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1. Extreme emission-line galaxies out to z$\sim$1 in zCOSMOS. I. Sample and characterization of global properties

Author: Amorín, Ricardo, Pérez-Montero, E., Contini, T., Vílchez, J. M., Bolzonella, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Lamareille, F., Zamorani, G., Maier, C., Carollo, C. M., Kneib, J. -P., Fèvre, O. Le, Lilly, S., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Kovač, K., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Mignoli, V. Le Brun M., Pellò, R., Peng, Y., Presotto, V., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a thorough characterization of a large sample of 183 extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) at redshift 0.11 < z < 0.93 selected from the 20k zCOSMOS Bright Survey because of their unusually large emission line equivalent widths. We use multiwavelength COSMOS photometry, HST-ACS I-band imaging and optical zCOSMOS spectroscopy to derive the main global properties of EELGs, such as sizes, masses, SFRs, reliable metallicities from both "direct" and "strong-line" methods. The EELGs are compact (R_50 ~ 1.3 kpc), low-mass (log(M*/Msol)~7-10) galaxies forming stars at unusually high specific SFR (log(sSFR/yr) up to ~ -7) compared to main sequence SFGs of the same stellar mass and redshift. At UV wavelengths, the EELGs are luminous and show high surface brightness and include strong Ly$\alpha$ emitters, as revealed by GALEX spectroscopy. We show that zCOSMOS EELGs are high-ionization, low-metallicity systems, with median 12+log(O/H)=8.16, including a handful of extremely metal-deficient galaxies (<10% solar). While ~80% of the EELGs show non-axisymmetric morphologies, including clumpy and tadpole galaxies, we find that ~29% of them show additional low surface-brightness features, which strongly suggest recent or ongoing interactions. As star-forming dwarfs in the local Universe, EELGs are most often found in relative isolation. While only very few EELGs belong to compact groups, almost one third of them are found in spectroscopically confirmed loose pairs or triplets. We conclude that EELGs are galaxies caught in a transient and probably early period of their evolution, where they are efficiently building-up a significant fraction of their present-day stellar mass in an ongoing galaxy-wide starburst. Therefore, the EELGs constitute an ideal benchmark for comparison studies between low- and high-redshift low-mass star-forming galaxies., Comment: Accepted in A&A. Final replacement to match the version in press. It includes a minor change in the title and a new figure
Published: 2014
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2. The dependence of Galactic outflows on the properties and orientation of zCOSMOS galaxies at z ~ 1

Author: Bordoloi, R., Lilly, S. J., Hardmeier, E., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Carollo, C. M., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Kovac, K., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Oesch, P., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Franzetti, P., Koekemoer, A., Moresco, M., Nair, P., and Pozzetti, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present an analysis of cool outflowing gas around galaxies, traced by MgII absorption lines in the co-added spectra of a sample of 486 zCOSMOS galaxies at 1 < z < 1.5. These galaxies span a range of stellar masses (9.45< log[M*/Msun]<10.7) and star formation rates (0.14 < log [SFR/Msun/yr] < 2.35). We identify the cool outflowing component in the MgII absorption and find that the equivalent width of the outflowing component increases with stellar mass. The outflow equivalent width also increases steadily with the increasing star formation rate of the galaxies. At similar stellar masses the blue galaxies exhibit a significantly higher outflow equivalent width as compared to red galaxies. The outflow equivalent width shows strong effect with star formation surface density ({\Sigma}SFR) of the sample. For the disk galaxies, the outflow equivalent width is higher for the face-on systems as compared to the edge-on ones, indicating that for the disk galaxies, the outflowing gas is primarily bipolar in geometry. Galaxies typically exhibit outflow velocities ranging from -200 km/s to -300 km/s and on average the face-on galaxies exhibit higher outflow velocity as compared to the edge-on ones. Galaxies with irregular morphologies exhibit outflow equivalent width as well as outflow velocities comparable to face on disk galaxies. These galaxies exhibit minimum mass outflow rates > 5-7 Msun/yr and a mass loading factor ({\eta} = dMout/dt /SFR) comparable to the star formation rates of the galaxies., Comment: 12 pages, 14 figures, ApJ submitted
Published: 2013
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3. zCOSMOS 20k: Satellite galaxies are the main drivers of environmental effects in the galaxy population at least to z~0.7

Author: Kovac, K., Lilly, S. J., Knobel, C., Bschorr, T. J., Peng, Y., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Oesch, P., Pello, R., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Aussel, H., Koekemoer, A. M., Floch, E. Le, Moresco, M., and Pozzetti, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We explore the role of environment in the evolution of galaxies over 0.1
Published: 2013
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4. Obscured AGN at z~1 from the zCOSMOS-Bright Survey I. Selection and Optical Properties of a [Ne v]-selected sample

Author: Mignoli, M., Vignali, C., Gilli, R., Comastri, A., Zamorani, G., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Lamareille, F., Nair, P., Pozzetti, L., Lilly, S. J., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Bordoloi, R., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Koekemoer, A. M., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: A sample of 94 narrow line AGN with 0.65
Published: 2013
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5. Investigating the relationship between AGN activity and stellar mass in zCOSMOS galaxies at 0<z<1 using emission line diagnostic diagrams

Author: Vitale, M., Mignoli, M., Cimatti, A., Lilly, S. J., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Barnes, L., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Bordoloi, R., Bschorr, T. J., Cappi, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Koekemoer, A. M., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Lopez-Sanjuan, C., Maier, C., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., Oesch, P. A., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Pozzetti, L., Presotto, V., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Welikala, N., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the link between AGN activity, star-formation and stellar mass of the host galaxy at 010.2 threshold. Moreover, the stellar populations of AGN hosts are found to be older with respect to star-forming and composites galaxies. This could be due to the the tendency of AGN to reside in massive hosts. The dependence of the AGN classification on the stellar mass is in agreement with what has been already found in previous studies. It is consistent with, together with the evidence of older stellar populations inhabiting the AGN-like galaxies, the downsizing scenario. In particular, our evidence points to an evolutionary scenario where the AGN-feedback is capable of quenching the star formation in the most massive galaxies. Therefore, the AGN-feedback is the best candidate for initiating the passive evolutionary phase of galaxies., Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2013
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6. The Colors of Central and Satellite Galaxies in zCOSMOS out to z ~ 0.8 and Implications for Quenching

Author: Knobel, C., Lilly, S. J., Kovac, K., Peng, Y., Bschorr, T. J., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Barnes, L., Bordoloi, R., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Koekemoer, A. M., Lopez-Sanjuan, C., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., Pozzetti, L., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We examine the red fraction of central and satellite galaxies in the large zCOSMOS group catalog out to z ~ 0.8 correcting for both the incompleteness in stellar mass and for the less than perfect purities of the central and satellite samples. We show that, at all masses and at all redshifts, the fraction of satellite galaxies that have been quenched, i.e., are red, is systematically higher than that of centrals, as seen locally in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The satellite quenching efficiency, which is the probability that a satellite is quenched because it is a satellite rather than a central, is, as locally, independent of stellar mass. Furthermore, the average value is about 0.5, which is also very similar to that seen in the SDSS. We also construct the mass functions of blue and red centrals and satellites and show that these broadly follow the predictions of the Peng et al. analysis of the SDSS groups. Together, these results indicate that the effect of the group environment in quenching satellite galaxies was very similar when the universe was about a half its present age, as it is today., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ
Published: 2012
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7. Proto-groups at 1.8<z<3 in the zCOSMOS-deep sample

Author: Diener, C., Lilly, S. J., Knobel, C., Zamorani, G., Lemson, G., Kampczyk, P., Scoville, N., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kovač, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Bordoloi, R., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Koekemoer, A. M., López-Sanjuan, C., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., Pozzetti, L., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We identify 42 candidate groups lying between 1.8
Published: 2012
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8. The cosmic evolution of oxygen and nitrogen abundances in star-forming galaxies over the past 10 Gyrs

Author: Perez-Montero, E., Contini, T., Lamareille, F., Maier, C., Carollo, C. M., Kneib, J. P., Fevre, O. Le, Lilly, S., Mainieiri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Presotto, V., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The chemical evolution of galaxies on a cosmological timescale is still a matter of debate despite the increasing number of available data provided by spectroscopic surveys of star-forming galaxies at different redshifts. The fundamental relations involving metallicity, such as the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) or the fundamental-metallicity relation, give controversial results about the reality of evolution of the chemical content of galaxies at a given stellar mass. In this work we shed some light on this issue using the completeness reached by the 20k bright sample of the zCOSMOS survey and using for the first time the nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (N/O) as a tracer of the gas phase chemical evolution of galaxies that is independent of the star formation rate. Emission-line galaxies both in the SDSS and 20k zCOSMOS bright survey were used to study the evolution from the local Universe of the $MZR up to a redshift of 1.32 and the relation between stellar mass and nitrogen-to-oxygen ratio (MNOR) up to a redshift of 0.42 using the N2S2 parameter. All the physical properties derived from stellar continuum and gas emission-lines, including stellar mass, star formation rates, metallicity and N/O, were calculated in a self-consistent way over the full redshift range. We confirm the trend to find lower metallicities in galaxies of a given stellar mass in a younger Universe. This trend is even observed when taking possible selection effects into account that are due to the observed larger median star formation rates for galaxies at higher redshifts. We also find a significant evolution of the MNOR up to z = 0.4. Taking the slope of the O/H vs. N/O relation into account for the secondary-nitrogen production regime, the observed evolution of the MNOR is consistent with the trends found for both the MZR and its equivalent relation using new expressions to reduce its dependence on SFR., Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Replaced to match published version and references corrected
Published: 2012
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9. Accreting SMBHs in the COSMOS field and the connection to their host galaxies

Author: Bongiorno, A., Merloni, A., Brusa, M., Magnelli, B., Salvato, M., Mignoli, M., Zamorani, G., Fiore, F., Rosario, D., Mainieri, V., Comastri, A., Vignali, C., Balestra, I., Bardelli, S., Berta, S., Civano, F., Kampczyk, P., Floc'h, E. Le, Lusso, E., Lutz, D., Pozzetti, L., Pozzi, F., Riguccini, L., Shankar, F., and Silverman, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Using the wide multi-band photometry available in the COSMOS field we explore the host galaxy properties of a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) obtained by combining X-ray and optical spectroscopic selections. Based on a careful study of their Spectral Energy Distribution (SED), which has been parametrized using a 2-component (AGN+galaxy) model fit, we derived dust-corrected rest-frame magnitudes, colors, stellar masses and star formation rates (SFRs). We find that AGN hosts span a large range of stellar masses and SFRs. No color-bimodality is seen at any redshift in the AGN hosts, which are found to be mainly massive, red galaxies. Once accounting for the color-mass degeneracy in well defined mass-matched samples, we find a residual marginal enhancement of AGN incidence in redder galaxies with lower specific star formation rates, and we argue that this result might emerge because of our ability to properly account for AGN light contamination and dust extinction. Interestingly, we find that the probability for a galaxy to host a black hole growing at any given "specific accretion rate" (i.e. the ratio of X-ray luminosity to the host stellar mass) is almost independent of the host galaxy mass, while it decreases as a power-law with Lx/M. By analyzing the normalization of such probability distribution, we show how the incidence of AGN increases with redshift as rapidly as (1+z)^4, in close resemblance with the overall evolution of the specific star formation rate of the entire galaxy population. Although AGN activity and star formation in galaxies do appear to have a common triggering mechanism, at least in a statistical sense, within the COSMOS sample we do not find strong evidence of any 'smoking gun' signaling powerful AGN influence on the star-forming properties of their hosts galaxies., Comment: 32 pages, 25 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2012
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10. Comparison of star formation rates from Halpha and infrared luminosities as seen by Herschel

Author: Domínguez, H., Mignoli, M., Pozzi, F., Calura, F., Cimatti, A., Gruppioni, C., Cepa, J., Sánchez-Portal, M., Zamorani, G., Berta, S., Elbaz, D., LeFloc'h, E., Granato, G. L., Lutz, D., Maiolino, R., Mateucci, F., Nair, P., Nordon, R., Pozzetti, L., Silva, L., Silverman, J., Wuyts, S., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., LeFevrè, O., Lilly, S. J., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., 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., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Maier, V. le Brun. C., Magnelli, B., Pellò, R., Peng, Y., Pérez-Montero, E., Riccardelli, E., Riguccini, L., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We empirically test the relation between the SFR(LIR) derived from the infrared luminosity, LIR, and the SFR(Ha) derived from the Ha emission line luminosity using simple conversion relations. We use a sample of 474 galaxies at z = 0.06 - 0.46 with both Ha detection (from 20k zCOSMOS survey) and new far-IR Herschel data (100 and 160 {\mu}m). We derive SFR(Ha) from the Ha extinction corrected emission line luminosity. We find a very clear trend between E(B - V) and LIR that allows to estimate extinction values for each galaxy even if the Ha emission line measurement is not reliable. We calculate the LIR by integrating from 8 up to 1000 {\mu}m the SED that is best fitting our data. We compare SFR(Ha) with the SFR(LIR). We find a very good agreement between the two SFR estimates, with a slope of m = 1.01 \pm 0.03 in the SFR(LIR) vs SFR(Ha) diagram, a normalization constant of a = -0.08 \pm 0.03 and a dispersion of sigma = 0.28 dex.We study the effect of some intrinsic properties of the galaxies in the SFR(LIR)-SFR(Ha) relation, such as the redshift, the mass, the SSFR or the metallicity. The metallicity is the parameter that affects most the SFR comparison. The mean ratio of the two SFR estimators log[SFR(LIR)/SFR(Ha)] varies by approx. 0.6 dex from metal-poor to metal-rich galaxies (8.1 < log(O/H) + 12 < 9.2). This effect is consistent with the prediction of a theoretical model for the dust evolution in spiral galaxies. Considering different morphological types, we find a very good agreement between the two SFR indicators for the Sa, Sb and Sc morphologically classified galaxies, both in slope and normalization. For the Sd, irregular sample (Sd/Irr), the formal best-fit slope becomes much steeper (m = 1.62 \pm 0.43), but it is still consistent with 1 at the 1.5 sigma level, because of the reduced statistics of this sub-sample., Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2012
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11. The COSMOS Density Field: A Reconstruction Using Both Weak Lensing and Galaxy Distributions

Author: Amara, A., Lilly, S., Kovac, K., Rhodes, J., Massey, R., Zamorani, G., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Barnes, L., Bordoloi, R., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Koekoemoer, A., Lopez-Sanjuan, C., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., Pozzetti, L., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper, we reconstruct the distribution of mass in the COSMOS field out to a redshift z=1 by combining Hubble Space Telescope weak lensing measurements with zCOSMOS spectroscopic measurements of galaxy clustering. The distribution of galaxies traces the distribution of mass with high resolution (particularly in redshift, which is not possible with lensing), and the lensing data empirically calibrates the mass normalisation (bypassing the need for theoretical models). Two steps are needed to convert a galaxy survey into a density field. The first step is to create a smooth field from the galaxy positions, which is a point field. We investigate four possible methods for this: (i) Gaussian smoothing, (ii) convolution with truncated isothermal sphere, (iii) fifth nearest neighbour smoothing and (iv) a muliti-scale entropy method. The second step is to rescale this density field using a bias prescription. We calculate the optimal bias scaling for each method by comparing predictions from the smoothed density field with the measured weak lensing data, on a galaxy-by-galaxy basis. In general, we find scale-independent bias for all the smoothing schemes, to a precision of 10%. For the nearest neighbour smoothing case, we find the bias to be 2.51\pm 0.25. We also find evidence for a strongly evolving bias, increasing by a factor of ~3.5 between redshifts 0
Published: 2012
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12. A journey from the outskirts to the cores of groups I: Color- and mass-segregation in 20K-zCOSMOS groups

Author: Presotto, V., Iovino, A., Scodeggio, M., Cucciati, O., Knobel, C., Bolzonella, M., Oesch, P., Finoguenov, A., Tanaka, M., Kovač, K., Peng, Y., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Pozzetti, L., Kampczyk, P., López-Sanjuan, C., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Tasca, L. A. M., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fèvre, O. Le, Lilly, S., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pellò, R., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tresse, L., Barnes, L., Bordoloi, R., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Koekemoer, A. M., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Using the group catalog obtained from zCOSMOS spectroscopic data and the complementary photometric data from the COSMOS survey, we explore segregation effects occurring in groups of galaxies at intermediate/high redshifts. We built two composite groups at intermediate (0.2 <= z <= 0.45) and high (0.45 < z <= 0.8) redshifts, and we divided the corresponding composite group galaxies into three samples according to their distance from the group center. We explored how galaxy stellar masses and colors - working in narrow bins of stellar masses - vary as a function of the galaxy distance from the group center. We found that the most massive galaxies in our sample (Log(M_gal/M_sun) >= 10.6) do not display any strong group-centric dependence of the fractions of red/blue objects. For galaxies of lower masses (9.8 <= Log(M_gal/M_sun) <= 10.6) there is a radial dependence in the changing mix of red and blue galaxies. This dependence is most evident in poor groups, whereas richer groups do not display any obvious trend of the blue fraction. Interestingly, mass segregation shows the opposite behavior: it is visible only in rich groups, while poorer groups have a a constant mix of galaxy stellar masses as a function of radius. We suggest a simple scenario where color- and mass-segregation originate from different physical processes. While dynamical friction is the obvious cause for establishing mass segregation, both starvation and galaxy-galaxy collisions are plausible mechanisms to quench star formation in groups at a faster rate than in the field. In poorer groups the environmental effects are caught in action superimposed to secular galaxy evolution. Their member galaxies display increasing blue fractions when moving from the group center to more external regions, presumably reflecting the recent accretion history of these groups., Comment: Accepted for publication on A&A on 22/12/2011, 19 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2012
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13. Environmental effects in the interaction and merging of galaxies in zCOSMOS

Author: Kampczyk, P., Lilly, S. J., de Ravel, L., Fèvre, O. Le, Bolzonella, M., Carollo, C. M., Diener, C., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Maier, C., Renzini, A., Sargent, M. T., Vergani, D., Abbas, U., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Bordoloi, R., Caputi, K., Contini, T., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kneib, J. -P., Koekemoer, A. M., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Leauthaud, A., Mainieri, V., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Scodeggio, M., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Fumana, M., Guzzo, L., Kartaltepe, J., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Meneux, B., Oesch, P., Porciani, C., Pozzetti, L., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abridged) We analyze the environments and galactic properties (morphologies and star-formation histories) of a sample of 153 close kinematic pairs in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1 identified in the zCOSMOS-bright 10k spectroscopic sample of galaxies. Correcting for projection effects, the fraction of close kinematic pairs is three times higher in the top density quartile than in the lowest one. This translates to a three times higher merger rate because the merger timescales are shown, from mock catalogues based on the Millennium simulation, to be largely independent of environment once the same corrections for projection is applied. We then examine the morphologies and stellar populations of galaxies in the pairs, comparing them to control samples that are carefully matched in environment so as to remove as much as possible the well-known effects of environment on the properties of the parent population of galaxies. Once the environment is properly taken into account in this way, we find that the early-late morphology mix is the same as for the parent population, but that the fraction of irregular galaxies is boosted by 50-75%, with a disproportionate increase in the number of irregular-irregular pairs (factor of 4-8 times), due to the disturbance of disk galaxies. Future dry-mergers, involving elliptical galaxies comprise less than 5% of all close kinematic pairs. In the closest pairs, there is a boost in the specific star-formation rates of star-forming galaxies of a factor of 2-4, and there is also evidence for an increased incidence of post star-burst galaxies. Although significant for the galaxies involved, the "excess" star-formation associated with pairs represents only about 5% of the integrated star-formation activity in the parent sample. Although most pair galaxies are in dense environments, the effects of interaction appear to be largest in the lower density environments., Comment: 38 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2011
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14. X-ray Groups of Galaxies at 0.5<z<1 in zCOSMOS: Increased AGN Activities in High Redshift Groups

Author: Tanaka, M., Finoguenov, A., Lilly, S. J., Bolzonella, M., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Iovino, A., Kneib, J. -P., Lamareille, F., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Presotto, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Silverman, J. D., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Lopez-Sanjuan, C., Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Barnes, L., Bordoloi, R., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Koekemoer, A. M., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., Oesch, P., Pozzetti, L., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of galaxies at 0.5
Published: 2011
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15. The impact of galaxy interactions on AGN activity in zCOSMOS

Author: Silverman, J. D., Kampczyk, P., Jahnke, K., Andrae, R., Lilly, S., Elvis, M., Civano, F., Mainieri, V., Vignali, C., Zamorani, G., Nair, P., Fevre, O. Le, de Ravel, L., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Bolzonella, M., Brusa, M., Cappelluti, N., Cappi, A., Caputi, K., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Halliday, C., Hasinger, G., Iovino, A., Knobel, C., koekemoer, A., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Peng, Y., Scodeggio, M., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Comastri, A., Finoguenov, A., Fu, H., Gilli, R., Hao, H., Ho, L., and Salvato, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Close encounters between galaxies are expected to be a viable mechanism, as predicted by numerical simulations, by which accretion onto supermassive black holes can be initiated. To test this scenario, we construct a sample of 562 galaxies (M*>2.5x10^10 M_sun) in kinematic pairs over the redshift range 0.25 < z < 1.05 that are more likely to be interacting than a well-matched control sample of 2726 galaxies not identified as being in a pair, both from the zCOSMOS 20k spectroscopic catalog. Galaxies that harbor an active galactic nucleus (AGN) are identified on the basis of their X-ray emission (L_x>2x10^42 erg s^-1) detected by Chandra. We find a higher fraction of AGN in galaxies in pairs relative to isolated galaxies of similar stellar mass. Our result is primarily due to an enhancement of AGN activity, by a factor of 1.9 (observed) and 2.6 (intrinsic), for galaxies in pairs of projected separation less than 75 kpc and line-of-sight velocity offset less than 500 km s^-1. This study demonstrates that close kinematic pairs are conducive environments for black hole growth either indicating a causal physical connection or an inherent relation, such as, to enhanced star formation. In the Appendix, we describe a method to estimate the intrinsic fractions of galaxies (either in pairs or the field) hosting an AGN with confidence intervals, and an excess fraction in pairs. We estimate that 17.8_{-7.4}^{+8.4}% of all moderate-luminosity AGN activity takes place within galaxies undergoing early stages of interaction that leaves open the question as to what physical processes are responsible for fueling the remaining ~80% that may include late-stage mergers., Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2011
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16. The evolution of quiescent galaxies at high redshift (z > 1.4)

Author: Sánchez, H. Domínguez, Pozzi, F., Gruppioni, C., Cimatti, A., Ilbert, O., Pozzetti, L., McCracken, H., Capak, P., Floch, E. Le, Salvato, M., Zamorani, G., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., Févre, O. Le, Lilly, S. J., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., 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., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pelló, R., Peng, Y., Pérez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We have studied the evolution of high redshift quiescent galaxies over an effective area of ~1.7 deg^2 in the COSMOS field. Galaxies have been divided according to their star-formation activity and the evolution of the different populations has been investigated in detail. We have studied an IRAC (mag_3.6 < 22.0) selected sample of ~18000 galaxies at z > 1.4 with multi-wavelength coverage. We have derived accurate photometric redshifts (sigma=0.06) and other important physical parameters through a SED-fitting procedure. We have divided our sample into actively star-forming, intermediate and quiescent galaxies depending on their specific star formation rate. We have computed the galaxy stellar mass function of the total sample and the different populations at z=1.4-3.0. We have studied the properties of high redshift quiescent galaxies finding that they are old (1-4 Gyr), massive (log(M/M_sun)~10.65), weakly star forming stellar populations with low dust extinction (E(B-V) < 0.15) and small e-folding time scales (tau ~ 0.1-0.3 Gyr). We observe a significant evolution of the quiescent stellar mass function from 2.5 < z < 3.0 to 1.4 < z < 1.6, increasing by ~ 1 dex in this redshift interval. We find that z ~ 1.5 is an epoch of transition of the GSMF. The fraction of star-forming galaxies decreases from 60% to 20% from z ~ 2.5-3.0 to z ~ 1.4-1.6 for log(M/M_sun) > 11, while the quiescent population increases from 10% to 50% at the same redshift and mass intervals. We compare the fraction of quiescent galaxies derived with that predicted by theoretical models and find that the Kitzbichler & White (2007) model is the one that better reproduces the data. Finally, we calculate the stellar mass density of the star-forming and quiescent populations finding that there is already a significant number of quiescent galaxies at z > 2.5 (rho~6.0 MsunMpc^-3)., Comment: 17 pages, 20 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2011
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17. The radial and azimuthal profiles of Mg II absorption around 0.5 < z < 0.9 zCOSMOS galaxies of different colors, masses and environments

Author: Bordoloi, R., Lilly, S. J., Knobel, C., Bolzonella, M., Kampczyk, P., Carollo, C. M., Iovino, A., Zucca, E., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Balestra, I., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Garilli, B., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Presotto, V., Scarlata, C., Silverman, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Barnes, L., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Coppa, G., Diener, C., Franzetti, P., Koekemoer, A., Lopez-Sanjuan, C., McCracken, H. J., Moresco, M., Nair, P., Oesch, P., Pozzetti, L., and Welikala, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We map the radial and azimuthal distribution of Mg II gas within 200 kpc (physical) of 4000 galaxies at redshifts 0.5 < z < 0.9 using co-added spectra of more than 5000 background galaxies at z > 1. We investigate the variation of Mg II rest frame equivalent width as a function of the radial impact parameter for different subsets of foreground galaxies selected in terms of their rest-frame colors and masses. Blue galaxies have a significantly higher average Mg II equivalent width at close galactocentric radii as compared to the red galaxies. Amongst the blue galaxies, there is a correlation between Mg II equivalent width and galactic stellar mass of the host galaxy. We also find that the distribution of Mg II absorption around group galaxies is more extended than that for non-group galaxies, and that groups as a whole have more extended radial profiles than individual galaxies. Interestingly, these effects can be satisfactorily modeled by a simple superposition of the absorption profiles of individual member galaxies, assuming that these are the same as those of non-group galaxies, suggesting that the group environment may not significantly enhance or diminish the Mg II absorption of individual galaxies. We show that there is a strong azimuthal dependence of the Mg II absorption within 50 kpc of inclined disk-dominated galaxies, indicating the presence of a strongly bipolar outflow aligned along the disk rotation axis. There is no significant dependence of Mg II absorption on the apparent inclination angle of disk-dominated galaxies., Comment: 14 pages, Accepted for publication in ApJ; new section on inclination dependence added; Figure 4:- new panel added
Published: 2011
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18. Black hole accretion and host galaxies of obscured quasars in XMM-COSMOS

Author: Mainieri, V., Bongiorno, A., Merloni, A., Aller, M., Carollo, M., Iwasawa, K., Koekemoer, A. M., Mignoli, M., Silverman, J. D., Bolzonella, M., Brusa, M., Comastri, A., Gilli, R., Halliday, C., Ilbert, O., Lusso, E., Salvato, M., Vignali, C., Zamorani, G., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Lilly, S., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Balestra, I., Bardelli, S., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V . Le, Maier, C., Nair, P., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Pozzetti, L., Ricciardelli, E., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Aussel, H., Capak, P., Cappelluti, N., Elvis, M., Fiore, F., Hasinger, G., Impey, C., Floc'h, E. Le, Scoville, N., Taniguchi, Y., and Trump, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We explore the connection between black hole growth at the center of obscured quasars selected from the XMM-COSMOS survey and the physical properties of their host galaxies. We study a bolometric regime ( 8 x 10^45 erg/s) where several theoretical models invoke major galaxy mergers as the main fueling channel for black hole accretion. We confirm that obscured quasars mainly reside in massive galaxies (Mstar>10^10 Msun) and that the fraction of galaxies hosting such powerful quasars monotonically increases with the stellar mass. We stress the limitation of the use of rest-frame color-magnitude diagrams as a diagnostic tool for studying galaxy evolution and inferring the influence that AGN activity can have on such a process. We instead use the correlation between star-formation rate and stellar mass found for star-forming galaxies to discuss the physical properties of the hosts. We find that at z ~1, ~62% of Type-2 QSOs hosts are actively forming stars and that their rates are comparable to those measured for normal star-forming galaxies. The fraction of star-forming hosts increases with redshift: ~71% at z ~2, and 100% at z ~3. We also find that the the evolution from z ~1 to z ~3 of the specific star-formation rate of the Type-2 QSO hosts is in excellent agreement with that measured for star-forming galaxies. From the morphological analysis, we conclude that most of the objects are bulge-dominated galaxies, and that only a few of them exhibit signs of recent mergers or disks. Finally, bulge-dominated galaxies tend to host Type-2 QSOs with low Eddington ratios (lambda<0.1), while disk-dominated or merging galaxies have at their centers BHs accreting at high Eddington ratios (lambda > 0.1)., Comment: Accepted by A&A. 20 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables. A version with higher resolution figures and SED fits of Appendix A is available at http://www.eso.org/~vmainier/QSO2/qso2.pdf
Published: 2011
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19. The zCOSMOS 10k-sample: the role of galaxy stellar mass in the colour-density relation up to z=1

Author: Cucciati, O., Iovino, A., Kovac, K., Scodeggio, M., Lilly, S. J., Bolzonella, M., Bardelli, S., Vergani, D., Tasca, L. A. M., Zucca, E., Zamorani, G., Pozzetti, L., Knobel, C., Oesch, P., Lamareille, F., Caputi, K., Kampczyk, P., Tresse, L., Maier, C., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fèvre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Bongiorno, A., Coppa, G., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Mignoli, M., Pellò, R., Peng, Y., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Koekemoer, A. M., Scoville, N., 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., Porciani, C., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: [Abridged] With the first 10000 spectra of the flux limited zCOSMOS sample (I<=22.5) we study the evolution of environmental effects on galaxy properties since z=1.0, and disentangle the dependence among galaxy colour, stellar mass and local density (3D local density contrast `delta', computed with the 5th nearest neighbour approach). We confirm that within a luminosity-limited sample (M_B<=-20.5-z) the fraction of red (U-B>=1) galaxies 'f_red' depends on delta at least up to z=1, with red galaxies residing mainly in high densities. This trend weakens for increasing z, and it is mirrored by the behaviour of the fraction of galaxies with D4000A break >=1.4. We also find that up to z=1 the fraction of galaxies with log(EW[OII]) >=1.15 is higher for lower delta, and also this dependence weakens for increasing z. Given the triple dependence among galaxy colours, stellar mass and delta, the colour-delta relation found in the luminosity-selected sample can be due to the broad range of stellar masses. Thus, we fix the stellar mass and we find that in this case the colour-delta relation is flat up to z=1 for galaxies with log(M/M_sun)>=10.7. This means that for these masses the colour-delta relation found in a luminosity-selected sample is the result of the combined colour-mass and mass-delta relations. In contrast, we find that for 0.1<=z<=0.5 and log(M/M_sun)<=10.7 'f_red' depends on delta even at fixed mass. In these mass and z ranges, environment affects directly also galaxy colours. We suggest a scenario in which the colour depends primarily on stellar mass, but for relatively low mass galaxies the local density modulates this dependence. These galaxies formed more recently, in an epoch when evolved structures were already in place, and their longer SFH allowed environment-driven physical processes to operate during longer periods of time., Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, submitted to A&A, revised version after referee comments
Published: 2010
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20. 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: 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., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2010
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21. The XMM-Newton Wide-Field Survey in the COSMOS field (XMM-COSMOS): demography and multiwavelength properties of obscured and unobscured luminous AGN

Author: Brusa, M., Civano, F., Comastri, A., Miyaji, T., Salvato, M., Zamorani, G., Cappelluti, N., Fiore, F., Hasinger, G., Mainieri, V., Merloni, A., Bongiorno, A., Capak, P., Elvis, M., Gilli, R., Hao, H., Jahnke, K., Koekemoer, A. M., Ilbert, O., Floc'h, E. Le, Lusso, E., Mignoli, M., Schinnerer, E., Silverman, J. D., Treister, E., Trump, J. D., Vignali, C., Zamojski, M., Aldcroft, T., Aussel, H., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Cappi, A., Caputi, K., Contini, T., Finoguenov, A., Fruscione, A., Garilli, B., Impey, C. D., Iovino, A., Iwasawa, K., Kampczyk, P., Kartaltepe, J., Kneib, J. P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Leborgne, J-F., Brun, V. Le, Fevre, O. Le, Lilly, S. J., Maier, C., McCracken, H. J., Pello, R., Peng, Y-J, Perez-Montero, E., de Ravel, L., Sanders, D., Scodeggio, M., Scoville, N. Z., Tanaka, M., Taniguchi, Y., Tasca, L., de la Torre, S., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report the final optical identifications of the medium-depth (~60 ksec), contiguous (2 deg^2) XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field. XMM-Newton has detected ~800 X-ray sources down to limiting fluxes of ~5x10^{-16}, ~3x10^{-15}, and ~7x10^{-15} erg/cm2/s in the 0.5-2 keV, 2-10 keV and 5-10 keV bands, respectively. The work is complemented by an extensive collection of multi-wavelength data from 24 micron to UV, available from the COSMOS survey, for each of the X-ray sources, including spectroscopic redshifts for ~50% of the sample, and high-quality photometric redshifts for the rest. The XMM and multiwavelength flux limits are well matched: 1760 (98%) of the X-ray sources have optical counterparts, 1711 (~95%) have IRAC counterparts, and 1394 (~78%) have MIPS 24micron detections. Thanks to the redshift completeness (almost 100%) we were able to constrain the high-luminosity tail of the X-ray luminosity function confirming that the peak of the number density of logL_X>44.5 AGN is at z~2. Spectroscopically-identified obscured and unobscured AGN, as well as normal and starforming galaxies, present well-defined optical and infrared properties. We devised a robust method to identify a sample of ~150 high redshift (z>1), obscured AGN candidates for which optical spectroscopy is not available. We were able to determine that the fraction of the obscured AGN population at the highest (L_X>10^{44} erg s^{-1}) X-ray luminosity is ~15-30% when selection effects are taken into account, providing an important observational constraint for X-ray background synthesis. We studied in detail the optical spectrum and the overall spectral energy distribution of a prototypical Type 2 QSO, caught in a stage transitioning from being starburst dominated to AGN dominated, which was possible to isolate only thanks to the combination of X-ray and infrared observations., Comment: ApJ, in press. 59 pages, 14 figures, 2 Tables. A few typos corrected and a reference added. Table 2 is also available at http://www.mpe.mpg.de/XMMCosmos/xmm53_release ; a version of the paper in ApJ format (27 pages) is available at http://www.mpe.mpg.de/XMMCosmos/xmm53_release/brusa_xmmcosmos_optid.pdf
Published: 2010
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22. The Opacity of Galactic Disks at z~0.7

Author: Sargent, Mark T., Carollo, C. M., Kampczyk, P., Lilly, S. J., Scarlata, C., Capak, P., Ilbert, O., Koekemoer, A. M., Kneib, J. -P., Leauthaud, A., Massey, R., Oesch, P. A., Rhodes, J., Schinnerer, E., Scoville, N., and Taniguchi, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We compare the surface brightness-inclination relation for a sample of COSMOS pure disk galaxies at z~0.7 with an artificially redshifted sample of SDSS disks well matched to the COSMOS sample in terms of rest-frame photometry and morphology, as well as their selection and analysis. The offset between the average surface brightness of face-on and edge-on disks in the redshifted SDSS sample matches that predicted by measurements of the optical depth of galactic disks in the nearby universe. In contrast, large disks at z~0.7 have a virtually flat surface brightness-inclination relation, suggesting that they are more opaque than their local counterparts. This could be explained by either an increased amount of optically thick material in disks at higher redshift, or a different spatial distribution of the dust., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJL.
Published: 2010
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23. Ultraluminous X-ray sources out to z~0.3 in the COSMOS field

Author: Mainieri, V., Vignali, C., Merloni, A., Civano, F., Puccetti, S., Brusa, M., Gilli, R., Bolzonella, M., Comastri, A., Zamorani, G., Aller, M., Carollo, M., Scarlata, C., Elvis, M., Aldcroft, T. L., Cappelluti, N., Fabbiano, G., Finoguenov, A., Fiore, F., Fruscione, A., Koekemoer, A. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., Fevre, O. Le, Lilly, S., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., 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., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, 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., Capak, P., Ilbert, O., Impey, C., Salvato, M., Scoville, N., Taniguchi, Y., and Trump, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Using Chandra observations we have identified a sample of seven off-nuclear X-ray sources, in the redshift range z=0.072-0.283, located within optically bright galaxies in the COSMOS Survey. Using the multi-wavelength coverage available in the COSMOS field, we study the properties of the host galaxies of these ULXs. In detail, we derived their star formation rate from H_alpha measurements and their stellar masses using SED fitting techniques with the aim to compute the probability to have an off-nuclear source based on the host galaxy properties. We divide the host galaxies in different morphological classes using the available ACS/HST imaging. We find that our ULXs candidates are located in regions of the SFR versus M$_star$ plane where one or more off-nuclear detectable sources are expected. From a morphological analysis of the ACS imaging and the use of rest-frame colours, we find that our ULXs are hosted both in late and early type galaxies. Finally, we find that the fraction of galaxies hosting a ULX ranges from ~0.5% to ~0.2% going from L[0.5-2 keV]=3 x 10^39 erg s^-1 to L[0.5-2 keV]= 2 x 10^40 erg s^-1., Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2010
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24. The [OIII] emission line luminosity function of optically selected type-2 AGN from zCOSMOS

Author: Bongiorno, A., Mignoli, M., Zamorani, G., Lamareille, F., Lanzuisi, G., Miyaji, T., Bolzonella, M., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., Fevre, O. Le, 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., Kovac, K., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Merloni, A., Nair, P., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, 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., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2009
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25. The zCOSMOS-Bright survey: the clustering of early and late galaxy morphological types since z~1

Author: de la Torre, S., Fèvre, O. Le, 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., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, 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: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic 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 HST imaging and VLT spectroscopy for about 8,500 galaxies to I_AB=22.5 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 SDSS 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 z~0, reflects the evolving role of environment in the morphological transformation of galaxies, on top of the global mass-driven evolution., Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2009
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26. Properties and environment of Radio Emitting Galaxies in the VLA-zCOSMOS survey

Author: Bardelli, S., Schinnerer, E., Smolcic, V., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Mignoli, M., Halliday, C., Kovac, K., Ciliegi, P., Caputi, K., Koekemoer, A. M., Bongiorno, A., Bondi, M., Bolzonella, M., Vergani, D., Pozzetti, L., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., LeFevre, O., Lilly, S., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., delaTorre, S., deRavel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., LeBorgne, J. -F., LeBrun, V., Maier, C., Pello`, R., Peng, Y., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., 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., Scaramella, R., Capak, P., Sanders, D., Scoville, N., Taniguchi, Y., and Jahnke, K.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the properties and the environment of radio sources with optical counterpart from the combined VLA-COSMOS and zCOSMOS samples. The advantage of this sample is the availability of optical spectroscopic information, high quality redshifts, and accurate density determination. By comparing the star formation rates estimated from the optical spectral energy distribution with those based on the radio luminosity, we divide the radio sources in three families, passive AGN, non-passive AGN and star forming galaxies. These families occupy specific regions of the 8.0-4.5 $\mu$m infrared color--specific star formation plane, from which we extract the corresponding control samples. Only the passive AGN have a significantly different environment distribution from their control sample. The fraction of radio-loud passive AGN increases from ~2% in underdense regions to ~15% for overdensities (1+delta) greater than 10. This trend is also present as a function of richness of the groups hosting the radio sources. Passive AGN in overdensities tend to have higher radio luminosities than those in lower density environments. Since the black hole mass distribution is similar in both environments, we speculate that, for low radio luminosities, the radio emission is controlled (through fuel disponibility or confinement of radio jet by local gas pressure) by the interstellar medium of the host galaxy, while in other cases it is determined by the structure (group or cluster) in which the galaxy resides., Comment: 17 pages, 17 figures, A&A in press
Published: 2009
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27. The optical spectra of Spitzer 24 micron galaxies in the COSMOS field: II. Faint infrared sources in the zCOSMOS-bright 10k catalogue

Author: Caputi, K. I., Lilly, S. J., Aussel, H., Floc'h, E. Le, Sanders, D., Maier, C., Frayer, D., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Scoville, N., Zamorani, G., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Kartaltepe, J., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Mignoli, M., Peng, Y., Perez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Salvato, M., Silverman, J., Surace, J., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., Abbas, U., Bottini, D., Capak, P., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Elvis, M., Hasinger, G., Koekemoer, A. M., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H., Memeo, P., Meneux, B., Oesch, P., Pello, R., Porciani, C., Pozzetti, L., Scaramella, R., Scarlata, C., Schiminovich, D., Taniguchi, Y., and Zamojski, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We have used the zCOSMOS-bright 10k sample to identify 3244 Spitzer/MIPS 24-micron-selected galaxies with 0.06< S(24um)< 0.50 mJy and I(AB)<22.5, over 1.5 deg^2 of the COSMOS field, and studied different spectral properties, depending on redshift. At 0.2
Published: 2009
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28. On the cosmic evolution of the scaling relations between black holes and their host galaxies: Broad Line AGN in the zCOSMOS survey

Author: Merloni, A., Bongiorno, A., Bolzonella, M., Brusa, M., Civano, F., Comastri, A., Elvis, M., Fiore, F., Gilli, R., Hao, H., Jahnke, K., Koekemoer, A. M., Lusso, E., Mainieri, V., Mignoli, M., Miyaji, T., Renzini, A., Salvato, M., Silverman, J., Trump, J., Vignali, C., Zamorani, G., Capak, P., Lilly, S. J., Sanders, D., Taniguchi, Y., Bardelli, S., Carollo, C. M., Caputi, K., Contini, T., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Hasinger, G., Impey, C., Iovino, A., Iwasawa, K., Kampczyk, P., Kneib, J. -P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Fevre, O. Le, Maier, C., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Scodeggio, M., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., and Zucca, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abriged) We report on the measurement of the rest frame K-band luminosity and total stellar mass of the hosts of 89 broad line Active Galactic Nuclei detected in the zCOSMOS survey in the redshift range 1
Published: 2009
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29. The zCOSMOS survey: the role of the environment in the evolution of the luminosity function of different galaxy types

Author: Zucca, E., Bardelli, S., Bolzonella, M., Zamorani, G., Ilbert, O., Pozzetti, L., Mignoli, M., Kovac, K., Lilly, S., Tresse, L., Tasca, L., Cassata, P., Halliday, C., Vergani, D., Caputi, K., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., LeFevre, O., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bongiorno, A., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., delaTorre, S., deRavel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Lamareille, F., LeBorgne, J. F., LeBrun, V., Maier, C., Pello`, 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., Memeo, 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., and Thompson, D.
Subjects: 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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30. The 10k zCOSMOS: morphological transformation of galaxies in the group environment since z~1

Author: Kovac, K., Lilly, S. J., Knobel, C., Bolzonella, M., Iovino, A., Carollo, C. M., Scarlata, C., Sargent, M., Cucciati, O., Zamorani, G., Pozzetti, L., Tasca, L. A. M., Scodeggio, M., Kampczyk, P., Peng, Y., Oesch, P., Zucca, E., Finoguenov, A., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., 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., Porciani, C., Scaramella, R., and Scoville, N. Z.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the evolution of galaxies inside and outside of the group environment since z=1 using a large well defined set of groups and galaxies from the zCOSMOS-bright redshift survey in the COSMOS field. The fraction of galaxies with early-type morphologies increases monotonically with M_B luminosity and stellar mass and with cosmic epoch. It is higher in the groups than elsewhere, especially at later epochs. The emerging environmental effect is superposed on a strong global mass-driven evolution, and at z~0.5 and log(M*/Msol)~10.2, the "effect" of group environment is equivalent to (only) about 0.2 dex in stellar mass or 2 Gyr in time. The stellar mass function of galaxies in groups is enriched in massive galaxies. We directly determine the transformation rates from late to early morphologies, and for transformations involving colour and star formation indicators. The transformation rates are systematically about twice as high in the groups as outside, or up to 3-4 times higher correcting for infall and the appearance of new groups. The rates reach values, for masses around the crossing mass 10^10.5 Msol, as high as (0.3-0.7)/Gyr in the groups, implying transformation timescales of 1.4-3 Gyr, compared with less than 0.2/Gyr, i.e. timescales >5 Gyr, outside of groups. All three transformation rates decrease at higher stellar masses, and must decrease also at the lower masses below 10^10 Msol which we cannot well probe. The rates involving colour and star formation are consistently higher than those for morphology, by a factor of about 50%. Our conclusion is that the transformations which drive the evolution of the overall galaxy population since z~1 must occur at a rate 2-4 times higher in groups than outside of them., Comment: 21 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2009
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31. K+a galaxies in the zCOSMOS Survey: Physical properties of systems in their post-starburst phase

Author: Vergani, D., Zamorani, G., Lilly, S. J., Lamareille, F., Halliday, C., Scodeggio, M., Vignali, C., Ciliegi, P., Bolzonella, M., Bondi, M., Kovac, K., Knobel, C., Zucca, E., Caputi, K., Pozzetti, L., Bardelli, S., Mignoli, M., Iovino, A., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. -P., Fevre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Bongiorno, A., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Kampczyk, P., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Abbas, U., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cassata, P., Cimatti, A., Guzzo, L., Koekemoer, A. M., Maccagni, A. Leauthaud D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Meneux, B., Oesch, P., Porciani, C., Scaramella, R., Capak, P., Sanders, D., Scoville, N., and Taniguchi, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: The identities of the main processes triggering and quenching star-formation in galaxies remain unclear. A key stage in evolution, however, appears to be represented by post-starburst galaxies. To investigate their impact on galaxy evolution, we initiated a multiwavelength study of galaxies with k+a spectral features in the COSMOS field. We examine a mass-selected sample of k+a galaxies at z=0.48-1.2 using the spectroscopic zCOSMOS sample. K+a galaxies occupy the brightest tail of the luminosity distribution. They are as massive as quiescent galaxies and populate the green valley in the colour versus luminosity (or stellar mass) distribution. A small percentage (<8%) of these galaxies have radio and/or X-ray counterparts (implying an upper limit to the SFR of ~8Msun/yr). Over the entire redshift range explored, the class of k+a galaxies is morphologically a heterogeneous population with a similar incidence of bulge-dominated and disky galaxies. This distribution does not vary with the strength of the Hdelta absorption line but instead with stellar mass in a way reminiscent of the well-known mass-morphology relation. Although k+a galaxies are also found in underdense regions, they appear to reside typically in a similarly rich environment as quiescent galaxies on a physical scale of ~2-8Mpc, and in groups they show a morphological early-to-late type ratio similar to the quiescent galaxy class. With the current data set, we do not find evidence of statistical significant evolution in either the number/mass density of k+a galaxies at intermediate redshift with respect to the local values, or the spectral properties. Those galaxies, which are affected by a sudden quenching of their star-formation activity, may increase the stellar mass of the red-sequence by up to a non-negligible level of ~10%., Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics on 09/09/2009 (no changes wrt v1)
Published: 2009
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32. The zCOSMOS Redshift Survey: How group environment alters global downsizing trends

Author: Iovino, A., Cucciati, O., Scodeggio, M., Knobel, C., Kovac, 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., Fèvre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Bongiorno, A., Coppa, G., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, 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., and Scoville, N.
Subjects: 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 <= 10.6) does a significant residual difference in color remain as a function of environment, while this difference becomes negligible toward higher masses. Our results indicate that red galaxies of 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., Comment: Submitted to A&A, revised version after referee comments
Published: 2009
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33. zCOSMOS - 10k-bright spectroscopic sample. The bimodality in the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function: exploring its evolution with redshift

Author: Pozzetti, L., Bolzonella, M., Zucca, E., Zamorani, G., Lilly, S., Renzini, A., Moresco, M., Mignoli, M., Cassata, P., Tasca, L., Lamareille, F., Maier, C., Meneux, B., Halliday, C., Oesch, P., Vergani, D., Caputi, K., Kovac, K., Cimatti, A., Cucciati, O., Iovino, A., Peng, Y., Carollo, M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., F'evre, O. Le, Mainieri, V., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Coppa, G., de la Torre, S., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Pell`o, R., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tresse, L., Abbas, U., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Guzzo, L., Koekemoer, A. M., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Porciani, C., Scaramella, R., Scarlata, C., and Scoville, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (MF) up to z~1 from the zCOSMOS-bright 10k spectroscopic sample. We investigate the total MF and the contribution of ETGs and LTGs, defined by different criteria (SED, morphology or star formation). We unveil a galaxy bimodality in the global MF, better represented by 2 Schechter functions dominated by ETGs and LTGs, respectively. For the global population we confirm that low-mass galaxies number density increases later and faster than for massive galaxies. We find that the MF evolution at intermediate-low values of Mstar (logM<10.6) is mostly explained by the growth in stellar mass driven by smoothly decreasing star formation activities. The low residual evolution is consistent with ~0.16 merger per galaxy per Gyr (of which fewer than 0.1 are major). We find that ETGs increase in number density with cosmic time faster for decreasing Mstar, with a median "building redshift" increasing with mass, in contrast with hierarchical models. For LTGs we find that the number density of blue or spiral galaxies remains almost constant from z~1. Instead, the most extreme population of active star forming galaxies is rapidly decreasing in number density. We suggest a transformation from blue active spirals of intermediate mass into blue quiescent and successively (1-2 Gyr after) into red passive types. The complete morphological transformation into red spheroidals, required longer time-scales or follows after 1-2 Gyr. A continuous replacement of blue galaxies is expected by low-mass active spirals growing in stellar mass. We estimate that on average ~25% of blue galaxies is transforming into red per Gyr for logM<11. We conclude that the build-up of galaxies and ETGs follows the same downsizing trend with mass as the formation of their stars, converse to the trend predicted by current SAMs. We expect a negligible evolution of the global Galaxy Baryonic MF., Comment: Revised version, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2009
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34. 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., Fevre, O. Le, Kovac, 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., Vergani, D., 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., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. 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: 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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35. The zCOSMOS Survey. The dependence of clustering on luminosity and stellar mass at z=0.2-1

Author: Meneux, B., Guzzo, L., de la Torre, S., Porciani, C., Zamorani, G., Abbas, U., Bolzonella, M., Garilli, B., Iovino, A., Pozzetti, L., Zucca, E., Lilly, S., Fevre, O. Le, Kneib, J. -P., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., Bardelli, S., Bongiorno, A., Caputi, K., Coppa, G., Cucciati, O., de Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. -F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Pello, R., Peng, Y., Montero, E. Perez, Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cimatti, A., Cassata, P., Fumana, M., Koekemoer, A. M., Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, C., McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Oesch, P., and Scaramella, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We study the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass at redshifts z ~ [0.2-1] using the first zCOSMOS 10K sample. We measure the redshift-space correlation functions xi(rp,pi) and its projection wp(rp) for sub-samples covering different luminosity, mass and redshift ranges. We quantify in detail the observational selection biases and we check our covariance and error estimate techniques using ensembles of semi-analytic mock catalogues. We finally compare our measurements to the cosmological model predictions from the mock surveys. At odds with other measurements, we find a weak dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity in all redshift bins explored. A mild dependence on stellar mass is instead observed. At z~0.7, wp(rp) shows strong excess power on large scales. We interpret this as produced by large-scale structure dominating the survey volume and extending preferentially in direction perpendicular to the line-of-sight. We do not see any significant evolution with redshift of the amplitude of clustering for bright and/or massive galaxies. The clustering measured in the zCOSMOS data at 0.5=10 is only marginally consistent with predictions from the mock surveys. On scales larger than ~2 h^-1 Mpc, the observed clustering amplitude is compatible only with ~1% of the mocks. Thus, if the power spectrum of matter is LCDM with standard normalization and the bias has no unnatural scale-dependence, this result indicates that COSMOS has picked up a particularly rare, ~2-3 sigma positive fluctuation in a volume of ~10^6 h^-1 Mpc^3. These findings underline the need for larger surveys of the z~1 Universe to appropriately characterize the level of structure at this epoch., Comment: 18 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2009
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36. 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

37. 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

38. The XMM-Newton Wide-Field Survey in the COSMOS field (XMM-COSMOS): demography and multiwavelength properties of obscured and unobscured luminous AGN

Author: BRUSA, MARCELLA, LUSSO, ELISABETA, VIGNALI, CRISTIAN, Civano F., Comastri A., Miyaji T., Salvato M., Zamorani G., Cappelluti N., Fiore F., Hasinger G., Mainieri V., Merloni A., Bongiorno A., Capak P., Elvis M., Gilli R., Hao H., Jahnke K., Koekemoer A. M., Ilbert O., Le Floc'h E., Mignoli M., Schinnerer E., Silverman J. D., Treister E., Trump J. D., Zamojski M., Aldcroft T., Aussel H., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Caputi K., Contini T., Finoguenov A., Fruscione A., Garilli B., Impey C. D., Iovino A., Iwasawa K., Kampczyk P., Kartaltepe J., Kneib J. P., Knobel C., Kovac K., Lamareille F., Leborgne J. F., Le Brun V., Le Fevre O., Lilly S. J., Maier C., McCracken H. J., Pello R., Peng Y. J, Perez Montero E., de Ravel L., Sanders D., Scodeggio M., Scoville N. Z., Tanaka M., Taniguchi Y., Tasca L., de la Torre S., Tresse L., Vergani D., Zucca E., Brusa M., Civano F., Comastri A., Miyaji T., Salvato M., Zamorani G., Cappelluti N., Fiore F., Hasinger G., Mainieri V., Merloni A., Bongiorno A., Capak P., Elvis M., Gilli R., Hao H., Jahnke K., Koekemoer A. M., Ilbert O., Le Floc'h E., Lusso E., Mignoli M., Schinnerer E., Silverman J. D., Treister E., Trump J. D., Vignali C., Zamojski M., Aldcroft T., Aussel H., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Cappi A., Caputi K., Contini T., Finoguenov A., Fruscione A., Garilli B., Impey C. D., Iovino A., Iwasawa K., Kampczyk P., Kartaltepe J., Kneib J. P., Knobel C., Kovac K., Lamareille F., Leborgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Le Fevre O., Lilly S. J., Maier C., McCracken H. J., Pello R., Peng Y-J, Perez-Montero E., de Ravel L., Sanders D., Scodeggio M., Scoville N. Z., Tanaka M., Taniguchi Y., Tasca L., de la Torre S., Tresse L., Vergani D., and Zucca E.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active – surveys – X-rays: diffuse background – X-rays: galaxies – X-rays: general, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report the final optical identifications of the medium-depth (~60 ksec), contiguous (2 deg^2) XMM-Newton survey of the COSMOS field. XMM-Newton has detected ~800 X-ray sources down to limiting fluxes of ~5x10^{-16}, ~3x10^{-15}, and ~7x10^{-15} erg/cm2/s in the 0.5-2 keV, 2-10 keV and 5-10 keV bands, respectively. The work is complemented by an extensive collection of multi-wavelength data from 24 micron to UV, available from the COSMOS survey, for each of the X-ray sources, including spectroscopic redshifts for ~50% of the sample, and high-quality photometric redshifts for the rest. The XMM and multiwavelength flux limits are well matched: 1760 (98%) of the X-ray sources have optical counterparts, 1711 (~95%) have IRAC counterparts, and 1394 (~78%) have MIPS 24micron detections. Thanks to the redshift completeness (almost 100%) we were able to constrain the high-luminosity tail of the X-ray luminosity function confirming that the peak of the number density of logL_X>44.5 AGN is at z~2. Spectroscopically-identified obscured and unobscured AGN, as well as normal and starforming galaxies, present well-defined optical and infrared properties. We devised a robust method to identify a sample of ~150 high redshift (z>1), obscured AGN candidates for which optical spectroscopy is not available. We were able to determine that the fraction of the obscured AGN population at the highest (L_X>10^{44} erg s^{-1}) X-ray luminosity is ~15-30% when selection effects are taken into account, providing an important observational constraint for X-ray background synthesis. We studied in detail the optical spectrum and the overall spectral energy distribution of a prototypical Type 2 QSO, caught in a stage transitioning from being starburst dominated to AGN dominated, which was possible to isolate only thanks to the combination of X-ray and infrared observations., ApJ, in press. 59 pages, 14 figures, 2 Tables. A few typos corrected and a reference added. Table 2 is also available at http://www.mpe.mpg.de/XMMCosmos/xmm53_release ; a version of the paper in ApJ format (27 pages) is available at http://www.mpe.mpg.de/XMMCosmos/xmm53_release/brusa_xmmcosmos_optid.pdf
Published: 2010
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39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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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44. 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

45. Environmental effects in the interaction and merging of galaxies in zCOSMOS survey

Author: Kampczyk, P., Lilly, S. J., and Collaboration, the zCOSMOS
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: The zCOSMOS-bright 10k spectroscopic sample reveals a strong environmental dependence of close kinematic galaxy pair fractions in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1. The fraction of close pairs is three times higher in the top density quartile than in the lowest one. This environmental variation in pair fractions will translate into merger fractions since merger timescales are shown, based on Millennium simulation catalogs, to be largely independent of environment. While galactic properties of close kinematic pairs (morphologies and star formation rates) may seem to be non-representative of an underlying galaxy population, they can be explained by taking into account well-known effects of environment, and changes caused by interactions. The latter is responsible for an increase of irregular galaxies in pairs by a factor of 50-75%, with a disproportionate increase in the number of irregular-irregular pairs (4-8 times), due to disturbance of about 15% of the disk galaxies in pairs. Another sign of interaction is an observed boost in specific star formation rate (factor 2-4) for the closest pairs. While significant for paired galaxies, this triggered star-formation due to interactions represents only about 5% of the integrated star-formation activity in our volume-limited sample. Although majority of close kinematic pairs are in dense environments, the effects of interactions appear to be strongest in the lower density environments. This may introduce strong biases into observational studies of mergers, especially those based on morphological criteria. Relative excess of post-starburst galaxies observed in paired galaxies (factor \sim2) as well as excess of AGNs (factor of over 2), linked with environmental dependence of the pair fractions could indicate that early phases of interactions and merging are plausible candidates for environmental quenching, observed in the global galaxy populations., To appear on the Proceedings of the Conference "Galaxy Mergers in an Evolving Universe", held in Hualien, Taiwan, on October 23-28, 2011
Published: 2012
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46. The evolution of quiescent galaxies at high redshifts (z≥ 1.4)

Author: Sánchez, H. Domínguez, Pozzi, F., Gruppioni, C., Cimatti, A., Ilbert, O., Pozzetti, L., McCracken, H., Capak, P., Floch, E. Le, Salvato, M., Zamorani, G., Carollo, C. M., Contini, T., Kneib, J. P., Févre, O. Le, Lilly, S. J., Mainieri, V., Renzini, A., Scodeggio, M., 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., Kovac, K., Lamareille, F., Borgne, J. F. Le, Brun, V. Le, Maier, C., Mignoli, M., Pelló, R., Peng, Y., Pérez-Montero, E., Ricciardelli, E., Silverman, J. D., Tanaka, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tresse, L., Vergani, D., Zucca, E., 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, galaxies: star formation, evolution, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: star formation [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417 (2), ISSN:0035-8711, ISSN:1365-2966, ISSN:1365-8711
Published: 2011

47. 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 - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 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], Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), 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, Departamento de Informatica [Valparaíso, Chile], Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria [Valparaiso] (UTFSM), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), 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), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), 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 la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-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), Hunan Normal University (HNU), 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), 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

48. 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., Cucciati, O., De Ravel, L., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Halliday, C., Iovino, A., Kampczyk, P., Knobel, C., Koekemoer, A. M., Kovač, 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, Alessandro, Leauthaud, A., Maccagni, D., Marinoni, Christian, McCracken, H. J., Memeo, P., Oesch, P., 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), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), 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), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute for Astronomy [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), European Southern Observatory (ESO), College of Computing (GATECH), Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta], AUTRES, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB - UMR 12), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hunan Normal University (HNU), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), 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), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), 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), 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), 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), 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), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay, Hunan Normal University, 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 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: [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, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic 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 HST imaging and VLT spectroscopy for about 8,500 galaxies to I_AB=22.5 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 SDSS 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 z~0, reflects the evolving role of environment in the morphological transformation of galaxies, on top of the global mass-driven evolution., Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2011

49. 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

50. 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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