Astrometry.net: Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images (2009)
Lang, Dustin, Hogg, David W., Mierle, Keir, Blanton, Michael, Roweis, Sam
We have built a reliable and robust system that takes as input an astronomical image, and returns as output the pointing, scale, and orientation of that image (the astrometric calibration or WCS...
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 Physical Origin of Scale Dependent Bias in Cosmological Simulations (2007)
Michael Blanton, Renyue Cen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Michael A. Strauss, Mpc To
Using large-scale hydrodynamic simulations with heuristic criteria for galaxy formation, we investigate how the galaxy field is related to physical parameters, such as the mass density and the gas...
The Mass Function of void galaxies in the SDSS data release 2 (2007)
Goldberg, David, Jones, Timothy, Hoyle, Fiona, Rojas, Randall R., Vogeley, Michael, Blanton, Michael
We estimate the Mass Function of void galaxies in the second public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from a sample of 1000 galaxies with local density contrasts of δv < −0.6. The...
SDSS Galaxy Clustering: Luminosity & Colour Dependence and Stochasticity (2007)
Swanson, Molly E. C., Tegmark, Max, Blanton, Michael, Zehavi, Idit
Differences in clustering properties between galaxy subpopulations complicate the cosmological interpretation of the galaxy power spectrum, but can also provide insights about the physics underlying...
The Tully-Fisher relation and its residuals for a broadly selected sample of galaxies (2007)
Pizagno, James, Prada, Francisco, Weinberg, David H., Rix, Hans-Walter, Pogge, Richard W., Grebel, Eva K., ...
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 galaxies from the Sloan...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel, Strauss, Michael, Weinberg, David, Blanton, Michael, Frieman, Joshua, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608632 v2 Oct 30 2006
The Tully-Fisher Relation and Its Residuals for a Broadly Selected Sample of Galaxies (2006)
Pizagno, James, Prada, Francisco, Weinberg, David H., Rix, Hans-Walter, Pogge, Richard W., Grebel, Eva K., ...
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 galaxies from the Sloan...
Density profiles of galaxy groups and clusters from SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing (2006)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros, Cool, Richard J., Blanton, Michael, Hirata, Christopher M., Brinkmann, Jonathan
We present results of a measurement of the shape of the density profile of galaxy groups and clusters traced by 43 335 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) with spectroscopic redshifts from the Sloan Digital...
Willman 1 - A Galactic Satellite at 40 kpc With Multiple Stellar Tails (2006)
Willman, Beth, Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Dalcanton, Julianne J., Martinez-Delgado, David, Blanton, Michael, ...
SDSSJ1049+5103, commonly known as Willman 1, is an extremely low-luminosity Milky Way companion whose properties are intermediate between those of globular clusters and dwarf spheroidals. In this...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
The Small-scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies via Cross-Correlation Techniques (2004)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael, Zehavi, Idit, Bahcall, Neta, Brinkmann, Jon, Loveday, Jon, ...
We present the small-scale (0.2h^{-1} to 7h^{-1} Mpc) cross-correlations between 32,000 luminous early-type galaxies and a reference sample of 16 million normal galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky...
Rudnick, Gregory, Rix, Hans-Walter, Franx, Marijn, Labbe, Ivo, Blanton, Michael, Daddi, Emanuele, ...
We present the evolution of the rest-frame optical luminosity density, of the integrated rest-frame optical color, and of the stellar mass density for a sample of Ks-band selected galaxies in the...
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stéphane, Tremonti, Christy, Brinchmann, Jarle, ...
Rudnick, Gregory, Rix, Hans-Walter, Franx, Marijn, Labbé, Ivo, Blanton, Michael, Daddi, Emanuele, ...
Rudnick, Gregory, Rix, Hans-Walter, Franx, Marijn, Labbé, Ivo, Blanton, Michael, Daddi, Emanuele, ...
We present the evolution of the rest-frame optical luminosity density jrest lambda;, the integrated rest-frame optical color, and the stellar mass density, rho;*, for a sample of Ks band-selected...
Two-Dimensional Topology of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)
Hoyle, Fiona, Vogeley, Michael S., Gott III, J. Richard, Blanton, Michael, Tegmark, Max, Weinberg, David H., ...
We present the topology of a volume-limited sample of 11,884 galaxies, selected from an apparent-magnitude limited sample of over 100,000 galaxies observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
The luminosity density of red galaxies (2002)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael, Strateva, Iskra
A complete sample of $7.7\times 10^4$ galaxies with five-band imaging and spectroscopic redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is used to determine the fraction of the optical luminosity density...
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stephane, Tremonti, Christy, Brinchmann, Jarle, ...
We develop a new method to constrain the star formation histories, dust attenuation and stellar masses of galaxies. It is based on two stellar absorption line indices, the 4000 Angstrom break...
Ivezic, Zeljko, Menou, Kristen, Knapp, Gillian R., Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We discuss the optical and radio properties of similar to30,000 FIRST (radio, 20 cm, sensitive to 1 mJy) sources positionally associated within 1."5 with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (optical,...
The GZK Feature in our Neighborhood of the Universe (2000)
Blanton, Michael, Blasi, Pasquale, Olinto, Angela V.
We calculate numerically the spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays on Earth assuming that their sources are distributed in space like the observed galaxies. We use the CfA2 and the PSCz galaxy...
The Distribution of [OII] Equivalent Widths of LCRS Galaxies (2000)
We present a simple functional form for the joint distribution of R-band luminosity and [OII] 3727 emission-line equivalent widths of galaxies, and show that this form is a good fit to the galaxies...
How Stochastic is the Relative Bias Between Galaxy Types? (2000)
Examining the nature of the relative clustering of different galaxy types can help tell us how galaxies formed. To measure this relative clustering, I perform a joint counts-in-cells analysis of...
Nonlinear and Stochastic Morphological Segregation (1999)
I perform a joint counts-in-cells analysis of galaxies of different spectral types using the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). Using a maximum-likelihood technique to fit for the relationship...
Time Evolution of Galaxy Formation and Bias in Cosmological Simulations (1999)
Blanton, Michael, Cen, Renyue, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Strauss, Michael A., Tegmark, Max
The clustering of galaxies relative to the mass distribution declines with time because: first, nonlinear peaks become less rare events; second, the densest regions stop forming new galaxies because...
Large-Scale Flows As A Cosmological Probe (1998)
Strauss, Michael A., Blanton, Michael
We review the use of peculiar velocities of galaxies as a probe of cosmological models. We put particular emphasis on comparison of the peculiar velocity and density fields, focussing on the...
Constraining the Dark Matter Distribution With Large-Scale Structure Observations (1998)
Strauss, Michael A., Blanton, Michael
We discuss the use of galaxies to trace the large-scale structure of the universe and thereby to make cosmological inferences. We put special emphasis on our lack of knowledge about the relative...
The Physical Origin of Scale Dependent Bias in Cosmological Simulations (1998)
Blanton, Michael, Cen, Renyue, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Strauss, Michael A.
Using large-scale hydrodynamic simulations with heuristic criteria for galaxy formation, we investigate how the galaxy field is related to the mass density and the gas temperature. We find that the...