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The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
K. Abazajian
This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDS…
On the radiative efficiencies, Eddington ratios, and duty cycles of luminous high-redshift quasars
Francesco Shankar, Martin Crocce, Jordi Miralda-Escude' +2
We investigate the characteristic radiative efficiency ε, Eddington ratio λ, and duty cycle P_0 of high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN), drawing on measurements of the AGN lu…
Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties
Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Nicholas P. Ross +12
Using a homogenous sample of 38,208 quasars with a sky coverage of drawn from the SDSS Data Release Five quasar catalog, we study the dependence of quasar cluste…
Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies
Zheng Zheng, Idit Zehavi, Daniel J. Eisenstein +2
We perform Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling to interpret small-scale and intermediate-scale clustering of 35,000 luminous early-type galaxies and their cross-correlation…
Extending Recovery of the Primordial Matter Power Spectrum
Jaiyul Yoo, David H. Weinberg, Jeremy L. Tinker +2
The shape of the primordial matter power spectrum Plin(k) encodes critical information on cosmological parameters. At large scales, the observable galaxy power spectrum Pobs(k) is…
Self-Consistent Models of the AGN and Black Hole Populations: Duty Cycles, Accretion Rates, and the Mean Radiative Efficiency
Francesco Shankar, David H. Weinberg, Jordi Miralda-Escude'
We construct evolutionary models of the populations of AGN and supermassive black holes, in which the black hole mass function grows at the rate implied by the observed luminosity…
Void Statistics in Large Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Does Halo Occupation of Field Galaxies Depend on Environment?
Jeremy L. Tinker, Charlie Conroy, Peder Norberg +3
We use measurements of the projected galaxy correlation function w_p and galaxy void statistics to test whether the galaxy content of halos of fixed mass is systematically differen…
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and represents the completion…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release
Donald P. Schneider, Patrick B. Hall, Gordon T. Richards +41
We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previ…
The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +14
We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. T…
Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +12
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We joint…
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
M Tegmark, D Eisenstein, M Strauss +64
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints…
The Tully-Fisher Relation and Its Residuals for a Broadly Selected Sample of Galaxies
James Pizagno, Francisco Prada, David H. Weinberg +7
We measure the relation between galaxy luminosity and disk circular velocity (the Tully-Fisher [TF] relation), in the g, r, i, and z-bands, for a broadly selected sample of galaxie…
Accretion, feedback and galaxy bimodality: a comparison of the GalICS semi-analytic model and cosmological SPH simulations
Andrea Cattaneo, Jeremy Blaizot, David H. Weinberg +6
We compare the galaxy population of an SPH simulation to those predicted by the GalICS semi-analytic model and a stripped down version without supernova and AGN feedback. The SPH s…
On the Evolutionary History of Stars and their Fossil Mass and Light
Mark A. Fardal, Neal Katz, David H. Weinberg +1
The total extragalactic background radiation can be an important test of the global star formation history (SFH). Using direct observational estimates of the SFH, along with standa…
Baryon Dynamics, Dark Matter Substructure, and Galaxies
David H. Weinberg, Stephane Colombi, Romeel Davé +1
By comparing a collisionless cosmological N-body simulation (DM) to an SPH simulation with the same initial conditions, we investigate the correspondence between the dark matter su…
Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away
K. Z. Stanek, O. Y. Gnedin, J. F. Beacom +7
The host galaxies of the five local, z<0.25, long-duration gamma-ray bursts, each of which had a well-documented associated supernova, are all faint and metal-poor compared to the…
On the Luminosity Dependence of the Galaxy Pairwise Velocity Dispersion
Jeremy L. Tinker, Peder Norberg, David H. Weinberg +1
(Abridged) We make predictions for the pairwise velocity dispersion (PVD) of galaxies with models that are constrained to match the projected correlation function and luminosity fu…
Cosmic Voids and Galaxy Bias in the Halo Occupation Framework
Jeremy L. Tinker, David H. Weinberg, Michael S. Warren
(Abridged) We investigate the power of void statistics to constrain galaxy bias and the amplitude of dark matter fluctuations. We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framewo…
Percolation Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the SDSS Redshift Survey: Identification, Catalogs, and the Multiplicity Function
Andreas A. Berlind, Joshua A. Frieman, David H. Weinberg +17
We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friend…
Breaking the Degeneracies Between Cosmology and Galaxy Bias
Zheng Zheng, David H. Weinberg
Adopting the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), we investigate the ability of galaxy clustering measurements to simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters a…
From Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing to Cosmological Parameters
Jaiyul Yoo, Jeremy L. Tinker, David H. Weinberg +3
Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation functi…
Building Galaxies with Simulations
Romeel Davé, Kristian Finlator, Lars Hernquist +4
We present an overview of some of the issues surrounding current models of galaxy formation, highlighting recent insights obtained from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Detai…
Mapping the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
David H. Weinberg
In a large scale view of the universe, galaxies are the basic unit of structure. A typical bright galaxy may contain 100 billion stars and span tens of thousands of light years, bu…