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1. Euclid preparation XXXVII. Galaxy colour selections with Euclid and ground photometry for cluster weak-lensing analyses

Author: Lesci, G, Sereno, M, Radovich, M, Castignani, G, Bisigello, L, Marulli, F, Moscardini, L, Baumont, L, Covone, G, Farrens, S, Giocoli, C, Ingoglia, L, Miranda La Hera, S, Vannier, M, Biviano, A, Maurogordato, S, Aghanim, N, Amara, A, Andreon, S, Auricchio, N, Baldi, M, Bardelli, S, Bender, R, Bodendorf, C, Bonino, D, Branchini, E, Brescia, M, Brinchmann, J, Camera, S, Capobianco, V, Carbone, C, Carretero, J, Casas, S, Castander, F, Castellano, M, Cavuoti, S, Cimatti, A, Congedo, G, Conselice, C, Conversi, L, Copin, Y, Corcione, L, Courbin, F, Courtois, H, Da Silva, A, Degaudenzi, H, Di Giorgio, A, Dinis, J, Dubath, F, Duncan, C, Dupac, X, Dusini, S, Farina, M, Ferriol, S, Fosalba, P, Fotopoulou, S, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Franzetti, P, Fumana, M, Galeotta, S, Garilli, B, Gillis, B, Grazian, A, Grupp, F, Haugan, S, Hook, I, Hormuth, F, Hornstrup, A, Hudelot, P, Jahnke, K, Kummel, M, Kermiche, S, Kiessling, A, Kilbinger, M, Kubik, B, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Ligori, S, Lilje, P, Lindholm, V, Lloro, I, Maiorano, E, Mansutti, O, Marggraf, O, Markovic, K, Martinet, N, Massey, R, Medinaceli, E, Melchior, M, Mellier, Y, Meneghetti, M, Merlin, E, Meylan, G, Moresco, M, Munari, E, Nakajima, R, Niemi, S, Padilla, C, Paltani, S, Pasian, F, Pedersen, K, Pettorino, V, Pires, S, Polenta, G, Poncet, M, Popa, L, Pozzetti, L, Raison, F, Rebolo, R, Renzi, A, Rhodes, J, Riccio, G, Romelli, E, Roncarelli, M, Rossetti, E, Saglia, R, Sapone, D, Sartoris, B, Schirmer, M, Schneider, P, Secroun, A, Seidel, G, Serrano, S, Sirignano, C, Sirri, G, Skottfelt, J, Stanco, L, Starck, J, Tallada-Crespi, P, Taylor, A, Teplitz, H, Tereno, I, Toledo-Moreo, R, Torradeflot, F, Tutusaus, I, Valentijn, E, Valenziano, L, Vassallo, T, Veropalumbo, A, Wang, Y, Weller, J, Zacchei, A, Zamorani, G, Zoubian, J, Zucca, E, Bolzonella, M, Bozzo, E, Colodro-Conde, C, Di Ferdinando, D, Gracia-Carpio, J, Marcin, S, Mauri, N, Neissner, C, Nucita, A, Sakr, Z, Scottez, V, Tenti, M, Viel, M, Wiesmann, M, Akrami, Y, Anselmi, S, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Borgani, S, Borlaff, A, Bruton, S, Burigana, C, Cabanac, R, Calabro, A, Cappi, A, Carvalho, C, Castro, T, Canas-Herrera, G, Chambers, K, Cooray, A, Coupon, J, Cucciati, O, Davini, S, De La Torre, S, De Lucia, G, Desprez, G, Di Domizio, S, Dole, H, Diaz-Sanchez, A, Escartin Vigo, J, Escoffier, S, Ferrero, I, Finelli, F, Gabarra, L, Ganga, K, Garcia-Bellido, J, Giacomini, F, Gozaliasl, G, Gwyn, S, Hildebrandt, H, Huertas-Company, M, Jimenez Munoz, A, Kajava, J, Kansal, V, Kirkpatrick, C, Legrand, L, Loureiro, A, MacIas-Perez, J, Magliocchetti, M, Mainetti, G, Maoli, R, Martinelli, M, Martins, C, Matthew, S, Maturi, M, Maurin, L, Metcalf, R, Migliaccio, M, Monaco, P, Morgante, G, Nadathur, S, Patrizii, L, Pezzotta, A, Porciani, C, Potter, D, Pontinen, M, Reimberg, P, Rocci, P, Sanchez, A, Schneider, A, Schultheis, M, Sefusatti, E, Simon, P, Spurio Mancini, A, Stanford, S, Steinwagner, J, Testera, G, Teyssier, R, Toft, S, Tosi, S, Troja, A, Tucci, M, Valiviita, J, Vergani, D, Lesci G. F., Sereno M., Radovich M., Castignani G., Bisigello L., Marulli F., Moscardini L., Baumont L., Covone G., Farrens S., Giocoli C., Ingoglia L., Miranda La Hera S., Vannier M., Biviano A., Maurogordato S., Aghanim N., Amara A., Andreon S., Auricchio N., Baldi M., Bardelli S., Bender R., Bodendorf C., Bonino D., Branchini E., Brescia M., Brinchmann J., Camera S., Capobianco V., Carbone C., Carretero J., Casas S., Castander F. J., Castellano M., Cavuoti S., Cimatti A., Congedo G., Conselice C. J., Conversi L., Copin Y., Corcione L., Courbin F., Courtois H. M., Da Silva A., Degaudenzi H., Di Giorgio A. M., Dinis J., Dubath F., Duncan C. A. J., Dupac X., Dusini S., Farina M., Ferriol S., Fosalba P., Fotopoulou S., Frailis M., Franceschi E., Franzetti P., Fumana M., Galeotta S., Garilli B., Gillis B., Grazian A., Grupp F., Haugan S. V. H., Hook I., Hormuth F., Hornstrup A., Hudelot P., Jahnke K., Kummel M., Kermiche S., Kiessling A., Kilbinger M., Kubik B., Kunz M., Kurki-Suonio H., Ligori S., Lilje P. B., Lindholm V., Lloro I., Maiorano E., Mansutti O., Marggraf O., Markovic K., Martinet N., Massey R., Medinaceli E., Melchior M., Mellier Y., Meneghetti M., Merlin E., Meylan G., Moresco M., Munari E., Nakajima R., Niemi S. -M., Padilla C., Paltani S., Pasian F., Pedersen K., Pettorino V., Pires S., Polenta G., Poncet M., Popa L. A., Pozzetti L., Raison F., Rebolo R., Renzi A., Rhodes J., Riccio G., Romelli E., Roncarelli M., Rossetti E., Saglia R., Sapone D., Sartoris B., Schirmer M., Schneider P., Secroun A., Seidel G., Serrano S., Sirignano C., Sirri G., Skottfelt J., Stanco L., Starck J. -L., Tallada-Crespi P., Taylor A. N., Teplitz H. I., Tereno I., Toledo-Moreo R., Torradeflot F., Tutusaus I., Valentijn E. A., Valenziano L., Vassallo T., Veropalumbo A., Wang Y., Weller J., Zacchei A., Zamorani G., Zoubian J., Zucca E., Bolzonella M., Bozzo E., Colodro-Conde C., Di Ferdinando D., Gracia-Carpio J., Marcin S., Mauri N., Neissner C., Nucita A. A., Sakr Z., Scottez V., Tenti M., Viel M., Wiesmann M., Akrami Y., Anselmi S., Baccigalupi C., Ballardini M., Borgani S., Borlaff A. S., Bruton S., Burigana C., Cabanac R., Calabro A., Cappi A., Carvalho C. S., Castro T., Canas-Herrera G., Chambers K. C., Cooray A. R., Coupon J., Cucciati O., Davini S., De La Torre S., De Lucia G., Desprez G., Di Domizio S., Dole H., Diaz-Sanchez A., Escartin Vigo J. A., Escoffier S., Ferrero I., Finelli F., Gabarra L., Ganga K., Garcia-Bellido J., Giacomini F., Gozaliasl G., Gwyn S., Hildebrandt H., Huertas-Company M., Jimenez Munoz A., Kajava J. J. E., Kansal V., Kirkpatrick C. C., Legrand L., Loureiro A., MacIas-Perez J., Magliocchetti M., Mainetti G., Maoli R., Martinelli M., Martins C. J. A. P., Matthew S., Maturi M., Maurin L., Metcalf R. B., Migliaccio M., Monaco P., Morgante G., Nadathur S., Patrizii L., Pezzotta A., Porciani C., Potter D., Pontinen M., Reimberg P., Rocci P. -F., Sanchez A. G., Schneider A., Schultheis M., Sefusatti E., Simon P., Spurio Mancini A., Stanford S. A., Steinwagner J., Testera G., Teyssier R., Toft S., Tosi S., Troja A., Tucci M., Valiviita J., Vergani D., Lesci, G, Sereno, M, Radovich, M, Castignani, G, Bisigello, L, Marulli, F, Moscardini, L, Baumont, L, Covone, G, Farrens, S, Giocoli, C, Ingoglia, L, Miranda La Hera, S, Vannier, M, Biviano, A, Maurogordato, S, Aghanim, N, Amara, A, Andreon, S, Auricchio, N, Baldi, M, Bardelli, S, Bender, R, Bodendorf, C, Bonino, D, Branchini, E, Brescia, M, Brinchmann, J, Camera, S, Capobianco, V, Carbone, C, Carretero, J, Casas, S, Castander, F, Castellano, M, Cavuoti, S, Cimatti, A, Congedo, G, Conselice, C, Conversi, L, Copin, Y, Corcione, L, Courbin, F, Courtois, H, Da Silva, A, Degaudenzi, H, Di Giorgio, A, Dinis, J, Dubath, F, Duncan, C, Dupac, X, Dusini, S, Farina, M, Ferriol, S, Fosalba, P, Fotopoulou, S, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Franzetti, P, Fumana, M, Galeotta, S, Garilli, B, Gillis, B, Grazian, A, Grupp, F, Haugan, S, Hook, I, Hormuth, F, Hornstrup, A, Hudelot, P, Jahnke, K, Kummel, M, Kermiche, S, Kiessling, A, Kilbinger, M, Kubik, B, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Ligori, S, Lilje, P, Lindholm, V, Lloro, I, Maiorano, E, Mansutti, O, Marggraf, O, Markovic, K, Martinet, N, Massey, R, Medinaceli, E, Melchior, M, Mellier, Y, Meneghetti, M, Merlin, E, Meylan, G, Moresco, M, Munari, E, Nakajima, R, Niemi, S, Padilla, C, Paltani, S, Pasian, F, Pedersen, K, Pettorino, V, Pires, S, Polenta, G, Poncet, M, Popa, L, Pozzetti, L, Raison, F, Rebolo, R, Renzi, A, Rhodes, J, Riccio, G, Romelli, E, Roncarelli, M, Rossetti, E, Saglia, R, Sapone, D, Sartoris, B, Schirmer, M, Schneider, P, Secroun, A, Seidel, G, Serrano, S, Sirignano, C, Sirri, G, Skottfelt, J, Stanco, L, Starck, J, Tallada-Crespi, P, Taylor, A, Teplitz, H, Tereno, I, Toledo-Moreo, R, Torradeflot, F, Tutusaus, I, Valentijn, E, Valenziano, L, Vassallo, T, Veropalumbo, A, Wang, Y, Weller, J, Zacchei, A, Zamorani, G, Zoubian, J, Zucca, E, Bolzonella, M, Bozzo, E, Colodro-Conde, C, Di Ferdinando, D, Gracia-Carpio, J, Marcin, S, Mauri, N, Neissner, C, Nucita, A, Sakr, Z, Scottez, V, Tenti, M, Viel, M, Wiesmann, M, Akrami, Y, Anselmi, S, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Borgani, S, Borlaff, A, Bruton, S, Burigana, C, Cabanac, R, Calabro, A, Cappi, A, Carvalho, C, Castro, T, Canas-Herrera, G, Chambers, K, Cooray, A, Coupon, J, Cucciati, O, Davini, S, De La Torre, S, De Lucia, G, Desprez, G, Di Domizio, S, Dole, H, Diaz-Sanchez, A, Escartin Vigo, J, Escoffier, S, Ferrero, I, Finelli, F, Gabarra, L, Ganga, K, Garcia-Bellido, J, Giacomini, F, Gozaliasl, G, Gwyn, S, Hildebrandt, H, Huertas-Company, M, Jimenez Munoz, A, Kajava, J, Kansal, V, Kirkpatrick, C, Legrand, L, Loureiro, A, MacIas-Perez, J, Magliocchetti, M, Mainetti, G, Maoli, R, Martinelli, M, Martins, C, Matthew, S, Maturi, M, Maurin, L, Metcalf, R, Migliaccio, M, Monaco, P, Morgante, G, Nadathur, S, Patrizii, L, Pezzotta, A, Porciani, C, Potter, D, Pontinen, M, Reimberg, P, Rocci, P, Sanchez, A, Schneider, A, Schultheis, M, Sefusatti, E, Simon, P, Spurio Mancini, A, Stanford, S, Steinwagner, J, Testera, G, Teyssier, R, Toft, S, Tosi, S, Troja, A, Tucci, M, Valiviita, J, Vergani, D, Lesci G. F., Sereno M., Radovich M., Castignani G., Bisigello L., Marulli F., Moscardini L., Baumont L., Covone G., Farrens S., Giocoli C., Ingoglia L., Miranda La Hera S., Vannier M., Biviano A., Maurogordato S., Aghanim N., Amara A., Andreon S., Auricchio N., Baldi M., Bardelli S., Bender R., Bodendorf C., Bonino D., Branchini E., Brescia M., Brinchmann J., Camera S., Capobianco V., Carbone C., Carretero J., Casas S., Castander F. J., Castellano M., Cavuoti S., Cimatti A., Congedo G., Conselice C. J., Conversi L., Copin Y., Corcione L., Courbin F., Courtois H. M., Da Silva A., Degaudenzi H., Di Giorgio A. M., Dinis J., Dubath F., Duncan C. A. J., Dupac X., Dusini S., Farina M., Ferriol S., Fosalba P., Fotopoulou S., Frailis M., Franceschi E., Franzetti P., Fumana M., Galeotta S., Garilli B., Gillis B., Grazian A., Grupp F., Haugan S. V. H., Hook I., Hormuth F., Hornstrup A., Hudelot P., Jahnke K., Kummel M., Kermiche S., Kiessling A., Kilbinger M., Kubik B., Kunz M., Kurki-Suonio H., Ligori S., Lilje P. B., Lindholm V., Lloro I., Maiorano E., Mansutti O., Marggraf O., Markovic K., Martinet N., Massey R., Medinaceli E., Melchior M., Mellier Y., Meneghetti M., Merlin E., Meylan G., Moresco M., Munari E., Nakajima R., Niemi S. -M., Padilla C., Paltani S., Pasian F., Pedersen K., Pettorino V., Pires S., Polenta G., Poncet M., Popa L. A., Pozzetti L., Raison F., Rebolo R., Renzi A., Rhodes J., Riccio G., Romelli E., Roncarelli M., Rossetti E., Saglia R., Sapone D., Sartoris B., Schirmer M., Schneider P., Secroun A., Seidel G., Serrano S., Sirignano C., Sirri G., Skottfelt J., Stanco L., Starck J. -L., Tallada-Crespi P., Taylor A. N., Teplitz H. I., Tereno I., Toledo-Moreo R., Torradeflot F., Tutusaus I., Valentijn E. A., Valenziano L., Vassallo T., Veropalumbo A., Wang Y., Weller J., Zacchei A., Zamorani G., Zoubian J., Zucca E., Bolzonella M., Bozzo E., Colodro-Conde C., Di Ferdinando D., Gracia-Carpio J., Marcin S., Mauri N., Neissner C., Nucita A. A., Sakr Z., Scottez V., Tenti M., Viel M., Wiesmann M., Akrami Y., Anselmi S., Baccigalupi C., Ballardini M., Borgani S., Borlaff A. S., Bruton S., Burigana C., Cabanac R., Calabro A., Cappi A., Carvalho C. S., Castro T., Canas-Herrera G., Chambers K. C., Cooray A. R., Coupon J., Cucciati O., Davini S., De La Torre S., De Lucia G., Desprez G., Di Domizio S., Dole H., Diaz-Sanchez A., Escartin Vigo J. A., Escoffier S., Ferrero I., Finelli F., Gabarra L., Ganga K., Garcia-Bellido J., Giacomini F., Gozaliasl G., Gwyn S., Hildebrandt H., Huertas-Company M., Jimenez Munoz A., Kajava J. J. E., Kansal V., Kirkpatrick C. C., Legrand L., Loureiro A., MacIas-Perez J., Magliocchetti M., Mainetti G., Maoli R., Martinelli M., Martins C. J. A. P., Matthew S., Maturi M., Maurin L., Metcalf R. B., Migliaccio M., Monaco P., Morgante G., Nadathur S., Patrizii L., Pezzotta A., Porciani C., Potter D., Pontinen M., Reimberg P., Rocci P. -F., Sanchez A. G., Schneider A., Schultheis M., Sefusatti E., Simon P., Spurio Mancini A., Stanford S. A., Steinwagner J., Testera G., Teyssier R., Toft S., Tosi S., Troja A., Tucci M., Valiviita J., and Vergani D.
Abstract: Aims. We derived galaxy colour selections from Euclid and ground-based photometry, aiming to accurately define background galaxy samples in cluster weak-lensing analyses. These selections have been implemented in the Euclid data analysis pipelines for galaxy clusters. Methods. Given any set of photometric bands, we developed a method for the calibration of optimal galaxy colour selections that maximises the selection completeness, given a threshold on purity. Such colour selections are expressed as a function of the lens redshift. Results. We calibrated galaxy selections using simulated ground-based griz and Euclid YEJEHE photometry. Both selections produce a purity higher than 97%. The griz selection completeness ranges from 30% to 84% in the lens redshift range zl ∈ [0.2, 0.8]. With the full grizYEJEHE selection, the completeness improves by up to 25 percentage points, and the zl range extends up to zl = 1.5. The calibrated colour selections are stable to changes in the sample limiting magnitudes and redshift, and the selection based on griz bands provides excellent results on real external datasets. Furthermore, the calibrated selections provide stable results using alternative photometric aperture definitions obtained from different ground-based telescopes. The griz selection is also purer at high redshift and more complete at low redshift compared to colour selections found in the literature. We find excellent agreement in terms of purity and completeness between the analysis of an independent, simulated Euclid galaxy catalogue and our calibration sample, except for galaxies at high redshifts, for which we obtain up to 50 percentage points higher completeness. The combination of colour and photo-z selections applied to simulated Euclid data yields up to 95% completeness, while the purity decreases down to 92% at high zl. We show that the calibrated colour selections provide robust results even when observations from a single band are missing from the ground-bas
Published: 2024

2. The assembly bias of emission-line galaxies.

Author: Jiménez, Esteban, Padilla, Nelson, Contreras, Sergio, Zehavi, Idit, Baugh, Carlton M, and Orsi, Álvaro
Subjects: *EMISSION-line galaxies, *INTERSTELLAR medium, *GALAXY formation, *GALACTIC evolution, *STAR formation, *LARGE scale structure (Astronomy)
Abstract: The next generation of spectroscopic surveys will target emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to produce constraints on cosmological parameters. We study the large-scale structure traced by ELGs using a combination of a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, a code that computes the nebular emission from H ii regions using the properties of the interstellar medium, and a large-volume, high-resolution N -body simulation. We consider fixed number density samples where galaxies are selected by their H α, [O iii ] λ5007, or [O ii ] λλ3727–3729 emission-line luminosities. We investigate the assembly bias signatures of these samples, and compare them to those of stellar mass- and star formation rate-selected samples. Interestingly, we find that the [O iii ]- and [O ii ]-selected samples display scale-dependent bias on large scales and that their assembly bias signatures are also scale dependent. Both these effects are more pronounced for lower number density samples. The [O iii ] and [O ii ] emitters that contribute most to the scale dependence tend to have a low gas-phase metallicity and are preferentially found in low-density regions. We also measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature and the β parameter related to the growth rate of overdensities. We find that the scale of the BAO peak is roughly the same for all selections and that β is scale dependent at large scales. Our results suggest that ELG samples include environmental effects that should be modelled in order to remove potential systematic errors that could affect the estimation of cosmological parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2021
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3. Influence of star-forming galaxy selection on the galaxy main sequence

Author: Pearson, W, Pistis, F, Figueira, M, Małek, K, Moutard, T, Vergani, D, Pollo, A, Pearson W. J., Pistis F., Figueira M., Małek K., Moutard T., Vergani D., Pollo A., Pearson, W, Pistis, F, Figueira, M, Małek, K, Moutard, T, Vergani, D, Pollo, A, Pearson W. J., Pistis F., Figueira M., Małek K., Moutard T., Vergani D., and Pollo A.
Abstract: Aims. This work aims to determine how the galaxy main sequence (MS) changes using seven different commonly used methods to select the star-forming galaxies within VIPERS data over 0:5 ≤ z < 1:2. The form and redshift evolution of the MS was then compared between selection methods. Methods. The star-forming galaxies were selected using widely known methods: a specific star-formation rate (sSFR); Baldwin, Phillips, and Terlevich (BPT) diagram; a 4000 spectral break (D4000) cut; and four colour-colour cuts (near-ultra-violet 'V verses r-J (NUVrJ), near-ultra-violet 'V verses r-K (NUVrK), u-r, and U-V verses V-J (UVJ)). The main sequences were then fitted for each of the seven selection methods using a Markov chain Monte Carlo forward modelling routine, fitting both a linear main sequence and a MS with a high-mass turnover to the star-forming galaxies. This was done in four redshift bins of 0:50 ≤ z < 0:62, 0:62 ≤ z < 0:72, 0:72 ≤ z < 0:85, and 0:85 ≤ z < 1:20. Results. The slopes of all star-forming samples were found to either remain constant or increase with redshift, and the scatters were approximately constant. There is no clear redshift dependency of the presence of a high-mass turnover for the majority of samples, with the NUVrJ and NUVrK being the only samples with turnovers only at low redshift. No samples have turnovers at all redshifts. Star-forming galaxies selected with sSFR and u-r are the only samples to have no high-mass turnover in all redshift bins. The normalisation of the MS increases with redshift, as expected. The scatter around the MS is lower than the ≈0.3 dex typically seen in MS studies for all seven samples. Conclusions. The lack (or presence) of a high-mass turnover is at least partially a result of the method used to select star-forming galaxies. However, whether a turnover should be present or not is unclear.
Published: 2023

4. Decomposing galaxies with bang: an automated morphokinematic decomposition of the SDSS-DR17 MaNGA survey

Author: Rigamonti, F, Dotti, M, Covino, S, Haardt, F, Cortese, L, Landoni, M, Varisco, L, Rigamonti F., Dotti M., Covino S., Haardt F., Cortese L., Landoni M., Varisco L., Rigamonti, F, Dotti, M, Covino, S, Haardt, F, Cortese, L, Landoni, M, Varisco, L, Rigamonti F., Dotti M., Covino S., Haardt F., Cortese L., Landoni M., and Varisco L.
Abstract: From a purely photometric perspective galaxies are generally decomposed into a bulge+disc system, with bulges being dispersion-dominated and discs rotationally supported. However, recent observations have demonstrated that such a framework oversimplifies complexity, especially if one considers galaxy kinematics. To address this issue we introduced with the GPU-based code bang a novel approach that employs analytical potential-density pairs as galactic components, allowing for a computationally fast, still reliable fit of the morphological and kinematic properties of galaxies. Here we apply bang to the SDSS-MaNGA survey, estimating key parameters such as mass, radial extensions, and dynamics, for both bulges and discs of +10 000 objects. We test our methodology against a smaller subsample of galaxies independently analysed with an orbit-based algorithm, finding agreement in the recovered total stellar mass. We also manage to reproduce well-established scaling relations, demonstrating how proper dynamical modelling can result in tighter correlations and provide corrections to standard approaches. Finally, we propose a more general way of decomposing galaxies into 'hot' and 'cold' components, showing a correlation with orbit-based approaches and visually determined morphological type. Unexpected tails in the 'hot-to-total' mass-ratio distribution are present for galaxies of all morphologies, possibly due to visual morphology misclassifications.
Published: 2023

5. WEAVE-StePS: A stellar population survey using WEAVE at WHT

Author: Iovino, A, Poggianti, B, Mercurio, A, Longhetti, M, Bolzonella, M, Busarello, G, Gullieuszik, M, La Barbera, F, Merluzzi, P, Morelli, L, Tortora, C, Vergani, D, Zibetti, S, Haines, C, Costantin, L, Ditrani, F, Pozzetti, L, Angthopo, J, Balcells, M, Bardelli, S, Benn, C, Bianconi, M, Cassara, L, Corsini, E, Cucciati, O, Dalton, G, Ferre-Mateu, A, Fossati, M, Gallazzi, A, Garcia-Benito, R, Granett, B, Gonzalez Delgado, R, Ikhsanova, A, Iodice, E, Jin, S, Knapen, J, Mcgee, S, Moretti, A, Murphy, D, Peralta De Arriba, L, Pizzella, A, Sanchez-Blazquez, P, Spiniello, C, Talia, M, Trager, S, Vazdekis, A, Vulcani, B, Zucca, E, Iovino A., Poggianti B. M., Mercurio A., Longhetti M., Bolzonella M., Busarello G., Gullieuszik M., La Barbera F., Merluzzi P., Morelli L., Tortora C., Vergani D., Zibetti S., Haines C. P., Costantin L., Ditrani F. R., Pozzetti L., Angthopo J., Balcells M., Bardelli S., Benn C. R., Bianconi M., Cassara L. P., Corsini E. M., Cucciati O., Dalton G., Ferre-Mateu A., Fossati M., Gallazzi A., Garcia-Benito R., Granett B., Gonzalez Delgado R. M., Ikhsanova A., Iodice E., Jin S., Knapen J. H., Mcgee S., Moretti A., Murphy D. N. A., Peralta De Arriba L., Pizzella A., Sanchez-Blazquez P., Spiniello C., Talia M., Trager S. C., Vazdekis A., Vulcani B., Zucca E., Iovino, A, Poggianti, B, Mercurio, A, Longhetti, M, Bolzonella, M, Busarello, G, Gullieuszik, M, La Barbera, F, Merluzzi, P, Morelli, L, Tortora, C, Vergani, D, Zibetti, S, Haines, C, Costantin, L, Ditrani, F, Pozzetti, L, Angthopo, J, Balcells, M, Bardelli, S, Benn, C, Bianconi, M, Cassara, L, Corsini, E, Cucciati, O, Dalton, G, Ferre-Mateu, A, Fossati, M, Gallazzi, A, Garcia-Benito, R, Granett, B, Gonzalez Delgado, R, Ikhsanova, A, Iodice, E, Jin, S, Knapen, J, Mcgee, S, Moretti, A, Murphy, D, Peralta De Arriba, L, Pizzella, A, Sanchez-Blazquez, P, Spiniello, C, Talia, M, Trager, S, Vazdekis, A, Vulcani, B, Zucca, E, Iovino A., Poggianti B. M., Mercurio A., Longhetti M., Bolzonella M., Busarello G., Gullieuszik M., La Barbera F., Merluzzi P., Morelli L., Tortora C., Vergani D., Zibetti S., Haines C. P., Costantin L., Ditrani F. R., Pozzetti L., Angthopo J., Balcells M., Bardelli S., Benn C. R., Bianconi M., Cassara L. P., Corsini E. M., Cucciati O., Dalton G., Ferre-Mateu A., Fossati M., Gallazzi A., Garcia-Benito R., Granett B., Gonzalez Delgado R. M., Ikhsanova A., Iodice E., Jin S., Knapen J. H., Mcgee S., Moretti A., Murphy D. N. A., Peralta De Arriba L., Pizzella A., Sanchez-Blazquez P., Spiniello C., Talia M., Trager S. C., Vazdekis A., Vulcani B., and Zucca E.
Abstract: Context. The upcoming new generation of optical spectrographs on four-meter-class telescopes will provide valuable opportunities for forthcoming galaxy surveys through their huge multiplexing capabilities, excellent spectral resolution, and unprecedented wavelength coverage. Aims. WEAVE is a new wide-field spectroscopic facility mounted on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope in La Palma. WEAVE-StePS is one of the five extragalactic surveys that will use WEAVE during its first five years of operations. It will observe galaxies using WEAVE MOS (∼950 fibres distributed across a field of view of ∼3 square degrees on the sky) in low-resolution mode (R ∼ 5000, spanning the wavelength range 3660-9590 Å). Methods. WEAVE-StePS will obtain high-quality spectra (S/N ∼ 10 Å -1 at R ∼ 5000) for a magnitude-limited (IAB = 20.5) sample of ∼25 000 galaxies, the majority selected at z ≥ 0.3. The survey goal is to provide precise spectral measurements in the crucial interval that bridges the gap between LEGA-C and SDSS data. The wide area coverage of ∼25 square degrees will enable us to observe galaxies in a variety of environments. The ancillary data available in each of the observed fields (including X-ray coverage, multi-narrow-band photometry and spectroscopic redshift information) will provide an environmental characterisation for each observed galaxy. Results. This paper presents the science case of WEAVE-StePS, the fields to be observed, the parent catalogues used to define the target sample, and the observing strategy that was chosen after a forecast of the expected performance of the instrument for our typical targets. Conclusions. WEAVE-StePS will go back further in cosmic time than SDSS, extending its reach to encompass more than ∼6 Gyr. This is nearly half of the age of the Universe. The spectral and redshift range covered by WEAVE-StePS will open a new observational window by continuously tracing the evolutionary path of galaxies in the largely unexplored intermediate
Published: 2023

6. A complete spectroscopic catalogue of local galaxies in the northern spring sky: Gas properties and nuclear activity in different environments

Author: Federico Cattorini, Giuseppe Gavazzi, Alessandro Boselli, Matteo Fossati, Cattorini, F, Gavazzi, G, Boselli, A, and Fossati, M
Subjects: Galaxies: general, Galaxies: interaction, Galaxies: statistic, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxies: evolution, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Catalog, Galaxies: active, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: With the aim of providing the complete demography of galaxies in the local Universe, including their nuclear properties, we present SPRING, a complete census of local galaxies limited to the spring quarter of the Northern sky (10h< RA 9.5-10, increases in galaxies belonging to the green valley., 26 pages, 22 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2023
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7. The dependence of the hierarchical distribution of star clusters on galactic environment

Author: Menon, S, Grasha, K, Elmegreen, B, Federrath, C, Krumholz, M, Calzetti, D, Sanchez, N, Linden, S, Adamo, A, Messa, M, Cook, D, Dale, D, Grebel, E, Fumagalli, M, Sabbi, E, Johnson, K, Smith, L, Kennicutt, R, Menon S. H., Grasha K., Elmegreen B. G., Federrath C., Krumholz M. R., Calzetti D., Sanchez N., Linden S. T., Adamo A., Messa M., Cook D. O., Dale D. A., Grebel E. K., Fumagalli M., Sabbi E., Johnson K. E., Smith L. J., Kennicutt R. C., Menon, S, Grasha, K, Elmegreen, B, Federrath, C, Krumholz, M, Calzetti, D, Sanchez, N, Linden, S, Adamo, A, Messa, M, Cook, D, Dale, D, Grebel, E, Fumagalli, M, Sabbi, E, Johnson, K, Smith, L, Kennicutt, R, Menon S. H., Grasha K., Elmegreen B. G., Federrath C., Krumholz M. R., Calzetti D., Sanchez N., Linden S. T., Adamo A., Messa M., Cook D. O., Dale D. A., Grebel E. K., Fumagalli M., Sabbi E., Johnson K. E., Smith L. J., and Kennicutt R. C.
Abstract: We use the angular two-point correlation function (TPCF) to investigate the hierarchical distribution of young star clusters in 12 local (3-18 Mpc) star-forming galaxies using star cluster catalogs obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of the Treasury Program Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey. The sample spans a range of different morphological types, allowing us to infer how the physical properties of the galaxy affect the spatial distribution of the clusters. We also prepare a range of physically motivated toy models to compare with and interpret the observed features in the TPCFs. We find that, conforming to earlier studies, young clusters ($T lesssim 10, mathrm{Myr}$) have power-law TPCFs that are characteristic of fractal distributions with a fractal dimension D2, and this scale-free nature extends out to a maximum scale lcorr beyond which the distribution becomes Poissonian. However, lcorr, and D2 vary significantly across the sample, and are correlated with a number of host galaxy physical properties, suggesting that there are physical differences in the underlying star cluster distributions. We also find that hierarchical structuring weakens with age, evidenced by flatter TPCFs for older clusters ($T gtrsim 10, mathrm{Myr}$), that eventually converges to the residual correlation expected from a completely random large-scale radial distribution of clusters in the galaxy in $sim 100 , mathrm{Myr}$. Our study demonstrates that the hierarchical distribution of star clusters evolves with age, and is strongly dependent on the properties of the host galaxy environment.
Published: 2021

8. A joint 2- and 3-point clustering analysis of the VIPERS PDR2 catalogue at z~1: breaking the degeneracy of cosmological parameters

Author: Enzo Branchini, Luigi Guzzo, Michele Moresco, B. R. Granett, Sylvain de la Torre, Lauro Moscardini, Federico Marulli, Alfonso Veropalumbo, Iñigo Sáez Casares, Andrea Pezzotta, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay), 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), Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, German Research Foundation, 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), Veropalumbo A., Saez Casares I., Branchini E., Granett B.R., Guzzo L., Marulli F., Moresco M., Moscardini L., Pezzotta A., and De La Torre S.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, cosmology: observation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmology: observations, galaxies: statistics, large-scale structure of Universe, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, statistics [Galaxies], Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: statistic, observations [Cosmology], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Scientific activity, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the galaxy two- and three-point correlation functions at z = [0.5, 0.7] and z = [0.7, 0.9], from the Public Data Release 2 (PDR2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We model the two statistics including a non-linear one-loop model for the two-point function and a tree-level model for the three-point function, and perform a joint likelihood analysis. The entire process and non-linear corrections are tested and validated through the use of the 153 highly realistic VIPERS mock catalogues, showing that they are robust down to scales as small as 10 h-1 Mpc. The mocks are also adopted to compute the covariance matrix that we use for the joint two- and three-point analysis. Despite the limited statistics of the two (volume-limited) subsamples analysed, we demonstrate that such a combination successfully breaks the degeneracy existing at two-point level between clustering amplitude σ8, linear bias b1, and the linear growth rate of fluctuations f. For the latter, in particular, we measure f(z=0.61)=0.64+0.55-0.37 and f(z = 0.8) = 1.0 ± 1.0, while the amplitude of clustering is found to be σ8(z = 0.61) = 0.50 ± 0.12 and σ8(z=0.8)=0.39+0.11-0.13}. These values are in excellent agreement with the extrapolation of a Planck cosmology., AV, EB, LG, and LM are supported by ASI/INAF agreement no. 2018-23-HH.0 ‘Scientific Activity for Euclid Mission, Phase D’ and INFN Project ‘InDark’. EB and LG are further supported by MIUR/PRIN 2017 ‘From Darklight to Dark Matter: Understanding the Galaxy–Matter Connection to Measure the Universe’. EB is also supported by ASI/INAF agreement no. 2017-14-H.O ‘Unveiling Dark Matter and Missing Baryons in the High-Energy Sky’. MM acknowledges the grants ASI no. I/023/12/0, ASI no. 2018-23-HH.0, and support from MIUR, PRIN 2017 (grant 20179ZF5KS). This research was supported by the Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (MIAPP) that is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC – 2094 - 390783311. LM also acknowledges the support from the grant PRIN-MIUR 2017 WSCC32.
Published: 2021
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9. The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations

Author: Sandro Tacchella, Lars Hernquist, Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger, Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez, Annalisa Pillepich, David A. Thilker, Jennifer M. Lotz, Rainer Weinberger, Gregory F. Snyder, Shy Genel, Paul Torrey, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente, Snyder, Gregory F, Lotz, Jennifer M, Nelson, Dylan, Pillepich, Annalisa, Springel, Volker, Genel, Shy, Weinberger, Rainer, Tacchella, Sandro, Pakmor, Rüdiger, Torrey, Paul, Marinacci, Federico, Vogelsberger, Mark, Hernquist, Lar, and Thilker, David A
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, techniques: image processing, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, methods: numerical, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxie, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, galaxies: formation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Attenuation, Diagram, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: statistic, galaxies: structure, Locus (mathematics), Voronoi diagram, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We have generated synthetic images of $\sim$27,000 galaxies from the IllustrisTNG and the original Illustris hydrodynamic cosmological simulations, designed to match Pan-STARRS observations of $\log_{10}(M_{\ast}/{\rm M}_{\odot}) \approx 9.8$-$11.3$ galaxies at $z \approx 0.05$. Most of our synthetic images were created with the SKIRT radiative transfer code, including the effects of dust attenuation and scattering, and performing the radiative transfer directly on the Voronoi mesh used by the simulations themselves. We have analysed both our synthetic and real Pan-STARRS images with the newly developed $\tt{statmorph}$ code, which calculates non-parametric morphological diagnostics -- including the Gini-$M_{20}$ and concentration-asymmetry-smoothness (CAS) statistics -- and performs two-dimensional S\'ersic fits. Overall, we find that the optical morphologies of IllustrisTNG galaxies are in good agreement with observations, and represent a substantial improvement compared to the original Illustris simulation. In particular, the locus of the Gini-$M_{20}$ diagram is consistent with that inferred from observations, while the median trends with stellar mass of all the morphological, size and shape parameters considered in this work lie within the $\sim$1$\sigma$ scatter of the observational trends. However, the IllustrisTNG model has some difficulty with more stringent tests, such as producing a strong morphology-colour relation. This results in a somewhat higher fraction of red discs and blue spheroids compared to observations. Similarly, the morphology-size relation is problematic: while observations show that discs tend to be larger than spheroids at a fixed stellar mass, such a trend is not present in IllustrisTNG., Comment: 21 pages, 11 figures. Published in MNRAS. Code available at https://statmorph.readthedocs.io
Published: 2018
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10. Simulating the infrared sky with a S PRITZ

Author: Anna Feltre, L. Barchiesi, C. Vignali, L. Bisigello, G. Rodighiero, Francesco Calura, Carlotta Gruppioni, Francesca Pozzi, M. Negrello, Bisigello L., Gruppioni C., Feltre A., Calura F., Pozzi F., Vignali C., Barchiesi L., Rodighiero G., and Negrello M.
Subjects: Infrared: galaxie, Infrared, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxies: luminosity function, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, Galaxy: evolution, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: statistic, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: photometry, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Mass function, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: Current hydrodynamical and semi-empirical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution have difficulties in reproducing the number densities of IR-detected galaxies. Therefore, a versatile, phenomenological new simulation tool is necessary to reproduce current and predict future observations at IR wavelengths. In this work we generate simulated catalogues starting from the Herschel infrared luminosity functions of different galaxy populations, in order to consider in a consistent way different populations of galaxies and active galactic nuclei. We associated a spectral energy distribution and physical properties, such as stellar mass, star-formation-rate and AGN contribution, to each simulated galaxy using a broad set of empirical relations. We compare the resulting simulated galaxies, extracted up to z$=$10, with a broad set of observational relations. The Spectro-Photometric Realisations of Infrared-selected Targets at all-z (SPRITZ) simulation will allow us to obtain in a fully consistent way simulated observations for a broad set of current and future facilities with photometric capabilities as well as low-resolution IR spectroscopy, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) or the Origin Space Telescope (OST). The derived simulated catalogue contains galaxies and active galactic nuclei that by construction reproduce the observed IR galaxy number density, but it is also in agreement with the observed number counts from UV to far-IR wavelengths, the observed stellar mass function, the star-formation-rate vs. stellar mass plane and the luminosity function from the radio to the X-ray. The proposed simulation is therefore ideal to make predictions for current and future facilities, in particular, but not limited to, those operating at IR wavelengths. The SPRITZ simulation will be publicly available., Accepted for publication in A&A, 32 pages, 30 figures
Published: 2021

11. The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey

Author: Nimish P. Hathi, Michele Moresco, Jennifer M. Lotz, Seock-Sam Kim, Lidia Tasca, Andrea Grazian, Intae Jung, Adriano Fontana, Casey Papovich, William G. Hartley, Kirpal Nandra, Emanuela Pompei, S. Bardelli, R. Begley, Mauro Giavalisco, Paola Santini, H. C. Ferguson, Andrea Cimatti, J. S. Dunlop, Lucia Guaita, H. Mendez-Hernandez, Christina C. Williams, Giovanni Cresci, A. C. Carnall, A. Saxena, Adriana Gargiulo, Paolo Cassata, A. Iovino, C. Caputi, D. Maccagni, Stephane Charlot, Michele Cirasuolo, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Stefano Cristiani, Fabrizio Fiore, L. Pentericci, Guido Roberts-Borsani, E. Curtis-Lake, M. Longhetti, Manuela Magliocchetti, Matt J. Jarvis, M. Mignoli, Y. Khusanova, Paola Popesso, Annalisa Citro, Mara Salvato, Ricardo Amorín, Lucia Pozzetti, Olga Cucciati, Fergus Cullen, Pascale Hibon, Fernando Buitrago, Daniel P. Stark, Corentin Schreiber, M. Fumana, P. Franzetti, Jairo Méndez-Abreu, E. Zucca, R. C. Thomas, Filippo Mannucci, Ross J. McLure, Mark Dickinson, K. Matsuoka, M. Franco, O. Le Fèvre, Daniel Schaerer, Steve Finkelstein, M. Bolzonella, Fabio Fontanot, David J. Rosario, Eric F. Bell, Marco Castellano, A. Calabrò, Antonis Georgakakis, Mario Nonino, G. Vietri, Maurilio Pannella, G. Brammer, Marcella Brusa, David T. Maltby, Stéphanie Juneau, Bianca Garilli, Anton M. Koekemoer, Angela Bongiorno, Vivienne Wild, Giovanni G. Fazio, David Elbaz, Margherita Talia, D. J. McLeod, M. Scodeggio, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, M. Hamadouche, Italo Balestra, Omar Almaini, G. Zamorani, Eros Vanzella, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Garilli B., McLure R., Pentericci L., Franzetti P., Gargiulo A., Carnall A., Cucciati O., Iovino A., Amorin R., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Castellano M., Cimatti A., Cirasuolo M., Cullen F., Dunlop J., Elbaz D., Finkelstein S., Fontana A., Fontanot F., Fumana M., Guaita L., Hartley W., Jarvis M., Juneau S., Maccagni D., McLeod D., Nandra K., Pompei E., Pozzetti L., Scodeggio M., Talia M., Calabro A., Cresci G., Fynbo J.P.U., Hathi N.P., Hibon P., Koekemoer A.M., Magliocchetti M., Salvato M., Vietri G., Zamorani G., Almaini O., Balestra I., Bardelli S., Begley R., Brammer G., Bell E.F., Bowler R.A.A., Brusa M., Buitrago F., Caputi C., Cassata P., Charlot S., Citro A., Cristiani S., Curtis-Lake E., Dickinson M., Fazio G., Ferguson H.C., Fiore F., Franco M., Georgakakis A., Giavalisco M., Grazian A., Hamadouche M., Jung I., Kim S., Khusanova Y., Le Fevre O., Longhetti M., Lotz J., Mannucci F., Maltby D., Matsuoka K., Mendez-Hernandez H., Mendez-Abreu J., Mignoli M., Moresco M., Nonino M., Pannella M., Papovich C., Popesso P., Roberts-Borsani G., Rosario D.J., Saldana-Lopez A., Santini P., Saxena A., Schaerer D., Schreiber C., Stark D., Tasca L.A.M., Thomas R., Vanzella E., Wild V., Williams C., Zucca E., University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: SELECTION, Galaxies: fundamental parameter, Astrophysics, I, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, observations/surveys/catalogs [Cosmology], Cosmology: observation, Cosmology: Observations, Spectral line, statistics [Galaxies], DATA-REDUCTION, QB Astronomy, Galaxies: distances and redshift, Galaxies: Fundamental Parameters, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, REDSHIFT SURVEY, Physics, observations [cosmology], Catalogs, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Galaxies: fundamental parameters, Galaxies: statistics, Galaxies: Statistics, fundamental parameters [Galaxies], astro-ph.CO, Catalog, X-RAY-PROPERTIES, Data release, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies: Distances and Redshifts, surveys, 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: statistic, Astronomy and Astrophysics, DAS, VLT DEEP SURVEY, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, EVOLUTION, STELLAR, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), QUIESCENT GALAXIES, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs
Abstract: VANDELS is an ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey designed to build a sample of high signal to noise, medium resolution spectra of galaxies at redshift between 1 and 6.5. Here we present the final Public Data Release of the VANDELS Survey, comprising 2087 redshift measurements. We give a detailed description of sample selection, observations and data reduction procedures. The final catalogue reaches a target selection completeness of 40% at iAB = 25. The high Signal to Noise ratio of the spectra (above 7 in 80% of the spectra) and the dispersion of 2.5�� allowed us to measure redshifts with high precision, the redshift measurement success rate reaching almost 100%. Together with the redshift catalogue and the reduced spectra, we also provide optical mid-IR photometry and physical parameters derived through SED fitting. The observed galaxy sample comprises both passive and star forming galaxies covering a stellar mass range 8.3< Log(M*/Msolar), 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2021
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12. The dependence of the hierarchical distribution of star clusters on galactic environment

Author: Linda J. Smith, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Néstor Sánchez, Daniel A. Dale, Matteo Messa, Mark R. Krumholz, Shyam H. Menon, Michele Fumagalli, Elena Sabbi, Kathryn Grasha, Angela Adamo, Christoph Federrath, David O. Cook, S. T. Linden, Robert C. Kennicutt, Kelsey E. Johnson, Daniela Calzetti, Eva K. Grebel, Menon, S, Grasha, K, Elmegreen, B, Federrath, C, Krumholz, M, Calzetti, D, Sanchez, N, Linden, S, Adamo, A, Messa, M, Cook, D, Dale, D, Grebel, E, Fumagalli, M, Sabbi, E, Johnson, K, Smith, L, and Kennicutt, R
Subjects: ISM: structure, FOS: Physical sciences, Scale (descriptive set theory), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Spatial distribution, Fractal dimension, Fractal, Range (statistics), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Distribution (mathematics), Star cluster, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: star formation, galaxies: star clusters: general, galaxies: statistic, galaxies: stellar content, galaxies: structure, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the angular Two Point Correlation Function (TPCF) to investigate the hierarchical distribution of young star clusters in 12 local (3--18 Mpc) star-forming galaxies using star cluster catalogues obtained with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (\textit{HST}) as part of the Treasury Program LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey). The sample spans a range of different morphological types, allowing us to infer how the physical properties of the galaxy affect the spatial distribution of the clusters. We also prepare a range of physically motivated toy models to compare with and interpret the observed features in the TPCFs. We find that, conforming to earlier studies, young clusters ($T \la 10\, \mathrm{Myr}$) have power-law TPCFs that are characteristic of fractal distributions with a fractal dimension $D_2$, and this scale-free nature extends out to a maximum scale $l_{\mathrm{corr}}$ beyond which the distribution becomes Poissonian. However, $l_{\mathrm{corr}}$, and $D_2$ vary significantly across the sample, and are correlated with a number of host galaxy physical properties, suggesting that there are physical differences in the underlying star cluster distributions. We also find that hierarchical structuring weakens with age, evidenced by flatter TPCFs for older clusters ($T \ga 10\, \mathrm{Myr}$), that eventually converges to the residual correlation expected from a completely random large-scale radial distribution of clusters in the galaxy in $\sim 100 \, \mathrm{Myr}$. Our study demonstrates that the hierarchical distribution of star clusters evolves with age, and is strongly dependent on the properties of the host galaxy environment., 19 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Code for analysis and reproducing results available at https://github.com/shm-1996/legus-tpcf
Published: 2021

13. The dust mass function from z ∼0 to z ∼2.5

Author: P. Santini, Francesco Calura, Francesca Pozzi, G. Zamorani, Ivan Delvecchio, Carlotta Gruppioni, Pozzi F., Calura F., Zamorani G., Delvecchio I., Gruppioni C., and Santini P.
Subjects: Physics, Number density, Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: statistic, media_common.quotation_subject, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Function (mathematics), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Redshift, Universe, Galaxies: ISM, ISM: evolution, Body function, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common
Abstract: We derive for the first time the dust mass function (DMF) in a wide redshift range, from z ∼ 0.2 up to z ∼ 2.5. In order to trace the dust emission, we start from a far-IR (160-μm) Herschel selected catalogue in the COSMOS field. We estimate the dust masses by fitting the far-IR data (λrest$\,\, \buildrel\gt \over \sim \,\,$50 μm) with a modified black body function and we present a detailed analysis to take into account the incompleteness in dust masses from a far-IR perspective. By parametrizing the observed DMF with a Schechter function in the redshift range 0.1
Published: 2020

14. Multifrequency polarimetry of a complete sample of PACO radio sources

Author: L. Toffolatti, Laura Bonavera, Viviana Casasola, A. Mignano, G. de Zotti, Tiziana Trombetti, Valentina Galluzzi, L. Gregorini, Anna Bonaldi, Marcella Massardi, Ron Ekers, Rosita Paladino, Roberto Ricci, M. López-Caniego, S. di Serego Alighieri, Elisabetta Liuzzo, M. Tucci, Jamie Stevens, Carlo Burigana, Galluzzi, V., Massardi, M., Bonaldi, A., Casasola, V., Gregorini, L., Trombetti, T., Burigana, C., De Zotti, G., Ricci, R., Stevens, J., Ekers, R. D., Bonavera, L., di Serego Alighieri, S., Liuzzo, E., LÃ³pez-Caniego, M., Mignano, A., Paladino, R., Toffolatti, L., and Tucci, M.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, Cosmic microwave background, Polarimetry, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Radio continuum: galaxie, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Spectral line, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Intensity (physics), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present high sensitivity polarimetric observations in 6 bands covering the 5.5-38 GHz range of a complete sample of 53 compact extragalactic radio sources brighter than 200 mJy at 20 GHz. The observations, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), achieved a 91% detection rate (at 5 sigma). Within this frequency range the spectra of about 95% of sources are well fitted by double power laws, both in total intensity and in polarisation, but the spectral shapes are generally different in the two cases. Most sources were classified as either steep- or peaked-spectrum but less than 50% have the same classification in total and in polarised intensity. No significant trends of the polarisation degree with flux density or with frequency were found. The mean variability index in total intensity of steep-spectrum sources increases with frequency for a 4-5 year lag, while no significant trend shows up for the other sources and for the 8 year lag. In polarisation, the variability index, that could be computed only for the 8 year lag, is substantially higher than in total intensity and has no significant frequency dependence., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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15. Recovering the systemic redshift of galaxies from their Lyman alpha line profile

Author: Sebastiano Cantalupo, Nicolas Bouché, Roland Bacon, Floriane Leclercq, Thierry Contini, Johan Richard, Anne Verhamme, Edmund Christian Herenz, Kasper B. Schmidt, B. Clement, Wolfram Kollatschny, Joseph Caruana, Hanae Inami, Johannes Zabl, C. Diener, Lutz Wisotzki, Joop Schaye, Jarle Brinchmann, Michael V. Maseda, Alyssa B. Drake, Vera Patrício, E. Ventou, Takuya Hashimoto, J. Kerutt, Thibault Garel, R. A. Marino, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), 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), Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), 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), Verhamme, A, Garel, T, Ventou, E, Contini, T, Bouche, N, Herenz, E, Richard, J, Bacon, R, Schmidt, K, Maseda, M, Marino, R, Brinchmann, J, Cantalupo, S, Caruana, J, Clement, B, Diener, C, Drake, A, Hashimoto, T, Inami, H, Kerutt, J, Kollatschny, W, Leclercq, F, Patricio, V, Schaye, J, Wisotzki, L, and Zabl, J
Subjects: Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: starburst, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lyman-alpha line, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Redshift, Galaxy, Spectral line, galaxies: high-redshift, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: statistic, ultraviolet: galaxies, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract: The Lyman alpha (lya) line of Hydrogen is a prominent feature in the spectra of star-forming galaxies, usually redshifted by a few hundreds of km/s compared to the systemic redshift. This large offset hampers follow-up surveys, galaxy pair statistics and correlations with quasar absorption lines when only lya is available. We propose diagnostics that can be used to recover the systemic redshift directly from the properties of the lya line profile. We use spectroscopic observations of Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) for which a precise measurement of the systemic redshift is available. Our sample contains 13 sources detected between z~3 and z~6 as part of various Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO). We also include a compilation of spectroscopic lya data from the literature spanning a wide redshift range (z~0-8). First, restricting our analysis to double-peaked lya spectra, we find a tight correlation between the velocity offset of the red peak with respect to the systemic redshift, Vpeak, and the separation of the peaks. Secondly, we find a correlation between Vpeak and the full width at half maximum of the lya line. Fitting formulas, to estimate systemic redshifts of galaxies with an accuracy of +-100 km/s when only the lya emission line is available, are given for the two methods., Comment: letter, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2018
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16. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). An unbiased estimate of the growth rate of structure at ⟨z⟩ = 0.85 using the clustering of luminous blue galaxies

Author: O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, Alexander Fritz, Jean Coupon, O. Le Fèvre, Katarzyna Małek, M. Polletta, F. G. Mohammad, P. Franzetti, A. Zanichelli, T. Moutard, John A. Peacock, Ummi Abbas, I. Davidzon, J. Krywult, B. Garilli, A. Iovino, Federico Marulli, G. De Lucia, M. Bolzonella, Rita Tojeiro, Enzo Branchini, D. Maccagni, A. Cappi, C. Adami, Luigi Guzzo, Lauro Moscardini, Agnieszka Pollo, L. A. M. Tasca, B. R. Granett, S. Arnouts, M. Scodeggio, D. Vergani, Julien Bel, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, D. Bottini, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-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), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-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 Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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 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), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 ( CPT ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Université de Toulon ( UTLN ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE ( LAGRANGE ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Mohammad, F. G., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Bel, J., Branchini, E., De La Torre, S., Moscardini, L., Peacock, J. A., Bolzonella, M., Garilli, B., Scodeggio, M., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Moutard, T., Mohammad, F.G., Granett, B.R., Peacock, J.A., MacCagni, D., Tasca, L.A.M., ARAG - AREA FINANZA E PARTECIPATE, DIP. DI ASTRONOMIA, DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA E ASTRONOMIA 'AUGUSTO RIGHI', Da definire, and AREA MIN. 02 - Scienze fisiche
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Statistic [Galaxies], Large-scale structure of Universe, media_common.quotation_subject, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Correlation function (astronomy), 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Spectral line, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxies: Statistic, Observation [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, media_common, Physics, Cosmology: Observations, Galaxies: High-redshift, Galaxies: Statistics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Universe, Redshift, observations [cosmology], Cosmology: Observation, cosmology: observations, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], High-redshift [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the VIPERS final data release to investigate the performance of colour-selected populations of galaxies as tracers of linear large-scale motions. We empirically select volume-limited samples of blue and red galaxies as to minimise the systematic error on the estimate of the growth rate $f\sigma_8$ from the anisotropy of the two-point correlation function. To this end, rather than rigidly splitting the sample into two colour classes we define the red/blue fractional contribution of each object through a weight based on the $(U-V)$ colour distribution. Using mock surveys that are designed to reproduce the observed properties of VIPERS galaxies, we find the systematic error in recovering the fiducial value of $f\sigma_8$ to be minimized when using a volume-limited sample of luminous blue galaxies. We model non-linear corrections via the Scoccimarro extension of the Kaiser model, finding systematic errors on $f\sigma_8$ of below $1-2\%$, using scales as small as 5 $h^{-1}\mathrm{Mpc}$. We interpret this result as indicating that selection of luminous blue galaxies maximises the fraction that are central objects in their dark matter haloes; this in turn minimises the contribution to the measured $\xi(r_p,\pi)$ from the 1-halo term, which is dominated by non-linear motions. The gain is inferior if one uses the full magnitude-limited sample of blue objects, consistent with the presence of a significant fraction of blue, fainter satellites dominated by non-streaming, orbital velocities. We measure a value of $f\sigma_8=0.45 \pm 0.11$ over the single redshift range $0.6\le z\le 1.0$, corresponding to an effective redshift for the blue galaxies $\left=0.85$. Including in the likelihood the potential extra information contained in the blue-red galaxy cross-correlation function does not lead to an appreciable improvement in the error bars, while it increases the systematic error., Comment: 20 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2018
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17. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Unbiased clustering estimate with VIPERS slit assignment

Author: P. Franzetti, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, F. G. Mohammad, Ummi Abbas, J. Krywult, Luigi Guzzo, M. Scodeggio, Rita Tojeiro, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, O. Le Fèvre, C. Adami, Julien Bel, Will J. Percival, M. Bolzonella, Davide Bianchi, B. Garilli, Katarzyna Małek, Thibaud Moutard, G. De Lucia, S. Arnouts, M. Polletta, Alexander Fritz, D. Bottini, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, Agnieszka Pollo, Federico Marulli, Lauro Moscardini, Daniela Vergani, L. A. M. Tasca, B. R. Granett, A. Zanichelli, I. Davidzon, A. Iovino, Jean Coupon, 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 de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, 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), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Mohammad, F. G., Bianchi, D., Percival, W. J., De La Torre, S., Guzzo, L., Granett, B. R., Branchini, E., Bolzonella, M., Garilli, B., Scodeggio, M., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bel, J., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Moscardini, L., Moutard, T., 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 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), Mohammad, F.G., Percival, W.J., Granett, B.R., and Tasca, L.A.M.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of universe, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Correlation function (astronomy), Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, law.invention, Telescope, high-redshift [Galaxies], statistics [Galaxies], Observatory, law, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Cluster analysis, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, QB, Physics, Very Large Telescope, Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, statistic [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Galaxy, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: statistics, Large-scale structure of Universe, astro-ph.CO, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The VIPERS galaxy survey has measured the clustering of $0.5, Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures - Accepted for publication on A&A
Published: 2018
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18. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Full spectroscopic data and auxiliary information release (PDR-2)

Author: G. De Lucia, M. Polletta, D. Maccagni, A. Marchetti, D. Vergani, V. Le Brun, Eric Jullo, O. Ilbert, Julien Bel, Iary Davidzon, Will J. Percival, Katarzyna Małek, Ummi Abbas, B. R. Granett, Rita Tojeiro, C. Adami, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, O. Cucciati, O. Le Fèvre, M. Scodeggio, S. de la Torre, G. Zamorani, Lauro Moscardini, A. Zanichelli, L. A. M. Tasca, H. J. McCracken, M. Bolzonella, John A. Peacock, D. Bottini, Jean Coupon, B. Garilli, Enzo Branchini, Yannick Mellier, A. Cappi, Angela Burden, Agnieszka Pollo, Luigi Guzzo, P. Franzetti, T. Moutard, Alexander Fritz, Federico Marulli, M. Fumana, Christian Marinoni, S. Arnouts, 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'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE ( LAGRANGE ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ), 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 ), Institut Universitaire de France ( IUF ), Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche ( M.E.N.E.S.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), 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), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), 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), 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), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, ITA, GBR, FRA, AUT, POL, Scodeggio, M., Guzzo, L., Garilli, B., Granett, B.R., Bolzonella, M., De La Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Coupon, J., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marchetti, A., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L.A.M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Bel, J., Branchini, E., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Mccracken, H.J., Moutard, T., Peacock, J.A., Zamorani, G., Burden, A., Fumana, M., Jullo, E., Marinoni, C., Mellier, Y., Moscardini, L., and Percival, W.J.
Subjects: Large-scale structure of Universe, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Surveys, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, statistics [Galaxies], surveys, 0103 physical sciences, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], Galaxies: distances and redshift, QB Astronomy, Survey, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, STFC, galaxies: statistics, QB, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, RCUK, Sigma, DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, 3. Good health, Stars, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, Magnitude (astronomy), large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: distances and redshifts, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Data release
Abstract: We present the full public data release (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), performed at the ESO VLT. We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitudes and ancillary information (as masks and weights) for a complete sample of 86,775 galaxies (plus 4,732 other objects, including stars and serendipitous galaxies); we also include their full photometrically-selected parent catalogue. The sample is magnitude limited to i_AB < 22.5, with an additional colour-colour pre-selection devised as to exclude galaxies at z= 2 are shown to have a confidence level of 96% or larger and make up 88% of all measured galaxy redshifts (76,552 out of 86,775), constituting the VIPERS prime catalogue for statistical investigations. For this sample the rms redshift error, estimated using repeated measurements of about 3,000 galaxies, is found to be sigma_z = 0.00054(1+z). All data are available at http://vipers.inaf.it and on the ESO Archive., Comment: Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics; 14 pages, 14 figures. High resolution version of Fig. 14 available at http://vipers.inaf.it
Published: 2018
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19. Galaxy Environment in the 3D-HST Fields: Witnessing the Onset of Satellite Quenching at z ∼ 1-2

Author: Fossati, M, Wilman, D, Mendel, J, Saglia, R, Galametz, A, Beifiori, A, Bender, R, Chan, J, Fabricius, M, Bandara, K, Brammer, G, Davies, R, Forster Schreiber, N, Genzel, R, Hartley, W, Kulkarni, S, Lang, P, Momcheva, I, Nelson, E, Skelton, R, Tacconi, L, Tadaki, K, Ubler, H, Van Dokkum, P, Wisnioski, E, Whitaker, K, Wuyts, E, Wuyts, S, Fossati M., Wilman D. J., Mendel J. T., Saglia R. P., Galametz A., Beifiori A., Bender R., Chan J. C. C., Fabricius M., Bandara K., Brammer G. B., Davies R., Forster Schreiber N. M., Genzel R., Hartley W., Kulkarni S. K., Lang P., Momcheva I. G., Nelson E. J., Skelton R., Tacconi L. J., Tadaki K., Ubler H., Van Dokkum P. G., Wisnioski E., Whitaker K. E., Wuyts E., Wuyts S., Fossati, M, Wilman, D, Mendel, J, Saglia, R, Galametz, A, Beifiori, A, Bender, R, Chan, J, Fabricius, M, Bandara, K, Brammer, G, Davies, R, Forster Schreiber, N, Genzel, R, Hartley, W, Kulkarni, S, Lang, P, Momcheva, I, Nelson, E, Skelton, R, Tacconi, L, Tadaki, K, Ubler, H, Van Dokkum, P, Wisnioski, E, Whitaker, K, Wuyts, E, Wuyts, S, Fossati M., Wilman D. J., Mendel J. T., Saglia R. P., Galametz A., Beifiori A., Bender R., Chan J. C. C., Fabricius M., Bandara K., Brammer G. B., Davies R., Forster Schreiber N. M., Genzel R., Hartley W., Kulkarni S. K., Lang P., Momcheva I. G., Nelson E. J., Skelton R., Tacconi L. J., Tadaki K., Ubler H., Van Dokkum P. G., Wisnioski E., Whitaker K. E., Wuyts E., and Wuyts S.
Abstract: We make publicly available a catalog of calibrated environmental measures for galaxies in the five 3D-Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/CANDELS deep fields. Leveraging the spectroscopic and grism redshifts from the 3D-HST survey, multiwavelength photometry from CANDELS, and wider field public data for edge corrections, we derive densities in fixed apertures to characterize the environment of galaxies brighter than mag in the redshift range 0.5 < z <. By linking observed galaxies to a mock sample, selected to reproduce the 3D-HST sample selection and redshift accuracy, each 3D-HST galaxy is assigned a probability density function of the host halo mass, and a probability that it is a central or a satellite galaxy. The same procedure is applied to a z = 0 sample selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We compute the fraction of passive central and satellite galaxies as a function of stellar and halo mass, and redshift, and then derive the fraction of galaxies that were quenched by environment specific processes. Using the mock sample, we estimate that the timescale for satellite quenching is it is longer at lower stellar mass or lower redshift, but remarkably independent of halo mass. This indicates that, in the range of environments commonly found within the 3D-HST sample (Mh≲ 1014 M⊙), satellites are quenched by exhaustion of their gas reservoir in the absence of cosmological accretion. We find that the quenching times can be separated into a delay phase, during which satellite galaxies behave similarly to centrals at fixed stellar mass, and a phase where the star formation rate drops rapidly ( Tf ∼ 0.4-0.6 Gyr), as shown previously at z = 0. We conclude that this scenario requires satellite galaxies to retain a large reservoir of multi-phase gas upon accretion, even at high redshift, and that this gas sustains star formation for the long quenching times observed.
Published: 2017

20. The MUSE-Wide survey: A measurement of the Ly$\alpha$ emitting fraction among $z>3$ galaxies

Author: Johan Richard, Thibault Garel, Marcella Carollo, C. Diener, Joseph Caruana, Jarle Brinchmann, J. Kerutt, Kasper B. Schmidt, Tanya Urrutia, Alyssa B. Drake, A. Verhamme, Joop Schaye, Lutz Wisotzki, Edmund Christian Herenz, Sebastiano Cantalupo, R. Saust, R. A. Marino, Rychard Bouwens, Caruana, J, Wisotzki, L, Herenz, E, Kerutt, J, Urrutia, T, Schmidt, K, Bouwens, R, Brinchmann, J, Cantalupo, S, Carollo, M, Diener, C, Drake, A, Garel, T, Marino, R, Richard, J, Saust, R, Schaye, J, Verhamme, A, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Galaxies: star formation, Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fraction (chemistry), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a measurement of the fraction of Lyman $\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) emitters ($X_{\rm{Ly} \alpha}$) amongst HST continuum-selected galaxies at $3, Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures (MNRAS, updated as per version in press)
Published: 2017
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21. Reconstructing the galaxy density field with photometric redshifts: II. Environment-dependent galaxy evolution since $z \simeq 3$

Author: O. Cucciati, Nicola Malavasi, S. Bardelli, Olivier Ilbert, Andrea Cimatti, Lucia Pozzetti, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Malavasi, Nicola, Pozzetti, Lucia, Cucciati, Olga, Bardelli, Sandro, Ilbert, Olivier, Cimatti, Andrea, and ITA
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies: formation, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Galaxies: distances and redshift, Interacting galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Lenticular galaxy, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Dwarf galaxy, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: statistic, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Type-cD galaxy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Barred spiral galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Although extensively investigated, the role of the environment in galaxy formation is still not well understood. In this context, the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (GSMF) is a powerful tool to understand how environment relates to galaxy mass assembly and the quenching of star-formation. In this work, we make use of the high-precision photometric redshifts of the UltraVISTA Survey to study the GSMF in different environments up to $z \sim 3$, on physical scales from 0.3 to 2 Mpc, down to masses of $M \sim 10^{10} M_{\odot}$. We witness the appearance of environmental signatures for both quiescent and star-forming galaxies. We find that the shape of the GSMF of quiescent galaxies is different in high- and low-density environments up to $z \sim 2$ with the high-mass end ($M \gtrsim 10^{11} M_{\odot}$) being enhanced in high-density environments. On the contrary, for star-forming galaxies a difference between the GSMF in high- and low density environments is present for masses $M \lesssim 10^{11} M_{\odot}$. Star-forming galaxies in this mass range appear to be more frequent in low-density environments up to $z < 1.5$. Differences in the shape of the GSMF are not visible anymore at $z > 2$. Our results, in terms of general trends in the shape of the GSMF, are in agreement with a scenario in which galaxies are quenched when they enter hot gas-dominated massive haloes which are preferentially in high-density environments., 18 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published: 2017
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22. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Exploring the dependence of the three-point correlation function on stellar mass and luminosity at $0.5 < z < 1.1$

Author: Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, M. Scodeggio, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, S. de la Torre, Alexander Fritz, Iary Davidzon, Michele Moresco, O. Le Fèvre, M. Bolzonella, Lidia Tasca, Federico Marulli, M. Fumana, Ummi Abbas, P. Franzetti, M. Polletta, Rita Tojeiro, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, H. J. McCracken, Luigi Guzzo, G. De Lucia, B. Garilli, C. Adami, Benjamin R. Granett, A. Zanichelli, Agnieszka Pollo, Jean Coupon, S. Arnouts, Carmelita Carbone, J. Krywult, D. Vergani, Lauro Moscardini, D. Bottini, Julien Bel, Katarzyna Małek, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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 de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulon (UTLN), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Moresco, M., Marulli, F., Moscardini, L., Branchini, E., Cappi, A., Davidzon, I., Granett, B.R., De La Torre, S., Guzzo, L., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Bolzonella, M., Bottini, D., Carbone, C., Coupon, J., Cucciati, O., De Lucia, G., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Małek, K., McCracken, H.J., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L.A.M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., 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), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE ( LAGRANGE ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -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 ), Université de Toulon ( UTLN ), 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 ), Granett, B. R., Mccracken, H. J., Tasca, L. A. M., 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, and 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)
Subjects: Stellar mass, Large-scale structure of Universe, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Correlation function (astronomy), Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Luminosity, statistics [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], Galaxies: distances and redshift, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Physics, Very Large Telescope, statistic [Galaxies], Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, distances and redshift [Galaxies], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, evolution [Galaxies], Galaxy, Redshift, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: statistics, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, astro-ph.CO, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: distances and redshifts, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The three-point correlation function (3PCF) is a powerful probe to investigate the clustering of matter in the Universe in a complementary way with respect to lower-order statistics, providing additional information with respect to the two-point correlation function and allowing us to shed light on biasing, nonlinear processes, and deviations from Gaussian statistics. In this paper, we analyse the first data release of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), determining the dependence of the three-point correlation function on luminosity and stellar mass at $z=[0.5,1.1]$. We exploit the VIPERS Public Data Release 1, consisting of more than 50,000 galaxies with B-band magnitudes in the range $-21.6\lesssim M_{\rm B}-5\log(h)\lesssim-19.9$ and stellar masses in the range $9.8\lesssim\log(M_\star[h^{-2}\,M_\odot])\lesssim 10.7$. We measure both the connected 3PCF and the reduced 3PCF in redshift space, probing different configurations and scales, in the range $2.5, Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2017
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23. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): PCA-based automatic cleaning and reconstruction of survey spectra

Author: D. Maccagni, Julien Bel, T. Moutard, Olivier Ilbert, C. Adami, M. Bolzonella, Lidia Tasca, V. Le Brun, M. Scodeggio, D. Bottini, A. Iovino, Katarzyna Małek, P. Franzetti, M. Polletta, Stéphane Arnouts, Iary Davidzon, A. Zanichelli, Ummi Abbas, Benjamin R. Granett, Lauro Moscardini, A. Marchetti, Jean Coupon, Olga Cucciati, G. Zamorani, Daniela Vergani, J. Krywult, Luigi Guzzo, Bianca Garilli, O. Le Fèvre, S. de la Torre, Rita Tojeiro, Alexander Fritz, Federico Marulli, Agnieszka Pollo, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, G. De Lucia, Marchetti, A, Garilli, B., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Iovino, A., Scodeggio, M., Bolzonella, M., De La Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Moutard, T., Moscardini, L., Zamorani, G., 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 de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Granett, B.R., Tasca, L.A.M., Branchini, E., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 ( CPT ), and Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Université de Toulon ( UTLN ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Statistical [Methods], Statistic [Galaxies], Computer science, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Residual, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, surveys, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxies: Statistic, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Galaxies: Statistics, Methods: Statistical, Surveys, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Spurious relationship, Survey, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, methods: statistical, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Pattern recognition, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Principal component analysis, Line (geometry), Artificial intelligence, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], business, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Identifying spurious reduction artefacts in galaxy spectra is a challenge for large surveys. We present an algorithm for identifying and repairing residual spurious features in sky-subtracted galaxy spectra with application to the VIPERS survey. The algorithm uses principal component analysis (PCA) applied to the galaxy spectra in the observed frame to identify sky line residuals imprinted at characteristic wavelengths. We further model the galaxy spectra in the rest-frame using PCA to estimate the most probable continuum in the corrupted spectral regions, which are then repaired. We apply the method to 90,000 spectra from the VIPERS survey and compare the results with a subset where careful editing was performed by hand. We find that the automatic technique does an extremely good job in reproducing the time-consuming manual cleaning and does it in a uniform and objective manner across a large data sample. The mask data products produced in this work are released together with the VIPERS second public data release (PDR-2)., Find the VIPERS data release at http://vipers.inaf.it
Published: 2017
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24. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): The growth of structure at 0.5 < z < 1.2 from redshift-space distortions in the clustering of the PDR-2 final sample

Author: B. Garilli, A. Fritz, Jun Koda, D. Bottini, Stephane Arnouts, B. R. Granett, M. Polletta, M. Bolzonella, P. Franetti, Faizan G. Mohammad, Andrea Pezzotta, T. Moutard, U. Abbas, Jean Coupon, D. Maccagni, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, A. Cappi, John A. Peacock, I. Davidzon, Katarzyna Małek, D. Vergani, L. Moscardini, A. Iovino, Luigi Guzzo, Rita Tojeiro, Federico Marulli, A. Pollo, A. Zanichelli, J. Bel, G. De Lucia, E. Branchini, O. Le Fevre, J. Krywult, C. Adami, L. A. M. Tasca, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Marco Scodeggio, Pezzotta, A., De La Torre, S., Bel, J., Granett, B.R., Guzzo, L., Peacock, J.A., Garilli, B., Scodeggio, M., Bolzonella, M., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L.A.M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Koda, J., Ilbert, O., Mohammad, F., Moutard, T., Moscardini, L., 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 de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), 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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, 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), 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), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Granett, B. R., Peacock, J. A., Tasca, L. A. M., and Koda, Jun
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], Large-scale structure of Universe, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology: observation, Cosmology, Redshift-space distortions, 0103 physical sciences, Sensitivity (control systems), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Physics, statistic [Galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Matter power spectrum, Galaxies: statistic, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Redshift, Galaxy, observations [cosmology], Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: statistics, large-scale structure of Universe, Multipole expansion, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], high-redshift [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present measurements of the growth rate of cosmological structure from the modelling of the anisotropic galaxy clustering measured in the final data release of the VIPERS survey. The analysis is carried out in configuration space and based on measurements of the first two even multipole moments of the anisotropic galaxy auto-correlation function, in two redshift bins spanning the range $0.5 < z < 1.2$. We provide robust and cosmology-independent corrections for the VIPERS angular selection function, allowing recovery of the underlying clustering amplitude at the percent level down to the Mpc scale. We discuss several improvements on the non-linear modelling of redshift-space distortions (RSD) and perform detailed tests of a variety of approaches against a set of realistic VIPERS-like mock realisations. This includes using novel fitting functions to describe the velocity divergence and density power spectra $P_{\theta\theta}$ and $P_{\delta\theta}$ that appear in RSD models. These tests show that we are able to measure the growth rate with negligible bias down to separations of $5h^{-1}Mpc$. Interestingly, the application to real data shows a weaker sensitivity to the details of non-linear RSD corrections compared to mock results. We obtain consistent values for the growth rate times the matter power spectrum normalisation parameter of $f\sigma_8=0.55\pm 0.12$ and $0.40\pm0.11$ at effective redshifts of $z = 0.6$ and $z=0.86$ respectively. These results are in agreement with standard cosmology predictions assuming Einstein gravity in a $\Lambda \rm{CDM}$ background., Comment: 17 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2017
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25. The Herschel-PEP survey: evidence for downsizing in the hosts of dusty star-forming systems

Author: Eckhard Sturm, L. Riguccini, David J. Rosario, I. Valtchanov, P. Popesso, Linda J. Tacconi, Francesca Pozzi, P. Andreani, Dieter Lutz, N. M. Förster Schreiber, D. Elbaz, H. Aussel, J. Cepa, Roberto Maiolino, Raanan Nordon, Andrea Cimatti, S. Berta, Héctor O. Castañeda, E. Le Floc'h, M. Magliocchetti, M. Sánchez-Portal, P. Santini, Reinhard Genzel, Benjamin Magnelli, Giulia Rodighiero, Bruno Altieri, Albrecht Poglitsch, Carlotta Gruppioni, O. Ilbert, Andrea Grazian, M. Magliocchetti, P. Popesso, D. Rosario, D. Lutz, H. Aussel, S. Berta, B. Altieri, P. Andreani, J. Cepa, H. Castaneda, A. Cimatti, D. Elbaz, R. Genzel, A. Grazian, C. Gruppioni, O. Ilbert, E. Le Floc'h, B. Magnelli, R. Maiolino, R. Nordon, A. Poglitsch, F. Pozzi, L. Riguccini, G. Rodighiero, M. Sanchez-Portal, P. Santini, N. M. Forster Schreiber, E. Sturm, L. Tacconi, and I. Valtchanov
Subjects: large-scale structure of the Universe, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, cosmology: observation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Limiting, Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), Correlation function (astronomy), Cosmology, infrared: galaxies, Extended Groth Strip, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: theory, galaxies: statistic, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, Cluster analysis, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: By making use of Herschel-PEP observations of the COSMOS and Extended Groth Strip fields, we have estimated the dependence of the clustering properties of FIR-selected sources on their 100um fluxes. Our analysis shows a tendency for the clustering strength to decrease with limiting fluxes: r0(S100um >8 mJy)~4.3 Mpc and r0(S100um >5 mJy)~5.8 Mpc. These values convert into minimum halo masses Mmin~10^{11.6} Msun for sources brighter than 8 mJy and Mmin~10^{12.4} Msun for S100um > 5 mJy galaxies. We show such an increase of the clustering strength to be due to an intervening population of z~2 sources, which are very strongly clustered and whose relative contribution, equal to about 10% of the total counts at S100um > 2 mJy, rapidly decreases for brighter flux cuts. By removing such a contribution, we find that z ~100 Msun/yr). Our analysis shows that the same amount of (intense) star forming activity takes place in extremely different environments at the different cosmological epochs. For z, Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, to appear in MNRAS
Published: 2013
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26. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) : galaxy segregation inside filaments at z ≃ 0.7

Author: Y. Dubois, C. Pichon, Enzo Branchini, P. Franzetti, A. Cappi, T. Moutard, G. Zamorani, L. A. M. Tasca, Julien Bel, D. Maccagni, T. Sousbie, Adam J. Hawken, B. R. Granett, Alexander Fritz, Lauro Moscardini, G. De Lucia, A. Zanichelli, O. Le Fèvre, Nicola Malavasi, C. Adami, Katarzyna Małek, B. Garilli, Clotilde Laigle, Rita Tojeiro, K. Kraljic, I. Davidzon, Ummi Abbas, Federico Marulli, Agnieszka Pollo, M. Polletta, Daniela Vergani, Marie Treyer, A. Iovino, D. Vibert, O. Cucciati, V. Le Brun, S. de la Torre, O. Ilbert, Luigi Guzzo, Jean Coupon, J. Krywult, S. Arnouts, M. Scodeggio, D. Bottini, M. Bolzonella, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, 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), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), 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), 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), Malavasi, N., Arnouts, S., Vibert, D., de la Torre, S., Moutard, T., Pichon, C., Davidzon, I., Kraljic, K., Bolzonella, M., Guzzo, L., Garilli, B., Scodeggio, M., Granett, B. R., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Malek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Bel, J., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Dubois, Y., Hawken, A., Ilbert, O., Laigle, C., Moscardini, L., Sousbie, T., Treyer, M., Zamorani, G., 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), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -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 ), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ( OCA ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -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 ), 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 Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Granett, B.R., and Branchini, E.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Radio galaxy, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Peculiar galaxy, high-redshift [Galaxies], statistics [Galaxies], galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, large-scale structure of Universe [Cosmology], Galaxy filament, QB Astronomy, Brightest cluster galaxy, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QC, QB, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, statistic [Galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: statistics, Large-scale structure of Universe, Elliptical galaxy, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the first quantitative detection of large-scale filamentary structure at $z \simeq 0.7$ in the large cosmological volume probed by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We use simulations to show the capability of VIPERS to recover robust topological features in the galaxy distribution, in particular the filamentary network. We then investigate how galaxies with different stellar masses and stellar activities are distributed around the filaments and find a significant segregation, with the most massive or quiescent galaxies being closer to the filament axis than less massive or active galaxies. The signal persists even after down-weighting the contribution of peak regions. Our results suggest that massive and quiescent galaxies assemble their stellar mass through successive mergers during their migration along filaments towards the nodes of the cosmic web. On the other hand, low-mass star-forming galaxies prefer the outer edge of filaments, a vorticity rich region dominated by smooth accretion, as predicted by the recent spin alignment theory. This emphasizes the role of large scale cosmic flows in shaping galaxy properties., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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27. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The coevolution of galaxy morphology and colour to z~1

Author: C. Adami, Agnieszka Pollo, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Julien Bel, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, A. Iovino, O. Cucciati, Katarzyna Małek, D. Bottini, M. Scodeggio, A. Zanichelli, S. de la Torre, Daniela Vergani, O. Le Fèvre, P. Franzetti, H. J. McCracken, G. Zamorani, I. Davidzon, U. Abbas, D. Maccagni, L. A. M. Tasca, Adriana Gargiulo, G. De Lucia, Jean Coupon, C. P. Haines, Luigi Guzzo, B. Garilli, M. Polletta, Rita Tojeiro, B. R. Granett, M. Bolzonella, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi, J. Krywult, Lauro Moscardini, S. Arnouts, Alexander Fritz, Federico Marulli, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Krywult, J., Tasca, L. A. M., Pollo, A., Vergani, D., Bolzonella, M., Davidzon, I., Iovino, A., Gargiulo, A., Haines, C. P., Scodeggio, M., Guzzo, L., Zamorani, G., Garilli, B., Granett, B. R., De La Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Tojeiro, R., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Mccracken, H. J., Moscardini, L., Takeuchi, T. T., 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), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF- Milano, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), 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), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CPT - E3 Cosmologie, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), 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 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), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Tasca, L.A.M., Haines, C.P., Granett, B.R., Branchini, E., Mccracken, H.J., and Takeuchi, T.T.
Subjects: Galaxies: statistics, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: general, Galaxies: structure, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, structure [Galaxies], FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Imaging data, Photometry (optics), statistics [Galaxies], evolution, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Physics::Atomic Physics, structure, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, statistic [Galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, general [Galaxies], 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, evolution [Galaxies], Redshift survey, galaxies: general, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Early type, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], QC Physics, statistics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, Cosmic time
Abstract: We explore the evolution of the statistical distribution of galaxy morphological properties and colours over the redshift range $0.5, Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2016
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28. Galaxy environment in the 3D-HST fields. Witnessing the onset of satellite quenching at z ~ 1-2

Author: Rosalind E. Skelton, Philipp Lang, Jeffrey C. C. Chan, Ralf Bender, Erica J. Nelson, Matteo Fossati, J. T. Mendel, Stijn Wuyts, Katherine E. Whitaker, Roberto P. Saglia, David J. Wilman, Ken-ichi Tadaki, Linda J. Tacconi, Gabriel B. Brammer, Emily Wisnioski, Richard Davies, K. Bandara, Reinhard Genzel, William G. Hartley, I. G. Momcheva, Audrey Galametz, N. M. Förster Schreiber, H. Übler, M. Fabricius, Eva Wuyts, Alessandra Beifiori, P. G. van Dokkum, Sandesh K. Kulkarni, Fossati, M, Wilman, D, Mendel, J, Saglia, R, Galametz, A, Beifiori, A, Bender, R, Chan, J, Fabricius, M, Bandara, K, Brammer, G, Davies, R, Forster Schreiber, N, Genzel, R, Hartley, W, Kulkarni, S, Lang, P, Momcheva, I, Nelson, E, Skelton, R, Tacconi, L, Tadaki, K, Ubler, H, Van Dokkum, P, Wisnioski, E, Whitaker, K, Wuyts, E, and Wuyts, S
Subjects: Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), 0103 physical sciences, Satellite galaxy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, methods: statistical, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Accretion (astrophysics), Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: star formation, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: statistic, Halo, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution
Abstract: We make publicly available a catalog of calibrated environmental measures for galaxies in the five 3D-HST/CANDELS deep fields. Leveraging the spectroscopic and grism redshifts from the 3D-HST survey, multi wavelength photometry from CANDELS, and wider field public data for edge corrections, we derive densities in fixed apertures to characterize the environment of galaxies brighter than $JH_{140} < 24$ mag in the redshift range $0.5, Comment: 35 pages, 29 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ. The catalogue of environmental measures is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.168056
Published: 2016
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29. Reconstructing the galaxy density field with photometric redshifts: I. Methodology and validation on stellar mass functions

Author: Lucia Pozzetti, Alessandro Cimatti, Nicola Malavasi, S. Bardelli, O. Cucciati, ITA, Malavasi, N., Pozzetti, L., Cucciati, O., Bardelli, S., and Cimatti, A.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, Aperture, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), 0103 physical sciences, Galaxies: distances and redshift, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Sigma, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Function (mathematics), Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galaxies: clusters: general, Methods: data analysi, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Measuring environment for large numbers of distant galaxies is still an open problem, for which we need galaxy positions and redshifts. Photometric redshifts are more easily available for large numbers of galaxies, but at the price of larger uncertainties than spectroscopic ones. In this work we study how photometric redshifts affect the measurement of galaxy environment and how this may limit an analysis of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) in different environments. Using mock galaxy catalogues, we measured the environment with a fixed aperture method, using each galaxy's true and photometric redshifts. We varied the fixed aperture volume parameters and the photometric redshift uncertainties. We then computed GSMF as a function of redshift and environment. We found that only when using high-precision photometric redshifts with $\sigma_{\Delta z/(1+z)} \le 0.01$, the most extreme environments can be reconstructed in a fairly accurate way, with a fraction $\ge 60\div 80\%$ of galaxies placed in the correct density quartile and a contamination of $\le 10\%$ by opposite quartile interlopers. A volume height comparable to the $\pm 1.5\sigma$ error of photometric redshifts grants a better reconstruction than other volume configurations. When using such an environmental measure, we found that any differences between the starting GSMF (divided accordingly to the true galaxy environment) will be damped on average of $\sim 0.3$ dex when using photometric redshifts, but will be still resolvable. These results may be used to interpret real data as we obtained them in a way that is fairly independent from how well the mock catalogues reproduce the real galaxy distribution. This work represents a preparatory study for future wide area photometric redshift surveys such as the Euclid Survey and we plan to apply these results to an analysis of the GSMF in the UltraVISTA Survey in future work., Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2015
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30. VEGAS-SSS. A VST early-type galaxy survey: analysis of small stellar systems. Testing the methodology on the globular cluster system in NGC 3115

Author: Michele Cantiello, Luca Limatola, Francesco La Barbera, Gabriella Raimondo, Duncan A. Forbes, Marilena Spavone, Massimo Capaccioli, Enrica Iodice, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Nicola R. Napolitano, Maurizio Paolillo, Aniello Grado, Thomas H. Puzia, Pietro Schipani, M., Cantiello, Capaccioli, Massimo, N., Napolitano, A., Grado, L., Limatola, Paolillo, Maurizio, E., Iodice, A. J., Romanowsky, D. A., Forbe, G., Raimondo, M., Spavone, Barbera, F., T. H., Puzia, and P., Schipani
Subjects: Galaxies: statistics, Population, Color, Surveying, Astrophysics, law.invention, Galaxies: individuals, Telescope, law, survey, education, Dwarf galaxy, Physics, education.field_of_study, Galaxies: star clusters: generals, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radius, Galaxies, Color gradient, Stars, Galaxy, galaxies: individual: NGC 3115, Space and Planetary Science, Globular cluster, Magnitude (astronomy), galaxies: star clusters: general, galaxies: stellar content, galaxies: statistic, catalogs, Telescopes
Abstract: We present a study of globular clusters (GCs) and other small stellar systems (SSSs) in the field of NGC 3115, observed as part of the ongoing wide-field imaging survey VEGAS, carried out with the 2.6 m VST telescope. We used deep g and i observations of NGC 3115, a well-studied lenticular galaxy that is covered excellently well in the scientific literature. This is fundamental to test the methodologies, verify the results, and probe the capabilities of the VEGAS-SSS. Leveraging the large field of view of the VST allowed us to accurately study the distribution and properties of SSSs as a function of galactocentric distance, well beyond ~20 galaxy effective radii, in a way that is rarely possible. Our analysis of colors, magnitudes, and sizes of SSS candidates confirms the results from existing studies, some of which were carried out with 8-10 m class telescopes, and further extends them to previously unreached galactocentric distances with similar accuracy. In particular, we find a color bimodality for the GC population and a de Vaucouleurs r1/4 profile for the surface density of GCs similar to the galaxy light profile. The radial color gradient of blue and red GCs previously found, for instance, by the SLUGGS survey with Subaru and Keck data, is further extended out to the largest galactocentric radii inspected, ~65 kpc. In addition, the surface density profiles of blue and red GCs taken separately are well approximated by a r1/4 density profile, with the fraction of blue GCs being slightly larger at larger radii. We do not find hints of a trend for the red GC subpopulation and for the GC turnover magnitude to vary with radius, but we observe a ~0.2 mag difference in the turnover magnitude of the blue and red GC subpopulations. Finally, from inspecting SSS sizes and colors, we obtain a list of ultracompact dwarf galaxies and GC candidates suitable for future spectroscopic follow-up. In conclusion, our study shows i) the reliability of the methodologies developed to study SSSs in the field of bright early-type galaxies; and ii) the great potential of the VEGAS survey to produce original results on SSSs science, mainly thanks to the wide-field imaging adopted. Full Table 3 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to "http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr" (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via "http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/576/A14"
Published: 2015

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

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

Author: G. De Lucia, Pierluigi Monaco, Alessandra Beifiori, D. Wilman, Matteo Fossati, J. T. Mendel, E. Contini, Fabio Fontanot, Michaela Hirschmann, Fossati, M., Wilman, D. J., Fontanot, F., De Lucia, G., Monaco, Pierluigi, Hirschmann, M., Mendel, J. T., Beifiori, A., Contini, Emanuele, Fossati, M, Wilman, D, Fontanot, F, De Lucia, G, Monaco, P, Hirschmann, M, Mendel, J, Beifiori, A, and Contini, E
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Structure formation, Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Large-scale structure of universe, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galactic halo, Galaxy formation and evolution, Satellite galaxy, statistic [galaxies], galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], Physics, Galaxies: statistic, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: high-redshift, large-scale structure of Universe, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Halo, Low Mass, high-redshift [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: A well calibrated method to describe the environment of galaxies at all redshifts is essential for the study of structure formation. Such a calibration should include well understood correlations with halo mass, and the possibility to identify galaxies which dominate their potential well (centrals), and their satellites. Focusing on z = 1 and 2 we propose a method of environmental calibration which can be applied to the next generation of low to medium resolution spectroscopic surveys. Using an up-to-date semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, we measure the local density of galaxies in fixed apertures on different scales. There is a clear correlation of density with halo mass for satellite galaxies, while a significant population of low mass centrals is found at high densities in the neighbourhood of massive haloes. In this case the density simply traces the mass of the most massive halo within the aperture. To identify central and satellite galaxies, we apply an observationally motivated stellar mass rank method which is both highly pure and complete, especially in the more massive haloes where such a division is most meaningful. Finally we examine a test case for the recovery of environmental trends: the passive fraction of galaxies and its dependence on stellar and halo mass for centrals and satellites. With careful calibration, observationally defined quantities do a good job of recovering known trends in the model. This result stands even with reduced redshift accuracy, provided the sample is deep enough to preserve a wide dynamic range of density., Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2015

33. The definition of environment and its relation to the quenching of galaxies at z=1-2 in a hierarchical Universe

Author: Fossati, M, Wilman, D, Fontanot, F, De Lucia, G, Monaco, P, Hirschmann, M, Mendel, J, Beifiori, A, Contini, E, Fossati M., Wilman D. J., Fontanot F., De Lucia G., Monaco P., Hirschmann M., Mendel J. T., Beifiori A., Contini E., Fossati, M, Wilman, D, Fontanot, F, De Lucia, G, Monaco, P, Hirschmann, M, Mendel, J, Beifiori, A, Contini, E, Fossati M., Wilman D. J., Fontanot F., De Lucia G., Monaco P., Hirschmann M., Mendel J. T., Beifiori A., and Contini E.
Abstract: A well-calibrated method to describe the environment of galaxies at all redshifts is essential for the study of structure formation. Such a calibration should include well-understood correlations with halo mass, and the possibility to identify galaxies which dominate their potential well (centrals), and their satellites. Focusing on z ~ 1 and 2, we propose a method of environmental calibration which can be applied to the next generation of low- to medium-resolution spectroscopic surveys. Using an up-to-date semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, we measure the local density of galaxies in fixed apertures on different scales. There is a clear correlation of density with halo mass for satellite galaxies, while a significant population of low-mass centrals is found at high densities in the neighbourhood of massive haloes. In this case, the density simply traces the mass of the most massive halo within the aperture. To identify central and satellite galaxies, we apply an observationally motivated stellar mass rank method which is both highly pure and complete, especially in the more massive haloes where such a division is most meaningful. Finally, we examine a test case for the recovery of environmental trends: the passive fraction of galaxies and its dependence on stellar and halo mass for centrals and satellites. With careful calibration, observationally defined quantities do a good job of recovering known trends in the model. This result stands even with reduced redshift accuracy, provided the sample is deep enough to preserve a wide dynamic range of density.
Published: 2015

34. Exploring the connection between radio and GeV-TeV γ-ray emission in the 1FHL and 2FHL AGN samples

Author: Fabrizio Tavecchio, Filippo D'Ammando, Marcello Giroletti, Vasiliki Pavlidou, M. Orienti, Rocco Lico, L. Costamante, Lico, R., Giroletti, M., Orienti, M., Costamante, L., Pavlidou, V., D'Ammando, F., Tavecchio, F., ITA, and USA
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Radio continuum: galaxie, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Very-long-baseline interferometry, education, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, Galaxies: statistic, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, BL Lacertae objects: general, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxies: Active, Quasars: general, Gamma rays: galaxie, Space and Planetary Science, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Radio wave, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) revealed that blazars, representing the most extreme radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) population, dominate the census of the gamma-ray sky, and a significant correlation was found between radio and gamma-ray emission in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range. However, the possible connection between radio and very high energy (VHE, E>0.1 TeV) emission still remains elusive, owing to the lack of a homogeneous coverage of the VHE sky. The main goal of this work is to quantify and assess the significance of a possible connection between the radio emission on parsec scale measured by the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission in blazars, which is a central issue for understanding the blazar physics and the emission processes. We investigate the radio VLBI and high energy gamma-ray emission by using two large and unbiased AGN samples extracted from the first and second Fermi-LAT catalogs of hard gamma-ray sources detected above 10 GeV (1FHL) and 50 GeV (2FHL). For comparison, we perform the same correlation analysis by using the 0.1-300 GeV gamma-ray energy flux provided by the third Fermi-LAT source catalog. We find that the correlation strength and significance depend on the gamma-ray energy range with a different behavior among the blazar sub-classes. Overall, the radio and gamma-ray emission above 10 GeV turns out to be uncorrelated for the full samples and for all of the blazar sub-classes with the exception of high synchrotron peaked (HSP) objects, which show a strong and significant correlation. On the contrary, when 0.1-300 GeV gamma-ray energies are considered, a strong and significant correlation is found for the full blazar sample as well as for all of the blazar sub-classes. We interpret and explain this correlation behavior within the framework of the blazar spectral energy distribution properties., 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2017
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35. Herschel reveals the obscured star formation in HiZELS H\alpha\ emitters at z=1.47

Author: M. J. Page, V. Arumugam, S. J. Oliver, Francesca Pozzi, Benjamin Magnelli, Kotaro Kohno, Ian Smail, M. Symeonidis, Duncan Farrah, Dieter Lutz, Nick Seymour, A. Conley, Georgios E. Magdis, James E. Geach, Michael Zemcov, Lingyu Wang, L. Riguccini, Julie Wardlow, S. Berta, Antonio Cava, Rob Ivison, Austin Smith, E. Le Floc'h, J. J. Bock, G. Marsden, David Sobral, Philip Best, Edo Ibar, Matthieu Béthermin, Benjamin L. Schulz, Soh Ikarashi, E. Ibar, D. Sobral, P. N. Best, R. J. Ivison, I. Smail, V. Arumugam, S. Berta, M. Bethermin, J. Bock, A. Cava, A. Conley, D. Farrah, J. Geach, S. Ikarashi, K. Kohno, E. Le Floc'h, D. Lutz, G. Magdi, B. Magnelli, G. Marsden, S. J. Oliver, M. J. Page, F. Pozzi, L. Riguccini, B. Schulz, N. Seymour, A. J. Smith, M. Symeonidi, L. Wang, J. Wardlow, and M. Zemcov
Subjects: Stellar mass, galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, star formation [Galaxies], Physical cosmology, high-redshift [Galaxies], statistics [Galaxies], galaxies [Infrared], galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, infrared: galaxie, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxy, Redshift, Stars, starburst [Galaxies], Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: star formation, galaxies: statistic, submillimetre: galaxies, galaxies. [Submillimetre], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We describe the far-infrared (FIR; rest-frame 8--1000\mu m) properties of a sample of 443 H\alpha-selected star-forming galaxies in the COSMOS and UDS fields detected by the HiZELS imaging survey. Sources are identified using narrow-band filters in combination with broad-band photometry to uniformly select H\alpha\ (and [OII] if available) emitters in a narrow redshift slice at z = 1.47+/-0.02. We use a stacking approach in Spitzer, Herschel (from PEP and HerMES surveys) and AzTEC images to describe their typical FIR properties. We find that HiZELS galaxies with observed H\alpha\ luminosities of ~ 10^{8.1-9.1} Lo have bolometric FIR luminosities of typical LIRGs, L_FIR ~ 10^{11.48+/-0.05} Lo. Combining the H\alpha\ and FIR luminosities, we derive median SFR = 32+/-5 Mo/yr and H\alpha\ extinctions of A(H\alpha) = 1.0+/-0.2 mag. Perhaps surprisingly, little difference is seen in typical HiZELS extinction levels compared to local star-forming galaxies. We confirm previous empirical stellar mass (M*) to A(H\alpha) relations and the little or no evolution up to z = 1.47. For HiZELS galaxies, we provide an empirical parametrisation of the SFR as a function of (u-z)_rest colours and 3.6\mu m photometry. We find that the observed H\alpha\ luminosity is a dominant SFR tracer when (u-z)_rest ~< 0.9 mag or when 3.6\mu m photometry > 22 mag (Vega) or when M* < 10^9.7 Mo. We do not find any correlation between the [OII]/H\alpha\ and FIR luminosity, suggesting that this emission line ratio does not trace the extinction of the most obscured star-forming regions. The luminosity-limited HiZELS sample tends to lie above of the so-called `main sequence' for star-forming galaxies, especially at low M*. This work suggests that obscured star formation is linked to the assembly of M*, with deeper potential wells in massive galaxies providing dense, heavily obscured environments in which stars can form rapidly., Comment: abridged abstract
Published: 2013

36. Planck intermediate results VII. Statistical properties of infrared and radio extragalactic sources from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue at frequencies between 100 and 857 GHz

Author: Cardoso, J.-F., Delabrouille, J., Ganga, K., Giraud-Héraud, Y., Patanchon, G., Piat, M., Rosset, C., Smoot, G.F., Lähteenmäki, A., Poutanen, T., Kunz, M., Natoli, P., Polenta, G., Mandolesi, N., Ashdown, M., Hobson, M., Lasenby, A., Bhatia, R., Kneissl, R., Bond, J.R., Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Banday, A.J., Bernard, J.-P., Forni, O., Giard, M., Jaffe, T.R., Montier, L., Pointecouteau, E., Ristorcelli, I., Doré, O., Hildebrandt, S.R., Rocha, G., Lilje, P.B., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., Borrill, J., Rebolo, R., Yvon, D., Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik, Atrio-Barandela, F., Toffolatti, L., Argüeso, F., Rachen, J.P., Scott, D., Colombo, L.P.L., Pierpaoli, E., Kurinsky, N., Sajina, A., Juvela, M., Keihänen, E., Kurki-Suonio, H., Suur-Uski, A.-S., Jones, W.C., White, M., Knox, L., Zonca, A., Wandelt, B.D., Cayón, L., Matarrese, S., Burigana, C., De Bernardis, P., Masi, S., Melchiorri, A., Nati, F., Piacentini, F., Bersanelli, M., Maino, D., Mennella, A., Gregorio, A., Balbi, A., De Gasperis, G., Mazzotta, P., Vittorio, N., Cabella, P., Christensen, P.R., Naselsky, P., Rubiño-Martín, J.A., Dupac, X., Jagemann, T., Leonardi, R., Mendes, L., Giardino, G., Tauber, J.A., Partridge, B., De Zotti, G., Colafrancesco, S., Frailis, M., Galeotta, S., Maris, M., Pasian, F., Zacchei, A., Massardi, M., Cuttaia, F., Finelli, F., Franceschi, E., Gruppuso, A., Morgante, G., Paoletti, D., Ricciardi, S., Sandri, M., Terenzi, L., Valenziano, L., Villa, F., Donzelli, S., Tomasi, M., Ponthieu, N., Türler, M., Mitra, S., Chamballu, A., Clements, D.L., Jaffe, A.H., Mortlock, D., Novikov, D., Rowan-Robinson, M., Chary, R.-R., Chen, X., Paladini, R., Rusholme, B., Benoît, A., Dole, H., Aghanim, N., Aumont, J., Douspis, M., Lagache, G., Pajot, F., Puget, J.-L., Benabed, K., Bouchet, F.R., Colombi, S., Hivon, E., Moneti, A., Prunet, S., Sygnet, J.-F., Fosalba, P., Popa, L., Chiang, L.-Y., Efstathiou, G., Harrison, D., Eriksen, H.K., Hansen, F.K., Barreiro, R.B., Diego, J.M., González-Nuevo, J., Herranz, D., López-Caniego, M., Martínez-González, E., Vielva, P., Crill, B.P., Górski, K.M., Holmes, W.A., Lawrence, C.R., Wade, L.A., Bonaldi, A., Davis, R.J., Dickinson, C., Noviello, F., Henrot-Versillé, S., Perdereau, O., Plaszczynski, S., Tristram, M., Tucci, M., Catalano, A., Coulais, A., Lamarre, J.-M., Arnaud, M., Bethermin, M., Marshall, D.J., Pratt, G.W., Starck, J.-L., MacÍas-Pérez, J.F., Perotto, L., Renault, C., Van Tent, B., Kisner, T.S., Dörl, U., Enßlin, T.A., Knoche, J., Reinecke, M., Riller, T., Murphy, J.A., Novikov, I., Savini, G., Baccigalupi, C., Danese, L., Perrotta, F., Ade, P.A.R., Munshi, D., Sudiwala, R., Osborne, S., Reach, W.T., Battaner, E., Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (HELFA), Institut Néel (NEEL), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Gravitation (APC-Gravitation), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut ) (AEI), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Cosmologie, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), PLANCK, Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Collaboration, P, Ade, P, Aghanim, N, Argueso, F, Arnaud, M, Ashdown, M, Atrio-Barandela, F, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Balbi, A, Banday, A, Barreiro, R, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit, A, Bernard, J, Bersanelli, M, Bethermin, M, Bhatia, R, Bonaldi, A, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Burigana, C, Cabella, P, Cardoso, J, Catalano, A, Cayon, L, Chamballu, A, Chary, R, Chen, X, Chiang, L, Christensen, P, Clements, D, Colafrancesco, S, Colombi, S, Colombo, L, Coulais, A, Crill, B, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davis, R, De Bernardis, P, De Gasperis, G, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, J, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Dore, O, Dorl, U, Douspis, M, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Ensslin, T, Eriksen, H, Finelli, F, Forni, O, Fosalba, P, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Galeotta, S, Ganga, K, Giard, M, Giardino, G, Giraud-Heraud, Y, Gonzalez-Nuevo, J, Gorski, K, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Hansen, F, Harrison, D, Henrot-Versille, S, Hernandez-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, S, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Holmes, W, Jaffe, T, Jaffe, A, Jagemann, T, Jones, W, Juvela, M, Keihanen, E, Kisner, T, Kneissl, R, Knoche, J, Knox, L, Kunz, M, Kurinsky, N, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lahteenmaki, A, Lamarre, J, Lasenby, A, Lawrence, C, Leonardi, R, Lilje, P, Lopez-Caniego, M, Macias-Perez, J, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Maris, M, Marshall, D, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Massardi, M, Matarrese, S, Mazzotta, P, Melchiorri, A, Mendes, L, Mennella, A, Mitra, S, Miville-Deschenes, M, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mortlock, D, Munshi, D, Murphy, J, Naselsky, P, Nati, F, Natoli, P, Nørgaard-Nielsen, H, Norgaard-Nielsen, H, Noviello, F, Novikov, D, Novikov, I, Osborne, S, Pajot, F, Paladini, R, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Pasian, F, Patanchon, G, Perdereau, O, Perotto, L, Perrotta, F, Piacentini, F, Piat, M, Pierpaoli, E, Plaszczynski, S, Pointecouteau, E, Polenta, G, Ponthieu, N, Popa, L, Poutanen, T, Pratt, G, Prunet, S, Puget, J, Rachen, J, Reach, W, Rebolo, R, Reinecke, M, Renault, C, Ricciardi, S, Riller, T, Ristorcelli, I, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Rowan-Robinson, M, Rubino-Martin, J, Rusholme, B, Sajina, A, Sandri, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Smoot, G, Starck, J, Sudiwala, R, Suur-Uski, A, Sygnet, J, Tauber, J, Terenzi, L, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Tristram, M, Tucci, M, Turler, M, Valenziano, L, Van Tent, B, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wade, L, Wandelt, B, White, M, Yvon, D, Zacchei, A, Zonca, A, Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut ) (AEI), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), P. A. R., Ade, N., Aghanim, F., Argüeso, M., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, F., Atrio Barandela, J., Aumont, C., Baccigalupi, A., Balbi, A. J., Banday, R. B., Barreiro, E., Battaner, K., Benabed, A., Benoît, J. P., Bernard, M., Bersanelli, M., Bethermin, R., Bhatia, A., Bonaldi, J. R., Bond, J., Borrill, F. R., Bouchet, C., Burigana, P., Cabella, J. F., Cardoso, A., Catalano, L., Cayón, A., Chamballu, R. R., Chary, X., Chen, L. Y., Chiang, P. R., Christensen, D. L., Clement, S., Colafrancesco, S., Colombi, L. P. L., Colombo, A., Coulai, B. P., Crill, F., Cuttaia, L., Danese, R. J., Davi, P., de Bernardi, G., de Gasperi, G., de Zotti, J., Delabrouille, C., Dickinson, J. M., Diego, H., Dole, S., Donzelli, O., Doré, U., Dörl, M., Douspi, X., Dupac, G., Efstathiou, T. A., Enßlin, H. K., Eriksen, F., Finelli, O., Forni, P., Fosalba, M., Fraili, E., Franceschi, S., Galeotta, K., Ganga, M., Giard, G., Giardino, Y., Giraud Héraud, J., González Nuevo, K. M., Górski, Gregorio, Anna, A., Gruppuso, F. K., Hansen, D., Harrison, S., Henrot Versillé, C., Hernández Monteagudo, D., Herranz, S. R., Hildebrandt, E., Hivon, M., Hobson, W. A., Holme, T. R., Jaffe, A. H., Jaffe, T., Jagemann, W. C., Jone, M., Juvela, E., Keihänen, T. S., Kisner, R., Kneissl, J., Knoche, L., Knox, M., Kunz, N., Kurinsky, H., Kurki Suonio, G., Lagache, A., Lähteenmäki, J. M., Lamarre, A., Lasenby, C. R., Lawrence, R., Leonardi, P. B., Lilje, M., López Caniego, J. F., Macías Pérez, D., Maino, N., Mandolesi, M., Mari, D. J., Marshall, E., Martínez González, S., Masi, M., Massardi, S., Matarrese, P., Mazzotta, A., Melchiorri, L., Mende, A., Mennella, S., Mitra, M. A., Miville Deschêne, A., Moneti, L., Montier, G., Morgante, D., Mortlock, D., Munshi, J. A., Murphy, P., Naselsky, F., Nati, P., Natoli, H. U., Nørgaard Nielsen, F., Noviello, D., Novikov, I., Novikov, S., Osborne, F., Pajot, R., Paladini, D., Paoletti, B., Partridge, F., Pasian, G., Patanchon, O., Perdereau, L., Perotto, F., Perrotta, F., Piacentini, M., Piat, E., Pierpaoli, S., Plaszczynski, E., Pointecouteau, G., Polenta, N., Ponthieu, L., Popa, T., Poutanen, G. W., Pratt, S., Prunet, J. L., Puget, J. P., Rachen, W. T., Reach, R., Rebolo, M., Reinecke, C., Renault, S., Ricciardi, T., Riller, I., Ristorcelli, G., Rocha, C., Rosset, M., Rowan Robinson, J. A., Rubiño Martín, B., Rusholme, A., Sajina, M., Sandri, G., Savini, D., Scott, G. F., Smoot, J. L., Starck, R., Sudiwala, A. S., Suur Uski, J. F., Sygnet, J. A., Tauber, L., Terenzi, L., Toffolatti, M., Tomasi, M., Tristram, M., Tucci, M., Türler, L., Valenziano, B., Van Tent, P., Vielva, F., Villa, N., Vittorio, L. A., Wade, B. D., Wandelt, M., White, D., Yvon, A., Zacchei, A., Zonca, Anne Lähteenmäki Group, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, HELFA - Hélium : du fondamental aux applications, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut ) (AEI), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astronomy, cosmology: observations, surveys, galaxies: statistics, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: star formation, galaxies: active, Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Cosmology: observation, Spectral line, Luminosity, statistics [Galaxies], Radio astronomy, observations [Cosmology], Survey, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: active, CMB cold spot, active [galaxies], symbols, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, star formation [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, observation [cosmology], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Galaxies: statistics, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, education, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, survey, statistic [galaxies], Planck, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Luminous infrared galaxy, Galaxies: star formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: statistic, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky
Abstract: We make use of the Planck all-sky survey to derive number counts and spectral indices of extragalactic sources-infrared and radio sources-from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) at 100 to 857 GHz (3 mm to 350 μm). Three zones (deep, medium and shallow) of approximately homogeneous coverage are used to permit a clean and controlled correction for incompleteness, which was explicitly not done for the ERCSC, as it was aimed at providing lists of sources to be followed up. Our sample, prior to the 80% completeness cut, contains between 217 sources at 100 GHz and 1058 sources at 857 GHz over about 12 800 to 16 550 deg2 (31 to 40% of the sky). After the 80% completeness cut, between 122 and 452 and sources remain, with flux densities above 0.3 and 1.9 Jy at 100 and 857 GHz. The sample so defined can be used for statistical analysis. Using the multi-frequency coverage of the Planck High Frequency Instrument, all the sources have been classified as either dust-dominated (infrared galaxies) or synchrotron-dominated (radio galaxies) on the basis of their spectral energy distributions (SED). Our sample is thus complete, flux-limited and color-selected to differentiate between the two populations. We find an approximately equal number of synchrotron and dusty sources between 217 and 353 GHz; at 353 GHz or higher (or 217 GHz and lower) frequencies, the number is dominated by dusty (synchrotron) sources, as expected. For most of the sources, the spectral indices are also derived. We provide for the first time counts of bright sources from 353 to 857 GHz and the contributions from dusty and synchrotron sources at all HFI frequencies in the key spectral range where these spectra are crossing. The observed counts are in the Euclidean regime. The number counts are compared to previously published data (from earlier Planck results, Herschel, BLAST, SCUBA, LABOCA, SPT, and ACT) and models taking into account both radio or infrared galaxies, and covering a large range of flux densities. We derive the multi-frequency Euclidean level-the plateau in the normalised differential counts at high flux-density-and compare it to WMAP, Spitzer and IRAS results. The submillimetre number counts are not well reproduced by current evolution models of dusty galaxies, whereas the millimetre part appears reasonably well fitted by the most recent model for synchrotron-dominated sources. Finally we provide estimates of the local luminosity density of dusty galaxies, providing the first such measurements at 545 and 857 GHz. © 2013 ESO., The development of Planck has been supported by: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MICINN and JA (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and PRACE (EU).
Published: 2013
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37. QUASI-PERIODICITIES AT YEAR-LIKE TIMESCALES IN BLAZARS

Author: Massimo Dotti, Angela Sandrinelli, Stefano Covino, Aldo Treves, Sandrinelli, A, Covino, S, Dotti, M, and Treves, A
Subjects: Nir light, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), BL Lacertae objects: individual (PKS 0537441, OJ 287, 3C 379, PKS 1510-089, PKS 2005489), (PKS 2155304), 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), PKS 2155-304, Physics, Near-infrared spectroscopy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: general, Light curve, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: photometry, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: statistic, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Noise (radio), Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We searched for quasi-periodicities on year-like timescales in the light curves of 6 blazars in the optical - near infrared bands and we made a comparison with the high energy emission. We obtained optical/NIR light curves from REM photometry plus archival SMARTS data and we accessed the Fermi light curves for the $\gamma$-ray data. The periodograms often show strong peaks in the optical and gamma-ray bands, which in some cases may be inter-related. The significance of the revealed peaks is then discussed, taking into account that the noise is frequency dependent. Quasi-periodicities on a year-like timescale appear to occur often in blazars. No straightforward model describing these possible periodicities is yet available, but some plausible interpretations for the physical mechanisms causing periodic variabilities of these sources are examined., Comment: 31 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Published: 2016
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38. Black holes in pseudobulges: demography and models

Author: Smita Mathur, Mariangela Bernardi, Francesco Shankar, Federico Marulli, F. Bournaud, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), University of Bologna, Space Science Institute [Boulder] (SSI), Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), F. Shankar, F. Marulli, S. Mathur, M. Bernardi, F. Bournaud, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Bologna/Università di Bologna, Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Instability, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Bulge, cosmology: theory, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Scaling, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Mode (statistics), galaxies: bulge, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: statistic, galaxies: structure, galaxies: nuclei, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Demography, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: There is mounting evidence that a significant fraction of Black Holes (BHs) today live in late-type galaxies, including bulge-less galaxies and those hosting pseudobulges, and are significantly undermassive with respect to the scaling relations followed by their counterpart BHs in classical bulges of similar stellar (or even bulge) mass. Here we discuss the predictions of two state-of-the-art hierarchical galaxy formation models in which BHs grow via mergers and, in one, also via disk instability. Our aim is to understand if the wealth of new data on local BH demography is consistent with standard models. We follow the merger trees of representative subsamples of BHs and compute the fractional contributions of different processes to the final BH mass. We show that the model in which BHs always closely follow the growth of their host bulges, also during late disk instabilities (i.e., bars), produces too narrow a distribution of BHs at fixed stellar mass to account for the numerous low-mass BHs now detected in later-type galaxies. Models with a looser connection between BH growth and bar instability instead predict the existence of a larger number of undermassive BHs, in better agreement with the observations. The scatter in the updated local BH-bulge mass relation (with no restriction on galaxy type) appears to be quite large when including later-type systems, but it can still be managed to be reproduced within current hierarchical models. However, the fuelling of BHs during the late bar-instability mode needs to be better quantified/improved to properly fit the data. We conclude discussing how the possibly large number of BHs in later type galaxies demands for an in-depth revision of the local BH mass function and its modelling., 9 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted by A&A
Published: 2012
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39. GOODS-Herschel: Ultra-deep XMM-Newton observations reveal AGN/star-formation connection

Author: W. N. Brandt, Piero Ranalli, Francisco J. Carrera, Ivan Valtchanov, I. Georgantopoulos, Rob Ivison, James Mullaney, David M. Alexander, Mark Dickinson, Roberto Gilli, David Elbaz, Bruno Altieri, Cristian Vignali, Glenn Morrison, Andrea Comastri, A. Del Moro, Vassilis Charmandaris, Nico Cappelluti, Eric J. Murphy, Emanuele Daddi, Georgios E. Magdis, Emmanouel Rovilos, Paola Popesso, Herve Aussel, Andrea Merloni, Benjamin Magnelli, Helmut Dannerbauer, G. Zamorani, Elisabeta Lusso, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Roger Leiton, Douglas Scott, Ho Seong Hwang, Universidad de Cantabria, Rovilos E., Comastri A., Gilli R., Georgantopoulos I., Ranalli P., Vignali C., Lusso E., Cappelluti N., Zamorani G., Elbaz D., Dickinson M., Hwang H.S., Charmandaris V., Ivison R.J., Merloni A., Daddi E., Carrera F.J., Brandt W.N., Mullaney J.R., Scott D., Alexander D.M., Del Moro A., Morrison G., Murphy E.J., Altieri B., Aussel H., Dannerbauer H., Kartaltepe J., Leiton R., Magdis G., Magnelli B., Popesso P., Valtchanov I., Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS/NOA), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Lund Observatory, Lund University [Lund], Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Department of Chemistry, Inha University - Incheon, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Royal Observatory Edinburgh (ROE), University of Edinburgh, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Department of Physics, Durham University, XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, European Space Agency (ESA), AUTRES, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)
Subjects: QSOS, Seyfert [Galaxies], Galaxies: Seyfert, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), active [Galaxies], Galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: star formation, Infrared: galaxies, X-rays: galaxies, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, star formation [Galaxies], Spectral line, Luminosity, statistics [Galaxies], galaxies [Infrared], 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, galaxies [X-rays], Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: statistic, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], X-rays: galaxie, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Models of galaxy evolution assume some connection between the AGN and star formation activity in galaxies. We use the multi-wavelength information of the CDFS to assess this issue. We select the AGNs from the 3 Ms XMM-Newton survey and measure the star-formation rates of their hosts using data that probe rest-frame wavelengths longward of 20 μm, predominantly from deep 100 μm and 160 μm Herschel observations, but also from Spitzer-MIPS-70 μm. Star-formation rates are obtained from spectral energy distribution fits, identifying and subtracting an AGN component. Our sample consists of sources in the z ≈ 0.5-4 redshift range, with star-formation rates SFR ≈ 10 1-10 3 M ⊙ yr -1 and stellar masses M * ≈ 10 10-10 11.5 M ⊙. We divide the star-formation rates by the stellar masses of the hosts to derive specific star-formation rates (sSFR) and find evidence for a positive correlation between the AGN activity (proxied by the X-ray luminosity) and the sSFR for themost active systems with X-ray luminosities exceeding L x ≃ 10 43 erg s -1 and redshifts z ≥ 1. We do not find evidence for such a correlation for lower luminosity systems or those at lower redshifts, consistent with previous studies. We do not find any correlation between the SFR (or the sSFR) and the X-ray absorption derived from high-quality XMM-Newton spectra either, showing that the absorption is likely to be linked to the nuclear region rather than the host, while the star-formation is not nuclear. Comparing the sSFR of the hosts to the characteristic sSFR of star-forming galaxies at the same redshift (the so-called >main sequence>) we find that the AGNs reside mostly in main-sequence and starburst hosts, reflecting the AGN-sSFR connection; however the infrared selection might bias this result. Limiting our analysis to the highest X-ray luminosity AGNs (X-ray QSOs with L x > 10 44 erg s -1), we find that the highest-redshift QSOs (with z ≥ 2) reside predominantly in starburst hosts, with an average sSFR more than double that of the >main sequence>, and we find a few cases of QSOs at z ≈ 1.5 with specific star-formation rates compatible with the main-sequence, or even in the >quiescent> region. Finally, we test the reliability of the colour-magnitude diagram (plotting the rest-frame optical colours against the stellar mass) in assessing host properties, and find a significant correlation between rest-frame colour (without any correction for AGN contribution or dust extinction) and sSFR excess relative to the "main sequence" at a given redshift. This means that the most "starbursty" objects have the bluest rest-frame colours., We acknowledge financial contribution from the agreement ASI-INAF I/009/10/00. E.R. acknowledges financial support from the Marie-Curie Fellowship grant RF040294. F.J.C. acknowledges financial support for this work by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the grant AYA2010-21490-C02-01. D.M.A. and A.D.M. acknowledge support from the STFC.
Published: 2012
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40. The Role of Galaxy Stellar Mass in the Colour–Density Relation up to z ~ 1

Author: Olga Cucciati, A. Iovino, Katarina Kovac, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, and K. Kovac
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), cosmology: observation, Stellar mass, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Spectral line, Galaxy, Redshift, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: statistic, Local environment, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: fundamental parameter
Abstract: It is well known that galaxy properties correlate with the local environment in which galaxies reside. In contrast, it is still matter of debate why and when these environmental dependences originate, and whether only one "main" property depends on environment, thus driving all the others environmental dependences via the correlations among properties themselves. We use the first ˜ 10, 000 spectra of the zCOSMOS sample (I = 1. 15 is higher for lower delta. Given the triple dependence among galaxy colours, stellar mass and delta, the colour-delta relation that we find can be due to the broad range of stellar masses embedded in the sample. We find that once mass is fixed the colour-delta relation is globally flat up to z ˜ 1 for galaxies with log(M / M sun ) >= 10. 7. On the contrary, even at fixed mass we observe that within 0. 1
Published: 2011
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41. The zCOSMOS-Bright survey: the clustering of early and late galaxy morphological types since z≃ 1

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

42. Stochastic star formation and a (nearly) uniform stellar initial mass function

Author: Michele Fumagalli, Mark R. Krumholz, Robert L. da Silva, Fumagalli, M, Da Silva, R, and Krumholz, M
Subjects: Initial mass function, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, stars: statistic, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Dwarf galaxy, Physics, Star formation, Sampling (statistics), Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: dwarf, Galaxy, Star cluster, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: star formation, galaxies: statistic, galaxies: stellar content, ultraviolet: galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Recent observations indicate a lower Halpha to FUV ratio in dwarf galaxies than in brighter systems, a trend that could be explained by a truncated and/or steeper IMF in small galaxies. However, at low star formation rates (SFRs), the Halpha to FUV ratio can vary due to stochastic sampling even for a universal IMF, a hypothesis that has, prior to this work, received limited investigation. Using SLUG, a fully stochastic code for synthetic photometry in star clusters and galaxies, we compare the Halpha and FUV luminosity in a sample of ~450 nearby galaxies with models drawn from a universal Kroupa IMF and a modified IMF, the integrated galactic initial mass function (IGIMF). Once random sampling and time evolution are included, a Kroupa IMF convolved with the cluster mass function reproduces the observed Halpha distribution at all FUV luminosities, while a truncated IMF as implemented in current IGIMF models underpredicts the Halpha luminosity by more than an order of magnitude at the lowest SFRs. We conclude that the observed luminosity is the result of the joint probability distribution function of the SFR, cluster mass function, and a universal IMF, consistent with parts of the IGIMF theory, but that a truncation in the IMF in clusters is inconsistent with the observations. Future work will examine stochastic star formation and its time dependence in detail to study whether random sampling can explain other observations that suggest a varying IMF., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in ApJL
Published: 2011
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43. The luminosity function of the NoSOCS galaxy cluster sample

Author: De Filippis, E., Paolillo, M., Longo, G., La Barbera, F., de Carvalho, R. R., Gal, R., E., De Filippi, Paolillo, Maurizio, Longo, Giuseppe, F., La Barbera, R. R., de Carvalho, and R., Gal
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Galaxies: statistic, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Galaxies: evolution, Large-scale structure of universe, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies: clusters: general, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the analysis of the luminosity function of a large sample of galaxy clusters from the Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey, using latest data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our global luminosity function (down to M_r, Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2011

44. The PEP survey: clustering of infrared-selected galaxies and structure formation at z ∼ 2 in GOODS-South

Author: Magliocchetti M., Santini P., Rodighiero G., Grazian A., Aussel H., Altieri B., Andreani P., Berta S., Cepa J., Castañeda H., Daddi E., Elbaz D., Genzel R., Gruppioni C., Lutz D., Magnelli B., Maiolino R., Popesso P., Poglitsch A., Sanchez Portal M., Förster Schreiber N. M., Sturm E., Tacconi L., Valtchanov I., CIMATTI, ANDREA, POZZI, FRANCESCA, Magliocchetti M., Santini P., Rodighiero G., Grazian A., Aussel H., Altieri B., Andreani P., Berta S., Cepa J., Castañeda H., Cimatti A., Daddi E., Elbaz D., Genzel R., Gruppioni C., Lutz D., Magnelli B., Maiolino R., Popesso P., Poglitsch A., Pozzi F., Sanchez-Portal M., Förster Schreiber N. M., Sturm E., Tacconi L., and Valtchanov I.
Subjects: cosmology: observation, cosmology: theory, galaxies: statistic, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, infrared: galaxies
Abstract: This paper presents the first direct estimate of the 3D clustering properties of far-infrared sources up to z˜ 3. This has been possible thanks to the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) survey of the GOODS-South field performed with the PACS instrument on board the Herschel satellite. 550 and 502 sources were detected respectively in the 100- and 160-μm channels down to fluxes ? mJy and ? mJy, cuts that ensure >80 per cent completeness of the two catalogues. More than 65 per cent of these sources have an (either photometric or spectroscopic) redshift determination from the MUSIC catalogue; this percentage rises to ˜95 per cent in the inner portion of GOODS-South which is covered by data at other wavelengths. An analysis of the deprojected two-point correlation function w(θ) over the whole redshift range spanned by the data reports for the (comoving) correlation length, r0˜ 6.3 and ˜6.7 Mpc, respectively at 100 and 160 μm, corresponding to dark matter halo masses M≳ 1012.4 M⊙, in an excellent agreement with previous estimates obtained for mid-IR selected sources in the same field. Objects at z˜ 2 instead seem to be more strongly clustered, with r0˜ 19 and ˜17 Mpc in the two considered PACS channels. This dramatic increase of the correlation length between z˜ 1 and ˜2 is connected with the presence, more visible at 100 μm than in the other band, of a wide (at least 4 Mpc across in projection), M≳ 1014 M⊙, filamentary structure which includes more than 50 per cent of the sources detected at z˜ 2. An investigation of the properties of such sources indicates the possibility of a boosted star-forming activity in those which reside within the overdense environment with respect to more isolated galaxies found in the same redshift range. If confirmed by larger data sets, this result can be explained as due to the combined effect of large reservoirs of gas available at high redshifts in deep potential wells such as those associated with large overdensities and the enhanced rate of encounters between sources favoured by their relative proximity. Lastly, we also present our results on the evolution of the relationship between luminous and dark matter in star-forming galaxies between z˜ 1 and ˜2. We find that the increase in (average) stellar mass in galaxies between z˜ 1 and ˜2 is about a factor of 10 lower than that of the dark matter haloes hosting such objects (z˜ 1/z˜ 2˜ 4 × 10-1 versus Mz˜ 1halo/Mhaloz˜ 2˜ 4 × 10-2). When compared with recent results taken from the literature, our findings agree with the evolutionary picture of downsizing whereby massive galaxies at z˜ 2 were more actively forming stars than their z˜ 1 counterparts, while at the same time they contained a lower fraction of their mass in the form of luminous matter. Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by the European-led Principal Investigator consortia, with an important participation from NASA.
Published: 2011

45. Planck intermediate results VII. Statistical properties of infrared and radio extragalactic sources from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue at frequencies between 100 and 857 GHz

Author: Collaboration, P, Ade, P, Aghanim, N, Argueso, F, Arnaud, M, Ashdown, M, Atrio-Barandela, F, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Balbi, A, Banday, A, Barreiro, R, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit, A, Bernard, J, Bersanelli, M, Bethermin, M, Bhatia, R, Bonaldi, A, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Burigana, C, Cabella, P, Cardoso, J, Catalano, A, Cayon, L, Chamballu, A, Chary, R, Chen, X, Chiang, L, Christensen, P, Clements, D, Colafrancesco, S, Colombi, S, Colombo, L, Coulais, A, Crill, B, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davis, R, De Bernardis, P, De Gasperis, G, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, J, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Dore, O, Dorl, U, Douspis, M, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Ensslin, T, Eriksen, H, Finelli, F, Forni, O, Fosalba, P, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Galeotta, S, Ganga, K, Giard, M, Giardino, G, Giraud-Heraud, Y, Gonzalez-Nuevo, J, Gorski, K, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Hansen, F, Harrison, D, Henrot-Versille, S, Hernandez-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, S, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Holmes, W, Jaffe, T, Jaffe, A, Jagemann, T, Jones, W, Juvela, M, Keihanen, E, Kisner, T, Kneissl, R, Knoche, J, Knox, L, Kunz, M, Kurinsky, N, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lahteenmaki, A, Lamarre, J, Lasenby, A, Lawrence, C, Leonardi, R, Lilje, P, Lopez-Caniego, M, Macias-Perez, J, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Maris, M, Marshall, D, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Massardi, M, Matarrese, S, Mazzotta, P, Melchiorri, A, Mendes, L, Mennella, A, Mitra, S, Miville-Deschenes, M, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mortlock, D, Munshi, D, Murphy, J, Naselsky, P, Nati, F, Natoli, P, Nørgaard-Nielsen, H, Norgaard-Nielsen, H, Noviello, F, Novikov, D, Novikov, I, Osborne, S, Pajot, F, Paladini, R, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Pasian, F, Patanchon, G, Perdereau, O, Perotto, L, Perrotta, F, Piacentini, F, Piat, M, Pierpaoli, E, Plaszczynski, S, Pointecouteau, E, Polenta, G, Ponthieu, N, Popa, L, Poutanen, T, Pratt, G, Prunet, S, Puget, J, Rachen, J, Reach, W, Rebolo, R, Reinecke, M, Renault, C, Ricciardi, S, Riller, T, Ristorcelli, I, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Rowan-Robinson, M, Rubino-Martin, J, Rusholme, B, Sajina, A, Sandri, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Smoot, G, Starck, J, Sudiwala, R, Suur-Uski, A, Sygnet, J, Tauber, J, Terenzi, L, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Tristram, M, Tucci, M, Turler, M, Valenziano, L, Van Tent, B, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wade, L, Wandelt, B, White, M, Yvon, D, Zacchei, A, Zonca, A, Planck Collaboration, P.A.R. Ade, N. Aghanim, F. Argueso, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, F. Atrio-Barandela, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A.J. Banday, R.B. Barreiro, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoit, J.P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, M. Bethermin, R. Bhatia, A. Bonaldi, J.R. Bond, J. Borrill, F.R. Bouchet, C. Burigana, P. Cabella, J.F. Cardoso, A. Catalano, L. Cayon, A. Chamballu, R.R. Chary, X. Chen, L.Y. Chiang, P.R. Christensen, D.L. Clements, S. Colafrancesco, S. Colombi, L.P.L. Colombo, A. Coulais, B.P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, L. Danese, R.J. Davis, Paolo De Bernardis, G. De Gasperis, G. De Zotti, J. Delabrouille, C. Dickinson, J.M. Diego, H. Dole, S. Donzelli, O. Dore, U. Dorl, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, G. Efstathiou, T.A. Ensslin, H.K. Eriksen, F. Finelli, O. Forni, P. Fosalba, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, S. Galeotta, K. Ganga, M. Giard, G. Giardino, Y. Giraud-Heraud, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, K.M. Gorski, A. Gregorio, A. Gruppuso, F.K. Hansen, D. Harrison, S. Henrot-Versille, C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, D. Herranz, S.R. Hildebrandt, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W.A. Holmes, T.R. Jaffe, A.H. Jaffe, T. Jagemann, W.C. Jones, M. Juvela, E. Keihanen, T.S. Kisner, R. Kneissl, J. Knoche, L. Knox, M. Kunz, N. Kurinsky, H. Kurki-Suonio, G. Lagache, A. Lahteenmaki, J.M. Lamarre, A. Lasenby, C.R. Lawrence, R. Leonardi, P.B. Lilje, M. Lopez-Caniego, J.F. Macias-Perez, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, M. Maris, D.J. Marshall, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, Silvia Masi, M. Massardi, S. Matarrese, P. Mazzotta, Alessandro Melchiorri, L. Mendes, A. Mennella, S. Mitra, M.A. Miville-Deschenes, A. Moneti, L. Montier, G. Morgante, D. Mortlock, D. Munshi, J.A. Murphy, P. Naselsky, Federico Nati, P. Natoli, H.U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, H.U. Norgaard-Nielsen, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, I. Novikov, S. Osborne, F. Pajot, R. Paladini, D. Paoletti, B. Partridge, F. Pasian, G. Patanchon, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, F. Perrotta, Francesco Piacentini, M. Piat, E. Pierpaoli, S. Plaszczynski, E. Pointecouteau, Gianluca Polenta, N. Ponthieu, L. Popa, T. Poutanen, G.W. Pratt, S. Prunet, J.L. Puget, J.P. Rachen, W.T. Reach, R. Rebolo, M. Reinecke, C. Renault, S. Ricciardi, T. Riller, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, M. Rowan-Robinson, J.A. Rubino-Martin, B. Rusholme, A. Sajina, M. Sandri, Giorgio Savini, D. Scott, G.F. Smoot, J.L. Starck, R. Sudiwala, A.S. Suur-Uski, J.F. Sygnet, J.A. Tauber, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, M. Tristram, M. Tucci, M. Turler, L. Valenziano, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, F. Villa, N. Vittorio, L.A. Wade, B.D. Wandelt, M. White, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei, A. Zonca, Collaboration, P, Ade, P, Aghanim, N, Argueso, F, Arnaud, M, Ashdown, M, Atrio-Barandela, F, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Balbi, A, Banday, A, Barreiro, R, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit, A, Bernard, J, Bersanelli, M, Bethermin, M, Bhatia, R, Bonaldi, A, Bond, J, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Burigana, C, Cabella, P, Cardoso, J, Catalano, A, Cayon, L, Chamballu, A, Chary, R, Chen, X, Chiang, L, Christensen, P, Clements, D, Colafrancesco, S, Colombi, S, Colombo, L, Coulais, A, Crill, B, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davis, R, De Bernardis, P, De Gasperis, G, De Zotti, G, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, J, Dole, H, Donzelli, S, Dore, O, Dorl, U, Douspis, M, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Ensslin, T, Eriksen, H, Finelli, F, Forni, O, Fosalba, P, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Galeotta, S, Ganga, K, Giard, M, Giardino, G, Giraud-Heraud, Y, Gonzalez-Nuevo, J, Gorski, K, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Hansen, F, Harrison, D, Henrot-Versille, S, Hernandez-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, S, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Holmes, W, Jaffe, T, Jaffe, A, Jagemann, T, Jones, W, Juvela, M, Keihanen, E, Kisner, T, Kneissl, R, Knoche, J, Knox, L, Kunz, M, Kurinsky, N, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lahteenmaki, A, Lamarre, J, Lasenby, A, Lawrence, C, Leonardi, R, Lilje, P, Lopez-Caniego, M, Macias-Perez, J, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Maris, M, Marshall, D, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Massardi, M, Matarrese, S, Mazzotta, P, Melchiorri, A, Mendes, L, Mennella, A, Mitra, S, Miville-Deschenes, M, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mortlock, D, Munshi, D, Murphy, J, Naselsky, P, Nati, F, Natoli, P, Nørgaard-Nielsen, H, Norgaard-Nielsen, H, Noviello, F, Novikov, D, Novikov, I, Osborne, S, Pajot, F, Paladini, R, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Pasian, F, Patanchon, G, Perdereau, O, Perotto, L, Perrotta, F, Piacentini, F, Piat, M, Pierpaoli, E, Plaszczynski, S, Pointecouteau, E, Polenta, G, Ponthieu, N, Popa, L, Poutanen, T, Pratt, G, Prunet, S, Puget, J, Rachen, J, Reach, W, Rebolo, R, Reinecke, M, Renault, C, Ricciardi, S, Riller, T, Ristorcelli, I, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Rowan-Robinson, M, Rubino-Martin, J, Rusholme, B, Sajina, A, Sandri, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Smoot, G, Starck, J, Sudiwala, R, Suur-Uski, A, Sygnet, J, Tauber, J, Terenzi, L, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Tristram, M, Tucci, M, Turler, M, Valenziano, L, Van Tent, B, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wade, L, Wandelt, B, White, M, Yvon, D, Zacchei, A, Zonca, A, Planck Collaboration, P.A.R. Ade, N. Aghanim, F. Argueso, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, F. Atrio-Barandela, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balbi, A.J. Banday, R.B. Barreiro, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoit, J.P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, M. Bethermin, R. Bhatia, A. Bonaldi, J.R. Bond, J. Borrill, F.R. Bouchet, C. Burigana, P. Cabella, J.F. Cardoso, A. Catalano, L. Cayon, A. Chamballu, R.R. Chary, X. Chen, L.Y. Chiang, P.R. Christensen, D.L. Clements, S. Colafrancesco, S. Colombi, L.P.L. Colombo, A. Coulais, B.P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, L. Danese, R.J. Davis, Paolo De Bernardis, G. De Gasperis, G. De Zotti, J. Delabrouille, C. Dickinson, J.M. Diego, H. Dole, S. Donzelli, O. Dore, U. Dorl, M. Douspis, X. Dupac, G. Efstathiou, T.A. Ensslin, H.K. Eriksen, F. Finelli, O. Forni, P. Fosalba, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, S. Galeotta, K. Ganga, M. Giard, G. Giardino, Y. Giraud-Heraud, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, K.M. Gorski, A. Gregorio, A. Gruppuso, F.K. Hansen, D. Harrison, S. Henrot-Versille, C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, D. Herranz, S.R. Hildebrandt, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W.A. Holmes, T.R. Jaffe, A.H. Jaffe, T. Jagemann, W.C. Jones, M. Juvela, E. Keihanen, T.S. Kisner, R. Kneissl, J. Knoche, L. Knox, M. Kunz, N. Kurinsky, H. Kurki-Suonio, G. Lagache, A. Lahteenmaki, J.M. Lamarre, A. Lasenby, C.R. Lawrence, R. Leonardi, P.B. Lilje, M. Lopez-Caniego, J.F. Macias-Perez, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, M. Maris, D.J. Marshall, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, Silvia Masi, M. Massardi, S. Matarrese, P. Mazzotta, Alessandro Melchiorri, L. Mendes, A. Mennella, S. Mitra, M.A. Miville-Deschenes, A. Moneti, L. Montier, G. Morgante, D. Mortlock, D. Munshi, J.A. Murphy, P. Naselsky, Federico Nati, P. Natoli, H.U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, H.U. Norgaard-Nielsen, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, I. Novikov, S. Osborne, F. Pajot, R. Paladini, D. Paoletti, B. Partridge, F. Pasian, G. Patanchon, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, F. Perrotta, Francesco Piacentini, M. Piat, E. Pierpaoli, S. Plaszczynski, E. Pointecouteau, Gianluca Polenta, N. Ponthieu, L. Popa, T. Poutanen, G.W. Pratt, S. Prunet, J.L. Puget, J.P. Rachen, W.T. Reach, R. Rebolo, M. Reinecke, C. Renault, S. Ricciardi, T. Riller, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, C. Rosset, M. Rowan-Robinson, J.A. Rubino-Martin, B. Rusholme, A. Sajina, M. Sandri, Giorgio Savini, D. Scott, G.F. Smoot, J.L. Starck, R. Sudiwala, A.S. Suur-Uski, J.F. Sygnet, J.A. Tauber, L. Terenzi, L. Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, M. Tristram, M. Tucci, M. Turler, L. Valenziano, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, F. Villa, N. Vittorio, L.A. Wade, B.D. Wandelt, M. White, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei, and A. Zonca
Abstract: We make use of the Planck all-sky survey to derive number counts and spectral indices of extragalactic sources - infrared and radio sources - from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC) at 100 to 857 GHz (3mm to 350 mu m). Three zones (deep, medium and shallow) of approximately homogeneous coverage are used to permit a clean and controlled correction for incompleteness, which was explicitly not done for the ERCSC, as it was aimed at providing lists of sources to be followed up. Our sample, prior to the 80% completeness cut, contains between 217 sources at 100 GHz and 1058 sources at 857 GHz over about 12 800 to 16 550 deg(2) (31 to 40% of the sky). After the 80% completeness cut, between 122 and 452 and sources remain, with flux densities above 0.3 and 1.9 Jy at 100 and 857 GHz. The sample so defined can be used for statistical analysis. Using the multi-frequency coverage of the Planck High Frequency Instrument, all the sources have been classified as either dust-dominated (infrared galaxies) or synchrotron-dominated (radio galaxies) on the basis of their spectral energy distributions (SED). Our sample is thus complete, flux-limited and color-selected to differentiate between the two populations. We find an approximately equal number of synchrotron and dusty sources between 217 and 353 GHz; at 353 GHz or higher (or 217 GHz and lower) frequencies, the number is dominated by dusty (synchrotron) sources, as expected. For most of the sources, the spectral indices are also derived. We provide for the first time counts of bright sources from 353 to 857 GHz and the contributions from dusty and synchrotron sources at all HFI frequencies in the key spectral range where these spectra are crossing. The observed counts are in the Euclidean regime. The number counts are compared to previously published data (from earlier Planck results, Herschel, BLAST, SCUBA, LABOCA, SPT, and ACT) and models taking into account both radio or infrared galaxies, and covering a
Published: 2013

46. Which Factors Shape Galaxy Evolution?

Author: Iovino, A., Cucciati, O., Marco Scodeggio, Knobel, K., Kovac, K., Lilly, S., Zcosmos Team, A. Iovino, O. Cucciati, M. Scodeggio, K. Knobel, K. Kovac, S. Lilly, and Team
Subjects: large scale structure of Universe, galaxies: distances and redshift, cosmology: observation, SAMPLE, galaxies: statistic, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: fundamental parameter
Abstract: Using samples of isolated and groups galaxies obtained from the first 10000 zCOSMOS-bright high quality redshifts, we study in detail the complex interplay between environment and galaxy evolution. Our main result is that galaxies of log(M(*)/M(circle dot)) approximate to 10.8 do not show any strong environmental dependency up to z similar to 1. In contrast, for masses below this value and at redshift lower than z similar to 1, we witness the emergence of what we call nurture red galaxies: galaxies that slightly deviate from the trend of the downsizing scenario displayed by the global galaxy population and do more so as cosmic time progresses. There are various mechanisms occurring in groups (gradual cessation of star formation induced by gentle gas stripping and starvation by a diffuse intragroup medium, or by slow group-scale harassment), and that are more efficient for less massive galaxies. Our analysis implies that these mechanisms begin to significantly influence galaxy evolution after z similar to 1, a redshift corresponding to the emergence of structures in which these mechanisms take place.
Published: 2010

47. Recovering the non-linear density field from the galaxy distribution with a Poisson-lognormal filter

Author: Kitaura, Francisco S., Jasche, Jens, Metcalf, R. Benton, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Jasche, Jen, and Metcalf, R. Benton
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, Galaxies: statistic, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: clusters: general, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Catalogue, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a general expression for a lognormal filter given an arbitrary nonlinear galaxy bias. We derive this filter as the maximum a posteriori solution assuming a lognormal prior distribution for the matter field with a given mean field and modeling the observed galaxy distribution by a Poissonian process. We have performed a three-dimensional implementation of this filter with a very efficient Newton-Krylov inversion scheme. Furthermore, we have tested it with a dark matter N-body simulation assuming a unit galaxy bias relation and compared the results with previous density field estimators like the inverse weighting scheme and Wiener filtering. Our results show good agreement with the underlying dark matter field for overdensities even above delta~1000 which exceeds by one order of magnitude the regime in which the lognormal is expected to be valid. The reason is that for our filter the lognormal assumption enters as a prior distribution function, but the maximum a posteriori solution is also conditioned on the data. We find that the lognormal filter is superior to the previous filtering schemes in terms of higher correlation coefficients and smaller Euclidean distances to the underlying matter field. We also show how it is able to recover the positive tail of the matter density field distribution for a unit bias relation down to scales of about >~2 Mpc/h., 17 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
Published: 2010

48. The Galaxy Color-mass-density Relation up to z=1

Author: CUCCIATI, OLGA, A. Iovino, K. Kovavc, Team, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, K. Kovavc, and Team
Subjects: cosmology: observation, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: statistic, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: fundamental parameter
Abstract: We use the first 10k spectra of the zCOSMOS sample (I
Published: 2010

49. Building the cosmic infrared background brick by brick withHerschel/PEP

Author: Bruno Altieri, Albrecht Poglitsch, Stijn Wuyts, Linda J. Tacconi, Ivan Valtchanov, Raanan Nordon, Miguel Sánchez-Portal, Paola Andreani, N. M. Foerster Schreiber, J. Cepa, Reinhard Genzel, E. Le Floc'h, Giulia Rodighiero, E. Sturm, Benjamin Magnelli, Herve Aussel, Francesca Pozzi, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Andrea Cimatti, S. Berta, Héctor O. Castañeda, Paola Popesso, David Elbaz, L. Riguccini, Dieter Lutz, Emanuele Daddi, Roberto Maiolino, Berta S., Magnelli B., Nordon R., Lutz D., Wuyts S., Altieri B., Andreani P., Aussel H., Castañeda H., Cepa J., Cimatti A., Daddi E., Elbaz D., Förster Schreiber N. M., Genzel R., Le Floc'h E., Maiolino R., Pérez-Fournon I., Poglitsch A., Popesso P., Pozzi F., Riguccini L., Rodighiero G., Sanchez-Portal M., Sturm E., Tacconi L. J., and Valtchanov I.
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Infrared, infrared: galaxie, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, infrared: diffuse background, Galaxy, Redshift, Wavelength, Space and Planetary Science, Cosmic infrared background, galaxies: statistic, Surface brightness, galaxies: evolution, Order of magnitude, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The cosmic infrared background (CIB) includes roughly half of the energy radiated by all galaxies at all wavelengths across cosmic time, as observed at the present epoch. The PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) survey is exploited here to study the CIB and its redshift differential, at 70, 100 and 160 micron, where the background peaks. Combining PACS observations of the GOODS-S, GOODS-N, Lockman Hole and COSMOS areas, we define number counts spanning over more than two orders of magnitude in flux: from ~1 mJy to few hundreds mJy. Stacking of 24 micron sources and P(D) statistics extend the analysis down to ~0.2 mJy. Taking advantage of the wealth of ancillary data in PEP fields, differential number counts and CIB are studied up to z=5. Based on these counts, we discuss the effects of confusion on PACS blank field observations and provide confusion limits for the three bands considered. The total CIB surface brightness emitted above PEP 3 sigma flux limits is 4.52 +/- 1.18, 8.35 +/- 0.95 and 9.49 +/- 0.59 [nW/m2/sr] at 70, 100, and 160 micron, respectively. These values correspond to 58 +/- 7% and 74 +/- 5% of the COBE/DIRBE CIB direct measurements at 100 and 160 micron. Employing the P(D) analysis, these fractions increase to ~65% and ~89%. More than half of the resolved CIB was emitted at redshift z1.0 sources reaches 50% at 160 micron. Most of the CIB resolved in the three PACS bands was emitted by galaxies with infrared luminosities in the range 1e11-1e12 L(sun)., Proposed for acceptance on A&A
Published: 2011
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