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1. The zCOSMOS survey

Author: Zucca E., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Zamorani G., Ilbert O., Pozzetti L., Mignoli M., Kova, #269, Lilly S., Tresse L., Tasca L., Cassata P., Halliday C., Vergani D., Caputi K., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Meme, P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Arnouts S., Aussel H., Capak P., Kartaltepe J., Salvato M., Sanders D., Scoville N., Taniguchi Y., Thompson D., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, MORESCO, MICHELE ENNIO MARIA, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), AUTRES, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF- Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Tokai University, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Materials & Process technology, Boeing Company [Chicago], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Sea Mammal Research Unit, St Andrews, Astronomy, Zucca E., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Zamorani G., Ilbert O., Pozzetti L., Mignoli M., Kova&#269, K., Lilly S., Tresse L., Tasca L., Cassata P., Halliday C., Vergani D., Caputi K., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez-Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cimatti A., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Meme, P., Meneux B., Moresco M., Oesch P., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Arnouts S., Aussel H., Capak P., Kartaltepe J., Salvato M., Sanders D., Scoville N., Taniguchi Y., Thompson D., Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: Normalization (statistics), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), High density, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, 1ST EPOCH DATA, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Density field, FIELD, 10. No inequality, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Luminosity function (astronomy), Physics, REDSHIFT SURVEY, LEGACY SURVEY, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Galaxies: statistics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, VLT DEEP SURVEY, B band, Galaxy, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, COLOR-DENSITY RELATION, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, galaxies: evolution, Cosmic time, SURVEY COSMOS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abridged) We studied the evolution in the B band luminosity function to z~1 in the zCOSMOS 10k sample, for which both accurate galaxy classifications and a detailed description of the local density field are available. The global LF exhibits a brightening of ~0.7 mag in M* from z~0.2 to z~0.9. At low z, late types dominate at faint magnitudes, while the bright end is populated mainly by early types. At higher z, late-type galaxies evolve significantly and, at z~1, the contribution from the various types to the bright end of the LF is comparable. The evolution for early types is in both luminosity and normalization. A similar behaviour is exhibited by late types, but with an opposite trend for the normalization. Studying the role of the environment, we find that the global LF of galaxies in overdense regions has always a brighter M* and a flatter slope. In low density environments, the main contribution to the LF is from blue galaxies, while for high density environments there is an important contribution from red galaxies to the bright end. The differences between the global LF in the two environments are not due to only a difference in the relative numbers of red and blue galaxies, but also to their relative luminosity distributions: the value of M* for both types in underdense regions is always fainter than in overdense environments. The "specular" evolution of late- and early-type galaxies is consistent with a scenario where a part of blue galaxies is transformed in red galaxies with increasing cosmic time, without significant changes in the fraction of intermediate-type galaxies. The bulk of this tranformation in overdense regions probably happened before z~1, while it is still ongoing at lower z in underdense environments., Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, A&A in press
Published: 2009
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2. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey

Author: Granett, B. R., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Guzzo, L., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Bolzonella, M., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Coupon, J., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., De Lucia, G., de la Torre, S., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Mccracken, H. J., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Moutard, T., Moscardini, L., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Zamorani, G., Granett, B. R., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Guzzo, L., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Bolzonella, M., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Coupon, J., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., De Lucia, G., de la Torre, S., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Mccracken, H. J., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Moutard, T., Moscardini, L., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., and Zamorani, G.
Subjects: methods: statistical, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology: observations, galaxies: statistics, cosmological parameters, methods: data analysis, observations, galaxies: statistics, cosmological parameters, methods: statistical, methods: data analysis [large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims: Using the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) we aim to jointly estimate the keyparameters that describe the galaxy density field and its spatial correlations in redshift space. Methods: We use the Bayesian formalism to jointly reconstruct the redshift-space galaxy density field, power spectrum, galaxy bias and galaxy luminosity function given the observations and survey selection function. The high-dimensional posterior distribution is explored using the Wiener filter within a Gibbs sampler. We validate the analysis using simulated catalogues and apply it to VIPERS data taking into consideration the inhomogeneous selection function. Results: We present joint constraints on the anisotropic power spectrum, and the bias and number density of red and blue galaxy classes in luminosity and redshift bins as well as the measurement covariances of these quantities. We find that the inferred galaxy bias and number density parameters are strongly correlated although they are only weakly correlated with the galaxy power spectrum. The power spectrum and redshift-space distortion parameters are in agreement with previous VIPERS results with the value of the growth rate fσ8 = 0.38 with 18% uncertainty at redshift 0.7.
Published: 2015

3. Measuring Large-Scale Structure atz∼ 1 with the VIPERS galaxy survey

Author: GUZZO, Luigi, Abbas, U., Adami, Christophe, Arnouts, Stephane, Bel, Julien, Bolzonella, M., Bottini, D., Branchini, Enzo Franco, Burden, Angela, Cappi, A., Coupon, Jean, Cucciati, O., Davidzon, Iary, de la Torre, Silvain, De Lucia, G., Di Porto, Cinzia, Franzetti, P., Fritz, Alexander, Fumana, M., GARILLI, BIANCA MARIA ROSA, Granett, B. R., Guennou, L., Hawken, A., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fevre, O., Maccagni, D., Malek, K., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Marulli, F., McCracken, H. J., Mellier, Y., Moscardini, L., Nichol, R. C., Paioro, L., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., POLLETTA, MARIA DEL CARMEN, Pollo, A., Rota, S., Schlagenhaufer, H., SCODEGGIO, MARCO, Solarz, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., VERGANI, DANIELA, Wolk, M., Zamorani, G., and ZANICHELLI, Alessandra
Subjects: Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Scale structure, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy
Abstract: The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) is the largest redshift survey ever conducted with the ESO telescopes. It has used the Very Large Telescope to collect nearly 100,000 redshifts from the general galaxy population at 0.5
Published: 2016

4. The Nonlinear Biasing of the zCOSMOS Galaxies up to z ~ 1 from the 10k Sample

Author: Kova, #269, Porciani C., Lilly S. J., Marinoni C., Guzzo L., Zamorani G., Iovino A., Oesch P., Bolzonella M., Peng Y., Meneux B., Zucca E., Bardelli S., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Finoguenov A., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Perez Montero E., Pozzetti L., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L. A. M., Tresse L., Vergani D., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Fumana M., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Scaramella R., Scoville N. Z., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Kova&#269, K., Porciani C., Lilly S. J., Marinoni C., Guzzo L., Cucciati O., Zamorani G., Iovino A., Oesch P., Bolzonella M., Peng Y., Meneux B., Zucca E., Bardelli S., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Finoguenov A., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Perez-Montero E., Pozzetti L., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L. A. M., Tresse L., Vergani D., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Fumana M., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Scaramella R., and Scoville N. Z.
Subjects: Physics, cosmology: observation, Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dark matter, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biasing, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Redshift, Galaxy, Luminosity, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, 0103 physical sciences, Halo effect, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: statistics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Smoothing, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the zCOSMOS galaxy overdensity field to study the biasing of galaxies in the COSMOS field. By comparing the probability distribution function of the galaxy density contrast δ g to the lognormal approximation of the mass density contrast δ, we obtain the mean biasing function b(δ, z, R) between the galaxy and matter overdensity fields and its second moments \hat{b} and \tilde{b}. Over the redshift interval 0.4 < z < 1 the conditional mean function langδ g |δrang = b(δ, z, R)δ is of a characteristic shape, requiring nonlinear biasing in the most overdense and underdense regions. Taking into account the uncertainties due to cosmic variance, we do not detect any significant evolution in the langδ g |δrang function, but we do detect a significant redshift evolution in the linear biasing parameter \hat{b} from 1.23 ± 0.11 at z ~ 0.55 to 1.62 ± 0.14 at z ~ 0.75, for a luminosity-complete sample of MB < -20 - z galaxies. The \hat{b} parameter does not change significantly with smoothing scale between 8 and 12 h -1 Mpc, but increases systematically with luminosity (at 2σ-3σ significance between the MB < -20.5 - z and MB < -20 - z samples). The nonlinearity parameter \tilde{b}/ \hat{b} is offset from unity by at most 2%, with an uncertainty of the same order. The \tilde{b}/\hat{b} parameter does not show any significant redshift evolution, dependence on the smoothing scale or on the luminosity. By matching the linear bias of galaxies to the halo bias, we infer that the MB < -20 - z galaxies reside in dark matter halos with a characteristic mass of about (2.6 - 5.6) × 1012 M sun with a small dependence on the adopted bias-mass relation. Our detailed error analysis and comparison with previous studies lead us to conclude that cosmic variance is the main contributor to the differences in the linear bias measured from different surveys. While our results support the general picture of biased galaxy formation up to z ~ 1, the fine-tuning of the galaxy formation models is still limited by the restrictions of the current spectroscopic surveys at these redshifts.
Published: 2011

5. The zCOSMOS-Bright survey: the clustering of early and late galaxy morphological types since z≃ 1

Author: de la Torre S., Le Fèvre O., Porciani C., Guzzo L., Meneux B., Abbas U., Tasca L., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Lilly S. J., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Zamorani G., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Halliday C., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Kova, #269, Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pelló R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Oesch P., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, de la Torre S., Le Fèvre O., Porciani C., Guzzo L., Meneux B., Abbas U., Tasca L., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Lilly S. J., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Zamorani G., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Halliday C., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Kova&#269, K., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pelló R., Peng Y., Perez-Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Oesch P., Pozzetti L., and Scaramella R.
Subjects: cosmology: observation, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: statistic, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the spatial clustering of galaxies as a function of their morphological type at z≃ 0.8, for the first time in a deep redshift survey with full morphological information. This is obtained by combining high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging and Very Large Telescope spectroscopy for about 8500 galaxies to ? with accurate spectroscopic redshifts from the zCOSMOS-Bright redshift survey. At this epoch, early-type galaxies already show a significantly stronger clustering than late-type galaxies on all probed scales. A comparison to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data at z≃ 0.1 shows that the relative clustering strength between early and late morphological classes tends to increase with cosmic time at small separations, while on large scales it shows no significant evolution since z≃ 0.8. This suggests that most early-type galaxies had already formed in intermediate and dense environments at this epoch. Our results are consistent with a picture in which the relative clustering of different morphological types between z≃ 1 and 0 reflects the evolving role of environment in the morphological transformation of galaxies, on top of a global evolution driven by mass.
Published: 2011

6. The bimodality of the 10k zCOSMOS-bright galaxies up to z ~ 1: a new statistical and portable classification based on the optical galaxy properties

Author: Coppa G., Mignoli M., Zamorani G., Bardelli S., Lilly S. J., Bolzonella M., Scodeggio M., Vergani D., Nair P., Pozzetti L., Zucca E., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Le Fèvre O., Renzini A., Mainieri V., Bongiorno A., Caputi K. I., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Memeo P., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Kneib J. P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Kova, #269, Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Scarlata C., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Abbas U., Bottini D., Capak P., Cappi A., Cassata P., Fumana M., Guzzo L., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Scoville N., CIMATTI, ANDREA, CUCCIATI, OLGA, Coppa G., Mignoli M., Zamorani G., Bardelli S., Lilly S. J., Bolzonella M., Scodeggio M., Vergani D., Nair P., Pozzetti L., Cimatti A., Zucca E., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Le Fèvre O., Renzini A., Mainieri V., Bongiorno A., Caputi K. I., Cucciati O., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Memeo P., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Kneib J.-P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Kova&#269, K., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez-Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Scarlata C., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Abbas U., Bottini D., Capak P., Cappi A., Cassata P., Fumana M., Guzzo L., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Scoville N., Institute for Astronomy [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), European Southern Observatory (ESO), College of Computing (GATECH), Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta], AUTRES, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département Informatique pour les Systèmes Coopératifs Ouverts et Décentralisés (ISCOD-ENSMSE), École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Henri Fayol, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB - UMR 12), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay, Hunan Normal University, Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Astronomy, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hunan Normal University (HNU), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, STAR-FORMATION, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: fundamental parameters, Galaxies: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, DIGITAL-SKY-SURVEY, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FORMATION HISTORIES, HUBBLE DEEP FIELD, Order (ring theory), galaxies: fundamental parameters, ENVIRONMENTAL DEPENDENCE, Redshift survey, galaxies: general, Redshift, Galaxy, Bimodality, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, SPECTROSCOPIC SAMPLE, STELLAR MASS FUNCTION, Cube, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Our goal is to develop a new and reliable statistical method to classify galaxies from large surveys. We probe the reliability of the method by comparing it with a three-dimensional classification cube, using the same set of spectral, photometric and morphological parameters.We applied two different methods of classification to a sample of galaxies extracted from the zCOSMOS redshift survey, in the redshift range 0.5 < z < 1.3. The first method is the combination of three independent classification schemes, while the second method exploits an entirely new approach based on statistical analyses like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Unsupervised Fuzzy Partition (UFP) clustering method. The PCA+UFP method has been applied also to a lower redshift sample (z < 0.5), exploiting the same set of data but the spectral ones, replaced by the equivalent width of H$��$. The comparison between the two methods shows fairly good agreement on the definition on the two main clusters, the early-type and the late-type galaxies ones. Our PCA-UFP method of classification is robust, flexible and capable of identifying the two main populations of galaxies as well as the intermediate population. The intermediate galaxy population shows many of the properties of the green valley galaxies, and constitutes a more coherent and homogeneous population. The fairly large redshift range of the studied sample allows us to behold the downsizing effect: galaxies with masses of the order of $3\cdot 10^{10}$ Msun mainly are found in transition from the late type to the early type group at $z>0.5$, while galaxies with lower masses - of the order of $10^{10}$ Msun - are in transition at later epochs; galaxies with $M 5\cdot 10^{10}$ Msun) mostly completed their transition before $z\sim 1$., 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2010
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7. The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey: evolution in the halo occupation number since z ~ 1

Author: Abbas, U., Torre, S., Le Fèvre, O., Guzzo, L., Marinoni, C., Meneux, B., Pollo, A., Zamorani, G., Bottini, D., Garilli, B., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Lamareille, F., Mccracken, H.~j., Marano, B., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Brinchmann, J., Cucciati, O., Ravel, L., Gregorini, L., Perez-Montero, E., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Abbas U., de la Torre S., Le Fèvre O., Guzzo L., Marinoni C., Meneux B., Pollo A., Zamorani G., Bottini D., Garilli B., and Le brun V., Maccagni D., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Iovini A., Lamareille F., McCracken H.J., Marano B., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pello' R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Vergani D., Zucca E., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Brinchmann ., Cucciati P., de Ravel L., Gregorini L., Perez-Montero E., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P.
Subjects: methods: statistical, surveys, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: high-redshift, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF NIVERSE, large-scale structure of Universe, GALAXIES:HIGH-REDSHIFT, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, METHOD: STATISTICAL
Abstract: We model the evolution of the mean galaxy occupation of dark matter haloes over the range 0.1 < z < 1.3, using the data from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey. The galaxy projected correlation function wp(rp) was computed for a set of luminosity-limited subsamples and fits to its shape were obtained using two variants of halo occupation distribution (HOD) models. These provide us with a set of best-fitting parameters, from which we obtain the average mass of a halo and average number of galaxies per halo. We find that after accounting for the evolution in luminosity and assuming that we are largely following the same population, the underlying dark matter halo shows a growth in mass with decreasing redshift as expected in a hierarchical structure formation scenario. Using two different HOD models, we see that the halo mass grows by 90 per cent over the redshift interval z = [0.5, 1.0]. This is the first time the evolution in halo mass at high redshifts has been obtained from a single data survey and it follows the simple form seen in N-body simulations with M(z) = M0 e-βz, and β = 1.3 +/- 0.30. This provides evidence for a rapid accretion phase of massive haloes having a present-day mass M0 ~ 1013.5 h-1 Msolar, with a m > 0.1 M0 merger event occurring between redshifts of 0.5 and 1.0. Furthermore, we find that more luminous galaxies are found to occupy more massive haloes irrespective of the redshift. Finally, the average number of galaxies per halo shows little increase from redshift z ~ 1.0 to ~0.5, with a sharp increase by a factor of ~3 from z ~ 0.5 to ~0.1, likely due to the dynamical friction of subhaloes within their host haloes. Based on data obtained with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, Paranal, Chile, program 070.A-9007(A), and on data obtained at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, operated by the CNRS of France, CNRC in Canada and the University of Hawaii.
Published: 2010
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8. The [O iii] emission line luminosity function of optically selected type-2 AGN from zCOSMOS

Author: Bongiorno A., Mignoli M., Zamorani G., Lamareille F., LANZUISI, GIORGIO, Miyaji T., Bolzonella M., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Lilly S. J., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bardelli S., Caputi K., Civano F., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Halliday C., Hasinger G., Koekemoer A. M., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Kova, #269, Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Merloni A., Nair P., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Salvato M., Silverman J., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Guzzo L., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., BRUSA, MARCELLA, CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Bongiorno A., Mignoli M., Zamorani G., Lamareille F., Lanzuisi G., Miyaji T., Bolzonella M., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Lilly S. J., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bardelli S., Brusa M., Caputi K., Civano F., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Halliday C., Hasinger G., Koekemoer A. M., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Kova&#269, K., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Merloni A., Nair P., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Salvato M., Silverman J., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Guzzo L., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), and Astronomy
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Type (model theory), Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxies: active, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Density evolution, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Line (formation), Luminosity function (astronomy), Physics, education.field_of_study, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Redshift, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a catalog of 213 type-2 AGN selected from the zCOSMOS survey. The selected sample covers a wide redshift range (0.15, Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2010
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9. Tracking the impact of environment on the galaxy stellar mass function up to z â¼ 1 in the 10 k zCOSMOS sample

Author: Bolzonella M., Kova, #269, Pozzetti L., Zucca E., Lilly S. J., Peng Y., Iovino A., Zamorani G., Vergani D., Tasca L. A. M., Lamareille F., Oesch P., Caputi K., Kampczyk P., Bardelli S., Maier C., Abbas U., Knobel C., Scodeggio M., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Mignoli M., Pelló R., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Aussel H., Capak P., Halliday C., Ilbert O., Kartaltepe J., Salvato M., Sanders D., Scarlata C., Scoville N., Taniguchi Y., Thompson D., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Bolzonella M., Kova&#269, K., Pozzetti L., Zucca E., Cucciati O., Lilly S. J., Peng Y., Iovino A., Zamorani G., Vergani D., Tasca L. A. M., Lamareille F., Oesch P., Caputi K., Kampczyk P., Bardelli S., Maier C., Abbas U., Knobel C., Scodeggio M., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Mignoli M., Pelló R., Perez-Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Aussel H., Capak P., Halliday C., Ilbert O., Kartaltepe J., Salvato M., Sanders D., Scarlata C., Scoville N., Taniguchi Y., Thompson D., INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, INAF- Milano, Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Materials & Process technology, Boeing Company [Chicago], Sea Mammal Research Unit, St Andrews, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Density contrast, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, galaxies: fundamental parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Bimodality, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the impact of the environment on the evolution of galaxies in the zCOSMOS 10k sample in the redshift range 0.1, Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures. Version accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, including referee's suggestions, a new section with comparison with literature data, and updated references
Published: 2010
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10. The Density Field of the 10k zCOSMOS Galaxies

Author: Kova, #269, Lilly S. J., Porciani C., Iovino A., Zamorani G., Oesch P., Bolzonella M., Knobel C., Finoguenov A., Peng Y., Carollo C. M., Pozzetti L., Caputi K., Silverman J. D., Tasca L. A. M., Scodeggio M., Vergani D., Scoville N. Z., Capak P., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Guzzo L., Kampczyk P., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Fumana M., Koekemoer A. M., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Scaramella R., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Kova&#269, K., Lilly S. J., Cucciati O., Porciani C., Iovino A., Zamorani G., Oesch P., Bolzonella M., Knobel C., Finoguenov A., Peng Y., Carollo C. M., Pozzetti L.,Caputi K., Silverman J. D., Tasca L. A. M., Scodeggio M., Vergani D., Scoville N. Z., Capak P., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Guzzo L., Kampczyk P., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Fumana M., Koekemoer A. M., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J.,Memeo P., Meneux B., Scaramella R., Astronomy, and Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Field (physics), FOS: Physical sciences, Scale (descriptive set theory), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], LY-ALPHA EMITTERS, surveys, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Weak gravitational lensing, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, Physics, large-scale structure of universe, REDSHIFT SURVEY, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Shot noise, Astronomy and Astrophysics, VLT DEEP SURVEY, ENVIRONMENTAL DEPENDENCE, Galaxy, Redshift, COSMOS FIELD, Space and Planetary Science, Galaxies: high-redshift, Large-scale structure of universe, Surveys, SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS, LUMINOSITY DEPENDENCE, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, STELLAR MASS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the current sample of ~10,000 zCOSMOS spectra of sources selected with I(AB) < 22.5 to define the density field out to z~1, with much greater resolution in the radial dimension than has been possible with either photometric redshifts or weak lensing. We apply new algorithms that we have developed (ZADE) to incorporate objects not yet observed spectroscopically by modifying their photometric redshift probability distributions using the spectroscopic redshifts of nearby galaxies. This strategy allows us to probe a broader range of galaxy environments and reduce the Poisson noise in the density field. The reconstructed overdensity field of the 10k zCOSMOS galaxies consists of cluster-like patterns surrounded by void-like regions, extending up to z~1. Some of these structures are very large, spanning the ~50 Mpc/h transverse direction of the COSMOS field and extending up to Delta z~0.05 in redshift. We present the three dimensional overdensity maps and compare the reconstructed overdensity field to the independently identified virialised groups of galaxies and clusters detected in the visible and in X-rays. The distribution of the overdense structures is in general well traced by these virialised structures. A comparison of the large scale structures in the zCOSMOS data and in the mock catalogues reveals an excellent agreement between the fractions of the volume enclosed in structures of all sizes above a given overdensity between the data and the mocks in 0.2, Comment: 35 pages, 20 figures; submitted to ApJ; the high resolution pdf available at http://www.exp-astro.phys.ethz.ch/kovac/public/zCOSMOS
Published: 2010
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11. The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey: How group environment alters global downsizing trends

Author: Iovino A., Scodeggio M., Knobel C., Kova, #269, Lilly S., Bolzonella M., Tasca L. A. M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Caputi K., Pozzetti L., Oesch P., Lamareille F., Halliday C., Bardelli S., Finoguenov A., Guzzo L., Kampczyk P., Maier C., Tanaka M., Vergani D., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Mignoli M., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tresse L., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Schiminovich D., Scoville N., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, AUTRES, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), INAF- Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Tokai University, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), University of Chicago, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Iovino A., Cucciati O., Scodeggio M., Knobel C., Kova&#269, K., Lilly S., Bolzonella M., Tasca L. A. M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Caputi K., Pozzetti L., Oesch P., Lamareille F., Halliday C., Bardelli S., Finoguenov A., Guzzo L., Kampczyk P., Maier C., Tanaka M., Vergani D., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Fèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Mignoli M., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez-Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tresse L., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Schiminovich D., Scoville N., Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Interactions, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Clusters, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Mass segregation, Evolution - Galaxies, Galaxies, General - Galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Redshift, Low Mass, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We took advantage of the wealth of information provided by the first ~10000 galaxies of the zCOSMOS-bright survey and its group catalogue to study the complex interplay between group environment and galaxy properties. The classical indicator F_blue (fraction of blue galaxies) proved to be a simple but powerful diagnostic tool. We studied its variation for different luminosity and mass selected galaxy samples. Using rest-frame B-band selected samples, the groups galaxy population exhibits significant blueing as redshift increases, but maintains a lower F_blue with respect both to the global and the isolated galaxy population. However moving to mass selected samples it becomes apparent that such differences are largely due to the biased view imposed by the B-band luminosity selection, being driven by the population of lower mass, bright blue galaxies for which we miss the redder, equally low mass, counterparts. By focusing the analysis on narrow mass bins such that mass segregation becomes negligible we find that only for the lowest mass bin explored (logMass = 10.8 are already in place at z ~ 1 and do not exhibit any strong environmental dependence, possibly originating from so-called 'nature'/internal mechanisms. In contrast, for lower galaxy masses and redshifts lower than z ~ 1, we observe the emergence in groups of a population of 'nurture' red galaxies: slightly deviating from the trend of the downsizing scenario followed by the global galaxy population, and more so with cosmic time. These galaxies exhibit signatures of group-related secular physical mechanisms directly influencing galaxy evolution., Submitted to A&A, revised version after referee comments
Published: 2009
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12. An optical group catalogue to z = 1 from the zCOSMOS 10k sample

Author: Knobel, C., Lilly S. J., Iovino A., Porciani C., Kova, #269, Finoguenov A., Kitzbichler M. G., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J. P., LeFèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Zamorani G., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Kampczyk P., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Montero E. Perez, Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Fumana M., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, INAF- Milano, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Knobel, C., Lilly S. J., Iovino A., Porciani C., Kova&#269, K., Cucciati O., Finoguenov A., Kitzbichler M. G., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., LeFèvre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Zamorani G., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Kampczyk P., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Montero E. Perez, Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Fumana M., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Pozzetti L., and Scaramella R.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxy group, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Group (mathematics), Velocity dispersion, Astronomy and Astrophysics, methods: data analysis, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: clusters: general, Catalogs, Galaxies: clusters: general, Galaxies: high-redshift, Methods: data analysis, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a galaxy group catalogue spanning the redshift range 0.1 = 5 spectroscopically confirmed members, with a further ~700 groups with 2, Comment: 20 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2009
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13. The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey: the role of environment and stellar mass in shaping the rise of the morphology-density relation from z~1

Author: Tasca L. A. M., Kneib J. P., Iovino A., Le Fèvre O., Kova, #269, Bolzonella M., Lilly S. J., Abraham R. G., Cassata P., Guzzo L., Tresse L., Zamorani G., Capak P., Garilli B., Scodeggio M., Sheth K., Zucca E., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J. F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Vergani D., Tanaka M., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Ilbert O., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., Scarlata C., CUCCIATI, OLGA, CIMATTI, ANDREA, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Mathématiques - Analyse, Probabilités, Modélisation - Orléans (MAPMO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF- Milano, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Tasca L. A. M., Kneib J.-P., Iovino A., Le Fèvre O., Kova&#269, K., Bolzonella M., Lilly S. J., Abraham R. G., Cassata P., Cucciati O., Guzzo L., Tresse L., Zamorani G., Capak P., Garilli B., Scodeggio M., Sheth K., Zucca E., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., de La Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Koekemoer A. M., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Vergani D., Tanaka M., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cimatti A., Ilbert O., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., Scaramella R., and Scarlata C.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Galaxy:formation, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galaxies:structure, Galaxy group, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmology:large-scale structure of universe, Galaxies:distances and redshifts, Galaxies:evolution, Galaxies:fundamental parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Surface brightness, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Universe, Redshift, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: For more than two decades we have known that galaxy morphological segregation is present in the Local Universe. It is important to see how this relation evolves with cosmic time. To investigate how galaxy assembly took place with cosmic time, we explore the evolution of the morphology-density relation up to redshift z~1 using about 10000 galaxies drawn from the zCOSMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey. Taking advantage of accurate HST/ACS morphologies from the COSMOS survey, of the well-characterised zCOSMOS 3D environment, and of a large sample of galaxies with spectroscopic redshift, we want to study here the evolution of the morphology-density relation up to z~1 and its dependence on galaxy luminosity and stellar mass. The multi-wavelength coverage of the field also allows a first study of the galaxy morphological segregation dependence on colour. We further attempt to disentangle between processes that occurred early in the history of the Universe or late in the life of galaxies. The zCOSMOS field benefits of high-resolution imaging in the F814W filter from the Advanced Camera for Survey (ACS). We use standard morphology classifiers, optimised for being robust against band-shifting and surface brightness dimming, and a new, objective, and automated method to convert morphological parameters into early, spiral, and irregular types. We use about 10000 galaxies down to I_AB=22.5 with a spectroscopic sampling rate of 33% to characterise the environment of galaxies up to z~1 from the 100 kpc scales of galaxy groups up to the 100 Mpc scales of the cosmic web. ABRIDGED, Comment: 23 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2009
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14. VVDS-SWIRE. Clustering evolution from a spectroscopic sample of galaxies with redshift 0.2 < z < 2.1 selected from Spitzer IRAC 3.6 μ m and 4.5 μ m photometry

Author: de La Torre S., Le Fèvre O., Arnouts S., Guzzo L., Farrah D., Iovino A., Lonsdale C. J., Meneux B., Oliver S. J., Pollo A., Waddington I., Bottini D., Fang F., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Shupe D., Surace J., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Lamareille F., McCracken H. J., Marinoni C., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Bondi M., Brinchmann J., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Temporin S., Vergani D., Walcher C. J., MARANO, BRUNO, BONGIORNO, ANGELA, CUCCIATI, OLGA, de La Torre S., Le Fèvre O., Arnouts S., Guzzo L., Farrah D., Iovino A., Lonsdale C. J., Meneux B., Oliver S. J., Pollo A., Waddington I., Bottini D., Fang F., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Shupe D., Surace J., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Lamareille F., McCracken H. J., Marano B., Marinoni C., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Brinchmann J., Cucciati O., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Temporin S., Vergani D., and Walcher C. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims.By combining data from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) with the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey (SWIRE) we have built the currently largest spectroscopic sample of high redshift galaxies selected in the rest-frame near-infrared. We have obtained 2040 spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies with (m3.6)_AB < 21.5 at 3.6 μ m and 1255 spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies with (m4.5)_AB < 21. These allow us to investigate the clustering evolution of galaxies selected via their rest-frame near-infrared luminosity in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 2.1. Methods: We use the projected two-point correlation function w_p(r_p) to study the three dimensional clustering properties of galaxies detected at 3.6 μ m and 4.5 μ m with the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) in the SWIRE survey with measured spectroscopic redshifts from the first epoch VVDS. We compare these properties to those of a larger sample of 16672 SWIRE galaxies for which we have accurate photometric redshifts in the same field. Results: We find that in the 3.6 μ m and 4.5 μ m flux limited samples the apparent correlation length does not change from redshift ~2 to the present. The measured correlation lengths have a mean value of r0 ≃ 3.9±0.5 h-1 Mpc for the galaxies selected at 3.6 μ m and a mean value of r0 ≃ 4.4±0.5 h-1 Mpc for the galaxies selected at 4.5 μ m across the whole redshift range explored. These values are larger than those typicaly found for I-band selected galaxies at I_AB < 24 for which r0 varies from 2.69 h-1 Mpc to 3.63 h-1 Mpc between z = 0.5 to z = 2.1. We find that the difference in correlation length between I-band and 3.6-4.5 μm selected samples decreases with increasing redshift becoming comparable at z ≃ 1.5. We interpret this as evidence that galaxies with older stellar populations and galaxies actively forming stars reside in comparably over-dense environments at epochs earlier than z ≃ 1.5 supporting the recently reported flattening of the color-density relation at high redshift. The increasing difference in correlation length with cosmic time observed between rest-frame UV-optical and near-infrared selected samples could then be an indication that star formation is gradually shifting to lower density regions with decreasing redshift while the older passively evolving galaxies remain in the most over-dense peaks.
Published: 2007

15. The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey: the build-up of the colour density relation

Author: CUCCIATI, OLGA, MARANO, BRUNO, BONGIORNO, ANGELA, GREGORINI, LORETTA, Iovino A., Marinoni C., Ilbert O., Bardelli S., Franzetti P., Le Fèvre O., Pollo A., Zamorani G., Cappi A., Guzzo L., McCracken H. J., Meneux B., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Zucca E., Bottini D., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnaboldi M., Arnouts S., Bolzonella M., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Gavignaud I., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Bondi M., Busarello G., de La Torre S., Lamareille F., Mathez G., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Ripepi V., Rizzo D., Temporin S., Vergani D., Cucciati O., Iovino A., Marinoni C., Ilbert O., Bardelli S., Franzetti P., Le Fèvre O., Pollo A., Zamorani G., Cappi A., Guzzo L., McCracken H. J., Meneux B., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Zucca E., Bottini D., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnaboldi M., Arnouts S., Bolzonella M., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Gavignaud I., Marano B., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Busarello G., de La Torre S., Gregorini L., Lamareille F., Mathez G., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Ripepi V., Rizzo D., Temporin S., and Vergani D.
Subjects: GALAXIES: EVOLUTION, LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE, COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS, GALAXIES: STATISTICS, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, GALAXIES: DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS
Abstract: We investigate the redshift and luminosity evolution of the galaxy colour-density relation using the data from the First Epoch VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). The size (6582 galaxies with good quality redshifts), depth (IAB&leq; 24) and redshift sampling rate (20% on the mean) of the survey enable us to reconstruct the 3D galaxy environment on relatively local scales (R=5 h-1 Mpc) up to redshift z ˜ 1.5. Particular attention has been devoted to calibrate a density reconstruction scheme, which factors out survey selection effects and reproduces in an unbiased way the underlying "real" galaxy environment. We find that the colour-density relation shows a dramatic change as a function of cosmic time. While at lower redshift we confirm the existence of a steep colour-density relation, with the fraction of the reddest(/bluest) galaxies of the same luminosity increasing(/decreasing) as a function of density, this trend progressively disappears in the highest redshift bins investigated. Our results suggest the existence of an epoch (more remote for brighter galaxies) characterized by the absence of the colour-density relation on the R=5 h-1 Mpc scales investigated. The rest frame u*-g' colour-magnitude diagram shows a bimodal pattern in both low and high density environments up to redshift z˜ 1.5. We find that the bimodal distribution is not universal but strongly depends upon environment: at lower redshifts the colour-magnitude diagrams in low and high density regions are significantly different while the progressive weakening of the colour-density relation causes the two bimodal distributions to nearly mirror each other in the highest redshift bin investigated. Both the colour-density and the colour-magnitude-density relations, on the R=5 h-1 Mpc scales, appear to be a transient, cumulative product of genetic and environmental factors that have been operating over at least a period of 9 Gyr. These findings support an evolutionary scenario in which star formation/gas depletion processes are accelerated in more luminous objects and in high density environments: star formation activity is progressively shifting with cosmic time towards lower luminosity galaxies (downsizing), and out of high density environments.
Published: 2006

16. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: A new window on the distant universe

Author: Le Fèvre, O., Vettolani, G., Bianca Garilli, Tresse, L., Bottini, D., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Picat, J. -P, Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnaboldi, M., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Guzzo, L., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Mccracken, H. J., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mathez, G., Mazure, A., Meneux, B., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pelló, R., Pollo, A., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Busarello, G., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Ripepi, V., Rizzo, D., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), F. Casoli, T. Contini, J.M. Hameury and L. Pagani, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), J.M. Hameury and L. Pagani., EDITED BY F. CASOLI, T. CONTINI, J.M. HAMEURY AND L. PAGANI., Le Fèvre O., Vettolani G., Garilli B., Tresse L., Bottini D., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J.-P., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnaboldi M., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Guzzo L., Ilbert O., Iovino A., McCracken H. J., Marano B., Marinoni C., Mathez G., Mazure A., Meneux B., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pelló R., Pollo A., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Busarello G., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Ripepi V., and Rizzo D.
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: To appear in The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present, conference held in Marseille, June 2005; The First Epoch VIMOS VLT Deep Survey is now completed. More than 11000 redshifts of galaxies with 17.5 &leq; IAB &leq; 24 have been measured with the VIMOS spectrograph build for ESO by our consortium of French and Italian Institutes. The magnitude selection of this survey is unique and allows an unprecedented census of the high redshift universe to trace the evolution of galaxies and AGNs from 12 billion years ago to the present. We present here the main results from this first epoch survey. A first public data release offers access to the deep imaging and to 1599 galaxies with redshifts in the Chandra Deep Field South. The VVDS continues beyond the first epoch, a total of more than 45000 spectra have been obtained and processing is on-going.
Published: 2005

17. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey - The evolution of galaxy clustering to z=2 from first epoch observations

Author: Le Fèvre O., Guzzo L., Meneux B., Pollo A., Cappi A., Colombi S., Iovino A., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Scaramella R., Bottini D., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnaboldi M., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Blaizot J., Bolzonella M., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Mathez G., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Bondi M., Busarello G., Lamareille F., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Ripepi V., Rizzo D. ns Astronomy, Astrophysics Volume 439 Issue 3 September I. 2005 p.p. 877 885, MARANO, BRUNO, BONGIORNO, ANGELA, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Le Fèvre O., Guzzo L., Meneux B., Pollo A., Cappi A., Colombi S., Iovino A., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Scaramella R., Bottini D., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnaboldi M., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Blaizot J., Bolzonella M., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Marano B., Mathez G., Mazure A., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Busarello G., Lamareille F., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Ripepi V., and Rizzo D. ns Astronomy and Astrophysics Volume 439 Issue 3 September I 2005 pp.877-885
Subjects: GALAXIES: EVOLUTION, molecular data, Dark matter, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, infrared: ISM, education.field_of_study, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), COSMOLOGY:: LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Billion years, Galaxy, Redshift, ISM: molecules, Correlation function (statistical mechanics), Space and Planetary Science, ISM: individual objects: W49, Magnitude (astronomy), SURVEYS, ISM: individual objects: Sagittarius B2
Abstract: This paper presents the evolution of the clustering of the main population of galaxies from z=2.1 to z=0.2, from the first epoch VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS), a magnitude limited sample with 17.5, 11 pages, accepted 11-Apr-05 in A&A
Published: 2005
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18. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). A precise measurement of the galaxy stellar mass function and the abundance of massive galaxies at redshifts 0.5

Author: Davidzon, I., Bolzonella, M., Coupon, J., Ilbert, O., Arnouts, S., de la Torre, S., Fritz, A., De Lucia, G., Iovino, A., Granett, B. R., Zamorani, G., Guzzo, L., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bel, J., Bottini, D., Branchini, E., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Krywult, J., Brun, V. Le, Fevre, O. Le, Maccagni, D., Malek, K., Marulli, F., McCracken, H. J., Paioro, L., Peacock, J. A., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Schlagenhaufer, H., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. . M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Moscardini, L., Moutard, T., Nichol, R. C., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., and Wolk, M.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function from z=1.3 to z=0.5 using the first 53,608 redshifts of the ongoing VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). We estimate the galaxy stellar mass function at several epochs discussing in detail the amount of cosmic variance affecting our estimate. We find that Poisson noise and cosmic variance of the galaxy mass function in the VIPERS survey are comparable with the statistical uncertainties of large surveys in the local universe. VIPERS data allow us to determine with unprecedented accuracy the high-mass tail of the galaxy stellar mass function, which includes a significant number of galaxies that are usually too rare to detect with any of the past spectroscopic surveys. At the epochs sampled by VIPERS, massive galaxies had already assembled most of their stellar mass. We apply a photometric classification in the (U-V) rest-frame colour to compute the mass function of blue and red galaxies, finding evidence for the evolution of their contribution to the total number density budget: the transition mass above which red galaxies dominate is found to be about 10^10.4 M_sun at z=0.55 and evolves proportionally to (1+z)^3. We are able to trace separately the evolution of the number density of blue and red galaxies with masses above 10^11.4 M_sun, in a mass range barely studied in previous work. We find that for such large masses, red galaxies show a milder evolution with redshift, when compared to objects at lower masses. At the same time, we detect a population of similarly massive blue galaxies, which are no longer detectable below z=0.7. These results show the improved statistical power of VIPERS data, and give initial promising indications of mass-dependent quenching of galaxies at z~1. [Abridged], 19 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables. A&A in press (accepted for publication on July 12th)
Published: 2013
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19. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Luminosity and stellar mass dependence of galaxy clustering at 0.5

Author: Marulli, F., Bolzonella, M., Branchini, E., Davidzon, I., de la Torre, S., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Iovino, A., Moscardini, L., Pollo, A., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Coupon, J., Cucciati, O., De Lucia, G., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Krywult, J., Brun, V. Le, Fevre, O. Le, Maccagni, D., Malek, K., McCracken, H. J., Paioro, L., Polletta, M., Schlagenhaufer, H., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., Wolk, M., and Zamorani, G.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass in the redshift range 0.5, 17 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2013
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20. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey final data release: a spectroscopic sample of 35016 galaxies and AGN out to z~6.7 selected with 17.5<=i_{AB}<=24.7

Author: Fevre, O. Le, Cassata, P., Cucciati, O., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Brun, V. Le, Maccagni, D., Moreau, C., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Zamorani, G., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., de la Torre, S., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Guzzo, L., Iovino, A., Lemaux, B., McCracken, H. J., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mazure, A., Mellier, Y., Merighi, R., Merluzzi, P., Paltani, S., Pello, R., Pollo, A., Pozzetti, L., Scaramella, R., Vergani, D., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We describe the completed VIMOS VLT Deep Survey, and the final data release of 35016 galaxies and type-I AGN with measured spectroscopic redshifts up to redshift z~6.7, in areas 0.142 to 8.7 square degrees, and volumes from 0.5x10^6 to 2x10^7h^-3Mpc^3. We have selected samples of galaxies based solely on their i-band magnitude reaching i_{AB}=24.75. Spectra have been obtained with VIMOS on the ESO-VLT, integrating 0.75h, 4.5h and 18h for the Wide, Deep, and Ultra-Deep nested surveys. A total of 1263 galaxies have been re-observed independently within the VVDS, and from the VIPERS and MASSIV surveys. They are used to establish the redshift measurements reliability, to assess completeness, and to provide a weighting scheme taking into account the survey selection function. We describe the main properties of the VVDS samples, and the VVDS is compared to other spectroscopic surveys. In total we have obtained spectroscopic redshifts for 34594 galaxies, 422 type-I AGN, and 12430 Galactic stars. The survey has enabled to identify galaxies up to very high redshifts with 4669 redshifts in 13, and specific populations like LAE have been identified out to z=6.62. We show that the VVDS occupies a unique place in the parameter space defined by area, depth, redshift coverage, and number of spectra. The VVDS provides a comprehensive survey of the distant universe, covering all epochs since z, or more than 12 Gyr of cosmic time, with a uniform selection, the largest such sample to date. A wealth of science results derived from the VVDS have shed new light on the evolution of galaxies and AGN, and their distribution in space, over this large cosmic time. A final public release of the complete VVDS spectroscopic redshift sample is available at http://cesam.lam.fr/vvds., Submitted 30 June 2013, Accepted 22 August 2013. Updated with published version
Published: 2013
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21. Determination of the abundance of cosmic matter via the cell count moments of the galaxy distribution

Author: Bel, J. and Marinoni, C.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We demonstrate that accurate and precise cosmological information can be extracted from the cell count analysis of the 3D spatial clustering of galaxies once the second-order ratio between one- and two-point moments of the smoothed galaxy density distribution is analyzed. This probe does not require the calibration of any standard rod, the knowledge of the galaxy bias nor the modeling of galaxy redshift distortions. Using the spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample, no cosmic microwave background (CMB) information, weak (flat) priors on the value of the curvature of the universe (Omega_k) and the constant value of the dark energy equation of state (w), we estimate the abundance of matter (Omega_m) with a relative error of 11% (at 68% c.l.). The method may be instrumental in searching for evidences of new physics beyond the standard model of cosmology and in planning future missions such as BigBOSS or EUCLID., Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, references added
Published: 2012
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22. The nonlinear biasing of the 10k zCOSMOS galaxies up to z~1

Author: Kovac, K., Porciani, C., Lilly, S. J., Marinoni, C., Guzzo, L., Cucciati, O., Zamorani, G., Iovino, A., Oesch, P., Bolzonella, M., Peng, Y., Meneux, B., Zucca, E., Bardelli, S., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Finoguenov, A., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Montero, E. Perez, Pozzetti, L., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Abbas, U., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Fumana, M., Koekemoer, A. M., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Scaramella, R., Scoville, N. Z., AUTRES, Institute for Astronomy [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Hunan Normal University, University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), and Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the overdensity field reconstructed in the volume of the COSMOS area to study the nonlinear biasing of the zCOSMOS galaxies. The galaxy overdensity field is reconstructed using the current sample of ~8500 accurate zCOSMOS redshifts at I(AB) = b(delta,z,R) delta is of the following characteristic shape. The function vanishes in the most underdense regions and then sharply rises in a nonlinear way towards the mean densities. is almost a linear tracer of the matter in the overdense regions, up to the most overdense regions in which it is nonlinear again and the local effective slope of vs. delta is smaller than unity. The function is evolving only slightly over the redshift interval 0.4, Comment: 29 pages, 21 figures, submitted to ApJ, the high resolution pdf available at http://www.exp-astro.phys.ethz.ch/kovac/public/zCOSMOS/
Published: 2011
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23. The zCOSMOS-Bright survey: the clustering of early and late galaxy morphological types since z similar or equal to 1

Author: de la Torre, S., Le Fevre, O., Porciani, C., Guzzo, L., Meneux, B., Abbas, U., Tasca, L., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Lilly, S. J., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Halliday, C., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Koekemoer, A. M., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Le Borgne, J. -F., Le Brun, V., Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Oesch, P., Pozzetti, L., Scaramella, R., and Astronomy
Subjects: REDSHIFT SURVEY, DIGITAL-SKY-SURVEY, 2-POINT CORRELATION-FUNCTION, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, VLT DEEP SURVEY, ENVIRONMENTAL DEPENDENCE, COLD DARK-MATTER, SPECTRAL TYPE, galaxies: high-redshift, cosmology: observations, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, SPECTROSCOPIC SAMPLE, LUMINOSITY DEPENDENCE, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: statistics
Abstract: We measure the spatial clustering of galaxies as a function of their morphological type at z similar or equal to 0.8, for the first time in a deep redshift survey with full morphological information. This is obtained by combining high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging and Very Large Telescope spectroscopy for about 8500 galaxies to with accurate spectroscopic redshifts from the zCOSMOS-Bright redshift survey. At this epoch, early-type galaxies already show a significantly stronger clustering than late-type galaxies on all probed scales. A comparison to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data at z similar or equal to 0.1 shows that the relative clustering strength between early and late morphological classes tends to increase with cosmic time at small separations, while on large scales it shows no significant evolution since z similar or equal to 0.8. This suggests that most early-type galaxies had already formed in intermediate and dense environments at this epoch. Our results are consistent with a picture in which the relative clustering of different morphological types between z similar or equal to 1 and 0 reflects the evolving role of environment in the morphological transformation of galaxies, on top of a global evolution driven by mass.
Published: 2011

24. Understanding the shape of the galaxy two-point correlation function at z ~= 1 in the COSMOS field

Author: de la Torre, S., Guzzo, L., Kovač, K., Porciani, C., Abbas, U., Meneux, B., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., Le Fèvre, O., Lilly, S. J., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Sanders, D., Scodeggio, M., Scoville, N., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Koekemoer, A. M., Lamareille, F., Le Borgne, J.-F, Le Brun, V., Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pelló, R., Peng, Y., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Welikala, N., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Fumana, M., Ilbert, O., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Nair, P., Oesch, P., Pozzetti, L., Presotto, V., Scaramella, R., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: galaxies: high-redshift, cosmology: observations, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, evolution, galaxies: statistics, large-scale structure of Universe [galaxies], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 409 (2), ISSN:0035-8711, ISSN:1365-2966, ISSN:1365-8711
Published: 2010
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25. The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey: Evolution in the Halo Occupation Number since z $\sim$ 1

Author: Abbas, U., de la Torre, S., Fèvre, O. Le, Guzzo, L., Marinoni, C., Meneux, B., Pollo, A., Zamorani, G., Bottini, D., Garilli, B., Brun, V. Le, Maccagni, D., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Lamareille, F., McCracken, H. J., Marano, B., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Brinchmann, J., Cucciati, O., de Ravel, L., Gregorini, L., Perez-Montero, E., Mellier, Y., and Merluzzi, P.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We model the evolution of the mean galaxy occupation of dark-matter halos over the range $0.1 0.1 M_0$ merger event occuring between redshifts of 0.5 and 1.0. Futhermore, we find that more luminous galaxies are found to occupy more massive halos irrespectively of the redshift. Finally, the average number of galaxies per halo shows little increase from redshift z$\sim$ 1.0 to z$\sim$ 0.5, with a sharp increase by a factor $\sim$3 from z$\sim$ 0.5 to z$\sim$ 0.1, likely due to the dynamical friction of subhalos within their host halos., Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. MNRAS accepted.
Published: 2010
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26. Understanding the shape of the galaxy two-point correlation function at z~1 in the COSMOS field

Author: de la Torre, S., Guzzo, L., Kovac, K., Porciani, C., Abbas, U., Meneux, B., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Lilly, S. J., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Sanders, D., Scodeggio, M., Scoville, N., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Koekemoer, A. M., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Welikala, N., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Fumana, M., Ilbert, O., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Nair, P., Oesch, P., Pozzetti, L., Presotto, V., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate how the shape of the galaxy two-point correlation function as measured in the zCOSMOS survey depends on local environment, quantified in terms of the density contrast on scales of 5 Mpc/h. We show that the flat shape previously observed at redshifts between z=0.6 and z=1 can be explained by this volume being simply 10% over-abundant in high-density environments, with respect to a Universal density probability distribution function. When galaxies corresponding to the top 10% tail of the distribution are excluded, the measured w_p(r_p) steepens and becomes indistinguishable from LCDM predictions on all scales. This is the same effect recognised by Abbas & Sheth in the SDSS data at z~0 and explained as a natural consequence of halo-environment correlations in a hierarchical scenario. Galaxies living in high-density regions trace dark matter halos with typically higher masses, which are more correlated. If the density probability distribution function of the sample is particularly rich in high-density regions because of the variance introduced by its finite size, this produces a distorted two-point correlation function. We argue that this is the dominant effect responsible for the observed "peculiar" clustering in the COSMOS field., 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2010
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27. The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey: History of the Galaxy Clustering in the Universe

Author: Pollo, Agnieszka, Abbas, U., Meneux, B., Guzzo, L., Le Fèvre, O., De La Torre, S., Cappi, A., Garilli, B., Marinoni, C., Bottini, D., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., McCracken, H.J., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Pozzetti, L., Vergani, D., Zamorani, G., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Physics, Galaxy group, Elliptical galaxy, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, Interacting galaxy, Brightest cluster galaxy, Lenticular galaxy, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Dwarf galaxy
Abstract: Star formation in galaxies and their evolution depends on their local environment and, more precisely, their location in the large scale structure. The data from the VIMOS‐VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) has enabled us to investigate the history of the galaxy clustering and the relation between the evolution of galaxies themselves and the galaxy clustering back to z∼1. We analyzed the evolution of the projected two‐point correlation function for particular galaxy classes, with different intrinsic luminosities and stellar masses. We concluded that the properties of central and satellite galaxies in the dark matter haloes could have changed significantly between z∼1 and now.
Published: 2010
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28. Testing gravity on large scales. The skewness of the galaxy distribution at z~1

Author: Marinoni, C., Guzzo, L., Cappi, A., Le Fevre, O., Mazure, A., Meneux, B., Pollo, A., Iovino, A., Mccracken, H. J., Roberto Scaramella, La Torre, S., Virey, J. M., Bottini, D., Garilli, B., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Lamareille, F., Marano, B., Mathez, G., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Vergani, D., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Abbas, U., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Brinchmann, J., Buzzi, A., Cucciati, O., Ravel, L., Gregorini, L., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Perez-Montero, E., Taxil, P., Temporin, S., Walcher, C. J., Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AUTRES, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF- Milano, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OAB), Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA), Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), Universidade do Porto [Porto], Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli studi di Milano [Milano]-Università di Milano-Bicocca, Departement de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (DEMIRM), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Department of Biology, University of Washington [Seattle], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Services communs OMP (UMS 831), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon (ENESAD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna] (IRA), Universidade do Porto, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Bernardo, Elizabeth, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), and École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the evolution of the low-order moments of the galaxy overdensity distribution over the redshift interval 0.7, Comment: To appear in the proceedings of 43rd Rencontres de Moriond on Cosmology (La Thuile, 2008)
Published: 2008

29. VVDS-SWIRE: Clustering evolution from a spectroscopic sample of galaxies with redshift 0.2<z<2.1 selected from Spitzer IRAC 3.6 micron and 4.5 micron photometry

Author: de la Torre, S., Fevre, O. Le, Arnouts, S., Guzzo, L., Farrah, D., Iovino, A., Lonsdale, C. J., Meneux, B., Oliver, S. J., Pollo, A., Waddington, I., Bottini, D., Fang, F., Garilli, B., Brun, V. Le, Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Shupe, D., Surace, J., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Lamareille, F., McCracken, H. J., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pello, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Brinchmann, J., Cucciati, O., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Temporin, S., Vergani, D., and Walcher, C. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: By combining the VVDS with the SWIRE data, we have built the currently largest spectroscopic sample of galaxies selected in the rest-frame near-infrared. These allow us to investigate, for the first time using spectroscopic redshifts, the clustering evolution of galaxies selected from their rest-frame near-infrared luminosity in the redshift range 0.2, Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2007

30. VVDS-SWIRE: Clustering evolution from a spectroscopic sample of galaxies with redshift 0.2

Author: de la Torre, S., Fevre, O. Le, Arnouts, S., Guzzo, L., Farrah, D., Iovino, A., Lonsdale, C. J., Meneux, B., Oliver, S. J., Pollo, A., Waddington, I., Bottini, D., Fang, F., Garilli, B., Brun, V. Le, Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Shupe, D., Surace, J., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Lamareille, F., McCracken, H. J., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pello, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Brinchmann, J., Cucciati, O., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Temporin, S., Vergani, D., and Walcher, C. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: By combining the VVDS with the SWIRE data, we have built the currently largest spectroscopic sample of galaxies selected in the rest-frame near-infrared. These allow us to investigate, for the first time using spectroscopic redshifts, the clustering evolution of galaxies selected from their rest-frame near-infrared luminosity in the redshift range 0.2, 11 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2007
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31. The VIRMOS-VLT Deep Survey: the last 10 billion years of evolution of galaxy clustering

Author: Pollo, A., Guzzo, L., Le Fèvre, O., Meneux, B., Cappi, A., Mccracken, H. J., Iovino, A., Marinoni, C., Bottini, D., Garilli, B., Le Brun, V. L., Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Scaramella, R., Marco Scodeggio, Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Ilbert, O., Marano, B., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Brinchmann, J., Cucciati, O., La Torre, S., Lamareille, F., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Temporin, S., Vergani, D., Walcher, C. J., INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), A. Pollo, L. Guzzo, O. Le Fevre, B. Meneux, A. Cappi, H. J. McCracken, A. Iovino, C. Marinoni, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. L. Le, D. Maccagni, J. P. Picat, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnout, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, O. Ilbert, B. Marano, A. Mazure, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pello, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, M. Bondi, A. Bongiorno, J. Brinchmann, O. Cucciati, S. . la, F. Lamareille, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, S. Temporin, D. Vergani, C. J. Walcher, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], SPECTRAL TYPE, VIMOS, LUMINOSITY, DEPENDENCE, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We discuss the evolution of clustering of galaxies in the Universe from the present epoch back to z ~ 2, using the first-epoch data from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). We present the evolution of the projected two-point correlation function of galaxies for the global galaxy population, as well as its dependence on galaxy intrinsic luminosities and spectral types. While we do not find strong variations of the correlation function parameters with redshift for the global galaxy population, the clustering of objects with different intrinsic luminosities evolved significantly during last 8-10 billion years. Our findings indicate that bright galaxies in the past traced higher density peaks than they do now and that the shape of the correlation function of most luminous galaxies is different from observed for their local counterparts, which is a supporting evidence of a non-trivial evolution of the galaxy vs. dark matter bias., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference 'At the Edge of the Universe' (9-13 October 2006, Sintra, Portugal)
Published: 2006

32. The VVDS-VLA Deep Field II. Optical and near infrared identifications of VLA S(1.4GHz)>80 microJy sources in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey VVDS-02h field

Author: Ciliegi, P., Zamorani, G., Bondi, M., Pozzetti, L., Bolzonella, M., Garilli, L. Gregorini B., Iovino, A., McCracken, H. J., Mellier, Y., Radovich, M., de Ruiter, H. R., Parma, P., Bottini, D., Brun, V. Le, Fevre, O. Le, Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnaboldi, M., Arnouts, S., Bardelli, S., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Guzzo, L., Ilbert, O., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mathez, G., Mazure, A., Meneux, B., Merighi, R., Merluzzi, P., Paltani, S., Pollo, A., Zucca, E., Bongiorno, A., Busarello, G., Gavignaud, I., Pello, R., Ripepi, V., and Rizzo, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: In this paper we present the optical and near-infrared identifications of the 1054 radio sources detected in the 20cm deep radio survey down to a 5sigma flux limit of about 80 microJy obtained with the VLA in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey VVDS-02h deep field. Using U,B,V,R,I and K data, we identified 718 radio sources (~74% of the whole sample). The photometric redshift analysis shows that, in each magnitude bin, the radio sample has a higher median photometric redshift than the whole optical sample, while the median (V-I) color of the radio sources is redder than the median color of the whole optical sample. These results suggest that radio detection is preferentially selecting galaxies with higher intrinsic optical luminosity. From the analysis of the optical properties of the radio sources as function of the radio flux, we found that while about 35% of the radio sources are optically unidentified in the higher radio flux bin (S> 1.0 mJy), the percentage of unidentified sources decreases to about 25% in the faintest bins (S< 0.5 mJy). The median I magnitude for the total sample of radio sources,i.e. including also the unidentified ones, is brighter in the faintest radio bins than in the bin with higher radio flux. This suggests that most of the faintest radio sources are likely to be associated to relatively lower radio luminosity objects at relatively modest redshift, rather than radio-powerful, AGN type objects at high redshift., 15 pages, 11 figs. A&A in press
Published: 2005
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33. Clustering of Galaxies and Groups in the NOG Sample

Author: Giuricin, G., Samurovic, S., Girardi, M., Mezzetti, M., and Marinoni, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the two-point correlation function in redshift space, $\xi(s)$, to study the clustering of the galaxies and groups of the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) Sample, which is a nearly all-sky, complete, magnitude-limited sample of \~7000 bright and nearby optical galaxies. The correlation function of galaxies is well-described by a power-law, $\xi(s)= (s/s_0)^{-\gamma}$, with $\gamma\sim1.5$ and $s_0\sim 6.4 h^{-1}$ Mpc. We find evidence of morphological segregation between early- and late-type galaxies, with a gradual decreasing of the strength of clustering from the S0 to the late-type spirals, on intermediate scales. Furthermore, luminous galaxies (with $M_B\leq -19.5 + 5 \log h$) are more clustered than dim galaxies. The groups show an excess of clustering with respect to galaxies. Groups with greater velocity dispersions, sizes, and masses are more clustered than those with lower values of these quantities., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to "Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies", IAP 2000 meeting, Paris (France) July 2000, Florence Durret & Daniel Gerbal eds
Published: 2000
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34. The NOG Sample: 3D Reconstruction of the Real-Space Density Field

Author: Marinoni, C., Giuricin, G., and Ceriani, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We discuss the real-space reconstruction of the optical galaxy density field in the local Universe (cz < 6000 km/s) as derived from the 7076 galaxies of the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) sample (see Giuricin et al. 1999 in the same volume). NOG is the currently best approximation to a homogeneous all-sky 3D optically selected galaxy sample that probes in great detail volumes of cosmological interest. Our final goal is to construct a reliable, robust and unbiased field of density contrasts over a wide range of physical scales. Exploring in detail the nature of the three dimensional galaxy distribution will provide us with invaluable qualitative cosmographical information about the topology and morphology of the local overdensities; but it also allows us to investigate on the z=0 cosmology, greatly increasing our quantitative understanding of physical parameters that constrain the evolution of structures and their clustering properties. Moreover, its near full-sky coverage and the large variety in galaxy content make the NOG ideal also for more specific tasks as the deconvolution of environmental effects from the properties and evolution history of the galaxies., 4 Latex pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop of the Italian Network "Formation and Evolution of Galaxies"
Published: 1999

35. The Galaxy Luminosity and Selection Functions of the NOG Sample

Author: Marinoni, C., Giuricin, G., Costantini, B., and Monaco, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: In order to map the galaxy density field on small scales in the local universe, we use the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) sample, which is currently one of the largest, nearly complete, magnitude-limited ($B\leq$ 14 mag), all-sky sample of nearby optical galaxies ($\sim$ 6400 galaxies with cz< 5500 km/s). We have corrected the redshift-dependent distances of these galaxies for non-cosmological motions by means of peculiar velocity field models. Relying on group assignments and on total B magnitudes fully corrected for internal and Galactic extinctions, we determine the total and morphological-type specific luminosity functions for field and grouped galaxies using their locations in real distance space. The related determination of the selection function is meant to be an important step in recovering the galaxy density field on small scales from the NOG sample. Local galaxy density parameters will be used in statistical studies of environmental effects on galaxy properties., 6 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in `Observational Cosmology: The development of galaxy systems', ed. G. Giuricin, M. Mezzetti and P. Salucci, ASP Conference Series
Published: 1999
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36. The NOG Sample: Selection of the Sample and Identification of Galaxy Systems

Author: Giuricin, G., Marinoni, C., Ceriani, L., and Pisani, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: In order to map the galaxy density field in the local universe, we select the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) sample, which is a distance-limited (cz < 6000 km/s) and magnitude--limited (B < 14 mag) sample of 7076 optical galaxies which covers 2/3 (8.29 sr) of the sky (|b|>20^{\circ}) and has a good completeness in redshift (98%). In order to trace the galaxy density field on small scales, we identify the NOG galaxy systems by means of both the hierarchical and the percolation (friends of friends) methods. The NOG provides high resolution in both spatial sampling of the nearby universe and morphological galaxy classification. The NOG is meant to be the first step towards the construction of a statistically well-controlled galaxy sample with homogenized photometric data covering most of the celestial sphere., 4 Latex pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop of the Italian Network "Formation and Evolution of Galaxies"
Published: 1999
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37. Peculiar Motions and the Galaxy Density Field

Author: Marinoni, C., Giuricin, G., Costantini, B., and Monaco, P.
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We use an all--sky, complete sample of nearby galaxies, extracted from the LEDA data base, to map the optical galaxy density field in the nearby universe. In order to determine this field, we correct the redshift--dependent distances by testing some peculiar velocity field models and we correct the galaxy number density for the incompletion of the galaxy sample at large distances through the derivation of the galaxy luminosity function. Local galaxy density parameters calculated for different smoothing scales are meant to be used in forthcoming statistical studies of environmental effects on galaxy properties., 5 pages including 1 eps figure. Published in "The Young Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at Intermediate and High Redshift" ed S. D'Odorico, A. Fontana and E. Giallongo, ASP Conference series vol. 146 p. 202
Published: 1998

38. First results from the VIMOS/VLT Deep Survey (VVDS): luminosity functions from z̃0 to z̃1.5

Author: Zucca, E., Ilbert, O., Tresse, L., Bardelli, S., Arnouts, S., Zamorani, G., Le Fèvre, O., Vettolani, G., Adami, C., Sbolzonella, M., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Bottini, D., Busarello, G., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Gavignaud, I., Gregorini, L., Guzzo, L., Iovino, A., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mathez, G., Mazure, A., Mccracken, H. J., Mellier, Y., Meneux, B., Merighi, R., Merluzzi, P., Paltani, S., Pellò, R., Picat, J. P., Pollo, A., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Ripepi, V., Rizzo, D., Scaramella, R., Marco Scodeggio, Zanichelli, A., Zucca E., Ilbert O., Tresse L., Bardelli S., Arnouts S., Zamorani G., Le Fèvre O., Vettolani G., Adami C., Bolzonella M., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Bottini D., Busarello G., Cappi A., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Gavignaud I., Gregorini L., Guzzo L., Iovino A., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Marano B., Marinoni C., Mathez G., Mazure A., McCracken H. J., Mellier Y., Meneux B., Merighi R., Merluzzi P., Paltani S., Pellò R., Picat J. P., Pollo A., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Ripepi V., Rizzo D., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., and Zanichelli A.
Subjects: GALAXIES: REDSHIFTS, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The VIMOS/VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) is an on-going program to map the evolution of galaxies, large scale structures and AGNs from the redshift measurement of more than 100000 objects down to a magnitude IAB=24, in combination with a multi-wavelength dataset from radio to X-rays. We present here the results obtained from the first epoch data, regarding in particular the evolution of the luminosity function.

39. The BigBOSS Experiment

Author: Schlegel, D., Abdalla, F., Abraham, T., Ahn, C., Allende Prieto, C., Annis, J., Aubourg, E., Azzaro, M., Baltay, S. Bailey C., Baugh, C., Bebek, C., Becerril, S., Blanton, M., Bolton, A., Bromley, B., Cahn, R., Carton, P. -H, Cervantes-Cota, J. L., Chu, Y., Cortes, M., Dawson, K., Dey, A., Dickinson, M., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Ealet, A., Edelstein, J., Eppelle, D., Escoffier, S., Evrard, A., Faccioli, L., Frenk, C., Geha, M., Gerdes, D., Gondolo, P., Gonzalez-Arroyo, A., Grossan, B., Heckman, T., Heetderks, H., Ho, S., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., Ilbert, O., Ivans, I., Jelinsky, P., Jing, Y., Joyce, D., Kennedy, R., Kent, S., Kieda, D., Kim, A., Kim, C., Kneib, J. -P, Kong, X., Kosowsky, A., Krishnan, K., Lahav, O., Lampton, M., Lebohec, S., Le Brun, V., Levi, M., Li, C., Liang, M., Lim, H., Lin, W., Linder, E., Lorenzon, W., La Macorra, A., Magneville, Ch, Malina, R., Marinoni, C., Martinez, V., Majewski, S., Matheson, T., Mccloskey, R., Mcdonald, P., Mckay, T., Mcmahon, J., Menard, B., Miralda-Escude, J., Modjaz, M., Montero-Dorta, A., Morales, I., Mostek, N., Newman, J., Nichol, R., Peter Nugent, Olsen, K., Padmanabhan, N., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Park, I., Peacock, J., Percival, W., Perlmutter, S., Peroux, C., Petitjean, P., Prada, F., Prieto, E., Prochaska, J., Reil, K., Rockosi, C., Roe, N., Rollinde, E., Roodman, A., Ross, N., Rudnick, G., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Sanchez, J., Sawyer, D., Schimd, C., Schubnell, M., Scoccimaro, R., Seljak, U., Seo, H., Sheldon, E., Sholl, M., Shulte-Ladbeck, R., Slosar, A., Smith, D. S., Smoot, G., Springer, W., Stril, A., Szalay, A. S., Tao, C., Tarle, G., Taylor, E., Tilquin, A., Tinker, J., Valdes, F., Wang, J., Wang, T., Weaver, B. A., Weinberg, D., White, M., Wood-Vasey, M., Yang, J., Yeche, X. Yang Ch, Zakamska, N., Zentner, A., Zhai, C., and Zhang, P.
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: BigBOSS is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment to study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey over 14,000 square degrees. It has been conditionally accepted by NOAO in response to a call for major new instrumentation and a high-impact science program for the 4-m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak. The BigBOSS instrument is a robotically-actuated, fiber-fed spectrograph capable of taking 5000 simultaneous spectra over a wavelength range from 340 nm to 1060 nm, with a resolution R = 3000-4800. Using data from imaging surveys that are already underway, spectroscopic targets are selected that trace the underlying dark matter distribution. In particular, targets include luminous red galaxies (LRGs) up to z = 1.0, extending the BOSS LRG survey in both redshift and survey area. To probe the universe out to even higher redshift, BigBOSS will target bright [OII] emission line galaxies (ELGs) up to z = 1.7. In total, 20 million galaxy redshifts are obtained to measure the BAO feature, trace the matter power spectrum at smaller scales, and detect redshift space distortions. BigBOSS will provide additional constraints on early dark energy and on the curvature of the universe by measuring the Ly-alpha forest in the spectra of over 600,000 2.2 < z < 3.5 quasars. BigBOSS galaxy BAO measurements combined with an analysis of the broadband power, including the Ly-alpha forest in BigBOSS quasar spectra, achieves a FOM of 395 with Planck plus Stage III priors. This FOM is based on conservative assumptions for the analysis of broad band power (kmax = 0.15), and could grow to over 600 if current work allows us to push the analysis to higher wave numbers (kmax = 0.3). BigBOSS will also place constraints on theories of modified gravity and inflation, and will measure the sum of neutrino masses to 0.024 eV accuracy., This report is based on the BigBOSS proposal submission to NOAO in October 2010, and reflects the project status at that time with minor updates

40. Witnessing the build-up of the colour-density relation

Author: Cucciati, O., Iovino, A., Marinoni, C., Ilbert, O., Bardelli, S., Franzetti, P., Le Fevre, O., Pollo, A., Zamorani, G., Cappi, A., Guzzo, L., Mccracken, H. J., Meneux, B., Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Tresse, L., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Garilli, B., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Picat, J. P., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnaboldi, M., Arnouts, S., Bolzonella, M., Charlot, S., Ciliegi, P., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Gavignaud, I., Marano, B., Mazure, A., Merighi, R., Paltani, S., Pello, R., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Busarello, G., La Torre, S., Gregorini, L., Lamareille, F., Mathez, G., Mellier, Y., Paola Merluzzi, Ripepi, V., Rizzo, D., Temporin, G., Vergani, D., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and L.Tresse, S. Maurogordato and J. Tran Thanh Van
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the redshift and luminosity evolution of the galaxy colour-density relation using the data from the First Epoch VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) on scales of R=5 h^(-1)Mpc up to redshift z ~ 1.5. While at lower redshift we confirm the existence of a steep colour-density relation, with the fraction of the reddest(/bluest) galaxies of the same luminosity increasing(/decreasing) as a function of density, this trend progressively disappears in the highest redshift bins investigated.Our results suggest the existence of an epoch (more remote for brighter galaxies) characterized by the absence of the colour-density relation on the R=5 h^(-1)Mpc scales investigated. The rest frame u*-g' colour-magnitude diagram shows a bimodal pattern in both low and high density environments up to redshift z ~ 1.5. We find that the bimodal distribution is not universal but strongly depends upon environment. Both the colour-density and colour-magnitude-density relations, on the R=5 h^(-1)Mpc scales, appear to be a transient, cumulative product of genetic and environmental factors that have been operating over at least a period of 9 Gyr. These findings support an evolutionary scenario in which star formation/gas depletion processes are accelerated in more luminous objects and in high density environments: star formation activity is progressively shifting with cosmic time towards lower luminosity galaxies (downsizing), and out of high density environments., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond, XXVIth Astrophysics Moriond Meeting: "From dark halos to light", Eds. L.Tresse, S. Maurogordato and J. Tran Thanh Van (Editions Frontieres)

41. The VIMOS-VLT deep survey: the group catalogue

Author: Cucciati, O., Marinoni, C., Iovino, A., Sandro Bardelli, Adami, C., Mazure, A., S. Boissier, M. Heydari-Malayeri, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, O. Cucciati, C. Marinoni, A. Iovino, S. Bardelli, C. Adami, and A. Mazure
Subjects: statistic, galaxies: cluster, high redshift, evolution, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, cosmology: large-scale structure
Abstract: We present a homogeneous and complete catalogue of optical galaxy groups identified in the VIMOS-VLT spectroscopic Deep Survey (VVDS). We use mock catalogues extracted from the Millennium simulation to study the potential systematics that might affect the overall distribution of the identified systems, and also to asses how well galaxy redshifts trace the line-of-sight velocity dispersion of the underlying mass overdensity. We train on these mock catalogues the adopted group-finding technique (the Voronoi-Delaunay Method, VDM), to recover in a robust and unbiased way the redshift and velocity dispersion distributions of groups and maximise the level of completeness (C) and purity (P) of the group catalogue. We identify 318(/144) VVDS groups with at least 2(/3) members within 0.2

42. Galaxy luminosity function per morphological type up to z=1.2

Author: Ilbert, O., Lauger, S., Tresse, L., Buat, V., Arnout, S., Le Fevre, O., Burgarella, D., Zucca, E., Bardelli, S., Zamorani, G., Bottini, D., Garilli, B., Le Brun, V., Maccagni, D., Picat, J. -P, Scaramella, R., Scodeggio, M., Vettolani, G., Zanichelli, A., Adami, C., Arnaboldi, M., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Charlot, S., Contini, T., Foucaud, S., Franzetti, P., Gavignaud, I., Guzzo, L., Iovino, A., Mccracken, H. J., Marano, B., Marinoni, C., Mathez, G., Mazure, A., Meneux, B., Roberto Merighi, Paltani, S., Pello, R., Pollo, A., Pozzetti, L., Radovich, M., Bondi, M., Bongiorno, A., Busarello, G., Ciliegi, P., Mellier, Y., Merluzzi, P., Ripepi, V., Rizzo, D., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We have computed the evolution of the rest-frame B-band luminosity function (LF) for bulge and disk-dominated galaxies since z=1.2. We use a sample of 605 spectroscopic redshifts with I_{AB}0.9 and bright galaxies showing a strongly decreasing LF slope \alpha=+0.55 \pm 0.21, and 32% of blue (B-I)_{AB}, Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

43. The zCOSMOS redshift survey : Influence of luminosity, mass and environment on the galaxy merger rate

Author: Ravel, L., Kampczyk, P., Le Fèvre, O., Lilly, S. J., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Lopez-Sanjuan, C., Bolzonella, M., Kovac, K., Abbas, U., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Contini, T., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., La Torre, S., Dunlop, J. S., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kneib, J. -P, Koekemoer, A. M., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., Le Borgne, J. -F, Le Brun, V., Leauthaud, A., Maier, C., Mainieri, V., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Perez Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Scodeggio, M., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Vergani, D., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Carollo, C. M., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Marco Fumana, Guzzo, L., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., Mccracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Meneux, B., Oesch, P., Porciani, C., Pozzetti, L., Renzini, A., Scaramella, R., Scarlata, C., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The contribution of major mergers to galaxy mass assembly along cosmic time is an important ingredient to the galaxy evolution scenario. We aim to measure the evolution of the merger rate for both luminosity/mass selected galaxy samples and investigate its dependence with the local environment. We use a sample of 10644 spectroscopically observed galaxies from the zCOSMOS redshift survey to identify pairs of galaxies destined to merge, using only pairs for which the velocity difference and projected separation of both components with a confirmed spectroscopic redshift indicate a high probability of merging. We have identified 263 spectroscopically confirmed pairs with r_p^{max} = 100 h^{-1} kpc. We find that the density of mergers depends on luminosity/mass, being higher for fainter/less massive galaxies, while the number of mergers a galaxy will experience does not depends significantly on its intrinsic luminosity but rather on its stellar mass. We find that the pair fraction and merger rate increase with local galaxy density, a property observed up to redshift z=1. We find that the dependence of the merger rate on the luminosity or mass of galaxies is already present up to redshifts z=1, and that the evolution of the volumetric merger rate of bright (massive) galaxies is relatively flat with redshift with a mean value of 3*10^{-4} (8*10^{-5} respectively) mergers h^3 Mpc^{-3} Gyr^{-1}. The dependence of the merger rate with environment indicates that dense environments favors major merger events as can be expected from the hierarchical scenario. The environment therefore has a direct impact in shapping-up the mass function and its evolution therefore plays an important role on the mass growth of galaxies along cosmic time., Comment: submitted to A&A, 17 pages, 12 figures

44. The Dependence of Star Formation Activity on Stellar Mass Surface Density and Sersic Index in zCOSMOS Galaxies at 0.5 <z <0.9 Compared with SDSS Galaxies at 0.04 <z <0.08

Author: M. T. Sargent, D. Bottini, Daniela Vergani, P. Franzetti, Olga Cucciati, Andrea Cimatti, A. Iovino, Simon J. Lilly, Christian Maier, A. Cappi, J. F. Le Borgne, S. de la Torre, Christian Marinoni, Karina Caputi, C. Knobel, U. Abbas, L. de Ravel, Y. Peng, E. Ricciardelli, Alvio Renzini, C. Halliday, M. Scodeggio, Claudia Scarlata, V. Le Brun, M. Mignoli, Angela Bongiorno, Anton M. Koekemoer, Pascal Oesch, A. Leauthaud, S. Bardelli, Cristiano Porciani, P. Kampczyk, Laurence Tresse, Lidia Tasca, Thierry Contini, B. Meneux, Paolo Cassata, Masayuki Tanaka, Bianca Garilli, P. Memeo, V. Mainieri, Roser Pello, Lucia Pozzetti, C. M. Carollo, O. Le Fèvre, M. Bolzonella, G. Zamorani, John D. Silverman, Jean-Paul Kneib, E. Perez Montero, H. J. McCracken, Graziano Coppa, D. Maccagni, E. Zucca, Luigi Guzzo, F. Lamareille, M. Fumana, Roberto Scaramella, K. Kovac, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astronomy, Maier C., Lilly S. J., Zamorani G., Scodeggio M., Lamareille F., Contini T., Sargent M. T., Scarlata C., Oesch P., Carollo C. M., Le Fèvre O., Renzini A., Kneib J.-P., Mainieri V., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Kova&#269, K., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Montero E. Perez, Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Fumana M., Guzzo L., Halliday C., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., and Scaramella R.
Subjects: Surface (mathematics), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Stellar mass, Population, PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES, POPULATION SYNTHESIS, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, 10. No inequality, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, LOCAL UNIVERSE, Physics, EVOLUTION SURVEY COSMOS, REDSHIFT SURVEY, education.field_of_study, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, FORMING GALAXIES, Star formation, ASSEMBLY HISTORY, DISK GALAXIES, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], galaxies: evolution, Surface mass, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: One of the key unanswered questions in the study of galaxy evolution is what physical processes inside galaxies drive the changes in the SFRs in individual galaxies that, taken together, produce the large decline in the global star-formation rate density (SFRD) to redshifts since z~2. Many studies of the SFR at intermediate redshifts have been made as a function of the integrated stellar mass of galaxies but these did not use information on the internal structural properties of the galaxies. In this paper we present a comparative study of the dependence of SFRs on the average surface mass densities (SigmaM) of galaxies of different morphological types up to z~1 using the zCOSMOS and SDSS surveys. The main findings about the evolution of these relatively massive galaxies are: 1) There is evidence that, for both SDSS ans zCOSMOS galaxies, the mean specific SFR within a given population (either disk-dominated or bulge-dominated) is independent of SigmaM; 2) The observed SSFR - SigmaM step-function relation is due, at all investigated redshifts, to the changing mix of disk-dominated and bulge-dominated galaxies as surface density increases and the strong difference in the average SSFR between disks and bulges. We also find a modest differential evolution in the size-mass relations of disk and spheroid galaxies; 3) The shape of the median SSFR - SigmaM relation is similar, but with median SSFR values that are about 5-6 times higher in zCOSMOS galaxies than for SDSS, across the whole range of SigmaM, and in both spheroid and disk galaxies. This increase matches that of the global SFRD of the Universe as a whole, emphasizing that galaxies of all types are contributing, proportionally, to the global increase in SFRD in the Universe back to these redshifts (abridged)., Comment: Published 2009 in ApJ, 694, 1099
Published: 2009
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45. Physical properties of galaxies and their evolution in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey

Author: E. Zucca, Bianca Garilli, M. Scodeggio, C. Adami, A. Cappi, A. Iovino, A. Pollo, Jarle Brinchmann, M. Radovich, Angela Bongiorno, Luca Limatola, S. Bardelli, Thierry Contini, Enrique Pérez-Montero, I. Gavignaud, Daniela Vergani, Sylvie Foucaud, Roberto Scaramella, A. Mazure, R. Merighi, H. J. McCracken, M. Bolzonella, Christian Marinoni, O. Le Fevre, R. Pello, Gianni Zamorani, L. Tresse, Stephane Charlot, Paolo Ciliegi, Bruno Marano, B. Meneux, A. Romano, O. Ilbert, P. Franzetti, V. Le Brun, A. Zanichelli, Giampaolo Vettolani, C.J. Walcher, Aniello Grado, D. Maccagni, Stéphane Paltani, Luigi Guzzo, F. Lamareille, D. Bottini, Lucia Pozzetti, S. Arnouts, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), Universidade do Porto, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), INAF- Milano, Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lamareille F., Brinchmann J., Contini T., Walcher C. J., Charlot S., Pérez-Montero E., Zamorani G., Pozzetti L., Bolzonella M., Garilli B., Paltani S., Bongiorno A., Le Fèvre O., Bottini D., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Scaramella R., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Cappi A., Ciliegi P., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Guzzo L., Ilbert O., Iovino A., McCracken H. J., Marano B., Marinoni C., Mazure A., Meneux B., Merighi R., Pellò R., Pollo A., Radovich M., Vergani D., Zucca E., Romano A., Grado A., and Limatola L.
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, Stellar population, Metallicity, FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Apparent magnitude, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, GALAXIES: STARBUST, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Spectral density, galaxies: fundamental parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: abundances, galaxies: evolution
Abstract: We derive the mass-metallicity relation of star-forming galaxies up to $z\sim0.9$, using data from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. Automatic measurement of emission-line fluxes and equivalent widths have been performed on the full spectroscopic sample. This sample is divided into two sub-samples depending on the apparent magnitude selection: wide ($I_{\mathrm{AB}}, 21 pages, revised version submitted to A&A
Published: 2009
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46. The VIMOS-VLT deep survey

Author: J. P. Picat, Stéphane Charlot, O. Cucciati, C. Adami, T. Contini, M. Bolzonella, Jarle Brinchmann, D. Bottini, Luigi Guzzo, C. J. Walcher, A. Pollo, I. Gavignaud, E. Zucca, A. Iovino, B. Meneux, S. Bardelli, Sylvie Foucaud, P. Franzetti, A. Zanichelli, Paolo Ciliegi, Marco Scodeggio, H. J. McCracken, A. Cappi, O. Le Fevre, G. Zamorani, F. Lamareille, R. Pello, D. Maccagni, Roberto Scaramella, Stéphane Paltani, A. Mazure, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, R. Merighi, Mario Radovich, Bruno Marano, Stephane Arnouts, B. Garilli, Lucia Pozzetti, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, M. Arnaboldi, Christian Marinoni, D. Vergani, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF-Milano), INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (INAF-OAC), Authors: Franzetti P., Scodeggio M., Garilli B., Vergani D., Maccagni D., Guzzo L., Tresse L., Ilbert O., Lamareille F., Contini T., Le Fèvre O., Zamorani G., Brinchmann J., Charlot S., Bottini D., Le Brun V., Picat J. P., Scaramella R., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Ciliegi P., Foucaud S., Gavignaud I., Iovino A., McCracken H. J., Marano B., Marinoni C., Mazure A., Meneux B., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pollo A., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Zucca E., Cucciati O., and Walcher C. J.
Subjects: GALAXIES: EVOLUTION, Physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Rest frame, Stellar classification, Redshift, Galaxy, Bimodality, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey, Equivalent width, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: In this paper we discuss the mix of star-forming and passive galaxies up to z~2, based on the first epoch VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) data.In agreement with previous works we find that the galaxy rest-frame color distribution follows a bimodal distribution at z, 15 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, revised version accepted for publication on A&A
Published: 2007
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47. VIPERS : Galaxy morphology at z $\sim 1$

Author: Krywult, Janusz, Pollo, Agnieszka, Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Bolzonella, M., Bottini, D., Branchini, E., Cappi, A., Coupon, J., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., De Lucia, G., de la Torre, S., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., McCracken, H. J., Paioro, L., Polletta, M., Schlagenhaufer, H., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Moscardini, L., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., Wolk, M., and Zamorani, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We use spectroscopic VIPERS data to analyze morphological properties of galaxies at z $\sim 1$. To determine galaxy morphologies, we estimate their Sersic index. Then, we correlate it with galaxy rest-frame colors, and other physical properties. We find that the distribution of Sérsic index of our sample is bimodal, and well correlated with the color-bimodality of the galaxy distribution. So-called green valley (i.e. intermediate colour) galaxies often have intermediate values of Sérsic index which may support the hypothesis that at least a part of this population are galaxies in the transition phase.
Published: 2015

48. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Hierarchical scaling and biasing

Author: Rita Tojeiro, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, J. Krywult, Enzo Branchini, Yannick Mellier, A. Cappi, Katarzyna Małek, H. J. McCracken, M. Scodeggio, L. Paioro, B. R. Granett, Julien Bel, G. De Lucia, Lauro Moscardini, D. Bottini, D. Maccagni, C. Di Porto, D. Vergani, M. Wolk, Ummi Abbas, M. Polletta, M. Bolzonella, C. Schimd, Will J. Percival, P. Franzetti, Jean Coupon, A. Marchetti, A. Iovino, Luigi Guzzo, Lidia Tasca, A. Zanichelli, H. Schlagenhaufer, John A. Peacock, Angela Burden, Stefanie Phleps, Agnieszka Pollo, O. Le Fèvre, Alexander Fritz, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Federico Marulli, M. Fumana, Robert C. Nichol, B. Garilli, Christian Marinoni, S. Arnouts, Iary Davidzon, G. Zamorani, C. Adami, Cappi, A., Marulli, F., Bel, J., Cucciati, O., Branchini, E, de la Torre, S., Moscardini, L., Bolzonella, M., Guzzo, L., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bottini, D., Coupon, J., Davidzon, I., De Lucia, G., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Granett, B. R., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le, Brun, Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Malek, K., Mccracken, H. J., Paioro, L., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., Schimd, C., Schlagenhaufer, H., Wolk, M., Zamorani, G., Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CPT - E3 Cosmologie, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Département de Radiologie [CHU de Rennes], Université de Rennes (UR), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Institut Pasteur, Fondation Cenci Bolognetti - Istituto Pasteur Italia, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), University of Leeds, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Branchini, E., De La Torre, S., Granett, B.R., Le Brun, V., Małek, K., Mccracken, H.J., Tasca, L.A.M., Nichol, R.C., Peacock, J.A., and Percival, W.J.
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, dark matter, Luminosity, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology: observations, Sample variance, ST/J500665/1, Scaling, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, STFC, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, Null (mathematics), RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Redshift, Galaxy, observations [cosmology], Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, observation [cosmology]
Abstract: We investigate the higher-order correlation properties of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to test the hierarchical scaling hypothesis at z~1 and the dependence on galaxy luminosity, stellar mass, and redshift. We also aim to assess deviations from the linearity of galaxy bias independently from a previously performed analysis of our survey (Di Porto et al. 2014). We have measured the count probability distribution function in cells of radii 3 < R < 10 Mpc/h, deriving $\sigma_{8g}$, the volume-averaged two-,three-,and four-point correlation functions and the normalized skewness $S_{3g}$ and kurtosis $S_{4g}$ for volume-limited subsamples covering the ranges $-19.5 \le M_B(z=1.1)-5log(h) \le -21.0$, $9.0 < log(M*/M_{\odot} h^{-2}) \le 11.0$, $0.5 \le z < 1.1$. We have thus performed the first measurement of high-order correlations at z~1 in a spectroscopic redshift survey. Our main results are the following. 1) The hierarchical scaling holds throughout the whole range of scale and z. 2) We do not find a significant dependence of $S_{3g}$ on luminosity (below z=0.9 $S_{3g}$ decreases with luminosity but only at 1{\sigma}-level). 3) We do not detect a significant dependence of $S_{3g}$ and $S_{4g}$ on scale, except beyond z~0.9, where the dependence can be explained as a consequence of sample variance. 4) We do not detect an evolution of $S_{3g}$ and $S_{4g}$ with z. 5) The linear bias factor $b=\sigma_{8g}/\sigma_{8m}$ increases with z, in agreement with previous results. 6) We quantify deviations from the linear bias by means of the Taylor expansion parameter $b_2$. Our results are compatible with a null non-linear bias term, but taking into account other available data we argue that there is evidence for a small non-linear bias term., Comment: 20 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2015
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49. The Redshift‐Space Two‐Point Correlation Functions of Galaxies and Groups in the Nearby Optical Galaxy Sample

Author: Marino Mezzetti, Srdjan Samurovic, Marisa Girardi, Christian Marinoni, Giuliano Giuricin, Giuricin, G., Samurovic, S., Girardi, Marisa, Mezzetti, Marino, and Marinoni, C.
Subjects: Physics, Degree (graph theory), Group (mathematics), Galaxies: Clusters: General, Cosmology: Large-Scale Structure of Universe, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Large-Scale Structure of Universe [Cosmology], FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Correlation function (astronomy), Space (mathematics), Power law, Redshift, Galaxy, Luminosity, Space and Planetary Science, Clusters: General [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the two-point correlation function in redshift space, $\xi(s)$, to study the clustering of the galaxies and groups of the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) sample, which is a nearly all-sky, complete, magnitude-limited sample of $\sim$7000 bright and nearby optical galaxies. The correlation function of galaxies is well described by a power law, $\xi(s)=(s/s_0)^{-\gamma}$, with slope $\gamma\sim1.5$ and $s_0\sim6.4 h^{-1}$Mpc (on scales $2.7 - 12 h^{-1}$Mpc), in agreement with previous results of several redshift surveys of optical galaxies. We confirm the existence of morphological segregation between early- and late-type galaxies and, in particular, we find a gradual decreasing of the strength of clustering from the S0 galaxies to the late-type spirals, on intermediate scales. Furthermore, luminous galaxies turn out to be more clustered than dim galaxies. The luminosity segregation, which is significant for both early- and late-type objects, starts to become appreciable only for galaxies brighter than $M_B\sim -19.5 + 5 \log h$ ($\sim 0.6 L^*$) and is independent on scale. The NOG group correlation functions are characterized by $s_0$-values ranging from $\sim 8 h^{-1}$ Mpc (for groups with at least three members) to $\sim10 h^{-1}$ Mpc (for groups with at least five members). The degree of group clustering depends on the physical properties of groups. Specifically, groups with greater velocity dispersions, sizes and masses tend to be more clustered than those with lower values of these quantities., Comment: Astrophysical Journal, in press, 72 pages, 16 eps figures
Published: 2001
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50. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): A quiescent formation of massive red-sequence galaxies over the past 9 Gyr

Author: Alexander Fritz, C. Adami, Federico Marulli, M. Fumana, A. Marchetti, Rita Tojeiro, J. Krywult, D. Bottini, Will J. Percival, A. Iovino, Enzo Branchini, Yannick Mellier, A. Cappi, Luigi Guzzo, Lidia Tasca, P. Franzetti, D. Vergani, Lauro Moscardini, A. Zanichelli, L. Paioro, H. Schlagenhaufer, John A. Peacock, B. Garilli, M. Scodeggio, M. Wolk, Iary Davidzon, Benjamin R. Granett, C. Di Porto, Julien Bel, M. Bolzonella, Robert C. Nichol, G. Zamorani, G. De Lucia, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, Christian Marinoni, Katarzyna Małek, Ummi Abbas, M. Polletta, Jean Coupon, H. J. McCracken, S. Arnouts, Angela Burden, V. Le Brun, Stefanie Phleps, O. Ilbert, Agnieszka Pollo, D. Maccagni, O. Le Fèvre, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences [NCSU] (MEAS), North Carolina State University [Raleigh] (NC State), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, A. Fritz, M. Scodeggio, O. Ilbert, M. Bolzonella, I. Davidzon, J. Coupon, B. Garilli, L. Guzzo, G. Zamorani, U. Abba, C. Adami, S. Arnout, J. Bel, D. Bottini, E. Branchini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, G. De Lucia, S. de la Torre, P. Franzetti, M. Fumana, B. R. Granett, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, H. J. McCracken, L. Paioro, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, H. Schlagenhaufer, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A. Zanichelli, A. Burden, C. Di Porto, A. Marchetti, C. Marinoni, Y. Mellier, L. Moscardini, R. C. Nichol, J. A. Peacock, W. J. Percival, S. Phlep, M. Wolk, Fritz, A., Scodeggio, M., Ilbert, O., Bolzonella, M., Davidzon, I., Coupon, J., Garilli, B., Guzzo, L., Zamorani, G., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Bottini, D., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., De Lucia, G., De la Torre, S., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Granett, B. R., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fevre, O., Maccagni, D., Malek, K., Marulli, F., Mccracken, H. J., Paioro, L., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Schlagenhaufer, H., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Di Porto, C., Marchetti, A., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Moscardini, L., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., and Wolk, M.
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, Population, Theoretical models, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], observations [surveys / cosmology], education, STFC, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Luminosity function (astronomy), Physics, education.field_of_study, ST/I001204/1, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, luminosity function, mass function [galaxies], Redshift survey, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), astro-ph.CO, photometry [galaxies], surveys – cosmology: observations – galaxies: evolution – galaxies: photometry – galaxies: luminosity function, mass function – galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We explore the evolution of the Colour-Magnitude Relation (CMR) and Luminosity Function (LF) at 0.410^11 M_sun) and expeditious RS formation over a short period of ~1.5 Gyr starting before z=1. This is supported by the detection of ongoing SF in ETGs at 0.9, Comment: 27 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2014
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