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Reconstructing the Projected Dark Matter Field across 0.1–100 Mpc Scales from the SDSS Survey

  • Authors: Kunyao Zhao, Yingjie Peng, Dingyi Zhao, Xiaohu Yang, Luis C. Ho, Kai Wang, Jing Dou, Zeyu Gao, Qiusheng Gu, Yukun Liu, Roberto Maiolino, Houjun Mo, Alvio Renzini, Canpo Su, Bitao Wang, Yu-Chen Wang, Bingxiao Xu, Feng Yuan, Xingye Zhu

Kunyao Zhao et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Reconstructed projected dark matter density field over a ﹩90\times 90\,{({h}^{-1}{\rm{Mpc}})}^{2}﹩ region from the SDSS survey at z ∼ 0.03. The map has a pixel size of 0.097 h−1 Mpc and is obtained by averaging 100 stochastic realizations generated from different initial random seeds. The color scale encodes the logarithmic surface mass density, shown in units of ﹩{M}_{\odot }\,{h}^{-1}{({h}^{-1}\,{\rm{Mpc}})}^{-2}﹩. Black circles mark the positions of the input galaxies with M⋆ ≥ 109 M⊙, and red circles indicate galaxy groups from the SDSS group catalog (X. Yang et al. 2005, 2007; D. Zhao et al. 2025), with circle sizes proportional to their radii. Three zoom-in panels on the left provide detailed views of selected subregions, corresponding to the colored boxes on the right side. Each panel spans approximately 14 h−1 Mpc and a 3 h−1 Mpc scale bar is provided for reference.

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