-Cano, L. Raul Abramo, L. Nakazono +28

Modern studies in astrophysics and cosmology increasingly rely on simulations and cross-survey analyses, yet differences in data generation, instrumentation, calibration, and unmod…

astro-ph2004

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spherical Harmonics analysis of fluctuations in the final catalogue

Will J. Percival, Daniel Burkey, Alan Heavens +26

We present the result of a decomposition of the 2dFGRS galaxy overdensity field into an orthonormal basis of spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions. Galaxies are expect…

astro-ph2002

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The amplitudes of fluctuations in the 2dFGRS and the CMB, and implications for galaxy biasing

Ofer Lahav, Sarah L. Bridle, Will J. Percival +26

We compare the amplitudes of fluctuations probed by the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and by the latest measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. By combining the…

astro-ph.HE2024

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II

Xiurui Zhao, Francesca Civano, Christopher N. A. Willmer +30

We present the second NuSTAR and XMM-Newton extragalactic survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF). The first NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey (Zhao et al. 2021) h…

astro-ph.GA2022

The miniJPAS Survey: Detection of double-core Lyα morphology of two high-redshift (z>3) QSOs

P. T. Rahna, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Ana L. Chies-Santos +30

The Ly emission is an important tracer of neutral gas in a circum-galactic medium (CGM) around high-z QSOs. The origin of Lya emission around QSOs is still under debate which h…

astro-ph2004

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The blue galaxy fraction and implications for the Butcher-Oemler effect

Roberto De Propris, Matthew Colless, John Peacock +28

We derive the fraction of blue galaxies in a sample of clusters at z < 0.11 and the general field at the same redshift. The value of the blue fraction is observed to depend on the…

astro-ph2002

Parameter constraints for flat cosmologies from CMB and 2dFGRS power spectra

Will J. Percival, Will Sutherland, John A. Peacock +24

We constrain flat cosmological models with a joint likelihood analysis of a new compilation of data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Surv…

astro-ph2001

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The power spectrum and the matter content of the universe

Will J. Percival, Carlton M. Baugh, Joss Bland-Hawthorn +24

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey has now measured in excess of 160000 galaxy redshifts. This paper presents the power spectrum of the galaxy distribution, calculated using a direct F…

astro-ph2000

SPIRAL Phase A: A Prototype Integral Field Spectrograph for the AAT

Matthew A. Kenworthy, Ian R. Parry, Keith Taylor

We present details of a prototype fiber feed for use on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) that uses a dedicated fiber-fed medium/high resolution (R > 10000) visible-band spectro…

math.FA2006

Explicit cross-sections of singly generated group actions

David Larson, Eckart Schulz, Darrin Speegle +1

We consider two classes of actions on - one continuous and one discrete. For matrices of the form with , we consider the action given by $γ…

astro-ph.IM2013

The Brazilian Tunable Filter Imager for the SOAR telescope

Cláudia Mendes de Oliveira, Keith Taylor, Bruno Quint +22

This paper presents a new Tunable Filter Instrument for the SOAR telescope. The Brazilian Tunable Filter Imager (BTFI) is a versatile, new technology, tunable optical imager to be…

astro-ph2004

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the local E+A galaxy population

Chris Blake, Michael Pracy, Warrick Couch +27

We select a sample of low-redshift (z ~ 0.1) E+A galaxies from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). The spectra of these objects are defined by strong hydrogen Balmer absorptio…

astro-ph.CO2026

J-PAS: forecast on the primordial power spectrum reconstruction

Guillermo Martínez-Somonte, Airam Marcos-Caballero, Enrique Martínez-González +27

We investigate the capability of the J-PAS survey to constrain the primordial power spectrum using a non-parametric Bayesian method. Specifically, we analyze simulated power spectr…

astro-ph.CO2025

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses

Gabriel Rodrigues, Antonio J. Cuesta, Jailson Alcaniz +30

The large-scale structure survey J-PAS is taking data since October 2023. In this work, we present a forecast based on the Fisher matrix method to establish its sensitivity to the…

astro-ph2001

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Near Infrared Galaxy Luminosity Functions

Shaun Cole, Peder Norberg, Carlton Baugh +24

We combine the 2MASS extended source catalogue and the 2dFGRS to produce an IR selected galaxy catalogue with 17,173 measured redshifts. We use this extensive dataset to estimate t…

astro-ph.CO2025

Unveiling the small-scale web around galaxies with miniJPAS and DESI

Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa, Guinevere Kauffmann, Silvia Bonoli +23

We present the first statistical observational study detecting filaments in the immediate surroundings of galaxies, i.e. the local web of galaxies. Simulations predict that cold ga…

astro-ph.SR2025

Photometric segregation of dwarf and giant FGK stars using the SVO Filter Profile Service and photometric tools

Carlos Rodrigo, Patricia Cruz, John F. Aguilar +18

This paper is focused on the segregation of FGK dwarf and giant stars through narrow-band photometric data using the Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO) Filter Profile Service and as…

astro-ph2001

Evidence for a non-zero Lambda and a low matter density from a combined analysis of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies

George Efstathiou, Stephen Moody, John A. Peacock +24

We perform a joint likelihood analysis of the power spectra of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies under the assumptions…

astro-ph2004

Substructure Analysis of Selected Low Richness 2dFGRS Clusters of Galaxies

William S. Burgett, Michael M. Vick, David S. Davis +30

Complementary one-, two-, and three-dimensional tests for detecting the presence of substructure in clusters of galaxies are applied to recently obtained data from the 2dF Galaxy R…

astro-ph.GA2023

The miniJPAS & J-NEP surveys: Identification and characterization of the Ly Emitter population and the Ly Luminosity Function

Alberto Torralba-Torregrosa, Siddhartha Gurung-López, Pablo Arnalte-Mur +27

We present the Lyman- (Lya) Luminosity Function (LF) at , estimated from a sample of 67 Lya-emitter (LAE) candidates in the J-PAS Pathfinder surveys: miniJPAS and J…

math.FA2026

Subspaces of Invariant Under Shifts by a Crystal Group

Tom Potter, Keith Taylor

For a crystal group in dimension , a closed subspace of is called --shift invariant if, for every , the shifts of

astro-ph2002

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: A targeted study of catalogued clusters of galaxies

Roberto De Propris, Warrick Couch, Matthew Colless +27

We have carried out a study of known clusters within the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) observed areas and have identified 431 Abell, 173 APM and 343 EDCC clusters. Precise re…

astro-ph.CO2021

J-PAS: Forecasts for dark matter - dark energy elastic couplings

David Figueruelo, Miguel Aparicio Resco, Florencia A. Teppa Pannia +21

We consider a cosmological model where dark matter and dark energy feature a coupling that only affects their momentum transfer in the corresponding Euler equations. We perform a f…

astro-ph2004

Galaxy ecology: groups and low-density environments in the SDSS and 2dFGRS

Michael Balogh, Vince Eke, Chris Miller +34

We analyse the observed correlation between galaxy environment and H-alpha emission line strength, using volume-limited samples and group catalogues of 24968 galaxies drawn from th…

astro-ph.GA2022

The miniJPAS survey quasar selection I: Mock catalogues for classification

Carolina Queiroz, L. Raul Abramo, Natália V. N. Rodrigues +27

In this series of papers, we employ several machine learning (ML) methods to classify the point-like sources from the miniJPAS catalogue, and identify quasar candidates. Since no r…

astro-ph.GA2022

Black hole virial masses from single-epoch photometry: the miniJPAS test case

Jonás Chaves-Montero, Silvia Bonoli, Benny Trakhtenbrot +25

Precise measurements of black hole masses are essential to understanding the coevolution of these sources and their host galaxies. We develop a novel approach for computing black h…

astro-ph.CO2026

J-PAS and PFS surveys in the era of dark energy and neutrino mass measurements

Fuxing Qin, Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao +28

Fisher-matrix forecasts are presented for the cosmological surveys of the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) and the Subaru Prime Focus Sp…

astro-ph2005

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation with the ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-ray (REFLEX) galaxy cluster survey

Matt Hilton, Chris Collins, Roberto De Propris +25

The ROSAT-ESO Flux Limited X-ray (REFLEX) galaxy cluster survey and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) respectively comprise the largest, homogeneous X-ray selected cluster ca…

astro-ph2003

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Final Data Release

Matthew Colless, Bruce A. Peterson, Carole Jackson +25

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) has obtained spectra for 245591 sources, mainly galaxies, brighter than a nominal extinction-corrected magnitude limit of b_J=19.45. Reliabl…