The cosmic web described by superclusters of galaxies

• Grant number: 14/18632-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: December 01, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Extragalactic Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Laerte Sodré Junior
• Grantee: Marcus Vinícius Costa Duarte
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/00800-4 - The 3-D universe: astrophysics with large galaxy surveys, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/05254-9 - Investigating galaxy clusters in the photometric redshift space, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This project aims the study of large scale structures in the local Universe, focusing on superclusters of galaxies. We also aim to investigate the properties of galaxies which constitute these structures to analyze environmental effects in several scales. We shall use the surveys 2MPZ, GAMA/DR2 and data from SDSS stripe 82, which present redshifts for more than one million of galaxies in the local Universe. Initially we will develop a code to identify large scale structures based on Bayesian statistics. The continuity of the structures identified in the North and South Galactic Hemispheres will be studied taking into account the high extinction of the Galactic plane. The properties of galaxies will be obtained by using a spectral synthesis code with Principal Component Analysis (PCA), developed during the PhD of the candidate. A detailed analysis of the morphology-density relation, by considering different galaxy environments, will be carried out for each supercluster. A possible correlation between this relation and other supercluster properties will be also investigated. In this way, we can consider galaxy environments in structures with different properties. The mass function of superclusters, which represents an important constraint for cosmological models, will be obtained though calibrations based on simulations. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, V, M.; SAMPEDRO, L.; HERPICH, F. R.; SODRE JR, L.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; SCHOENELL, W.; BARBOSA, C. E.; QUEIROZ, C.; LIMA, E. V. R.; et al. Assessing the photometric redshift precision of the S-PLUS survey: the Stripe-82 as a test-case. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 499, n. 3, p. 3884-3908, DEC 2020. (14/18632-6, 16/21664-2, 13/18245-0, 17/50277-0, 11/51680-6, 09/54202-8, 16/17119-9, 19/11910-4, 12/09716-6, 14/07684-5)

COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; O'MILL, A. L.; DUPLANCIC, F.; SODRE, JR., L.; LAMBAS, D. G.. Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10-I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 459, n. 3, p. 2539-2549, JUL 1 2016. (14/18632-6, 09/54006-4, 12/00800-4)

BECK, R.; LIN, C. -A.; ISHIDA, E. E. O.; GIESEKE, F.; DE SOUZA, R. S.; COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; HATTAB, M. W.; KRONE-MARTINS, A.; COLLABORATION, COIN. On the realistic validation of photometric redshifts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 468, n. 4, p. 4323-4339, JUL 2017. (14/18632-6, 16/13470-3, 16/05254-9, 12/00800-4)

DE SOUZA, R. S.; DANTAS, M. L. L.; COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; FEIGELSON, E. D.; KILLEDAR, M.; LABLANCHE, P. -Y.; VILALTA, R.; KRONE-MARTINS, A.; BECK, R.; GIESEKE, F.. A probabilistic approach to emission-line galaxy classification. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 472, n. 3, p. 2808-2822, DEC 2017. (14/18632-6, 16/13470-3, 16/05254-9, 12/00800-4)

MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; CENARRO, A. J.; LIMA NETO, G. B.; CYPRIANO, E. S.; SODRE, JR., L.; COELHO, P.; CHOW-MARTINEZ, M.; MONTEIRO-OLIVEIRA, R.; et al. J-PLUS: On the identification of new cluster members in the double galaxy cluster A2589 and A2593 using PDFs. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 622, FEB 21 2019. (09/54202-8, 14/11806-9, 12/00800-4, 09/54006-4, 11/51680-6, 14/13723-3, 14/18632-6, 16/05254-9)

WHITTEN, D. D.; PLACCO, V. M.; BEERS, T. C.; CHIES-SANTOS, A. L.; BONATTO, C.; VARELA, J.; CRISTOBAL-HORNILLOS, D.; EDEROCLITE, A.; MASSERON, T.; LEE, Y. S.; et al. J-PLUS: Identification of low-metallicity stars with artificial neural networks using SPHINX. Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 622, FEB 21 2019. (14/18632-6)

MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; RIBEIRO, T.; SCHOENELL, W.; KANAAN, A.; OVERZIER, R. A.; MOLINO, A.; SAMPEDRO, L.; COELHO, P.; BARBOSA, C. E.; CORTESI, A.; et al. The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 489, n. 1, p. 241-267, OCT 2019. (16/12331-0, 18/21661-9, 09/54202-8, 14/11806-9, 18/02444-7, 16/23567-4, 16/21532-9, 11/51680-6, 17/23766-0, 17/01461-2, 14/07684-5, 16/21664-2, 14/13723-3, 16/17119-9, 14/18632-6)

COSTA-DUARTE, V, M.; VIOLA, M.; MOLINO, A.; KUIJKEN, K.; SODRE JR, L.; BILICKI, M.; BROUWER, M. M.; BUDDELMEIJER, H.; GETMAN, F.; GRADO, A.; et al. The galaxy environment in GAMA G3C groups using the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 478, n. 2, p. 1968-1979, AUG 2018. (14/18632-6, 09/54006-4, 16/05254-9, 14/11806-9)

MOLINO, A.; COSTA-DUARTE, M. V.; MENDES DE OLIVEIRA, C.; CENARRO, A. J.; LIMA NETO, G. B.; CYPRIANO, E. S.; SODRE, L., JR.; COELHO, P.; CHOW-MARTINEZ, M.; MONTEIRO-OLIVEIRA, R.; et al. J-PLUS: On the identification of new cluster members in the double galaxy cluster A2589 and A2593 using PDFs. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, v. 622, p. 14-pg., 2019-02-21. (09/54202-8, 14/18632-6, 11/51680-6, 14/11806-9, 12/00800-4, 16/05254-9, 14/13723-3, 09/54006-4)