@article {28095,
	title = {Galaxy Clustering in Early Sloan Digital Sky Survey Redshift Data},
	journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
	volume = {571},
	year = {2002},
	note = {n/a},
	month = {May 1, 2002},
	pages = {172-190},
	abstract = {We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital SkySurvey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300galaxies with redshifts5700kms-1\&lt;=cz\&lt;=39,000kms-1, distributed inseveral long but narrow (2.5d-5{\textdegree}) segments, covering 690deg2. For the full, flux-limited sample, the redshift-spacecorrelation length is approximately 8 h-1 Mpc. Thetwo-dimensional correlation function ξ(rp,π) showsclear signatures of both the small-scale, {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}fingers-of-God{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} distortioncaused by velocity dispersions in collapsed objects and the large-scalecompression caused by coherent flows, though the latter cannot bemeasured with high precision in the present sample. The inferredreal-space correlation function is well described by a power law,ξ(r)=(r/6.1+/-0.2h-1Mpc)-1.75+/-0.03, for0.1h-1Mpc\&lt;=r\&lt;=16h-1Mpc. The galaxy pairwisevelocity dispersion is σ12~600+/-100kms-1for projected separations0.15h-1Mpc\&lt;=rp\&lt;=5h-1Mpc. When wedivide the sample by color, the red galaxies exhibit a stronger andsteeper real-space correlation function and a higher pairwise velocitydispersion than do the blue galaxies. The relative behavior ofsubsamples defined by high/low profile concentration or high/low surfacebrightness is qualitatively similar to that of the red/blue subsamples.Our most striking result is a clear measurement of scale-independentluminosity bias at r\&lt;~10h-1Mpc: subsamples with absolutemagnitude ranges centered on M*-1.5, M*, andM*+1.5 have real-space correlation functions that areparallel power laws of slope ~-1.8 with correlation lengths ofapproximately 7.4, 6.3, and 4.7 h-1 Mpc, respectively.
},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ApJ...571..172Z},
	author = {Zehavi, Idit and Blanton, Michael R. and Frieman, Joshua A. and Weinberg, David H. and Mo, Houjun J. and Strauss, Michael A. and Anderson, Scott F. and Annis, James and Bahcall, Neta A. and Bernardi, Mariangela and Briggs, John W. and Brinkmann, Jon and Burles, Scott and Carey, Larry and Castander, Francisco J. and Connolly, Andrew J. and Csabai, Istvan and Dalcanton, Julianne J. and Dodelson, Scott and Doi, Mamoru and Eisenstein, Daniel and Evans, Michael L. and Finkbeiner, Douglas P. and Friedman, Scott and Fukugita, Masataka and Gunn, James E. and Hennessy, Greg S. and Hindsley, Robert B. and Ivezi{\'c}, {\v Z}eljko and Kent, Stephen and Knapp, Gillian R. and Kron, Richard and Kunszt, Peter and Lamb, Donald Q. and Leger, R. French and Long, Daniel C. and Loveday, Jon and Lupton, Robert H. and McKay, Timothy and Meiksin, Avery and Merrelli, Aronne and Munn, Jeffrey A. and Narayanan, Vijay and Newcomb, Matt and Nichol, Robert C. and Owen, Russell and Peoples, John and Pope, Adrian and Rockosi, Constance M. and Schlegel, David and Schneider, Donald P. and Scoccimarro, Roman and Sheth, Ravi K. and Siegmund, Walter and Smee, Stephen and Snir, Yehuda and Stebbins, Albert and Stoughton, Christopher and SubbaRao, Mark and Szalay, Alexander S. and Szapudi, Istvan and Tegmark, Max and Tucker, Douglas L. and Uomoto, Alan and Vanden Berk, Dan and Vogeley, Michael S. and Waddell, Patrick and Yanny, Brian and York, Donald G.}
}
