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The letter presents 25 discovered supernova candidates from SDSS-DR7 with our dedicated method, called Sample Decrease, and 10 of them were confirmed by other research groups, and listed in this letter. Another 15 are first discovered including 14 type Ia and one type II based on Supernova Identification (SNID) analysis. The results proved that our method is reliable, and the description of the method and some detailed spectra analysis procedures were also presented in this letter.
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We have analyzed the spatial distribution of galaxies from the release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of galactic redshifts (SDSS DR7), applying the complete correlation function (conditional density), two-point conditional density (cylinder), and radial density methods. Our analysis demonstrates that the conditional density has a power-law form for scales lengths 0.5-30 Mpc/h, with the power-law corresponding to the fractal dimension D = 2.2+-0.2; for scale lengths in excess of 30 Mpc/h, it enters an essentially flat regime, as is expected for a uniform distribution of galaxies. However, in the analysis applying the cylinder method, the power-law character with D = 2.0+-0.3 persists to scale lengths of 70 Mpc/h. The radial density method reveals inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution of galaxies on scales of 200 Mpc/h with a density contrast of two, confirming that translation invariance is violated in the distribution of galaxies to 300 Mpc/h, with the sampling depth of the SDSS galaxies being 600 Mpc/h.
Using a sample of galaxy groups selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we examine the alignment between the orientation of galaxies and their surrounding large scale structure in the context of the cosmic web. The latter is quantified using the large-scale tidal field, reconstructed from the data using galaxy groups above a certain mass threshold. We find that the major axes of galaxies in filaments tend to be preferentially aligned with the directions of the filaments, while galaxies in sheets have their major axes preferentially aligned parallel to the plane of the sheets. The strength of this alignment signal is strongest for red, central galaxies, and in good agreement with that of dark matter halos in N-body simulations. This suggests that red, central galaxies are well aligned with their host halos, in quantitative agreement with previous studies based on the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies. There is a luminosity and mass dependence that brighter and more massive galaxies in filaments and sheets have stronger alignment signals. We also find that the orientation of galaxies is aligned with the eigenvector associated with the smallest eigenvalue of the tidal tensor. These observational results indicate that galaxy formation is affected by large-scale environments, and strongly suggests that galaxies are aligned with each other over scales comparable to those of sheets and filaments in the cosmic web.
We present the cross-correlation function of MgII absorbers with respect to a volume-limited sample of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at z=0.45-0.60 using the largest MgII absorber sample and a new LRG sample from SDSS DR7. We present the clustering signal of absorbers on projected scales r_p = 0.3-35 Mpc/h in four Wr(2796) bins spanning Wr(2796)=0.4-5.6A. We found that on average MgII absorbers reside in halos < log M_h > approx 12.1, similar to the halo mass of an L_* galaxy. We report that the weakest absorbers in our sample with W_r(2796)=0.4-1.1A reside in relatively massive halos with < log M_h > approx 12.5^{+0.6}_{-1.3}, while stronger absorbers reside in halos of similar or lower masses < log M_h > approx 11.6^{+0.9}. We compared our bias data points, b, and the frequency distribution function of absorbers, f_{W_r}, with a simple model incorporating an isothermal density profile to mimic the distribution of absorbing gas in halos. We also compared the bias data points with Tinker & Chen (2008) who developed halo occupation distribution models of MgII absorbers that are constrained by b and f_{W_r}. The simple isothermal model can be ruled at a approx 2.8sigma level mostly because of its inability to reproduce f_{W_r}. However, b values are consistent with both models, including TC08. In addition, we show that the mean b of absorbers does not decrease beyond W_r(2796) approx 1.6A. The flat or potential upturn of b for Wr(2796) gtrsim 1.6A absorbers suggests the presence of additional cool gas in massive halos.
We present a large catalog of optically selected galaxy clusters from the application of a new Gaussian Mixture Brightest Cluster Galaxy (GMBCG) algorithm to SDSS Data Release 7 data. The algorithm detects clusters by identifying the red sequence plus Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) feature, which is unique for galaxy clusters and does not exist among field galaxies. Red sequence clustering in color space is detected using an Error Corrected Gaussian Mixture Model. We run GMBCG on 8240 square degrees of photometric data from SDSS DR7 to assemble the largest ever optical galaxy cluster catalog, consisting of over 55,000 rich clusters across the redshift range from 0.1 < z < 0.55. We present Monte Carlo tests of completeness and purity and perform cross-matching with X-ray clusters and with the maxBCG sample at low redshift. These tests indicate high completeness and purity across the full redshift range for clusters with 15 or more members.
Based on galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and subhalos in the corresponding reconstructed region from the constrained simulation of ELUCID, we study the alignment of central galaxies relative to their host groups in the group catalog, as well as the alignment relative to the corresponding subhalos in the ELUCID simulation. Galaxies in observation are matched to dark matter subhalos in the ELUCID simulation using a novel neighborhood abundance matching method. In observation, the major axes of galaxies are found to be preferentially aligned to the major axes of their host groups. There is a color dependence of galaxy-group alignment that red centrals have a stronger alignment along the major axes of their host groups than blue centrals. Combining galaxies in observation and subhalos in the ELUCID simulation, we also find that central galaxies have their major axes to be aligned to the major axes of their corresponding subhalos in the ELUCID simulation. We find that the galaxy-group and galaxy-subhalo alignment signals are stronger for galaxies in more massive halos. We find that the alignments between main subhalos and the SDSS matched subhalo systems in simulation are slightly stronger than the galaxy-group alignments in observation.
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