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Physics of star formation history and the luminosity function of galaxies therefrom
Masataka Fukugita, Masahiro Kawasaki
We show that the star formation history, the reionization history and the present luminosity function of galaxies are reproduced in a simple gravitational collapse model within the…
Galaxies and Cluster of Galaxies as Peak Patches of the Density Field
Masataka Fukugita, Hans Böhringer
The mass function of galaxies and clusters of galaxies can be derived observationally based on different types of observations. In this study we test if these observations can be c…
Energetics of High-Energy Cosmic Radiations
Kohta Murase, Masataka Fukugita
The luminosity densities of high-energy cosmic radiations are studied to find connections among the various components, including high-energy neutrinos measured with IceCube and ga…
On the nature of the black-body stars
Aldo Serenelli, Rene Rohrmann, Masataka Fukugita
A selection of 17 stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, previously identified as DC class white dwarfs (WDs), has been reported to show spectra very close to blackbody radiation i…
Black-Body Stars
Nao Suzuki, Masataka Fukugita
We report the discovery of stars that show spectra very close to the black-body radiation. We found 17 such stars out of 798,593 stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectr…
The extended ROSAT-ESO Flux-Limited X-ray Galaxy Cluster Survey (REFLEX II) VII The Mass Function of Galaxy Clusters
Hans Boehringer, Gayoung Chon, Masataka Fukugita
The mass function of galaxy clusters is a sensitive tracer of the gravitational evolution of the cosmic large-scale structure and serves as an important census of the fraction of m…
Mg II absorbers: metallicity evolution and cloud morphology
Ting-Wen Lan, Masataka Fukugita
Metal abundance and its evolution are studied for Mg II quasar absorption line systems from their weak, unsaturated spectral lines using stacked spectra from the archived data of S…
CP violating phase from minimal texture neutrino mass matrix: Test of the phase relevant to leptogenesis
Masataka Fukugita, Yuya Kaneta, Yusuke Shimizu +2
The model of neutrino mass matrix with minimal texture is now tightly constrained by experiment so that it can yield a prediction for the phase of CP violation. This phase is predi…
The nature of Damped Lyman-α and MgII absorbers explored with their dust contents
Masataka Fukugita, Brice Ménard
We estimate the abundance of dust in damped Lyman-α absorbers (DLAs) by statistically measuring the excess reddening they induce on their background quasars. We detect systematic r…
Properties of Dust Grains Probed with Extinction Curves
Takaya Nozawa, Masataka Fukugita
Modern data of the extinction curve from the ultraviolet to the near infrared are revisited to study the property of dust grains in the Milky Way (MW) and the Small Magellanic Clou…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. VI. Constraints on Dark Energy and the Evolution of Massive Galaxies
Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada, Michael A. Strauss +12
We present a statistical analysis of the final lens sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search (SQLS). The number distribution of a complete subsample of 19 lensed…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. V. Final Catalog from the Seventh Data Release
Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Min-Su Shin +13
We present the final statistical sample of lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search (SQLS). The well-defined statistical lens sample consists of 2…
Cosmic dust in MgII absorbers
Brice Ménard, Masataka Fukugita
MgII absorbers induce reddening on background quasars. We measure this effect and infer the cosmic density of dust residing in these systems to be Ω ~ 2e-6, in units of the critica…
Milky Way Tomography IV: Dissecting Dust
Michael Berry, Željko Ivezić, Branimir Sesar +28
We use SDSS photometry of 73 million stars to simultaneously obtain best-fit main-sequence stellar energy distribution (SED) and amount of dust extinction along the line of sight t…
Matter Distribution around Galaxies
Shogo Masaki, Masataka Fukugita, Naoki Yoshida
We explore the mass distribution of material associated with galaxies from the observation of gravitational weak lensing for the galaxy mass correlation function with the aid of $N…
Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2
Or Graur, Dovi Poznanski, Dan Maoz +9
The type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate, when compared to the cosmic star formation history (SFH), can be used to derive the delay-time distribution (DTD) of SNe Ia, which can distingui…
Microwave Emission from the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt and the Asteroid Belt Constrained from WMAP
Kazuhide Ichikawa, Masataka Fukugita
Objects in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt and the main asteroid belt should emit microwaves that may give rise to extra anisotropy signals in the multipole of the cosmic microwave backg…
Characterisation of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stellar Photometry
Masataka Fukugita, Naoki Yasuda, Mamoru Doi +2
We study the photometric properties of stars in the data archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the prime aim being to understand the photometric calibration over the enti…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. IV. Statistical Lens Sample from the Fifth Data Release
Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Min-Su Shin +20
We present the second report of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars from the data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From extensive follow-up observations of 136…
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…
Photometric Response Functions of the SDSS Imager
Mamoru Doi, Masayuki Tanaka, Masataka Fukugita +8
The monochromatic illumination system is constructed to carry out in situ measurements of the response function of the mosaicked CCD imager used in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SD…
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: III. Stellar Kinematics
N. A. Bond, Z. Ivezic, B. Sesar +2
We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r<20 and proper-motion measurements derived from SDSS and POSS astrometry, including ~170,000…
Properties of Disks and Bulges of Spiral and Lenticular Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
N. Oohama, S. Okamura, M. Fukugita +2
A bulge-disk decomposition is made for 737 spiral and lenticular galaxies drawn from a SDSS galaxy sample for which morphological types are estimated. We carry out the bulge-disk d…
Cosmological Constraints from the Clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Luminous Red Galaxies
Beth A. Reid, Will J. Percival, Daniel J. Eisenstein +25
We present the power spectrum of the reconstructed halo density field derived from a sample of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release (…