The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: luminosity functions by density environment and galaxy type

We use the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to measure the dependence of the b _J-band galaxy luminosity function on large-scale environment, defined by density contrast in spheres of radius  8  h ⁻¹ Mpc  , and on spectral type, determined from principal component analysis. We find that the galaxy populations at both extremes of density differ significantly from that at the mean density. The population in voids is dominated by late types and shows, relative to the mean, a deficit of galaxies that becomes increasingly pronounced at magnitudes brighter than   M _{b J}−5log₁₀ h ≲−18.5  . In contrast, cluster regions have a relative excess of very bright early-type galaxies with   M _{b J}−5log₁₀ h ≲−21  . Differences in the mid- to faint-end population between environments are significant: at   M _{b J}−5log₁₀ h =−18  early- and late-type cluster galaxies show comparable abundances, whereas in voids the late types dominate by almost an order of magnitude. We find that the luminosity functions measured in all density environments, from voids to clusters, can be approximated by Schechter functions with parameters that vary smoothly with local density, but in a fashion that differs strikingly for early- and late-type galaxies. These observed variations, combined with our finding that the faint-end slope of the overall luminosity function depends at most weakly on density environment, may prove to be a significant challenge for models of galaxy formation.     

A two-dimensional analysis of percolation and filamentarity in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release One

We have used the largest cluster statistics and the average filamentarity to quantify respectively the connectivity and the shapes of the patterns seen in the galaxy distribution in two volume-limited subsamples extracted from the equatorial strips of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1). The data was projected on to the equatorial plane and analysed in two dimensions (2D). Comparing the results with Poisson point distributions at various levels of smoothing we find evidence for a network-like topology with filaments being the dominant patterns in the galaxy distribution. With increasing smoothing, a transition from many individual filamentary structures to an interconnected network is found to occur at a filling factor of 0.5–0.6. We have tested the possibility that the connectivity and the morphology of the patterns in the galaxy distribution may be luminosity dependent and find significant evidence for a luminosity–morphology relation, the brighter galaxies exhibiting lower levels of connectivity and filamentarity compared to the fainter ones. Using a statistical technique, Shuffle, we show that the filamentarity in both the SDSS strips is statistically significant up to 80  h ⁻¹ Mpc but not beyond. Larger filaments, though identified, are not statistically significant. Our findings reaffirm earlier work establishing the filaments to be the largest known statistically significant coherent structures in the Universe.     

上海天文台天体物理研究室近10年科学论文产出及其分析

对我台天体物理研究室 1992 - 2 0 0 1年期间科学论文产出情况进行了定量统计和分析 ,对已发表的论文总数、国内外SCI论文数、学报及台刊 (包括会议集等 )文章、青年作者论文数及论文引用情况的变化 ,分类归纳并进行讨论。结果表明该研究室科学论文产出的数量和质量逐年提高 ,并已形成了一支以青年天文工作者为主的天体物理基础研究队伍     

重庆地面最低气温年极值的渐近分布及参数估计

利用重庆 1951-1996 年间 46 年地面气温年极小值的记录,采用韦伯分布和耿贝尔分布分别进行拟合试验.通过统计推断和对比,找出重庆地面最低气温年极值遵循的最佳渐近分布--韦伯分布.     

疏散星团运动学资料汇集与若干统计分析

整理汇集了迄今最完整的同时具备绝对自行与视向速度数据的 14 4个疏散星团样本 ,计算得出这些星团的 3维空间速度。对银河系疏散星团的空间分布 (采用了更多样本 )和运动学性质进行了若干统计分析     

Emergence of non-extensive seismic magnitude-frequency distribution from a Bayesian framework

Non-extensive statistical mechanics has been used in recent years as a framework in order to build some seismic frequency-magnitude models. Following a Bayesian procedure through a process of marginalization, it is shown that some of these models can arise from the result shown here, which reinforces the relevance of the non-extensive distributions to explain the data (earthquake’s magnitude) observed during the seismic manifestation. In addition, it makes possible to extend the non-extensive family of distributions, which could explain cases that, eventually, could not be covered by the currently known distributions within this framework. The model obtained was applied to six data samples, corresponding to the frequency-magnitude distributions observed before and after the three strongest earthquakes registered in Chile during the late millennium. In all cases, fit parameters show a strong trend to a particular non-extensive model widely known in literature.