From Finance to Cosmology: The Copula of Large-Scale Structure (2009)
Scherrer, Robert J., Berlind, Andreas A., Mao, Qingqing, McBride, Cameron K.
Any multivariate distribution can be uniquely decomposed into marginal (1-point) distributions, and a function called the copula, which contains all of the information on correlations between the...
Modeling the Very Small-Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies (2009)
Watson, Douglas F., Berlind, Andreas A., McBride, Cameron K., Masjedi, Morad
We model the small-scale clustering of luminous red galaxies (LRGs; Masjedi et al. 2006) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Specifically, we use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) formalism...
The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Large-Scale Clustering in the SDSS LRG Sample (2009)
Kazin, Eyal A., Blanton, Michael R., Scoccimarro, Roman, McBride, Cameron K., Berlind, Andreas A., Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We examine the correlation function \xi of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxy sample (LRG) at large scales (60
The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
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 SDSS-II. It includes...
Correlations between Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Infrared-Luminous Galaxies (2009)
Farrar, Glennys R., Berlind, Andreas A., Zaw, Ingyin
We confirm the UHECR horizon established by the Pierre Auger Observatory using the heterogeneous Veron-Cetty Veron (VCV) catalog of AGNs, by performing a redshift-angle-IR luminosity scan using PSCz...
Correlations between Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and AGNs (2009)
Farrar, Glennys R., Zaw, Ingyin, Berlind, Andreas A.
We investigate several aspects of the correlations reported by the Pierre Auger Observatory between the highest energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and galaxies in the Veron-Cetty Veron (VCV) catalog of...
The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
Intrinsic Properties of Low-z SDSS Galaxies (2008)
Maller, Ariyeh H., Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael, Hogg, David W.
Galaxies are seen from different viewing angles and their observed properties change as a function of viewing angle. In many circumstances we would rather know the intrinsic properties of galaxies -...
The Intrinsic Properties of SDSS Galaxies (2008)
Maller, Ariyeh H., Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W.
The observed properties of galaxies vary with inclination; for most applications we would rather have properties that are independent of inclination, intrinsic properties. One way to determine...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
Large-Angular-Scale Clustering as a Clue to the Source of UHECRs (2007)
Berlind, Andreas A., Farrar, Glennys R.
We show that future Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray samples should be able to distinguish whether the sources of UHECRs are hosted by galaxy clusters or ordinary galaxies, or whether the sources are...
The asymmetric relations among galaxy color, structure, and environment (2006)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, MichaelR., Hogg, David W.
We investigate the dependences of galaxy star-formation history and galaxy morphology on environment, using color and H-alpha equivalent width as star-formation history indicators, using...
The Clustering of Galaxy Groups: Dependence on Mass and Other Properties (2006)
Berlind, Andreas A., Kazin, Eyal, Blanton, Michael R., Pueblas, Sebastian, Scoccimarro, Roman, Hogg, David W.
We investigate the clustering of galaxy groups and clusters in the SDSS using the Berlind et al. (2006) group sample, which is designed to identify galaxy systems that each occupy a single dark...
What aspects of galaxy environment matter? (2006)
Blanton, Michael R., Berlind, Andreas A., Hogg, David W.
We determine what aspects of the density field surrounding galaxies most affect their properties. For Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies, we measure the group environment, meaning the host group...
What triggers galaxy transformations? The environments of post-starburst galaxies (2006)
Hogg, David W., Masjedi, Morad, Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Quintero, Alejandro D., Brinkmann, J.
(abridged) There are good observational reasons to believe that the progenitors of red galaxies have undergone starbursts, followed by a post-starburst phase. We investigate the environments of...
Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Warren, Michael S., Abazajian, Kevork, ...
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-friends linking lengths...
Very small scale clustering and merger rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01 Mpc
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
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 on cosmological...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
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 on cosmological...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
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 on cosmological...
Very Small-Scale Clustering and Merger Rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2005)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01
What galaxies know about their nearest cluster (2005)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W.
We investigate the extent to which galaxies' star-formation histories and morphologies are determined by their clustocentric distance and their nearest cluster's richness. We look at three tracers of...
Foreground and Source of a Cluster of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays (2005)
Farrar, Glennys R., Berlind, Andreas A., Hogg, David W.
We investigate the origin of a nearly pointlike cluster of 5 ultrahigh energy cosmic rays at RA ~169.2deg and dec ~56.8deg, using Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other data. No particular source...
The Physics of Galaxy Clustering I: A Model for Subhalo Populations (2004)
Zentner, Andrew R., Berlind, Andreas A., Bullock, James S., Kravtsov, Andrey V., Wechsler, Risa H.
(Abridged) We present a semi-analytic model for Cold Dark Matter halo substructure that can be used as a framework for studying galaxy formation and an ingredient in halo models of galaxy clustering....
Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Weinberg, David H., Benson, Andrew J., Baugh, Carlton M., Cole, Shaun, ...
The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relation between galaxies and dark matter at the level of individual dark matter halos. The properties of galaxies residing at the centers of...
Abazajian, Kevork, Zheng, Zheng, Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Frieman, Joshua A., Berlind, Andreas A., ...
We use the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of a volume-limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main galaxy redshift catalogue to measure the halo occupation distribution...
Interpreting the Relationship Between Galaxy Luminosity, Color and Environment (2004)
Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Weinberg, David H., Davé, Romeel, Eisenstein, Daniel J., ...
We study the relationship between galaxy luminosity, color, and environment in a cosmological simulation of galaxy formation. We compare the predicted relationship with that found for SDSS galaxies...
On departures from a power law in the galaxy correlation function (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Román, ...
The Dark Side of the Halo Occupation Distribution (2003)
Kravtsov, Andrey V., Berlind, Andreas A., Wechsler, Risa H., Klypin, Anatoly A., Gottloeber, Stefan, Allgood, Brandon, ...
We analyze the halo occupation distribution (HOD), the probability for a halo of mass M to host a number of subhalos N, and two-point correlation function of galaxy-size dark matter halos using...
On Departures From a Power Law in the Galaxy Correlation Function (2003)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Roman, ...
We measure the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for a flux-limited sample of 118,000 galaxies and for a volume limited subset of 22,000 galaxies with absolute...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
The Halo Occupation Distribution and the Physics of Galaxy Formation (2002)
Berlind, Andreas A., Weinberg, David H., Benson, Andrew J., Baugh, Carlton M., Cole, Shaun, Davé, Romeel, ...
The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the bias between galaxies and dark matter by specifying (a) the probability P(N|M) that a halo of virial mass M contains N galaxies of a particular...
Near-IR and Optical Morphology of Spiral Galaxies (2002)
Eskridge, Paul B., Frogel, Jay A., Pogge, Richard W., Quillen, Alice C., Berlind, Andreas A., Davies, Roger L., ...
We announce the initial release of data from the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey, a BVRJHK imaging survey of a well-defined sample of 205 bright, nearby spiral galaxies. We present...
Do Distinct Cosmological Models Predict Degenerate Halo Populations? (2002)
Zheng, Zheng, Tinker, Jeremy L., Weinberg, David H., Berlind, Andreas A.
Using cosmological N-body simulations, we investigate the influence of the matter density parameter Omega_m and the linear theory power spectrum P(k) on statistical properties of the dark matter halo...
Berlind, Andreas A., Weinberg, David H.
We investigate galaxy bias in the framework of the ``Halo Occupation Distribution'' (HOD), which defines the bias of a population of galaxies by the conditional probability P(N|M) that a dark matter...
Biased Galaxy Formation And Measurements Of Beta (2000)
Berlind, Andreas A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Weinberg, David H.
Measurements of the cosmological density parameter Omega using techniques that exploit the gravity-induced motions of galaxies constrain, in linear perturbation theory, the degenerate parameter...
Berlind, Andreas A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Weinberg, David H.
We show that a regression of unsmoothed peculiar velocity measurements against peculiar velocities predicted from a smoothed galaxy density field leads to a biased estimate of the cosmological...
Berlind, Andreas A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Weinberg, David H.
Measurements of the cosmological density parameter (Omega) using techniques that exploit the gravity-induced motions of galaxies yield, in linear perturbation theory, the degenerate parameter...
Topology from the Simulated Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1999)
Colley, Wesley N., Gott, J. Richard, Weinberg, David H., Park, Changbom, Berlind, Andreas A.
We measure the topology (genus curve) of the galaxy distribution in a mock redshift catalog designed to resemble the upcoming Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The catalog, drawn from a large N-body...
The Extinction Law in an Occulting Galaxy (1997)
Berlind, Andreas A., Quillen, A. C., Pogge, R. W., Sellgren, K.
We measure the extinction law in a galaxy's spiral arm and interarm regions using a visual and infrared (BVRJHK) imaging study of the interacting galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163. This is an overlapping...