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Three-Point Correlation Functions of SDSS Galaxies: Constraining Galaxy-Mass Bias
Cameron K. McBride, Andrew J. Connolly, Jeffrey P. Gardner +5
We constrain the linear and quadratic bias parameters from the configuration dependence of the three-point correlation function (3PCF) in both redshift and projected space, utilizi…
PRIMUS: Enhanced Specific Star Formation Rates In Close Galaxy Pairs
Kenneth C. Wong, Michael R. Blanton, Scott M. Burles +6
Tidal interactions between galaxies can trigger star formation, which contributes to the global star formation rate density of the universe and could be a factor in the transformat…
Variability selected high-redshift quasars on SDSS Stripe 82
N. Palanque-Delabrouille, Ch. Yeche, A. D. Myers +11
The SDSS-III BOSS Quasar survey will attempt to observe z>2.15 quasars at a density of at least 15 per square degree to yield the first measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillati…
Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Dark Matter with a Yukawa Potential
Abraham Loeb, Neal Weiner
We show that cold dark matter particles interacting through a Yukawa potential could naturally explain the recently observed cores in dwarf galaxies without affecting the dynamics…
PRIMUS: Obscured Star Formation on the Red Sequence
Guangtun Zhu, Michael R. Blanton, Scott M. Burles +6
We quantify the fraction of galaxies at moderate redshifts (0.1<z<0.5) that appear red-and-dead in the optical, but in fact contain obscured star formation detectable in the infrar…
Think Outside the Color Box: Probabilistic Target Selection and the SDSS-XDQSO Quasar Targeting Catalog
Jo Bovy, Joseph F. Hennawi, David W. Hogg +8
We present the SDSS-XDQSO quasar targeting catalog for efficient flux-based quasar target selection down to the faint limit of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) catalog, even at…
The PRIsm MUlti-Object Survey (PRIMUS) I: Survey Overview and Characteristics
Alison L. Coil, Michael R. Blanton, Scott M. Burles +9
We present the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS), a spectroscopic faint galaxy redshift survey to z~1. PRIMUS uses a low-dispersion prism and slitmasks to observe ~2,500 objects a…
Excursion Sets and Non-Gaussian Void Statistics
Guido D'Amico, Marcello Musso, Jorge Noreña +1
Primordial non-Gaussianity (NG) affects the large scale structure (LSS) of the universe by leaving an imprint on the distribution of matter at late times. Much attention has been f…
Modeling scale-dependent bias on the baryonic acoustic scale with the statistics of peaks of Gaussian random fields
Vincent Desjacques, Martin Crocce, Roman Scoccimarro +1
Models of galaxy and halo clustering commonly assume that the tracers can be treated as a continuous field locally biased with respect to the underlying mass distribution. In the p…
Stellar Population Variations in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
Eric F. Bell, Xiang Xiang Xue, Hans-Walter Rix +2
If the stellar halos of disk galaxies are built up from the disruption of dwarf galaxies, models predict highly structured variations in the stellar populations within these halos.…
The clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 from the first semester of BOSS data
Martin White, M. Blanton, A. Bolton +25
We calculate the real- and redshift-space clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 using the first semester of data by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We study t…
Optical discovery of probable stellar tidal disruption flares
Sjoert van Velzen, Glennys R. Farrar, Suvi Gezari +6
Using archival SDSS multi-epoch imaging data (Stripe 82), we have searched for the tidal disruption of stars by super-massive black holes in non-active galaxies. Two candidate tida…
The Megamaser Cosmology Project. III. Accurate Masses of Seven Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galaxies with Circumnuclear Megamaser Disks
C. Y. Kuo, J. A. Braatz, J. J. Condon +7
Observations of HO masers from circumnuclear disks in active galaxies for the Megamaser Cosmology Project allow accurate measurement of the mass of supermassive black holes (BH…
Three-Point Correlation Functions of SDSS Galaxies: Luminosity and Color Dependence in Redshift and Projected Space
Cameron K. McBride, Andrew J. Connolly, Jeffrey P. Gardner +5
The three-point correlation function (3PCF) provides an important view into the clustering of galaxies that is not available to its lower order cousin, the two-point correlation fu…
Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies in the Local Universe
Guangtun Zhu, Michael R. Blanton, John Moustakas
We study the stellar populations of 1,923 elliptical galaxies at z<0.05 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of velocity dispersion, sigma, and environment. We…
Polarizing Bubble Collisions
Bartlomiej Czech, Matthew Kleban, Klaus Larjo +2
We predict the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons that results from a cosmic bubble collision. The polarization is purely E-mode, symmetric around the axis p…
Galaxy Clustering in the Completed SDSS Redshift Survey: The Dependence on Color and Luminosity
Idit Zehavi, Zheng Zheng, David H. Weinberg +14
We measure the luminosity and color dependence of galaxy clustering in the SDSS DR7 main galaxy sample, focusing on the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of volume-limited sa…
Regarding the Line-of-Sight Baryonic Acoustic Feature in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Samples
Eyal A. Kazin, Michael R. Blanton, Roman Scoccimarro +2
We analyze the line-of-sight baryonic acoustic feature in the two-point correlation function ξ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample (0.16 < z < 0…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release
Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards, Patrick B. Hall +45
We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105,783 spectrosc…
Dust of Dark Energy
Eugene A. Lim, Ignacy Sawicki, Alexander Vikman
We introduce a novel class of field theories where energy always flows along timelike geodesics, mimicking in that respect dust, yet which possess non-zero pressure. This theory co…
Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2007if: First Total Mass Measurement of a Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Progenitor
R. A. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus +27
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2007if, an overluminous (M_V = -20.4), red (B-V = 0.16 at B-band maximum), slow-rising (t_rise = 24 days) type Ia supern…
Gravitational Lensing as Signal and Noise in Lyman-alpha Forest Measurements
Marilena LoVerde, Stefanos Marnerides, Lam Hui +2
In Lyman-alpha forest measurements it is generally assumed that quasars are mere background light sources which are uncorrelated with the forest. Gravitational lensing of the quasa…
Dust attenuation in disk-dominated galaxies: evidence for the 2175A dust feature
Charlie Conroy, David Schiminovich, Michael R. Blanton
The attenuation of starlight by interstellar dust is investigated in a sample of low redshift, disk-dominated star-forming galaxies using photometry from GALEX and SDSS. By conside…