Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectroscopic Lens Search. I. Discovery of Intermediate-Redshift Star-forming Galaxies behind Foreground Luminous Red Galaxies

2004 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 1860-1882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam S. Bolton ◽  
Scott Burles ◽  
David J. Schlegel ◽  
Daniel J. Eisenstein ◽  
J. Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Luminous Red Galaxies ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Red Galaxies ◽  
Intermediate Redshift

scholarly journals Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16

2021 ◽  
Vol 504 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Abhijeet Anand ◽  
Dylan Nelson ◽  
Guinevere Kauffmann
Keyword(s):  
Formation Rate ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Gas Absorption ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Optical Continuum ◽  
Circumgalactic Medium ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies ◽  
Red Galaxies

ABSTRACT In order to study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies we develop an automated pipeline to estimate the optical continuum of quasars and detect intervening metal absorption line systems with a matched kernel convolution technique and adaptive S/N criteria. We process ∼ one million quasars in the latest Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compile a large sample of ∼ 160 000 Mg ii absorbers, together with ∼ 70 000 Fe ii systems, in the redshift range 0.35 < zabs < 2.3. Combining these with the SDSS DR16 spectroscopy of ∼1.1 million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and ∼200 000 emission line galaxies (ELGs), we investigate the nature of cold gas absorption at 0.5 < z < 1. These large samples allow us to characterize the scale dependence of Mg ii with greater accuracy than in previous work. We find that there is a strong enhancement of Mg ii absorption within ∼50 kpc of ELGs, and the covering fraction within 0.5rvir of ELGs is 2–5 times higher than for LRGs. Beyond 50 kpc, there is a sharp decline in Mg ii for both kinds of galaxies, indicating a transition to the regime where the CGM is tightly linked with the dark matter halo. The Mg ii-covering fraction correlates strongly with stellar mass for LRGs, but weakly for ELGs, where covering fractions increase with star formation rate. Our analysis implies that cool circumgalactic gas has a different physical origin for star-forming versus quiescent galaxies.

scholarly journals Red Misfits in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: properties of star-forming red galaxies

2018 ◽  
Vol 476 (4) ◽  
pp. 5284-5302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fraser A Evans ◽  
Laura C Parker ◽  
Ian D Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Red Galaxies

scholarly journals The three-point correlation function of luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2007 ◽  
Vol 378 (3) ◽  
pp. 1196-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gauri V. Kulkarni ◽  
Robert C. Nichol ◽  
Ravi K. Sheth ◽  
Hee-Jong Seo ◽  
Daniel J. Eisenstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Function ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Luminous Red Galaxies ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Point Correlation ◽  
Point Correlation Function ◽  
Red Galaxies

scholarly journals Studying Luminous Red Galaxies to probe H(z) at high redshift

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S295) ◽  
pp. 185-185
Author(s):  
A. Ratsimbazafy ◽  
C. Cress ◽  
S. Crawford ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Redshift ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Age Dating ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Spectral Fitting ◽  
Luminous Red Galaxies ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Intense Burst ◽  
Red Galaxies ◽  
The Universe

AbstractLuminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) have old, red stellar populations often interpreted as evidence of a formation scenario in which these galaxies form in a single intense burst of star formation at high redshift. By measuring the average age of LRGs at two different redshifts, one can potentially measure the redshift interval corresponding to a time interval and thus measure the Hubble parameter H(z) ≈ −(1 + z)−1 Δ z/Δt (as in Jimenez & Loeb). The goal of this project is to measure directly the expansion rate of the universe at the redshift range 0.1 < z < 1.0 within 3% precision. We explore the age-dating of Sloan Digital Sky Survey LRGs using the stellar population models of Lick absorption line indices after stacking spectra in redshift bins to increase the signal-to-noise. We also use the method of full spectral fitting to measure the ages of LRGs observed with the Southern Africa Large Telescope (SALT).

scholarly journals Erratum: Cosmological constraints from the clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 luminous red galaxies

2011 ◽  
Vol 417 (4) ◽  
pp. 3103-3104 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Beth A. Reid ◽  
Will J. Percival ◽  
Daniel J. Eisenstein ◽  
Licia Verde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Cosmological Constraints ◽  
Luminous Red Galaxies ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Red Galaxies

scholarly journals Probing star formation and ISM properties using galaxy disk inclination

2018 ◽  
Vol 615 ◽  
pp. A7 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Leslie ◽  
M. T. Sargent ◽  
E. Schinnerer ◽  
B. Groves ◽  
A. van der Wel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sample Selection ◽  
Ultra Violet ◽  
Far Infrared ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Star Forming Regions ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Dust Fraction ◽  
Galaxy Disk ◽  
Intermediate Redshift

Disk galaxies at intermediate redshift (z ~ 0.7) have been found in previous work to display more optically thick behaviour than their local counterparts in the rest-frame B-band surface brightness, suggesting an evolution in dust properties over the past ~6 Gyr. We compare the measured luminosities of face-on and edge-on star-forming galaxies at different wavelengths (Ultraviolet (UV), mid-infrared (MIR), far-infrared (FIR), and radio) for two well-matched samples of disk-dominated galaxies: a local Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-selected sample at z ~ 0.07 and a sample of disks at z ~ 0.7 drawn from Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). We have derived correction factors to account for the inclination dependence of the parameters used for sample selection. We find that typical galaxies are transparent at MIR wavelengths at both redshifts, and that the FIR and radio emission is also transparent as expected. However, reduced sensitivity at these wavelengths limits our analysis; we cannot rule out opacity in the FIR or radio. Ultra-violet attenuation has increased between z ~ 0 and z ~ 0.7, with the z ~ 0.7 sample being a factor of ~3.4 more attenuated. The larger UV attenuation at z ~ 0.7 can be explained by more clumpy dust around nascent star-forming regions. There is good agreement between the fitted evolution of the normalisation of the SFRUV versus 1 − cos(i) trend (interpreted as the clumpiness fraction) and the molecular gas fraction/dust fraction evolution of galaxies found out to z < 1.

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