GALAXY CLUSTERING IN THE COMPLETED SDSS REDSHIFT SURVEY: THE DEPENDENCE ON COLOR AND LUMINOSITY

We measure the luminosity and color dependence of galaxy clustering in the SDSS DR7 main galaxy sample, focusing on the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of volume-limited samples. We interpret our measurements using halo occupation distribution (HOD) modeling assuming a Lambda-CDM cosmology. The amplitude of w_p(r_p) grows slowly with luminosity for L L)=1.06+0.23(L/L_*)^{1.12}. At fixed luminosity, redder galaxies have a stronger and steeper w_p(r_p), a trend that runs steadily from the bluest galaxies to the reddest galaxies. The individual luminosity trends for the red and blue galaxy populations are strikingly different. Blue galaxies show a slow but steady increase of w_p(r_p) with luminosity, at…

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  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 0907947, 0707985
• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy

  Award: AC02-07CH11359
• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Award: NNX09AC85G
• AP
  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• YU
  Yale University
• PU
  Princeton University
• OS
  Ohio State University
• UO
  University of Washington
• JH
  Johns Hopkins University
• UO
  University of Pittsburgh
• CW
  Case Western Reserve University
• DU
  Drexel University
• UB
  Universität Basel
• UO
  University of Portsmouth
• NM
  New Mexico State University
• CA
  Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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  Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
• JP
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• SA
  Science and Technology Facilities Council

  Awards: ST/H002774/1, ST/I001204/1
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  U.S. Naval Observatory
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  Fermilab
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  Los Alamos National Laboratory