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1. Neutron personal dosimetry using polyallyl diglycol carbonate (PADC): Current status, best practices and proposed research

Author: M. Bolzonella, I. Ambrožová, M. Caresana, N. Gibbens, P. Gilvin, F. Mariotti, A. Savary, A. Stabilini, F.A. Vittoria, E.G. Yukihara, and M.-A. Chevallier
Subjects: Neutron dosimetry, PADC, CR-39, Solid-state nuclear track detector (SSNTD), Passive dosimetry, Personal detector, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the current status in neutron personal dosimetry based on poly allyl diglycol carbonate (PADC), also commonly known by the commercial name CR-39, to summarize the best practices in the field, and to point future research directions. An overview of the fundamentals of the technique is given, including a discussion on the PADC material, main parameters and characteristics, practical considerations, dosimetry approaches, and relevant standards. This work also summarizes the best practices adopted by individual monitoring services (IMSs) and discusses the research needed to improve the performance of this type of neutron dosimetry technique, as well as the challenges that make progress difficult. This work is based on the knowledge and experience of several laboratories and investigators and is part of the activities of the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS) Working Group 2 –Harmonization of Individual Monitoring in Europe (WG2).
Published: 2022
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2. No strong dependence of Lyman continuum leakage on physical properties of star-forming galaxies at ≲ z ≲ 3.5

Author: A Saxena, L Pentericci, R S Ellis, L Guaita, A Calabrò, D Schaerer, E Vanzella, R Amorín, M Bolzonella, M Castellano, F Fontanot, N P Hathi, P Hibon, M Llerena, F Mannucci, A Saldana-Lopez, M Talia, and G Zamorani
Published: 2021
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3. Euclid: the selection of quiescent and star-forming galaxies using observed colours

Author: L Bisigello, U Kuchner, C J Conselice, S Andreon, M Bolzonella, P-A Duc, B Garilli, A Humphrey, C Maraston, M Moresco, L Pozzetti, C Tortora, G Zamorani, N Auricchio, J Brinchmann, V Capobianco, J Carretero, F J Castander, M Castellano, S Cavuoti, A Cimatti, R Cledassou, G Congedo, L Conversi, L Corcione, M S Cropper, S Dusini, M Frailis, E Franceschi, P Franzetti, M Fumana, F Hormuth, H Israel, K Jahnke, S Kermiche, T Kitching, R Kohley, B Kubik, M Kunz, O Le Fèvre, S Ligori, P B Lilje, I Lloro, E Maiorano, O Marggraf, R Massey, D C Masters, S Mei, Y Mellier, G Meylan, C Padilla, S Paltani, F Pasian, V Pettorino, S Pires, G Polenta, M Poncet, F Raison, J Rhodes, M Roncarelli, E Rossetti, R Saglia, M Sauvage, P Schneider, A Secroun, S Serrano, F Sureau, A N Taylor, I Tereno, R Toledo-Moreo, L Valenziano, Y Wang, M Wetzstein, and J Zoubian
Published: 2020
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4. Constraining Lyman-alpha spatial offsets at 3 < z < 5.5 from VANDELS slit spectroscopy

Author: A Hoag, T Treu, L Pentericci, R Amorin, M Bolzonella, M Bradač, M Castellano, F Cullen, J P U Fynbo, B Garilli, L Guaita, N Hathi, A Henry, T Jones, C Mason, D McLeod, R McLure, T Morishita, L Pozzetti, D Schaerer, K B Schmidt, M Talia, and R Thomas
Published: 2019
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5. A combined VANDELS and LEGA-C study: the evolution of quiescent galaxy size, stellar mass, and age from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3

Author: M L Hamadouche, A C Carnall, R J McLure, J S Dunlop, D J McLeod, F Cullen, R Begley, M Bolzonella, F Buitrago, M Castellano, O Cucciati, A Fontana, A Gargiulo, M Moresco, L Pozzetti, and G Zamorani
Subjects: Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, star formation [galaxies], evolution [galaxies], high-redshift [galaxies]
Abstract: We study the relationships between stellar mass, size, and age within the quiescent population, using two mass-complete spectroscopic samples with log10(M⋆/M⊙) > 10.3, taken from VANDELS at 1.0 < z < 1.3, and LEGA-C at 0.6 < z < 0.8. Using robust Dn4000 values, we demonstrate that the well-known ‘downsizing’ signature is already in place by z ≃ 1.1, with Dn4000 increasing by ≃ 0.1 across a ≃ 1 dex mass interval for both VANDELS and LEGA-C. We then proceed to investigate the evolution of the quiescent galaxy stellar mass–size relation from z ≃ 1.1 to z ≃ 0.7. We find the median size increases by a factor of 1.9 ± 0.1 at log10(M⋆/M⊙) = 10.5, and see tentative evidence for flattening of the relation, finding slopes of α = 0.72 ± 0.06 and α=0.56±0.04 for VANDELS and LEGA-C, respectively. We finally split our sample into galaxies above and below our fitted mass–size relations, to investigate how size and Dn4000 correlate. For LEGA-C, we see a clear difference, with larger galaxies found to have smaller Dn4000 at fixed stellar mass. Due to the faintness and smaller numbers of the VANDELS sample, we cannot confirm whether a similar relation exists at z ≃ 1.1. We consider whether differences in stellar age or metallicity are most likely to drive this size–Dn4000 relation, finding that any metallicity differences are unlikely to fully explain the observed offset, meaning smaller galaxies must be older than their larger counterparts. We find the observed evolution in size, mass, and Dn4000 across the ≃ 2 Gyr from z ∼ 1.1 to z ∼ 0.7 can be explained by a simple toy model in which VANDELS galaxies evolve passively whilst experiencing a series of minor mergers.
Published: 2022
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6. The VANDELS survey: a strong correlation between Ly α equivalent width and stellar metallicity at 3 ≤ z ≤ 5

Author: A. Calabrò, O. Cucciati, G. Zamorani, D. J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure, Nimish P. Hathi, Lucia Guaita, B. Garilli, James Dunlop, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Laura Pentericci, Mauro Giavalisco, Marco Castellano, Margherita Talia, Andrea Cimatti, Fergus Cullen, Adriano Fontana, M. Bolzonella, A. Saxena, Ricardo Amorín, Giovanni Cresci, A. C. Carnall, F. Mannucci, Michele Cirasuolo, Fabio Fontanot, Matt J. Jarvis, Lucia Pozzetti, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alice E. Shapley, ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, Cullen, F, McLure, RJ, Dunlop, JS, Carnall, AC, McLeod, DJ, Shapley, AE, Amorin, R, Bolzonella, M, Castellano, M, Cimatti, A, Cirasuolo, M, Cucciati, O, Fontana, A, Fontanot, F, Garilli, B, Guaita, L, Jarvis, MJ, Pentericci, L, Pozzetti, L, Talia, M, Zamorani, G, Calabro, A, Cresci, G, Fynbo, JPU, Hathi, NP, Giavalisco, M, Koekemoer, A, Mannucci, F, and Saxena, A
Subjects: Physics, education.field_of_study, Stellar population, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, astro-ph.GA, Metallicity, Population, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Spectral line, galaxies: high-redshift, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Spectral fitting, galaxies: evolution, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Equivalent width, evolution [galaxies], high-redshift [galaxies]
Abstract: We present the results of a new study investigating the relationship between observed Ly α equivalent width (Wλ(Ly α)) and the metallicity of the ionizing stellar population ( Z⋆) for a sample of 768 star-forming galaxies at 3 ≤ z ≤ 5 drawn from the VANDELS survey. Dividing our sample into quartiles of rest-frame Wλ(Ly α) across the range $-58 \,\rm {\mathring{\rm A}} \lesssim$ Wλ(Ly α) $\lesssim 110 \,\rm {\mathring{\rm A}}$ , we determine Z⋆ from full spectral fitting of composite far-ultraviolet spectra and find a clear anticorrelation between Wλ(Ly α) and Z⋆. Our results indicate that Z⋆ decreases by a factor ≳ 3 between the lowest Wλ(Ly α) quartile (λ(Ly α) $\rangle =-18\,\rm {\mathring{\rm A}}$ ) and the highest Wλ(Ly α) quartile (λ(Ly α) $\rangle =24\,\rm {\mathring{\rm A}}$ ). Similarly, galaxies typically defined as Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs; Wλ(Ly α) $\gt 20\,\rm {\mathring{\rm A}}$ ) are, on average, metal poor with respect to the non-LAE galaxy population (Wλ(Ly α) $\le 20\,\rm {\mathring{\rm A}}$ ) with Z⋆non-LAE ≳ 2 × Z⋆LAE. Finally, based on the best-fitting stellar models, we estimate that the increasing strength of the stellar ionizing spectrum towards lower Z⋆ is responsible for ${\simeq}15{-}25{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the observed variation in Wλ(Ly α) across our sample, with the remaining contribution ( ${\simeq}75{-}85{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ) being due to a decrease in the H I/dust covering fractions in low- Z⋆ galaxies.
Published: 2020
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7. Euclid: Constraining ensemble photometric redshift distributions with stacked spectroscopy

Author: M. S. Cagliari, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo, M. Bolzonella, L. Pozzetti, I. Tutusaus, S. Camera, A. Amara, N. Auricchio, R. Bender, C. Bodendorf, D. Bonino, E. Branchini, M. Brescia, V. Capobianco, C. Carbone, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, M. Castellano, S. Cavuoti, A. Cimatti, R. Cledassou, G. Congedo, C. J. Conselice, L. Conversi, Y. Copin, L. Corcione, M. Cropper, H. Degaudenzi, M. Douspis, F. Dubath, S. Dusini, A. Ealet, S. Ferriol, N. Fourmanoit, M. Frailis, E. Franceschi, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, C. Giocoli, A. Grazian, F. Grupp, S. V. H. Haugan, H. Hoekstra, W. Holmes, F. Hormuth, P. Hudelot, K. Jahnke, S. Kermiche, A. Kiessling, M. Kilbinger, T. Kitching, M. Kümmel, M. Kunz, H. Kurki-Suonio, S. Ligori, P. B. Lilje, I. Lloro, E. Maiorano, O. Mansutti, O. Marggraf, K. Markovic, R. Massey, M. Meneghetti, E. Merlin, G. Meylan, M. Moresco, L. Moscardini, S. M. Niemi, C. Padilla, S. Paltani, F. Pasian, K. Pedersen, W. J. Percival, V. Pettorino, S. Pires, M. Poncet, L. Popa, F. Raison, R. Rebolo, J. Rhodes, H.-W. Rix, M. Roncarelli, E. Rossetti, R. Saglia, R. Scaramella, P. Schneider, M. Scodeggio, A. Secroun, G. Seidel, S. Serrano, C. Sirignano, G. Sirri, D. Tavagnacco, A. N. Taylor, I. Tereno, R. Toledo-Moreo, E. A. Valentijn, L. Valenziano, Y. Wang, N. Welikala, J. Weller, G. Zamorani, J. Zoubian, M. Baldi, R. Farinelli, E. Medinaceli, S. Mei, G. Polenta, E. Romelli, T. Vassallo, A. Humphrey, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), 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)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Cagliari, M. S., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., Bolzonella, M., Pozzetti, L., Tutusaus, I., Camera, S., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Cropper, M., Degaudenzi, H., Douspis, M., Dubath, F., Dusini, S., Ealet, A., Ferriol, S., Fourmanoit, N., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Franzetti, P., Garilli, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kummel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Massey, R., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Niemi, S. M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Rhodes, J., Rix, H. -W., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Scaramella, R., Schneider, P., Scodeggio, M., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Wang, Y., Welikala, N., Weller, J., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Baldi, M., Farinelli, R., Medinaceli, E., Mei, S., Polenta, G., Romelli, E., Vassallo, T., Humphrey, A., ITA, Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, European Space Agency, Academy of Finland, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (France), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
Subjects: statistical [Methods], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, data analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 114 Physical sciences, methods, scale, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Methods: data analysis, galaxies, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], Galaxies: distances and redshift, Large-scale structure of the Universe, distances and redshifts, data analysis [Methods], dark energy survey, Methods: statistical, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Space and Planetary Science, complete calibration, statistical, Methods: data analysi, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Euclid Consortium: M. S. Cagliari et al., [Context] The ESA Euclid mission will produce photometric galaxy samples over 15 000 square degrees of the sky that will be rich for clustering and weak lensing statistics. The accuracy of the cosmological constraints derived from these measurements will depend on the knowledge of the underlying redshift distributions based on photometric redshift calibrations., [Aims] A new approach is proposed to use the stacked spectra from Euclid slitless spectroscopy to augment broad-band photometric information to constrain the redshift distribution with spectral energy distribution fitting. The high spectral resolution available in the stacked spectra complements the photometry and helps to break the colour-redshift degeneracy and constrain the redshift distribution of galaxy samples., [Methods] We modelled the stacked spectra as a linear mixture of spectral templates. The mixture may be inverted to infer the underlying redshift distribution using constrained regression algorithms. We demonstrate the method on simulated Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Euclid mock survey data sets based on the Euclid Flagship mock galaxy catalogue. We assess the accuracy of the reconstruction by considering the inference of the baryon acoustic scale from angular two-point correlation function measurements., [Results] We selected mock photometric galaxy samples at redshift z > 1 using the self-organising map algorithm. Considering the idealised case without dust attenuation, we find that the redshift distributions of these samples can be recovered with 0.5% accuracy on the baryon acoustic scale. The estimates are not significantly degraded by the spectroscopic measurement noise due to the large sample size. However, the error degrades to 2% when the dust attenuation model is left free. We find that the colour degeneracies introduced by attenuation limit the accuracy considering the wavelength coverage of Euclid near-infrared spectroscopy., The Euclid Consortium acknowledges the European Space Agency and a number of agencies and institutes that have supported the development of Euclid, in particular the Academy of Finland, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, the Belgian Science Policy, the Canadian Euclid Consortium, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt, the Danish Space Research Institute, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Netherlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie, the Norwegian Space Agency, the Romanian Space Agency, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) at the Swiss Space Office (SSO), and the United Kingdom Space Agency. A complete and detailed list is available on the Euclid web site (http://www.euclid-ec.org). This work has made use of CosmoHub. CosmoHub has been developed by the Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), maintained through a collaboration of the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT) and the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC & IEEC), and was partially funded by the “Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación” programme of the Spanish government.
Published: 2022
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8. No strong dependence of Lyman continuum leakage on physical properties of star-forming galaxies at ≲ z ≲ 3.5

Author: A Saxena, L Pentericci, R S Ellis, L Guaita, A Calabrò, D Schaerer, E Vanzella, R Amorín, M Bolzonella, M Castellano, F Fontanot, N P Hathi, P Hibon, M Llerena, F Mannucci, A Saldana-Lopez, M Talia, and G Zamorani
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation escape fraction $f_{\rm{esc}}$ measurements for 183 spectroscopically confirmed star-forming galaxies in the redshift range $3.11 < z < 3.53$ in the \textit{Chandra} Deep Field South. We use ground-based imaging to measure $f_{\rm{esc}}$, and use ground- and space-based photometry to derive galaxy physical properties using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. We additionally derive [O III]+H$\beta$ equivalent widths (that fall in the observed K band) by including nebular emission in the SED fitting. After removing foreground contaminants, we report the discovery of 11 new candidate LyC leakers, with absolute LyC escape fractions, $f_{\rm{esc}}$ in the range $0.14-0.85$. From non-detections, we place $1\sigma$ upper limits of $f_{\rm{esc}}300$A. For candidate LyC leakers, we find a weak negative correlation between $f_{\rm{esc}}$ and galaxy stellar masses, no correlation between $f_{\rm{esc}}$ specific star-formation rates (sSFRs) and a positive correlation between $f_{\rm{esc}}$ and EW$_0$([O III]+H$\beta$). The weak/no correlations between stellar mass and sSFRs may be explained by misaligned viewing angles and/or non-coincident timescales of starburst activity and periods of high $f_{\rm{esc}}$. Alternatively, escaping radiation may predominantly occur in highly localised star-forming regions, or $f_{\rm{esc}}$ measurements may be impacted by stochasticity of the intervening neutral medium, obscuring any global trends with galaxy properties. These hypotheses have important consequences for models of reionisation.
Published: 2022

9. The VANDELS survey: the stellar metallicities of star-forming galaxies at $\mathbf {2.5\,\, \lt\,\, z\,\, \lt\,\, 5.0}$

Author: Marco Castellano, Margherita Talia, Laura Pentericci, M. Bolzonella, Ross J. McLure, James Dunlop, Johan P. U. Fynbo, F. Marchi, Pascale Hibon, Ricardo Amorín, Fabio Fontanot, B. Garilli, Adriana Gargiulo, G. Zamorani, Lucia Guaita, D. J. McLeod, Fergus Cullen, Andrea Cimatti, Giovanni Cresci, A. C. Carnall, Romeel Davé, Lucia Pozzetti, Michele Cirasuolo, F. Mannucci, Nimish P. Hathi, Sadegh Khochfar, Alice E. Shapley, Cullen F., McLure R.J., Dunlop J.S., Khochfar S., Dave R., Amorin R., Bolzonella M., Carnall A.C., Castellano M., Cimatti A., Cirasuolo M., Cresci G., Fynbo J.P.U., Fontanot F., Gargiulo A., Garilli B., Guaita L., Hathi N., Hibon P., Mannucci F., Marchi F., McLeod D.J., Pentericci L., Pozzetti L., Shapley A.E., Talia M., and Zamorani G.
Subjects: Stellar mass, Stellar population, astro-ph.GA, Star (game theory), Metallicity, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: evolution, Order (ring theory), high redshift [galaxies], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxies: high redshift, Redshift, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the results of a study utilising ultra-deep, rest-frame UV, spectroscopy to quantify the relationship between stellar mass and stellar metallicity for 681 star-forming galaxies at $2.5, Comment: 21 pages (+ appendix), 13 figures, MNRAS accepted
Published: 2019
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10. Shaping physical properties of galaxy subtypes in the VIPERS survey: Environment matters

Author: M. Siudek, K. Małek, A. Pollo, A. Iovino, C. P. Haines, M. Bolzonella, O. Cucciati, A. Gargiulo, B. Granett, J. Krywult, T. Moutard, M. Scodeggio, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: groups: general, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: stellar content, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims. This study aims to explore the relationship between the physical properties of different galaxy subclasses and their environment based on the analysis of 31 631 VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) galaxies observed at 0.5 < z < 0.9. Methods. We use the results of an unsupervised clustering algorithm to distinguish 11 subclasses of VIPERS galaxies based on the multi-dimensional feature space defined by rest-frame UV to NIR colours presented in Siudek et al (2018a). We investigate the relationship between the properties of these subclasses of galaxies and their local environment, defined as the galaxy density contrast derived from the 5th nearest neighbour technique. Results. We confirm that the galaxy population-density relation is already in place at z ~ 0.9, with the blue galaxy fraction decreasing with density, compensated by an increase of the red fraction. On average red galaxies in the high-density environment are larger by 28% than the ones in low-density environments. In particular, we find one group of galaxies, subclass C3, whose increase of size with time can be explained mainly as the result of mergers; for other red subclasses, mergers would not seem to play a major role (subclass C2) or play a negligible role (subclass C1). The properties of the green galaxies (subclasses C4-6) depend on whether their stellar mass is above or below a transition mass. Low-mass green galaxies appear to have grown through secular processes, while in high-mass green galaxies mass assembly appears to be dominated by mergers. When it comes to blue galaxies, the trend of decreasing fraction with denser environments seen for the group as a whole (subclasses C7-11) is found to be driven mostly by one group of galaxies, subclass C10. These are compact low-mass galaxies with high sSFRs, that are preferentially found in low-density environments., Accepted for publication in A&A. 15 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2022
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11. The NIRVANDELS Survey: a robust detection of α-enhancement in star-forming galaxies at z 3.4

Author: Naveen A. Reddy, Marco Castellano, G. Zamorani, Alice E. Shapley, Ross J. McLure, F. Mannucci, M. Bolzonella, A. Calabrò, Ricardo Amorín, Adriano Fontana, M. Hamadouche, Michele Cirasuolo, Nimish P. Hathi, Fergus Cullen, Michael W. Topping, James Dunlop, Ryan L. Sanders, L. Guaita, Fabio Fontanot, R. Begley, D. J. McLeod, Andrea Cimatti, Giovanni Cresci, A. C. Carnall, Laura Pentericci, Margherita Talia, A. Saxena, B. Garilli, Cullen F., Shapley A.E., McLure R.J., Dunlop J.S., Sanders R.L., Topping M.W., Reddy N.A., Amorin R., Begley R., Bolzonella M., Calabro A., Carnall A.C., Castellano M., Cimatti A., Cirasuolo M., Cresci G., Fontana A., Fontanot F., Garilli B., Guaita L., Hamadouche M., Hathi N.P., Mannucci F., McLeod D.J., Pentericci L., Saxena A., Talia M., and Zamorani G.
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, astro-ph.GA, Star (game theory), Metallicity, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxies: high redshift, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxies: abundance
Abstract: We present results from the NIRVANDELS survey investigating the gas-phase metallicity ($\mathrm{Z}_{\mathrm{gas}}$, tracing O/H) and stellar metallicity ($Z_{\star}$, tracing Fe/H) of 33 star-forming galaxies at redshifts $2.95 < z < 3.80$. Based on a combined analysis of deep optical and near-IR spectra, tracing the rest-frame far ultraviolet and rest-frame optical respectively, we present the first simultaneous determination of the stellar and gas-phase mass-metallicity relationships (MZRs) at $z\simeq3.4$. In both cases, we find that metallicity increases with increasing stellar mass ($M_{\star}$), and that the power-law slope at $M_{\star} \lesssim 10^{10} \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ of both MZRs scales as $Z \propto M_{\star}^{0.3}$. Comparing the stellar and gas-phase MZRs, we present direct evidence for super-solar O/Fe ratios (i.e., $\alpha$-enhancement) at $z>3$, finding $\mathrm{(O/Fe)}\simeq (2.54 \pm 0.38) \times \mathrm{(O/Fe)}_{\odot}$, with no clear dependence on $M_{\star}$., Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted
Published: 2021
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12. 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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13. Redshift identification of X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei in the J1030 field: searching for large-scale structures and high-redshift sources

Author: S. Marchesi, M. Mignoli, R. Gilli, A. Peca, M. Bolzonella, R. Nanni, M. Annunziatella, B. Balmaverde, M. Brusa, F. Calura, L. P. Cassarà, M. Chiaberge, A. Comastri, F. Cusano, Q. D’Amato, K. Iwasawa, G. Lanzuisi, D. Marchesini, T. Morishita, I. Prandoni, A. Rossi, P. Tozzi, C. Vignali, F. Vito, G. Zamorani, C. Norman, ITA, USA, and JPN
Subjects: Seyfert [Galaxies], Active galactic nucleus, Galaxies: Seyfert, Scale (ratio), Field (physics), Large-scale structure of Universe, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Quasars: supermassive black holes, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, high-redshift [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, X-ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, galaxies [X-rays], X-rays: galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), supermassive black holes [Quasars]
Abstract: We publicly release the spectroscopic and photometric redshift catalog of the sources detected with Chandra in the field of the $z$=6.3 quasar SDSS J1030+0525. This is currently the fifth deepest X-ray field, and reaches a 0.5-2 keV flux limit $f_{\rm 0.5-2}$=6$\times$10$^{-17}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$. By using two independent methods, we measure a photometric redshift for 243 objects, while 123 (51%) sources also have a spectroscopic redshift, 110 of which coming from an INAF-Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Strategic Program. We use the spectroscopic redshifts to determine the quality of the photometric ones, and find it in agreement with that of other X-ray surveys which used a similar number of photometric data-points. In particular, we measure a sample normalized median absolute deviation $\sigma_{NMAD}$=1.48||$z_{phot}$-$z_{spec}$||/(1+$z_{spec}$)=0.065. We use these new spectroscopic and photometric redshifts to study the properties of the Chandra J1030 field. We observe several peaks in our spectroscopic redshift distribution between $z$=0.15 and $z$=1.5, and find that the sources in each peak are often distributed across the whole Chandra field of view. This evidence confirms that X-ray selected AGN can efficiently track large-scale structures over physical scales of several Mpc. Finally, we computed the Chandra J1030 $z>$3 number counts: while the spectroscopic completeness at high-redshift of our sample is limited, our results point towards a potential source excess at $z\geq$4, which we plan to either confirm or reject in the near future with dedicated spectroscopic campaigns., Comment: 21 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2021

14. Characterization of a novel passive personal fast neutron dosimeter based on a CR-39 track detector in monochromatic neutron fields via Monte Carlo simulations and experiments

Author: M. Bolzonella, M. Ferrarini, Marco Caresana, and R. Babut
Subjects: Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Medical Physics, Monte Carlo method, 01 natural sciences, Monte Carlo simulations, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, FLUKA, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, Personal dosimetry, Dosimetry, Neutron, CR-39, Instrumentation, 010302 applied physics, Radiation, Dosimeter, Equivalent dose, Detector, Passive dosimeters, Computational physics, Neutron fields, chemistry, Monochromatic color, CR–39
Abstract: The response in terms of personal dose equivalent of a passive fast neutron dosimeter composed of a CR-39 detector coupled with a 1 -cm-thick PMMA radiator is investigated in monochromatic neutron fields via simulations and experiments. In particular, the simulations were performed through the Monte Carlo FLUKA code (version 2011.2x.5), while the experimental fields were produced at the AMANDE facility (IRSN, France). The dosimeter response is studied with respect to both the energy and the angle of incidence of the radiation field on the device. The simulated response shows a quite stationary trend, that is, minimal variation across a wide energy range, also for different irradiation angles. The agreement between simulated and experimental responses indicates the simple and cheap dosimeter presented as promising for personal dosimetry applications in practical situations.
Published: 2021
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15. The properties of He IIλ1640 emitters at z ∼ 2.5-5 from the VANDELS survey

Author: Nimish P. Hathi, Casey Papovich, M. Mirabelli, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Daniel Schaerer, Marco Castellano, Lucia Pozzetti, Adriano Fontana, G. Zamorani, O. Cucciati, B. Garilli, M. Bolzonella, Lucia Guaita, Ross J. McLure, Angela Bongiorno, Margherita Talia, F. Marchi, Adriana Gargiulo, T. Hutchison, Laura Pentericci, D. J. McLeod, Raffaella Schneider, A. Saxena, Ricardo Amorín, A. C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Anton M. Koekemoer, Saxena A., Pentericci L., Mirabelli M., Schaerer D., Schneider R., Cullen F., Amorin R., Bolzonella M., Bongiorno A., Carnall A.C., Castellano M., Cucciati O., Fontana A., Fynbo J.P.U., Garilli B., Gargiulo A., Guaita L., Hathi N.P., Hutchison T.A., Koekemoer A.M., Marchi F., Mcleod D.J., Mclure R.J., Papovich C., Pozzetti L., Talia M., and Zamorani G.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Photon, Stellar population, Metallicity, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Computer Science::Computational Geometry, 01 natural sciences, galaxies: high-redshift, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation), Physics, galaxies: evolution, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), astro-ph.CO, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Strong He II emission is produced by low-metallicity stellar populations. Here, we aim to identify and study a sample of He II $��1640$-emitting galaxies at redshifts of $z \sim 2.5-5$ in the deep VANDELS spectroscopic survey.. We identified a total of 33 Bright He II emitters (S/N > 2.5) and 17 Faint emitters (S/N < 2.5) in the VANDELS survey and used the available deep multi-wavelength data to study their physical properties. After identifying seven potential AGNs in our sample and discarding them from further analysis, we divided the sample of \emph{Bright} emitters into 20 \emph{Narrow} (FWHM < 1000 km s$^{-1}$) and 6 \emph{Broad} (FWHM > 1000 km s$^{-1}$) He II emitters. We created stacks of Faint, Narrow, and Broad emitters and measured other rest-frame UV lines such as O III] and C III] in both individual galaxies and stacks. We then compared the UV line ratios with the output of stellar population-synthesis models to study the ionising properties of He II emitters. We do not see a significant difference between the stellar masses, star-formation rates, and rest-frame UV magnitudes of galaxies with He II and no He II emission. The stellar population models reproduce the observed UV line ratios from metals in a consistent manner, however they under-predict the total number of \heii ionising photons, confirming earlier studies and suggesting that additional mechanisms capable of producing He II are needed, such as X-ray binaries or stripped stars. The models favour subsolar metallicities ($\sim0.1Z_\odot$) and young stellar ages ($10^6 - 10^7$ years) for the He II emitters. However, the metallicity measured for He II emitters is comparable to that of non-He II emitters at similar redshifts. We argue that galaxies with He II emission may have undergone a recent star-formation event, or may be powered by additional sources of He II ionisation., 21 pages, 11 figures (including appendix), Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2020
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16. A self-consistent FLUKA algorithm for studying the response of passive dosimeters based on CR-39 track detectors in fast neutron fields

Author: M. Bolzonella, Marco Caresana, and M. Ferrarini
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Medical Physics, Monte Carlo method, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Monte Carlo simulations, FLUKA, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, CR-39, Instrumentation, 010302 applied physics, Physics, Radiation, Dosimeter, Frame (networking), Detector, Function (mathematics), Passive dosimeters, Neutron fields, chemistry, Monochromatic color, Algorithm
Abstract: The work presents a self-consistent algorithm to study the response of passive neutron dosimeters based on CR-39 detectors, through simulations with the FLUKA code (version 2011.2x.5). The various assumptions and features of the algorithm are described and the simulated results are compared to some experimental data referred to monochromatic and quasi-monochromatic neutron fields to show the potentialities and the limits of the procedure. Moreover, the response function of the dosimeter for normally impinging neutron fields is shown. In general, the algorithm turns out to work properly in estimating the dosimeter response, thus allowing to characterize the device in various situations in the frame of possible applications as an environmental and/or personal dosimeter.
Published: 2020

17. Timing the earliest quenching events with a robust sample of massive quiescent galaxies at 2 < z < 5

Author: Andrea Cimatti, Fergus Cullen, Adriano Fontana, Marco Castellano, Vivienne Wild, Lucia Pozzetti, Adriana Gargiulo, James Dunlop, Matt J. Jarvis, O. Cucciati, A. Calabrò, Ross J. McLure, D. J. McLeod, S. Walker, A. C. Carnall, Laura Pentericci, Ricardo Amorín, G. Zamorani, M. Bolzonella, B. Garilli, Anton M. Koekemoer, Nimish P. Hathi, Carnall A.C., Walker S., McLure R.J., Dunlop J.S., McLeod D.J., Cullen F., Wild V., Amorin R., Bolzonella M., Castellano M., Cimatti A., Cucciati O., Fontana A., Gargiulo A., Garilli B., Jarvis M.J., Pentericci L., Pozzetti L., Zamorani G., Calabro A., Hathi N.P., Koekemoer A.M., and University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: statistical [Methods], astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, star formation [Galaxies], Methods statistical, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, methods: statistical, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd-DAS, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: star formation, galaxies: evolution
Abstract: We present a sample of 151 massive ($M_* > 10^{10}\mathrm{M_\odot}$) quiescent galaxies at $2 < z < 5$, based on a sophisticated Bayesian spectral energy distribution fitting analysis of the CANDELS UDS and GOODS-South fields. Our sample includes a robust sub-sample of 61 objects for which we confidently exclude low-redshift and star-forming solutions. We identify 10 robust objects at $z>3$, of which 2 are at $z>4$. We report formation redshifts, demonstrating that the oldest objects formed at $z > 6$, however individual ages from our photometric data have significant uncertainties, typically $\sim0.5$ Gyr. We demonstrate that the UVJ colours of the quiescent population evolve with redshift at $z>3$, becoming bluer and more similar to post-starburst galaxies at lower redshift. Based upon this we construct a model for the time-evolution of quiescent galaxy UVJ colours, concluding that the oldest objects are consistent with forming the bulk of their stellar mass at $z\sim6-7$ and quenching at $z\sim5$. We report spectroscopic redshifts for two of our objects at $z=3.440$ and $3.396$, which exhibit extremely weak Ly$\alpha$ emission in ultra-deep VANDELS spectra. We calculate star-formation rates based on these line fluxes, finding that these galaxies are consistent with our quiescent selection criteria, provided their Ly$\alpha$ escape fractions are $>3$ and $>10$ per cent respectively. We finally report that our highest-redshift robust object exhibits a continuum break at $\lambda\sim7000$A in a spectrum from VUDS, consistent with our photometric redshift of $z_\mathrm{phot}=4.72^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$. If confirmed as quiescent this object would be the highest-redshift known quiescent galaxy. To obtain stronger constraints on the times of the earliest quenching events, high-SNR spectroscopy must be extended to $z\gtrsim3$ quiescent objects., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS accepted
Published: 2020
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18. Euclid preparation

Author: V. Guglielmo, R. Saglia, F. J. Castander, A. Galametz, S. Paltani, R. Bender, M. Bolzonella, P. Capak, O. Ilbert, D. C. Masters, D. Stern, S. Andreon, N. Auricchio, A. Balaguera-Antolínez, M. Baldi, S. Bardelli, A. Biviano, C. Bodendorf, D. Bonino, E. Bozzo, E. Branchini, S. Brau-Nogue, M. Brescia, C. Burigana, R. A. Cabanac, S. Camera, V. Capobianco, A. Cappi, C. Carbone, J. Carretero, C. S. Car
Published: 2020
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19. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Environment-size relation of massive passive galaxies at 0.5 ≤ z ≤ 0.8

Author: P. Franzetti, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, A. Zanichelli, Alexander Fritz, John A. Peacock, C. Adami, Federico Marulli, S. Arnouts, A. Gargiulo, Katarzyna Małek, Ummi Abbas, Enzo Branchini, M. Polletta, A. Cappi, M. Bolzonella, A. Iovino, B. Garilli, Luigi Guzzo, Thibaud Moutard, Chris P. Haines, A. J. Hawken, O. Le Fèvre, Agnieszka Pollo, Jean Coupon, Rita Tojeiro, Lidia Tasca, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, D. Bottini, M. Scodeggio, Benjamin R. Granett, G. De Lucia, Julien Bel, J. Krywult, D. Vergani, D. Maccagni, G. Zamorani, Lauro Moscardini, 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 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), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Saint Mary's University [Halifax], Aix Marseille Université (AMU), 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), Gargiulo, A., Cucciati, O., Garilli, B., Scodeggio, M., Bolzonella, M., Zamorani, G., De Lucia, G., Krywult, J., Guzzo, L., Granett, B. R., de la Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Haines, C., Hawken, A. J., Iovino, A., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Moutard, T., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Bel, J., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., Ilbert, O., Moscardini, L., Peacock, J. A., University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, 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 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), ITA, GBR, FRA, and POL
Subjects: Stellar mass, formation [galaxies], Population, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite galaxy, QB Astronomy, galaxies: formation, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Sigma, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd-DAS, Redshift survey, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Accretion (astrophysics), QC Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution
Abstract: We use the statistics of the VIPERS survey to investigate the relation between the surface mean stellar mass density Sigma=Mstar/(2*pi*Re^2) of massive passive galaxies (MPGs, Mstar>10^11 Msun) and their environment in the redshift range 0.52*10^11 Msun, we find an excess of MPGs with low Sigma and a deficit of high-Sigma MPGs in the densest regions wrt other environments. We interpret this result as due to the migration of some high-Sigma MPGs (0.8 migrate to the MPG population. Here, we investigate the Sigma-delta relation of MSFGs at z>0.8 and find that it is consistent within 1 sigma with that of low-Sigma MPGs at z0.8 are consistent in terms of number and environment with being the progenitors of low-Sigma MPGs at z, Comment: 12 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2019
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20. The VANDELS survey: the role of ISM and galaxy physical properties in the escape of Lyα emission in z ∼ 3.5 star-forming galaxies⋆

Author: A. Saxena, F. Marchi, Stéphane Charlot, Daniel Schaerer, Adriano Fontana, Steve Finkelstein, Nimish P. Hathi, Lucia Pozzetti, Margherita Talia, D. Maccagni, Fergus Cullen, Fabio Fontanot, Ross J. McLure, B. Garilli, Ricardo Amorín, Jacopo Chevallard, Pascale Hibon, Laura Pentericci, Lucia Guaita, Marco Castellano, M. Bolzonella, Anton M. Koekemoer, A. C. Carnall, Casey Papovich, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Universidad Diego Portales [Santiago] (UDP), University of Bologna, 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), Services communs OMP (UMS 831), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Dipartimento di Fisica [Povo], Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, University of Bologna/Università di Bologna, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of California [Irvine] (UC Irvine), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Marchi, F., Pentericci, L., Guaita, L., Talia, M., Castellano, M., Hathi, N., Schaerer, D., Amorin, R., Bolzonella, M., Carnall, A. C., Charlot, S., Chevallard, J., Cullen, F., Finkelstein, S. L., Fontana, A., Fontanot, F., Garilli, B., Hibon, P., Koekemoer, A. M., Maccagni, D., McLure, R. J., Papovich, C., Pozzetti, L., Saxena, A., Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Charlot, Stephane
Subjects: Stellar mass, astro-ph.GA, Extinction (astronomy), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS] Physics [physics], [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: formation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Interstellar medium, [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: star formation, Spectral energy distribution, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: evolution, Equivalent width, galaxies: ISM
Abstract: We investigate the physical properties of a sample of 52 Ly{\alpha} emitting galaxies in the VANDELS survey, with particular focus on the role of kinematics and neutral hydrogen column density in the escape and spatial distribution of Ly{\alpha} photons. For these galaxies, we derive different physical properties and characterize the Ly{\alpha} emission in terms of kinematics, EW, FWHM and spatial extension and then estimate the velocity of the neutral outflowing gas. We reproduce some of the well known correlations between Ly{\alpha} EW and stellar mass, dust extinction and UV \b{eta} slope, in the sense that the emission line appears brighter in lower mass, less dusty and bluer galaxies. We do not find any correlation with the SED-derived star formation rate, while we find that galaxies with brighter Ly{\alpha} tend to be more compact both in UV and in Ly{\alpha}. Our data reveal a new interesting correlation between the Ly{\alpha} velocity and the offset of the inter-stellar absorption lines with respect to the systemic redshift, in the sense that galaxies with larger inter-stellar medium (ISM) out-flow velocities show smaller Ly{\alpha} velocity shifts. We interpret this relation in the context of the shell-model scenario, where the velocity of the ISM and the HI column density contribute together in determining the Ly{\alpha} kinematics. In support to our interpretation, we observe that galaxies with high HI column densities have much more extended Ly{\alpha} spatial profiles, a sign of increased scattering. However, we do not find any evidence that the HI column density is related to any other physical properties of the galaxies, although this might be due in part to the limited range of parameters that our sample spans., Comment: submitted to A&A
Published: 2019
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21. Obscured AGN at 1.5 <z <3.0 from the zCOSMOS-deep Survey I. Properties of the emitting gas in the narrow-line region

Author: V. Mainieri, M. Bolzonella, Angela Bongiorno, E. Perez Montero, E. Zucca, Roberto Gilli, Simon J. Lilly, Anton M. Koekemoer, Christian Maier, Rongmon Bordoloi, V. Le Brun, Karina Caputi, M. Mignoli, G. Zamorani, Bianca Garilli, Andrea Cimatti, Cristian Vignali, Y. Peng, C. Diener, S. Bardelli, O. Le Fèvre, Anna Feltre, John D. Silverman, Francesco Calura, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, European Research Council, National Key Research and Development Program (China), National Science Foundation (US), Astronomy, ITA, 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), 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), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, EMISSION-LINES, Active galactic nucleus, Radio galaxy, Metallicity, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, MASS-METALLICITY RELATION, galaxies: active, galaxies [x-rays], CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, RADIO GALAXIES, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, LUMINOSITY RELATIONSHIP, 01 natural sciences, formation [line], SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLES, emission lines [quasars], 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, fundamental parameters [galaxies], Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], Physics, Supermassive black hole, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, NEBULAR EMISSION, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: fundamental parameters, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, FUNDAMENTAL RELATION, Galaxy, Redshift, quasars: emission lines, X-rays: galaxies, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, active [galaxies], Microturbulence, line: formation, galaxies: evolution
Abstract: The physics and demographics of high-redshift obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still scarcely investigated. New samples of such objects, selected with different techniques, can provide useful insights into their physical properties. Aims. With the goal to determine the properties of the gas in the emitting region of type 2 AGN, in particular, the gas metal content, we exploit predictions from photoionization models, including new parameterizations for the distance of gas distribution from the central source and internal microturbulence in the emitting clouds, to interpret rest-frame UV spectral data. Methods. We selected a sample of 90 obscured (type 2) AGN with 1.45 ≤ z ≤ 3.05 from the zCOSMOS-deep galaxy sample by 5σ detection of the high-ionization C iv λ1549 narrow emission line. This feature in a galaxy spectrum is often associated with nuclear activity, and the selection effectiveness has also been confirmed by diagnostic diagrams based on utraviolet (UV) emission-line ratios. We applied the same selection technique and collected a sample of 102 unobscured (type 1) AGN. Taking advantage of the large amount of multiband data available in the COSMOS field, we investigated the properties of the Civ-selected type 2 AGN, focusing on their host galaxies, X-ray emission, and UV emission lines. Finally, we investigated the physical properties of the ionized gas in the narrow-line region (NLR) of this type 2 AGN sample by combining the analysis of strong UV emission lines with predictions from photoionization models. Results. We find that in order to successfully reproduce the relative intensity of UV emission lines of the selected high-z type 2 AGN, two new ingredients in the photoionization models are fundamental: small inner radii of the NLR (≈90 pc for LAGN = 1045 erg s−1 ), and the internal dissipative microturbulence of the gas-emitting clouds (with vmicr ≈ 100 km s−1 ). With these modified models, we compute the gas-phase metallicity of the NLR, and our measurements indicate a statistically significant evolution of the metal content with redshift. Finally, we do not observe a strong relationship between the NLR gas metallicity and the stellar mass of the host galaxy in our Civ-selected type 2 AGN sample.© ESO 2019, We acknowledge financial support from the agreement ASI-INAF n. 2017-14-H.O. A.F. acknowledges support from the ERC via an Advanced Grant under grant agreement no. 321323-NEOGAL and no. 339659- MUSICOS. A.C. acknowledges the support from the grants PRIN-MIUR 2015 and ASI n.I/023/12/0 and ASI n.2018-23-HH.0. Y.P. acknowledges National Key R&D Program of China Grant 2016YFA0400702, and NSFC Grant No. 11773001 and 11721303.
Published: 2019
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22. The XXL Survey: XXXVII. The role of the environment in shaping the stellar population properties of galaxies at 0.1 ≤ z ≤ 0.5

Author: V. Guglielmo, Sophie Maurogordato, C. Adami, Benedetta Vulcani, Jacopo Fritz, Sotiria Fotopoulou, Marguerite Pierre, M. Bolzonella, Bianca M. Poggianti, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (OAPD), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), 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), Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMICH), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Durham University, 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), 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), This work was supported by the Programme National Cosmology et Galaxies (PNCG) of CNRS/INSU with INP and IN2P3, co-funded by CEA and 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), 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), 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), 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 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)
Subjects: Field (physics), Stellar population, media_common.quotation_subject, Population, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Virial theorem, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, galaxies: clusters: general, galaxies: star formation, X-rays: galaxies: clusters, galaxies: stellar content, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: Exploiting a sample of galaxies drawn from the XXL-N multiwavelength survey, we present an analysis of the stellar population properties of galaxies at 0.1, Comment: 22 pages, 15 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2019
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23. The VANDELS survey: The relation between the UV continuum slope and stellar metallicity in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 3

Author: M. Bolzonella, Fabio Fontanot, Nimish P. Hathi, Andrea Cimatti, P. Santini, Adriano Fontana, F. Mannucci, Laura Pentericci, G. Zamorani, Giovanni Cresci, Marco Castellano, A. Calabrò, A. Saxena, F. Marchi, M. Franco, Daniel Schaerer, Nicola Menci, Ricardo Amorín, Lizhi Xie, G. De Lucia, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Pascale Hibon, Margherita Talia, Ross J. McLure, Michaela Hirschmann, Fergus Cullen, Calabro A., Castellano M., Pentericci L., Fontanot F., Menci N., Cullen F., Mclure R., Bolzonella M., Cimatti A., Marchi F., Talia M., Amorin R., Cresci G., De Lucia G., Fynbo J., Fontana A., Franco M., Hathi N.P., Hibon P., Hirschmann M., Mannucci F., Santini P., Saxena A., Schaerer D., Xie L., and Zamorani G.
Subjects: Metallicity, Continuum (design consultancy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), 01 natural sciences, abundances [galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, SPECTRAL-SYNTHESIS, FIELD, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, HIERARCHICAL FORMATION, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, GALACTIC STELLAR, stellar content [galaxies], Galaxies: stellar content, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, EVOLUTION, Galaxy, TO 2, CHEMICAL ENRICHMENT, LYMAN-BREAK GALAXIES, ULTRAVIOLET LUMINOSITY DENSITY, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), DUST OBSCURATION, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, high-redshift [galaxies], Galaxies: abundance
Abstract: The estimate of stellar metallicities (Z*) of high-z galaxies are of paramount importance in order to understand the complexity of dust effects and the reciprocal interrelations among stellar mass, dust attenuation, stellar age, and metallicity. Benefiting from uniquely deep FUV spectra of >500 star-forming galaxies at redshifts 2, Comment: 25 pages, 4 tables, 16 figures, and 5 Appendix subsections; accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2021
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24. The VANDELS survey: Discovery of massive overdensities of galaxies at z > 2

Author: L. Guaita, M. Bolzonella, Anton M. Koekemoer, Lizhi Xie, O. Cucciati, P. Hibon, Laura Pentericci, Nimish P. Hathi, Ricardo Amorín, Emanuela Pompei, Lucia Pozzetti, R. C. Thomas, G. De Lucia, Adriana Gargiulo, G. Zamorani, F. Fontanot, M. Hirschmann, Anna Zoldan, M. Castellano, Margherita Talia, Franz E. Bauer, Ross J. McLure, Guaita L., Pompei E., Castellano M., Pentericci L., Cucciati O., Zamorani G., Zoldan A., Fontanot F., Bauer F.E., Amorin R., Bolzonella M., De Lucia G., Gargiulo A., Hathi N.P., Hibon P., Hirschmann M., Koekemoer A.M., McLure R., Pozzetti L., Talia M., Thomas R., and Xie L.
Subjects: Physics, Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, Stars, Gravitational potential, Galaxies: interaction, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), Outflow, Galaxies: clusters: general, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Context. The advent of deep, multi-wavelength surveys, together with the availability of extensive numerical simulations, now allow us for the systematic search and study of (proto)clusters and their surrounding environment as a function of redshift. Aims. We aim to define the environment and to identify overdensities in the VANDELS Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS) and UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) fields. We want to investigate whether we can use Lyα emission to obtain additional information of the environment properties and whether Lyα emitters show different characteristics as a function of their environment. Methods. We estimated local densities using a three-dimensional algorithm which works in the RA-dec-redshift space. We took advantage of the physical parameters of all the sources in the VANDELS fields to study their properties as a function of environment. In particular, we focused on the rest-frame U − V color to evaluate the stage of evolution of the galaxies located in the overdensities and in the field. Then we selected a sample of 131 Lyα-emitting galaxies (EW(Lyα) > 0 Å), unbiased with respect to environmental density, from the first two seasons of the VANDELS survey to study their location with respect to the over- or under-dense environment and infer whether they are useful tracers of overdense regions. Results. We identify 13 (proto)cluster candidates in the CDFS and nine in the UDS at 2 < z < 4, based on photometric and spectroscopic redshifts from VANDELS and from all the available literature. No significant difference is observed in the rest-frame U − V color between field and galaxies located within the identified overdensities, but the star-forming galaxies in overdense regions tend to be more massive and to have low specific SFRs than in the field. We study the distribution of the VANDELS Lyα emitters (LAEVs) and we find that Lyα emitters lie preferentially outside of overdense regions as the majority of the galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts from VANDELS. The LAEVs in overdense regions tend to have low Lyα equivalent widths and low specific SFRs, and they also tend to be more massive than the LAEVs in the field. Their stacked Lyα profile shows a dominant red peak and a hint of a blue peak. There is evidence that their Lyα emission is more extended and offset with respect to the UV continuum. Conclusions. LAEVs are likely to be influenced by the environment. In fact, our results favour a scenario that implies outflows of low expansion velocities and high HI column densities for galaxies in overdense regions. An outflow with low expansion velocity could be related to the way galaxies are forming stars in overdense regions; the high HI column density can be a consequence of the gravitational potential of the overdensity. Therefore, Lyα-emitting galaxies can provide useful insights on the environment in which they reside.
Published: 2020
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25. A few StePS forward in unveiling the complexity of galaxy evolution: light-weighted stellar ages of intermediate-redshift galaxies with WEAVE

Author: Crescenzo Tortora, Anna Gallazzi, M. Bolzonella, Margherita Talia, G. Busarello, L. Peralta de Arriba, Alessandro Pizzella, Amata Mercurio, Chris P. Haines, Bianca M. Poggianti, L. Costantin, Marc Balcells, Sean L. McGee, Alexandre Vazdekis, Marcella Longhetti, Anna Ferré-Mateu, R. García-Benito, Lucia Pozzetti, I. Lonoce, Paola Merluzzi, David Murphy, Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez, A. Gargiulo, Daniela Vergani, Benedetta Vulcani, F. La Barbera, Lorenzo Morelli, A. Iovino, Shuowen Jin, Scott Trager, Gavin Dalton, Stefano Zibetti, Centros de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, INSTITUTO DE ASTROFISICA DE ANDALUCIA (IAA), SEV-2017-0709, Unidad de Excelencia Científica María de Maeztu Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737, Vulcani, B. [0000-0003-0980-1499], De Arribas, L. P. [0000-0002-3084-084X], Zibetti, S. [0000-0003-1734-8356], Talia, M. [0000-0003-4352-2063], Tortora, C. [0000-0001-7958-6531], Pizzella, A. [0000-0001-9585-417X], Ferré Mateu, A. [0000-0002-6411-220X], McGee, S. [0000-0003-3255-3139], Gargiulo, A. [0000-0002-3351-1216], Longhetti, M. [0000-0002-6142-4822], Gallazzi, A. [0000-0002-9656-1800], Vergani, D. [0000-0003-0898-2216], Haines, C. [0000-0002-8814-8960], Costantin, L. [0000-0001-6820-0015], Pozzetti, L. [0000-0001-7085-0412], Dalton, G. [0000-0002-3031-2588], Iovino, A. [0000-0001-6958-0304], Sánchez Blázquez, P. [0000-0003-0651-0098], Merluzzi, P. [0000-0003-3966-2397], Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Comunidad de Madrid, Fundación Caixa, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Costantin L., Iovino A., Zibetti S., Longhetti M., Gallazzi A., Mercurio A., Lonoce I., Balcells M., Bolzonella M., Busarello G., Dalton G., Ferre-Mateu A., Garcia-Benito R., Gargiulo A., Haines C., Jin S., La Barbera F., Mcgee S., Merluzzi P., Morelli L., Murphy D.N.A., Peralta De Arriba L., Pizzella A., Poggianti B.M., Pozzetti L., Sanchez-Blazquez P., Talia M., Tortora C., Trager S.C., Vazdekis A., Vergani D., Vulcani B., Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, 'La Caixa' Banking Foundation, Centro de Excelencia Científica Severo Ochoa Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía CSIC, Comunidad de Madrid under Atraccion de Talento grant, Astronomy, Peralta de Arriba, Luis [0000-0002-3084-084X], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), La Caixa, ITA, GBR, ESP, and NLD
Subjects: Galaxies: fundamental parameter, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: formation, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: star formation, galaxies: stellar content, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, MASS, Stellar classification, 01 natural sciences, HISTORIES, star formation [Galaxies], STAR-FORMATION, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, William Herschel Telescope, ABSORPTION, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, SPECTRAL-SYNTHESIS, Spectral resolution, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, formation [Galaxies], Redshift, Galaxy, RESOLUTION, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), fundamental parameters [Galaxies], LIBRARY, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, POPULATIONS, stellar content [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, FIELD GALAXIES
Abstract: Context. The upcoming new generation of optical spectrographs on four-meter-class telescopes, with their huge multiplexing capabilities, excellent spectral resolution, and unprecedented wavelength coverage, will provide invaluable information for reconstructing the history of star formation in individual galaxies up to redshifts of about 0.7. Aims. We aim at defining simple but robust and meaningful physical parameters that can be used to trace the coexistence of widely diverse stellar components: younger stellar populations superimposed on the bulk of older ones. Methods. We produced spectra of galaxies closely mimicking data from the forthcoming Stellar Populations at intermediate redshifts Survey (StePS), a survey that uses the WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope. First, we assessed our ability to reliably measure both ultraviolet and optical spectral indices in galaxies of different spectral types for typically expected signal-to-noise ratios. We then analyzed such mock spectra with a Bayesian approach, deriving the probability density function of r- and u-band light-weighted ages as well as of their difference. Results. We find that the ultraviolet indices significantly narrow the uncertainties in estimating the r- and u-band light-weighted ages and their difference in individual galaxies. These diagnostics, robustly retrievable for large galaxy samples even when observed at moderate signal-to-noise ratios, allow us to identify secondary episodes of star formation up to an age of ∼0.1 Gyr for stellar populations older than ∼1.5 Gyr, pushing up to an age of ∼1 Gyr for stellar populations older than ∼5 Gyr. Conclusions. The difference between r-band and u-band light-weighted ages is shown to be a powerful diagnostic to characterize and constrain extended star-formation histories and the presence of young stellar populations on top of older ones. This parameter can be used to explore the interplay between different galaxy star-formation histories and physical parameters such as galaxy mass, size, morphology, and environment.© ESO 2019., L. C. wish to acknowledge financial support from Premiale 2015 MITiC, program 1.05.06.10 and Comunidad de Madrid under Atraccion de Talento grant 2018-T2/TIC-11612. A. I., S. Z., M. L., A. G., A. M., and C. T. acknowledge the financial support from the INAF PRIN-SKA 2017 program 1.05.01.88.04.ESKAPE-HI. I. L. acknowledges financial support from INAF-WEAVE funds, program 1.05.03.04.05. R. G. B. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through grant 205 AYA2016-77846-P and the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the >Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa> award to 2017 the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709). A. F. M. has received financial support through the Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship Programme from >La Caixa> Banking Foundation (LCF/BQ/LI18/11630007). B. V. acknowledges the financial support from INAF Main Stream 2018 (P. I.: B. Vulcani).
Published: 2019

26. The Intergalactic medium transmission towards z>4 galaxies with VANDELS and the impact of dust attenuation

Author: Nimish P. Hathi, D. J. McLeod, Steve Finkelstein, G. Zamorani, M. Bolzonella, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Y. Khusanova, Lucia Guaita, A. Saxena, R. Thomas, Margherita Talia, A. C. Carnall, Pascale Hibon, F. Marchi, O. Le Fèvre, Stefano Cristiani, Marco Castellano, Fabio Fontanot, L. Pentericci, Ricardo Amorín, Lucia Pozzetti, Anton M. Koekemoer, Fergus Cullen, Ross J. McLure, Daniel Schaerer, 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), Thomas, R, Pentericci, L, Le Fevre, O, Zamorani, G, Schaerer, D, Amorin, R, Castellano, M, Carnall, AC, Cristiani, S, Cullen, F, Finkelstein, SL, Fontanot, F, Guaita, L, Hibon, P, Hathi, N, Fynbo, JPU, Khusanova, Y, Koekemoer, AM, McLeod, D, McLure, RJ, Marchi, F, Pozzetti, L, Saxena, A, Talia, M, and Bolzonella, M
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, Extinction (astronomy), Continuum (design consultancy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, high-redshift, Photometry (optics), galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Line-of-sight, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, galaxie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: general, Redshift, Galaxy, general, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), astro-ph.CO, Spectral energy distribution, intergalactic medium, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims. Our aim is to estimate the intergalactic medium transmission towards UV-selected star-forming galaxies at redshift 4 and above and study the effect of the dust attenuation on these measurements. Methods. The ultra-violet spectrum of high redshift galaxies is a combination of their intrinsic emission and the effect of the Inter-Galactic medium (IGM) absorption along their line of sight. Using data coming from the unprecedented deep spectroscopy from the VANDELS ESO public survey carried out with the VIMOS instrument we compute both the dust extinction and the mean transmission of the IGM as well as its scatter from a set of 281 galaxies at z>3.87. Because of a degeneracy between the dust content of the galaxy and the IGM, we first estimate the stellar dust extinction parameter E(B-V) and study the result as a function of the dust prescription. Using these measurements as constraint for the spectral fit we estimate the IGM transmission Tr(Lyalpha). Both photometric and spectroscopic SED fitting are done using the SPectroscopy And photometRy fiTting tool for Astronomical aNalysis (SPARTAN) that is able to fit the spectral continuum of the galaxies as well as photometric data. Results. Using the classical Calzetti's attenuation law we find that E(B-V) goes from 0.11 at z=3.99 to 0.08 at z=5.15. These results are in very good agreement with previous measurements from the literature. We estimate the IGM transmission and find that the transmission is decreasing with increasing redshift from Tr(Lyalpha)=0.53 at z=3.99 to 0.28 at z=5.15. We also find a large standard deviation around the average transmission that is more than 0.1 at every redshift. Our results are in very good agreement with both previous measurements from AGN studies and with theoretical models., Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2019
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27. The stellar-to-halo mass relation over the past 12 Gyr

Author: C. Giocoli, Lucia Pozzetti, Giacomo Girelli, M. Bolzonella, Marco Baldi, Federico Marulli, ITA, Girelli G., Pozzetti L., Bolzonella M., Giocoli C., Marulli F., and Baldi M.
Subjects: Physics, Stellar mass, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Dark matter, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galaxies: formation, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, Dark matter halo, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Halo, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Aims. Understanding the link between the galaxy properties and the dark matter halos they reside in and their coevolution is a powerful tool for constraining the processes related to galaxy formation. In particular, the stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) and its evolution throughout the history of the Universe provides insights on galaxy formation models and allows us to assign galaxy masses to halos in N-body dark matter simulations. To address these questions, we determine the SHMR throughout the entire cosmic history from z ∼ 4 to the present. Methods. We used a statistical approach to link the observed galaxy stellar mass functions on the COSMOS field to dark matter halo mass functions up to z ∼ 4 from the ΛCDM DUSTGRAIN-pathfinder simulation, which is complete for Mh > 1012.5 M⊙, and extended this to lower masses with a theoretical parameterization. We propose an empirical model to describe the evolution of the SHMR as a function of redshift (either in the presence or absence of a scatter in stellar mass at fixed halo mass), and compare the results with several literature works and semianalytic models of galaxy formation. We also tested the reliability of our results by comparing them to observed galaxy stellar mass functions and to clustering measurements. Results. We derive the SHMR from z = 0 to z = 4, and model its empirical evolution with redshift. We find that M*/Mh is always lower than ∼0.05 and depends both on redshift and halo mass, with a bell shape that peaks at Mh ∼ 1012 M⊙. Assuming a constant cosmic baryon fraction, we calculate the star-formation efficiency of galaxies and find that it is generally low; its peak increases with cosmic time from ∼30% at z ∼ 4 to ∼35% at z ∼ 0. Moreover, the star formation efficiency increases for increasing redshifts at masses higher than the peak of the SHMR, while the trend is reversed for masses lower than the peak. This indicates that massive galaxies (i.e., galaxies hosted at halo masses higher than the SHMR peak) formed with a higher efficiency at higher redshifts (i.e., downsizing effect) and vice versa for low-mass halos. We find a large scatter in results from semianalytic models, with a difference of up to a factor ∼8 compared to our results, and an opposite evolutionary trend at high halo masses. By comparing our results with those in the literature, we find that while at z ∼ 0 all results agree well (within a factor of ∼3), at z > 0 many differences emerge. This suggests that observational and theoretical work still needs to be done. Our results agree well (within ∼10%) with observed stellar mass functions (out to z = 4) and observed clustering of massive galaxies (M* > 1011 M⊙ from z ∼ 0.5 to z ∼ 1.1) in the two-halo regime.
Published: 2020
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28. The XXL Survey : XXVII. The 3XLSS point source catalogue

Author: Ivan Valtchanov, Michael J. I. Brown, P. Franzetti, E. Elmer, Bruno Altieri, Sinan Aliş, Matt S. Owers, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Bianca M. Poggianti, Ivan K. Baldry, Trevor J. Ponman, Meiert W. Grootes, C. Adami, T. Sadibekova, Angela Bongiorno, Elias Koulouridis, Stéphane Paltani, Florian Pacaud, Christopher Lidman, Manolis Plionis, Jochen Liske, Cristian Vignali, Sotiria Fotopoulou, Glenn Wagner, V. Guglielmo, Simon P. Driver, O. Melnyk, Richard J. Tuffs, Marguerite Pierre, L. Chiappetti, Sophie Maurogordato, A. Iovino, M. Bolzonella, Andrii Elyiv, J. P. Lefevre, L. Faccioli, Aaron S. G. Robotham, E. Pompei, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), 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), 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), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), 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 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 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), 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), Chiappetti, L., Fotopoulou, S., Lidman, C., Faccioli, L., Pacaud, F., Elyiv, A., Paltani, S., Pierre, M., Plionis, M., Adami, C., Alis, S., Altieri, B., Baldry, I., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Brown, M., Driver, S., Elmer, E., Franzetti, P., Grootes, M., Guglielmo, V., Iovino, A., Koulouridis, E., Lefèvre, J.P., Liske, J., Maurogordato, S., Melnyk, O., Owers, M., Poggianti, B., Polletta, M., Pompei, E., Ponman, T., Robotham, A., Sadibekova, T., Tuffs, R., Valtchanov, I., Vignali, C., and Wagner, G.
Subjects: Point source, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Surveys, X-rays: general, 01 natural sciences, surveys, general [X-rays], 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Survey, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, NATURAL SCIENCES. Physics, PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI. Fizika, catalogs, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Catalog, Catalogs, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: We present the version of the point source catalogue of the XXL Survey that was used, in part, in the first series of XXL papers. In this paper we release, in our database in Milan and at CDS: (i) the X-ray source catalogue with 26056 objects in two areas of 25 deg2; (ii) the associated multiwavelength catalogues with candidate counterparts of the X-ray sources in the infrared, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet (plus spectroscopic redshift when available); and (iii) a catalogue of spectroscopic redshifts recently obtained in the southern XXL area. We also present the basic properties of the X-ray point sources and their counterparts. Other catalogues described in the second series of XXL papers will be released contextually, and will constitute the second XXL data release., Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, part of A&A Special Issue "The XXL Survey: second series" https://www.aanda.org/component/toc/?task=topic&id=927
Published: 2018
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29. The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey

Author: H. Mendez-Hernandez, Matt J. Jarvis, Mark Dickinson, D. Maccagni, Lucia Pozzetti, Ricardo Amorín, Christina C. Williams, B. Garilli, Eros Vanzella, David T. Maltby, A. Iovino, Omar Almaini, Marco Castellano, Antonis Georgakakis, Italo Balestra, Daniel Schaerer, M. Mignoli, Y. Khusanova, D. P. Rosario, Steve Finkelstein, P. Popesso, Andrea Grazian, Marcella Brusa, Anton M. Koekemoer, Maurilio Pannella, S. Juneau, Ross J. McLure, Michele Cirasuolo, Vivienne Wild, P. Santini, Nimish P. Hathi, K. Matsuoka, Seock-Sam Kim, Giovanni Cresci, Kirpal Nandra, Jairo Méndez-Abreu, Fabio Fontanot, F. Mannucci, A. C. Carnall, Laura Pentericci, Eric F. Bell, P. Franzetti, Fernando Buitrago, Michele Moresco, D. J. McLeod, Andrea Cimatti, Adriana Gargiulo, James Dunlop, E. Curtis-Lake, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, S. de Barros, Fabrizio Fiore, M. Bolzonella, D. Elbaz, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Giovanni G. Fazio, Margherita Talia, V. Sommariva, Marco Scodeggio, Stefano Cristiani, Jennifer M. Lotz, S. Bardelli, Mario Nonino, M. Giavalisco, Corentin Schreiber, Mara Salvato, Henry C. Ferguson, Audrey Galametz, E. Zucca, O. Le Fevre, Angela Bongiorno, M. Fumana, L. A. M. Tasca, Daniel P. Stark, Nathan Bourne, F. Marchi, M. Franco, W. G. Hartley, Stéphane Charlot, Adriano Fontana, Paolo Cassata, E. Mármol-Queraltó, W. Karman, Karina Caputi, Tommaso Treu, R. Thomas, Casey Papovich, Emanuela Pompei, O. Cucciati, Alice Mortlock, Annalisa Citro, Fergus Cullen, Intae Jung, G. Zamorani, Lucia Guaita, Astronomy, McLure, R. J., Pentericci, L., Cimatti, A., Dunlop, J. S., Elbaz, D., Fontana, A., Nandra, K., Amorin, R., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Carnall, A. C., Castellano, M., Cirasuolo, M., Cucciati, O., Cullen, F., De Barros, S., Finkelstein, S. L., Fontanot, F., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Gargiulo, A., Garilli, B., Guaita, L., Hartley, W. G., Iovino, A., Jarvis, M. J., Juneau, S., Karman, W., Maccagni, D., Marchi, F., Mármol-Queraltó, E., Pompei, E., Pozzetti, L., Scodeggio, M., Sommariva, V., Talia, M., Almaini, O., Balestra, I., Bardelli, S., Bell, E. F., Bourne, N., Bowler, R. A. A., Brusa, M., Buitrago, F., Caputi, K. I., Cassata, P., Charlot, S., Citro, A., Cresci, G., Cristiani, S., Curtis-Lake, E., Dickinson, M., Fazio, G. G., Ferguson, H. C., Fiore, F., Franco, M., Fynbo, J. P. U., Galametz, A., Georgakakis, A., Giavalisco, M., Grazian, A., Hathi, N. P., Jung, I., Kim, S., Koekemoer, A. M., Khusanova, Y., Le Fèvre, O., Lotz, J. M., Mannucci, F., Maltby, D. T., Matsuoka, K., McLeod, D. J., Mendez-Hernandez, H., Mendez-Abreu, J., Mignoli, M., Moresco, M., Mortlock, A., Nonino, M., Pannella, M., Papovich, C., Popesso, P., Rosario, D. P., Salvato, M., Santini, P., Schaerer, D., Schreiber, C., Stark, D. P., Tasca, L. A. M., Thomas, R., Treu, T., Vanzella, E., Wild, V., Williams, C. C., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Department of Surgery, Santi Giovanni e Paolo Hospital, Association de Coordination Technique Agricole (ACTA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), 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), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CAMK), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment (DAFNAE), Universita degli Studi di Padova, Institute for General Botany, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), Les instituts techniques agricoles (Acta), 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), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz = Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Amorin Barbieri, Ricardo [0000-0001-5758-1000], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, Stellar population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, surveys, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Survey, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxies: high, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, Physics, Very Large Telescope, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: star formation, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: star formation, Surveys, Chandra Deep Field South, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution
Abstract: VANDELS is a uniquely-deep spectroscopic survey of high-redshift galaxies with the VIMOS spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The survey has obtained ultra-deep optical (0.48 < lambda < 1.0 micron) spectroscopy of ~2100 galaxies within the redshift interval 1.0 < z < 7.0, over a total area of ~0.2 sq. degrees centred on the CANDELS UDS and CDFS fields. Based on accurate photometric redshift pre-selection, 85% of the galaxies targeted by VANDELS were selected to be at z>=3. Exploiting the red sensitivity of the refurbished VIMOS spectrograph, the fundamental aim of the survey is to provide the high signal-to-noise ratio spectra necessary to measure key physical properties such as stellar population ages, masses, metallicities and outflow velocities from detailed absorption-line studies. Using integration times calculated to produce an approximately constant signal-to-noise ratio (20 < t_int < 80 hours), the VANDELS survey targeted: a) bright star-forming galaxies at 2.4 < z < 5.5, b) massive quiescent galaxies at 1.0 < z < 2.5, c) fainter star-forming galaxies at 3.0 < z < 7.0 and d) X-ray/Spitzer-selected active galactic nuclei and Herschel-detected galaxies. By targeting two extragalactic survey fields with superb multi-wavelength imaging data, VANDELS will produce a unique legacy data set for exploring the physics underpinning high-redshift galaxy evolution. In this paper we provide an overview of the VANDELS survey designed to support the science exploitation of the first ESO public data release, focusing on the scientific motivation, survey design and target selection., 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2018
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30. The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: observations and first data release

Author: O. Cucciati, Andrea Grazian, E. Zucca, Y. Khusanova, Emma Curtis-Lake, A. Iovino, Stéphane Charlot, R. J. McLure B. Garilli, James Dunlop, Adriana Gargiulo, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Alice Mortlock, Mara Salvato, E. Mármol-Queraltó, Nimish P. Hathi, Seock-Sam Kim, L. A. M. Tasca, Fabrizio Fiore, Italo Balestra, Kirpal Nandra, A. Georgakakis, Emanuela Pompei, D. Elbaz, Anton M. Koekemoer, S. L. Finkelstein, F. Marchi, M. Franco, Maurilio Pannella, Tommaso Treu, Audrey Galametz, Corentin Schreiber, H. Mendez-Hernandez, Andrea Cimatti, P. Popesso, M. Fumana, Giovanni G. Fazio, S. Cristiani, Angela Bongiorno, David J. Rosario, Laura Pentericci, Marco Castellano, Piero Rosati, Vivienne Wild, Giovanni Cresci, A. C. Carnall, C. Caputi, M. Giavalisco, Paolo Cassata, Lucia Pozzetti, Marcella Brusa, M. Bolzonella, R. C. Thomas, Margherita Talia, D. Maccagni, S. Bardelli, W. Karman, S. DeBarros, K. Matsuoka, H. C. Ferguson, Jennifer M. Lotz, F. Fontanot, Adriano Fontana, C. Papovich, W. G. Hartley, Michele Moresco, Eros Vanzella, David T. Maltby, Omar Almaini, S. Juneau, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Daniel Schaerer, Daniel P. Stark, Nathan Bourne, S. M. Faber, D. J. McLeod, Ricardo Amorín, Michele Cirasuolo, P. Franzetti, Fernando Buitrago, O. Le Fevre, Annalisa Citro, Mario Nonino, Fergus Cullen, Intae Jung, G. Zamorani, Eric F. Bell, Lucia Guaita, Christina C. Williams, V. Sommariva, Marco Scodeggio, M. Mignoli, Matt J. Jarvis, Mark Dickinson, P. Santini, Jairo Méndez-Abreu, F. Mannucci, ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Milano (OAM), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OAB), 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), CNR-INFM CRS-Soft, c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, CNR-INFM CRS-Soft, Centre for Astrophysics Research [Hatfield], University of Hertfordshire [Hatfield] (UH), INAF-IASF Milano, European Southern Observatory (ESO), University of Bologna, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia [Bologna], University of Groningen [Groningen], 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), Osservatorio Astronomico (INAF), NOAO, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Department of Astronomy [Amherst], University of Massachusetts [Amherst] (UMass Amherst), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS)-University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Department of computer science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA), University of Texas-Pan, Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München [München] (TUM), 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), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, 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), University of Bologna/Università di Bologna, 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), Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), 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), 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), Astronomy, Pentericci, L., McLure, R. J., Garilli, B., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Iovino, A., Amorin, R., Bolzonella, M., Bongiorno, A., Carnall, A. C., Castellano, M., Cimatti, A., Cirasuolo, M., Cullen, F., De Barros, S., Dunlop, J. S., Elbaz, D., Finkelstein, S. L., Fontana, A., Fontanot, F., Fumana, M., Gargiulo, A., Guaita, L., Hartley, W. G., Jarvis, M. J., Juneau, S., Karman, W., Maccagni, D., Marchi, F., Marmol-Queralto, E., Nandra, K., Pompei, E., Pozzetti, L., Scodeggio, M., Sommariva, V., Talia, M., Almaini, O., Balestra, I., Bardelli, S., Bell, E. F., Bourne, N., Bowler, R. A. A., Brusa, M., Buitrago, F., Caputi, K. I., Cassata, P., Charlot, S., Citro, A., Cresci, G., Cristiani, S., Curtis-Lake, E., Dickinson, M., Fazio, G. G., Ferguson, H. C., Fiore, F., Franco, M., Fynbo, J. P. U., Galametz, A., Georgakakis, A., Giavalisco, M., Grazian, A., Hathi, N. P., Jung, I., Kim, S., Koekemoer, A. M., Khusanova, Y., Le Fèvre, O., Lotz, J. M., Mannucci, F., Maltby, D. T., Matsuoka, K., McLeod, D. J., Mendez-Hernandez, H., Mendez-Abreu, J., Mignoli, M., Moresco, M., Mortlock, A., Nonino, M., Pannella, M., Papovich, C., Popesso, P., Rosario, D. P., Salvato, M., Santini, P., Schaerer, D., Schreiber, C., Stark, D. P., Tasca, L. A. M., Thomas, R., Treu, T., Vanzella, E., Wild, V., Williams, C. C., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Amorin Barbieri, Ricardo [0000-0001-5758-1000], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: media_common.quotation_subject, REDSHIFT, Galaxies: fundamental parameter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, surveys, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, fundamental parameters [galaxies], QB Astronomy, Survey, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: fundamental parameters, Galaxies: general, Galaxies: high-redshift, Surveys, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Spectrograph, evolution [galaxies], QC, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, QB, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, galaxies: fundamental parameters, 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, galaxies: general, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Universe, Data set, GALAXIES, QC Physics, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), VIMOS, galaxies: evolution, high-redshift [galaxies], Data reduction, general [galaxies]
Abstract: This paper describes the observations and the first data release (DR1) of the ESO public spectroscopic survey "VANDELS, a deep VIMOS survey of the CANDELS CDFS and UDS fields". VANDELS' main targets are star-forming galaxies at 2.4, Comment: Submitted to A&A
Published: 2018
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31. 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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32. 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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33. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: F. G. Mohammad, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo, J. Bel, E. Branchini, S. de la Torre, L. Moscardini, J. A. Peacock, M. Bolzonella, B. Garilli, M. Scodeggio, U. Abbas, C. Adami, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, and A. Zaniche
Published: 2018
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34. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: Małgorzata Siudek, G. De Lucia, Daniela Vergani, P. Franzetti, C. Adami, Stéphane Arnouts, M. Scodeggio, V. Le Brun, A. Zanichelli, T. Moutard, Julien Bel, Lauro Moscardini, Chris P. Haines, D. Bottini, D. Maccagni, Iary Davidzon, Enzo Branchini, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi, Lidia Tasca, Jean Coupon, Olga Cucciati, Bianca Garilli, Olivier Ilbert, G. Zamorani, A. Cappi, Agnieszka Pollo, Luigi Guzzo, Katarzyna Małek, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, Ummi Abbas, Tomasz Krakowski, Benjamin R. Granett, M. Bolzonella, Alexander Fritz, Federico Marulli, O. Le Fèvre, M. Polletta, S. de la Torre, Rita Tojeiro, Siudek, M., Małek, K., Pollo, A., Krakowski, T., Iovino, A., Scodeggio, M., Moutard, T., Zamorani, G., Guzzo, L., Garilli, B., Granett, B.R., 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., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Tasca, L.A.M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Haines, C.P., Moscardini, L., Takeuchi, T.T., Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences , Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland (CFT PAN), National Centre for Nuclear Research (Warszawa), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), 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), Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), 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), Jan Kochanowski University, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (UNIBO), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (INFN, Sezione di Bologna), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 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), University of St Andrews [Scotland], Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna] (IRA), 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), Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 3 (INFN, Sezione di Roma 3), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), University of Geneva [Switzerland], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Nagoya University, Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), 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 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), Università degli Studi Roma Tre = Roma Tre University (ROMA TRE), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Granett, B. R., Maccagni, D., Tasca, L. A. M., Haines, C. P., Takeuchi, T. T., ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, and DEU
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, Galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics, Galaxies: groups: general, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, star formation [Galaxies], [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Sequence, Galaxies: star formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxy: fundamental parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, evolution [Galaxies], Galaxies: stellar content, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, Unsupervised learning, stellar content [Galaxies]
Abstract: Various galaxy classification schemes have been developed so far to constrain the main physical processes regulating evolution of different galaxy types. In the era of a deluge of astrophysical information and recent progress in machine learning, a new approach to galaxy classification becomes imperative. We employ a Fisher Expectation-Maximization unsupervised algorithm working in a parameter space of 12 rest-frame magnitudes and spectroscopic redshift. The model (DBk) and the number of classes (12) were established based on the joint analysis of standard statistical criteria and confirmed by the analysis of the galaxy distribution with respect to a number of classes and their properties. This new approach allows us to classify galaxies based just on their redshifts and UV-NIR spectral energy distributions. The FEM unsupervised algorithm has automatically distinguished 12 classes: 11 classes of VIPERS galaxies and an additional class of broad-line AGNs. After a first broad division into blue, green and red categories we obtained a further sub-division into three red, three green, and five blue galaxy classes. The FEM classes follow the galaxy sequence from the earliest to the latest types that is reflected in their colours (which are constructed from rest-frame magnitudes used in classification procedure) but also their morphological, physical, and spectroscopic properties (not included in the classification scheme). We demonstrate that the members of each class share similar physical and spectral properties. In particular, we are able to find three different classes of red passive galaxy populations. Thus, we demonstrate the potential of an unsupervised approach to galaxy classification and we retrieve the complexity of galaxy populations at z~0.7, a task that usual simpler colour-based approaches cannot fulfil., Comment: published in A&A, 27 pages, 10 figures, 4 appendixes. Please contact Malgorzata Siudek (msiudek@ifae.es) if you are interested in the catalogue
Published: 2018
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35. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): AGN feedback in [NeV] emitters

Author: Alexander Fritz, Lidia Tasca, Federico Marulli, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, Iary Davidzon, Agnieszka Pollo, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, T. Moutard, S. Arnouts, C. Adami, Ummi Abbas, G. Zamorani, A. J. Hawken, Rita Tojeiro, M. Bolzonella, G. De Lucia, M. Scodeggio, Luigi Guzzo, Lauro Moscardini, Benjamin R. Granett, D. Bottini, M. Polletta, A. Iovino, Enzo Branchini, Chris P. Haines, A. Cappi, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Jean Coupon, A. Gargiulo, A. Zanichelli, Katarzyna Małek, J. Krywult, D. Maccagni, D. Vergani, Julien Bel, O. Le Fèvre, 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), 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), 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), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Vergani, D., Garilli, B., Polletta, M., Franzetti, P., Scodeggio, M., Zamorani, G., Haines, C.P., Bolzonella, M., Guzzo, L., Granett, B.R., De La Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., De Lucia, G., Fritz, A., Gargiulo, A., Hawken, A.J., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Pollo, A., Tasca, L.A.M., Tojeiro, R., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., Ilbert, O., Moutard, T., Moscardini, L., Haines, C. P., Granett, B. R., Hawken, A. J., Tasca, L. A. M., 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 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 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)
Subjects: Stellar mass, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, star formation [Galaxies], Cosmology: observation, Luminosity, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation), Physics, Galaxies: star formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Space and Planetary Science, Redshift survey, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, observations [cosmology], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), High Energy Physics::Experiment, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA]
Abstract: Using an unconventional single line diagnostic that unambiguously identifies AGNs in composite galaxies we report statistical differences in the properties (stellar age, [OII] luminosity, colour) between active and inactive galaxies at 0.62, Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2018
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36. 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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37. Mass and Environment as Drivers of Galaxy Evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the Origin of the Schechter Function

Author: Anton M. Koekemoer, Pascal Oesch, P. Kampczyk, A. Cappi, Paolo Cassata, Lucia Pozzetti, Angela Bongiorno, E. Zucca, Marco Scodeggio, P. Nair, G. Zamorani, A. Leauthaud, D. Bottini, David B. Sanders, Jean-Paul Kneib, J. F. Le Borgne, Christian Maier, Christian Marinoni, S. Bardelli, Simon J. Lilly, O. Le Fevre, P. Memeo, D. Maccagni, R. Pello, D. Vergani, John D. Silverman, T. Contini, Olga Cucciati, M. Mignoli, G. Hasinger, V. Presotto, Alvio Renzini, B. Meneux, C. Knobel, Graziano Coppa, Olivier Ilbert, Rongmon Bordoloi, Niraj Welikala, V. Le Brun, L. A. M. Tasca, Cristiano Porciani, A. Cimatti, Katarina Kovac, H. J. McCracken, Vincenzo Mainieri, M. Bolzonella, Masaomi Tanaka, Luke A. Barnes, Roberto Scaramella, C. M. Carollo, F. Lamareille, S. de la Torre, P. Franzetti, M. Fumana, E. Ricciardelli, A. Iovino, L. de Ravel, Yingjie Peng, E. Perez Montero, Karina Caputi, U. Abbas, L. Tresse, B. Garilli, Nick Scoville, 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), Y. Peng, S.J. Lilly, K. Kovac, M. Bolzonella, L. Pozzetti, A. Renzini, G. Zamorani, O. Ilbert, C. Knobel, A. Iovino, C. Maier, O. Cucciati, L. Tasca, C. M. Carollo, J. Silverman, P. Kampczyk, L. de Ravel, D. Sander, N. Scoville, T. Contini, V. Mainieri, M. Scodeggio, J.-P. Kneib, O. Le Fevre, S. Bardelli, A. Bongiorno, K. Caputi, G. Coppa, S. de la Torre, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, F. Lamareille, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, M. Mignoli, E. Perez Montero, R. Pello, E. Ricciardelli, M. Tanaka, L. Tresse, D. Vergani, N. Welikala, E. Zucca, P. Oesch, U. Abba, L. Barne, R. Bordoloi, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, M. Fumana, G. Hasinger, A.M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H.J. McCracken, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, P. Nair, C. Porciani, V. Presotto, R. Scaramella, and Astronomy
Subjects: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, High density, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, SIMILAR-TO 1, 1ST EPOCH DATA, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, REDSHIFT SURVEY, FORMING GALAXIES, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, DIGITAL-SKY-SURVEY, VLT DEEP SURVEY, STAR-FORMATION HISTORY, Differential effects, Galaxy, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, cosmology: observations, galaxies: distances and redshifts, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: evolution, STELLAR MASS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We explore the inter-relationships between mass, star-formation rate and environment in the SDSS, zCOSMOS and other surveys. The differential effects of mass and environment are completely separable to z ~ 1, indicating that two distinct processes are operating, "mass-quenching" and "environment-quenching". Environment-quenching, at fixed over-density, evidently does not change with epoch to z ~ 1, suggesting that it occurs as large-scale structure develops in the Universe. The observed constancy of the mass-function shape for star-forming galaxies, demands that the mass-quenching of galaxies around and above M*, must be proportional to their star-formation rates at all z < 2. We postulate that this simple mass-quenching law also holds over a much broader range of stellar mass and epoch. These two simple quenching processes, plus some additional quenching due to merging, then naturally produce (a) a quasi-static Schechter mass function for star-forming galaxies with a value of M* that is set by the proportionality between the star-formation and mass-quenching rates, (b) a double Schechter function for passive galaxies with two components: the dominant one is produced by mass-quenching and has exactly the same M* as the star-forming galaxies but an alpha shallower by +1, while the other is produced by environment effects and has the same M* and alpha as the star-forming galaxies, and is larger in high density environments. Subsequent merging of quenched galaxies modifies these predictions somewhat in the denser environments, slightly increasing M* and making alpha more negative. All of these detailed quantitative relationships between the Schechter parameters are indeed seen in the SDSS, lending strong support to our simple empirically-based model. The model naturally produces for passive galaxies the "anti-hierarchical" run of mean ages and alpha-element abundances with mass., 66 pages, 19 figures, 1 movie, accepted for publication in ApJ. The movie is also available at http://www.exp-astro.phys.ethz.ch/zCOSMOS/MF_simulation_d1_d4.mov
Published: 2010
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38. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Downsizing of the blue cloud and the influence of galaxy size on mass quenching over the last eight billion years

Author: Małgorzata Siudek, M. Bolzonella, Iary Davidzon, G. Zamorani, B. Garilli, Katarzyna Małek, Enzo Branchini, A. Iovino, G. De Lucia, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, M. Polletta, A. Cappi, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Luigi Guzzo, Agnieszka Pollo, D. Bottini, O. Le Fèvre, P. Franzetti, T. Moutard, D. Maccagni, S. Arnouts, Rita Tojeiro, Ummi Abbas, Lauro Moscardini, Jean Coupon, B. R. Granett, Alexander Fritz, L. A. M. Tasca, M. Scodeggio, J. Krywult, Julien Bel, Federico Marulli, Chris P. Haines, A. Zanichelli, D. Vergani, John A. Peacock, A. Gargiulo, C. Adami, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), 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), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF- Milano, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 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, 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), 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), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), 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), 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), University of Leeds, Haines, C. P., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Guzzo, L., Davidzon, I., Bolzonella, M., Garilli, B., Scodeggio, M., Granett, B. R., De La Torre, S., De Lucia, G., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Gargiulo, A., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Moutard, T., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Zamorani, G., Bel, J., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., Ilbert, O., Moscardini, L., Peacock, J. A., Siudek, M., DIP. DI ASTRONOMIA, DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA E ASTRONOMIA 'AUGUSTO RIGHI', Da definire, AREA MIN. 02 - Scienze fisiche, 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 Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), 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 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), ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Haines, C.P., Granett, B.R., MacCagni, D., Tasca, L.A.M., and Peacock, J.A.
Subjects: Galaxies: Structure, Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Galaxies: Star formation, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, stellar content, 01 natural sciences, star formation, Evolution [Galaxies], Bulge, Star formation [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Galaxies: Evolution, Galaxies: Stellar content, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, structure, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, Stellar content [Galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Velocity dispersion, Galaxies: evolution, 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Billion years, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Stars, QC Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Structure [Galaxies]
Abstract: We use the full VIPERS redshift survey in combination with SDSS-DR7 to explore the relationships between star-formation history (using d4000), stellar mass and galaxy structure, and how these relationships have evolved since z~1. We trace the extents and evolutions of both the blue cloud and red sequence, by fitting double Gaussians to the d4000 distribution of galaxies in narrow stellar mass bins, for four redshift intervals over 010^11 M_sun, d4000, Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures. Submitted to A&A. References updated. Comments welcome
Published: 2017
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39. The primordial environment of supermassive black holes (II): deep Y and J band images around the z=6.3 quasar SDSS J1030+0524

Author: Nico Cappelluti, Marcella Brusa, E. Sani, Andrea Comastri, M. Bolzonella, M. Mignoli, Fabio Vito, G. Zamorani, B. Balmaverde, E. Vanzella, C. Vignali, Roberto Gilli, Balmaverde, B., Gilli, R., Mignoli, M., Bolzonella, M., Brusa, M., Cappelluti, N., Comastri, A., Sani, E., Vanzella, E., Vignali, C., Vito, F., Zamorani, G., ITA, and USA
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Supermassive black hole, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Large Binocular Telescope, Galaxies: photometry, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Halo, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Many cosmological studies predict that early supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can only form in the most massive dark matter halos embedded within large scale structures marked by galaxy over-densities that may extend up to 10 physical Mpc. This scenario, however, has not been confirmed observationally, as the search for galaxy over-densities around high-z quasars has returned conflicting results. The field around the z=6.28 quasar SDSSJ1030+0524 (J1030) is unique for multi-band coverage and represents an excellent data legacy for studying the environment around a primordial SMBH. In this paper we present wide-area (25x25 arcmin), Y- and J-band imaging of the J1030 field obtained with the near infrared camera WIRCam at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). We built source catalogues in the Y- and J-band, and matched those with our photometric catalogue in the r, z, i bands presented in Morselli et al. (2014). We used these new infrared data together with H and K and Spitzer/IRAC data to refine our selection of Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs), extending our selection criteria to galaxies in the range 25.2=1.3. We found a significant asymmetry in the distribution of the high-z galaxies in J1030, supporting the existence of a coherent large-scale structure around the quasar. We compared our results with those of Bowler et al. (2015), who adopted similar LBGs selection criteria, and estimated an over-density of galaxies in the field of delta = 2.4, which is significant at >4 sigma. The over-density value and its significance are higher than those found in Morselli et al. (2014), and we interpret this as evidence of an improved LBG selection., Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2017

40. The Colors of Central and Satellite Galaxies in zCOSMOS out to z ~ 0.8 and Implications for Quenching

Author: E. Zucca, T. J. Bschorr, J. F. Le Borgne, Daniela Vergani, Andrea Cimatti, Masayuki Tanaka, Christian Maier, Anton M. Koekemoer, P. Kampczyk, Angela Bongiorno, Bianca Garilli, C. López-Sanjuan, Lucia Pozzetti, H. J. McCracken, R. Pello, E. Perez Montero, Graziano Coppa, Niraj Welikala, P. Franzetti, O. Le Fèvre, Olga Cucciati, F. Lamareille, S. de la Torre, Michele Moresco, Simon J. Lilly, Lidia Tasca, C. M. Carollo, S. Bardelli, A. Iovino, V. Presotto, Luke A. Barnes, Laurence Tresse, Karina Caputi, C. Knobel, Gianni Zamorani, L. de Ravel, Alvio Renzini, J. P. Kneib, M. Mignoli, A. Cappi, Preethi Nair, V. Mainieri, M. Bolzonella, John D. Silverman, Rongmon Bordoloi, V. Le Brun, Thierry Contini, Yingjie Peng, K. Kovac, M. Scodeggio, C. Knobel, S. J. Lilly, K. Kovac, Y. Peng, T. J. Bschorr, C. M. Carollo, T. Contini, J.-P. Kneib, O. Le Fevre, V. Mainieri, A. Renzini, M. Scodeggio, G. Zamorani, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Bongiorno, K. Caputi, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, A. Iovino, P. Kampczyk, F. Lamareille, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, C. Maier, M. Mignoli, R. Pello', E. Perez Montero, V. Presotto, J. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tasca, L. Tresse, D. Vergani, E. Zucca, L. Barne, R. Bordoloi, A. Cappi, A. Cimatti, G. Coppa, A. M. Koekemoer, C. Lopez-Sanjuan, H. J. McCracken, M. Moresco, P. Nair, L. Pozzetti, N. Welikala, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, C., Knobel, S. J., Lilly, K., Kovač, Y., Peng, T. J., Bschorr, C. M., Carollo, T., Contini, J. P., Kneib, O., Le Fevre, V., Mainieri, A., Renzini, M., Scodeggio, G., Zamorani, S., Bardelli, M., Bolzonella, A., Bongiorno, K., Caputi, O., Cucciati, S., de la Torre, L., de Ravel, P., Franzetti, B., Garilli, A., Iovino, P., Kampczyk, F., Lamareille, J. F., Le Borgne, V., Le Brun, C., Maier, M., Mignoli, R., Pello, E., Perez Montero, Presotto, Valentina, J., Silverman, M., Tanaka, L., Tasca, L., Tresse, D., Vergani, E., Zucca, L., Barne, R., Bordoloi, A., Cappi, A., Cimatti, G., Coppa, A. M., Koekemoer, C., López Sanjuan, H. J., Mccracken, M., Moresco, P., Nair, L., Pozzetti, and N., Welikala
Subjects: GALAXIES: EVOLUTION, statistics [galaxies], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, media_common.quotation_subject, COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS, GALAXIES: STATISTICS, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, STAR-FORMATION, COSMOS SURVEY, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite galaxy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, GALAXIES: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, 10. No inequality, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, RED SEQUENCE, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, luminosity function [galaxies], media_common, Physics, Quenching, REDSHIFT SURVEY, MASS FUNCTION, groups: general [galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, GROUP CATALOG, cosmology: observations, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: groups: general, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, galaxies: statistics, Redshift, EVOLUTION, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, SPECTROSCOPIC SAMPLE, Physics::Space Physics, STELLAR MASS FUNCTION, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, Satellite, QUIESCENT GALAXIES, GALAXIES: GROUPS: GENERAL, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, observation [cosmology]
Abstract: We examine the red fraction of central and satellite galaxies in the large zCOSMOS group catalog out to z ~ 0.8 correcting for both the incompleteness in stellar mass and for the less than perfect purities of the central and satellite samples. We show that, at all masses and at all redshifts, the fraction of satellite galaxies that have been quenched, i.e., are red, is systematically higher than that of centrals, as seen locally in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The satellite quenching efficiency, which is the probability that a satellite is quenched because it is a satellite rather than a central, is, as locally, independent of stellar mass. Furthermore, the average value is about 0.5, which is also very similar to that seen in the SDSS. We also construct the mass functions of blue and red centrals and satellites and show that these broadly follow the predictions of the Peng et al. analysis of the SDSS groups. Together, these results indicate that the effect of the group environment in quenching satellite galaxies was very similar when the universe was about a half its present age, as it is today., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ
Published: 2012
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41. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The distinct build-up of dense and normal massive passive galaxies

Author: A. Gargiulo, M. Bolzonella, M. Scodeggio, J. Krywult, G. De Lucia, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli, B. R. Granett, S. de la Torre, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, C. Haines, A. J. Hawken, A. Iovino, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, T. Moutard, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A. Zanichelli, G. Zamorani, J. Bel, E. Branchini, J. Coupon, O. Ilbert, L. Moscardini, J. A. Peacock, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF- Milano, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), 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), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), 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), Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège], Université de Liège, Gargiulo, A., Bolzonella, M., Scodeggio, M., Krywult, J., De Lucia, G., Guzzo, L., Garilli, B., Granett, B. R., De La Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Haines, C., Hawken, A. J., Iovino, A., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Moutard, T., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Zamorani, G., Bel, J., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., Ilbert, O., Moscardini, L., Peacock, J. A., Granett, B.R., Hawken, A.J., MacCagni, D., Tasca, L.A.M., Peacock, J.A., 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 Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: galaxies: high redshift, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, elliptical and lenticular, cD [Galaxies], 01 natural sciences, cD, high-redshift [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: formation, galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, formation [Galaxies], Redshift, Galaxy, Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: formation, Space and Planetary Science, Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxies: evolution, elliptical and lenticular [galaxies]
Abstract: We use the final data from the VIPERS redshift survey to extract an unparalleled sample of more than 2000 massive M > 10^11 M_sun passive galaxies (MPGs) at redshift 0.5 < z < 1.0, based on their NUVrK colours. This enables us to investigate how the population of these objects was built up over cosmic time. We find that the evolution of the number density depends on the galaxy mean surface stellar mass density, Sigma. In particular, dense (Sigma > 2000 M_sun pc^-2) MPGs show a constant comoving number density over this redshift range, whilst this increases by a factor ~ 4 for the least dense objects, defined as having Sigma < 1000 M_sun pc^-2. We estimate stellar ages for the MPG population both fitting the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) and through the D4000_n index, obtaining results in good agreement. Our findings are consistent with passive ageing of the stellar content of dense MPGs. We show that at any redshift the less dense MPGs are younger than dense ones and that their stellar populations evolve at a slower rate than predicted by passive evolution. This points to a scenario in which the overall population of MPGs was built up over the cosmic time by continuous addition of less dense galaxies: on top of an initial population of dense objects that passively evolves, new, larger, and younger MPGs continuously join the population at later epochs. Finally, we demonstrate that the observed increase in the number density of MPGs is totally accounted for by the observed decrease in the number density of correspondingly massive star forming galaxies (i.e. all the non-passive M > 10^11 M_sun objects). Such systems observed at z ~ 1 in VIPERS, therefore, represent the most plausible progenitors of the subsequent emerging class of larger MPGs., 14 pages, 13 figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2017
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42. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The matter density and baryon fraction from the galaxy power spectrum at redshift $0.6<z<1.1$

Author: Stéphane Arnouts, T. Moutard, D. Maccagni, S. Rota, C. Adami, O. Le Fevre, A. Pollo, John A. Peacock, Luigi Guzzo, L. A. M. Tasca, I. Davidzon, M. J. Wilson, P. Franzetti, B. R. Granett, Katarzyna Małek, M. Bolzonella, G. De Lucia, M. Polletta, A. Zanichelli, Jean Coupon, V. Le Brun, Rita Tojeiro, Enzo Branchini, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, B. Garilli, S. de la Torre, D. Bottini, Lauro Moscardini, Will J. Percival, Alexander Fritz, Ummi Abbas, J. Krywult, Federico Marulli, A. Pezzotta, Julien Bel, Marco Scodeggio, Daniela Vergani, 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 ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - Faculté des Sciences ( UNS UFR Sciences ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ), 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 ), 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'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - Faculté des Sciences (UNS UFR Sciences), 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), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), 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 Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), 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), Rota, S., Granett, B. R., Bel, J., Guzzo, L., Peacock, J. A., Wilson, M. J., Pezzotta, A., de la Torre, S., Garilli, B., Bolzonella, M., 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., Percival, W. J., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Branchini, E., Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Moscardini, L., Moutard, T., De La Torre, S., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and 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)
Subjects: Cosmological parameter, statistics [galaxies], media_common.quotation_subject, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Cosmic microwave background, cosmological parameters, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Cosmological parameters, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: statistics, Large-scale structure of Universe, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, law, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, cosmological parameters, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, media_common, Physics, Very Large Telescope, statistic [Galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Redshift, Universe, Galaxy, astro-ph.CO, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], high-redshift [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the final catalogue of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to measure the power spectrum of the galaxy distribution at high redshift, presenting results that extend beyond $z=1$ for the first time. We apply an FFT technique to four independent sub-volumes comprising a total of $51,728$ galaxies at $0.6, Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2017
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43. 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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44. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Gravity test from the combination of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing at 0.5 < z < 1.2

Author: O. Cucciati, Julien Bel, S. de la Torre, G. De Lucia, O. Le Fèvre, Benjamin R. Granett, Ummi Abbas, C. Adami, Carlo Giocoli, Gustavo Yepes, Rita Tojeiro, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, B. Garilli, D. Maccagni, J. Krywult, Alexander Fritz, A. Pezzotta, M. Scodeggio, Eric Jullo, D. Vergani, R. B. Metcalf, A. Iovino, Katarzyna Małek, M. Bolzonella, Iary Davidzon, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Federico Marulli, M. Polletta, Jean Coupon, A. Zanichelli, John A. Peacock, D. Bottini, Agnieszka Pollo, S. Arnouts, Lauro Moscardini, Lidia Tasca, Luigi Guzzo, P. Franzetti, T. Moutard, Francisco Prada, De La Torre, S., Jullo, E., Giocoli, C., Pezzotta, A., Bel, J., Granett, B. R., Guzzo, L., 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 FÃvre, O., Maccagni, D., Maå ek, 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., Ilbert, O., Moutard, T., Moscardini, L., Peacock, J. A., Metcalf, R. B., Prada, F., Yepes, 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), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - Faculté des Sciences (UNS UFR Sciences), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), 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), Le Fèvre, O., Małek, K., Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Research Council, European Commission, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, National Science Centre (Poland), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de 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 Nice Sophia Antipolis - Faculté des Sciences ( UNS UFR Sciences ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), and Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
Subjects: Cosmological parameter, Large-scale structure of Universe, General relativity, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], media_common.quotation_subject, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology: observation, Gravitation, Redshift-space distortions, high-redshift [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: high-redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, cosmological parameters, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Sigma, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Universe, Redshift, observations [cosmology], cosmology: observations, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Full list of authors: De La Torre, S.; Jullo, E.; Giocoli, C.; Pezzotta, A.; Bel, J.; Granett, B. R.; Guzzo, L.; 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.; Malek, 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.; Ilbert, O.; Moutard, T.; Moscardini, L.; Peacock, J. A.; Metcalf, R. B.; Prada, F.; Yepes, G., We carry out a joint analysis of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing, with the aim of measuring the growth rate of structure; this is a key quantity for understanding the nature of gravity on cosmological scales and late-Time cosmic acceleration. We make use of the final VIPERS redshift survey dataset, which maps a portion of the Universe at a redshift of z 0.8, and the lensing data from the CFHTLenS survey over the same area of the sky. We build a consistent theoretical model that combines non-linear galaxy biasing and redshift-space distortion models, and confront it with observations. The two probes are combined in a Bayesian maximum likelihood analysis to determine the growth rate of structure at two redshifts z = 0.6 and z = 0.86. We obtain measurements of fσ(0.6) = 0.48 ± 0.12 and fσ(0.86) = 0.48 ± 0.10. The additional galaxy-galaxy lensing constraint alleviates galaxy bias and σ degeneracies, providing direct measurements of f and σ: [f(0.6),σ(0.6)] = [0.93 ± 0.22,0.52 ± 0.06] and [f(0.86),σ(0.86)] = [0.99 ± 0.19,0.48 ± 0.04]. These measurements are statistically consistent with a Universe where the gravitational interactions can be described by General Relativity, although they are not yet accurate enough to rule out some commonly considered alternatives. Finally, as a complementary test we measure the gravitational slip parameter, E, for the first time at z > 0.6. We find values of E (0.6) = 0.16±0.09 and E (0.86) = 0.09±0.07, when E is averaged over scales above 3 h Mpc. We find that our E measurements exhibit slightly lower values than expected for standard relativistic gravity in a ΛCDM background, although the results are consistent within 1-2σ. © ESO, 2017., We acknowledge the crucial contribution of the ESO staff for the management of service observations. Italian participation to VIPERS has been funded by INAF through PRIN 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2015 programs. L.G. and B.R.G. acknowledge support from the European Research Council through grant No. 291521. O.L.F. acknowledges support from the European Research Council through grant No. 268107. J.A.P. acknowledges support of the European Research Council through the COSFORM ERC Advanced Research Grant (#670193). G.D.L. acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council through grant No. 202781. R.T. acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council through grant No. 202686. A.P., K.M., and J.K. have been supported by the National Science Centre (grants UMO-2012/07/B/ST9/04425 and UMO-2013/09/D/ST9/04030). E.B., F.M., and L.M. acknowledge the support from grants ASI-INAF I/023/12/0 and PRIN MIUR 2010-2011. L.M. also acknowledges financial support from PRIN INAF 2012. S.D.L.T., E.J., and M.P. acknowledge the support of the OCEVU Labex (ANR-11-LABX-0060) and the A*MIDEX project (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) funded by the "Investissements d'Avenir" French government program managed by the ANR. Research conducted within the scope of the HECOLS International Associated Laboratory, supported in part by the Polish NCN grant Dec-2013/08/M/ST9/00664. T.M. and S.A. acknowledge financial support from the ANR Spin(e) through the French grant ANR-13-BS05-0005. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (www.gauss-centre.eu) and the Partnership for Advanced Supercomputing in Europe (PRACE, www.prace-ri.eu) for funding the MultiDark simulation project by providing computing time on the GCS Supercomputer SuperMUC at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ,www.lrz.de).
Published: 2017
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45. 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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46. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey. Measuring the growth rate of structure around cosmic voids

Author: P. Franzetti, V. Le Brun, A. Zanichelli, O. Le Fèvre, M. Bolzonella, G. De Lucia, J. Krywult, C. Adami, Ummi Abbas, Enzo Branchini, Rita Tojeiro, M. Polletta, A. Iovino, Iary Davidzon, A. Cappi, Luigi Guzzo, Olivier Ilbert, S. de la Torre, Adam J. Hawken, Agnieszka Pollo, D. Maccagni, Lauro Moscardini, Alexander Fritz, Will J. Percival, John A. Peacock, Daniela Vergani, M. Scodeggio, Federico Marulli, Katarzyna Małek, Olga Cucciati, Bianca Garilli, Lidia Tasca, D. Bottini, Stéphane Arnouts, Julien Bel, Benjamin R. Granett, ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), University of Leeds, 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), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), 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), INAF- Milano, Hawken, A.J., Granett, B.R., Iovino, A., Guzzo, L., Peacock, J.A., De La Torre, S., Garilli, B., Bolzonella, M., Scodeggio, M., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Davidzon, I., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., 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, E., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Moscardini, L., Percival, W.J., 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 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), Hawken, A. J., Granett, B. R., Peacock, J. A., Tasca, L. A. M., and Percival, W. J.
Subjects: Cosmological parameter, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Space (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Cosmology: observation, Redshift-space distortions, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, cosmological parameters, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, STFC, Physics, education.field_of_study, cosmology: large scale structure of the universe, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ST/I001204/1, Cosmology: observations, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, observations [cosmology], Redshift, Galaxy, Distortion (mathematics), observations, Space and Planetary Science, gravitation, astro-ph.CO, large-scale structure of Universe, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmological parameters, Gravitation
Abstract: We identified voids in the completed VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), using an algorithm based on searching for empty spheres. We measured the cross-correlation between the centres of voids and the complete galaxy catalogue. The cross-correlation function exhibits a clear anisotropy in both VIPERS fields (W1 and W4), which is characteristic of linear redshift space distortions. By measuring the projected cross-correlation and then deprojecting it we are able to estimate the undistorted cross-correlation function. We propose that given a sufficiently well measured cross-correlation function one should be able to measure the linear growth rate of structure by applying a simple linear Gaussian streaming model for the redshift space distortions (RSD). Our study of voids in 306 mock galaxy catalogues mimicking the VIPERS fields would suggest that VIPERS is capable of measuring $\beta$ with an error of around $25\%$. Applying our method to the VIPERS data, we find a value for the redshift space distortion parameter, $\beta = 0.423^{+0.104}_{-0.108}$, which given the bias of the galaxy population we use gives a linear growth rate of $f\sigma_8 = 0.296^{+0.075}_{-0.078}$ at $z = 0.727$. These results are consistent with values observed in parallel VIPERS analysis using standard techniques., Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2017
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47. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Star formation history of passive red galaxies

Author: D. Bottini, A. Zanichelli, A. Marchetti, M. Polletta, Agnieszka Pollo, O. Le Fèvre, Daniela Vergani, Rita Tojeiro, I. Davidzon, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, M. Bolzonella, Adriana Gargiulo, O. Cucciati, L. A. M. Tasca, C. Adami, S. de la Torre, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi, Lauro Moscardini, Julien Bel, P. Franzetti, M. Scodeggio, G. Zamorani, G. De Lucia, J. Krywult, B. R. Granett, A. Iovino, Małgorzata Siudek, B. Garilli, Alexander Fritz, Luigi Guzzo, Federico Marulli, U. Abbas, S. Arnouts, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, C. P. Haines, D. Maccagni, Katarzyna Małek, 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), Siudek, M, Małek, K., Scodeggio, M., Garilli, B., Pollo, A., Haines, C.P., Fritz, A., Bolzonella, M., De La Torre, S., Granett, B.R., Guzzo, L., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., De Lucia, G., Davidzon, I., Franzetti, P., Iovino, A., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Marchetti, A., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Tasca, L.A.M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Branchini, E., Ilbert, O., Gargiulo, A., Moscardini, L., Takeuchi, T.T., Zamorani, G., Haines, C. P., Granett, B. R., Tasca, L. A. M., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Takeuchi, T. T., University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, ITA, GBR, FRA, JPN, and POL
Subjects: Stellar mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: stellar content, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Stars, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), stellar content [Galaxies], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, uploaded-in-3-months-elsewhere
Abstract: We trace the evolution and the star formation history of passive galaxies, using a subset of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). We extracted from the VIPERS survey a sample of passive galaxies in the redshift range 0.4, Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, accepted to A&A
Published: 2017
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48. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: S. Rota, B. R. Granett, J. Bel, L. Guzzo, J. A. Peacock, M. J. Wilson, A. Pezzotta, S. de la Torre, B. Garilli, M. Bolzonella, M. Scodeggio, U. Abbas, C. Adami, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, W. J. Percival, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A.
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49. 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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50. 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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