Modeling the Very Small Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies

We model the small-scale clustering of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Specifically, we use the halo occupation distribution formalism to model the projected two-point correlation function of LRGs on scales well within the sizes of their host halos (0.016 h {sup -1} Mpc

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Published in:The Astrophysical journal 2010-01, Vol.709 (1), p.115-134
Main Authors: Watson, Douglas F, Berlind, Andreas A, McBride, Cameron K, Masjedi, Morad
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GALAXIES
MATTER
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
PROBABILITY
SATELLITES
SIMULATION
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
UNIVERSE
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