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1. Prevalence of Sleep Disturbances and Insomnia Symptoms in COVID-19 Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Author: J.W. Deng, F. Zhou, S. Heybati, O. Chang, U. Abbas, T. Dhivagaran, K. Heybati, K. Kavanagh, D. Rayner, and H.B. Ramaraju
Published: 2023
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2. Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for Managing COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Author: F. Zhou, J. Deng, D. Rayner, H.B. Ramaraju, U. Abbas, E. Huang, S. Lohit, K. Heybati, and M. Garcia
Published: 2023
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3. Differential Astrometry with Gaia: Investigating relativistic light deflection close to Jupiter

Author: U. Abbas, B. Bucciarelli, M. G. Lattanzi, M. Crosta, R. Morbidelli, D. Busonero, L. Bramante, and R. Messineo
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: In this paper we develop a differential astrometric framework that is appropriate for a scanning space satellite such as Gaia. We apply it to the first of the GAREQ fields, which is the fruit of dedicated efforts within the Gaia project focused on measuring the relativistic deflection of light close to Jupiter's limb. This provides a preliminary assessment of: a) the observability of the relativistic deflection of light close to Jupiter, and, b) Gaia's astrometric capabilities under extremely difficult conditions such as those around a bright extended object. Inputs to our differential astrometric model are the CCD transit times as measured by the IDU system, transformed to field angles via AGIS geometric calibrations, and the commanded/nominal spacecraft attitude. [abridged] To illustrate the model we analyze Gaia astrometric measurements after their calibration through the latest cyclic EDR3/DR3 processing of the GAREQ event of Feb 2017. We use observations of the closest bright target star successfully observed several times by Gaia in close proximity to Jupiter and surrounding reference stars brighter than G, 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2022

4. ASSESSMENT OF OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INFLAMMATORY MARKERS OF MEDICAL IMPORTANCE IN ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA

Author: SJ Butt, U Abbas, A Arshad, B Ahmad, A Ashraf, M Haseeb, AF Butt, MA Rana, and MM Hafeez
Subjects: stomatognathic diseases
Abstract: There is an increased prevalence of Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), and it is a well-known human malignant cancer.Oxidative stress markersare helpful in diagnosis andto assess the progression malignancy. The current analysis aimed to determine the altered levels of reactive oxygen species and inflammatory markers in oral squamous cell carcinoma. This research was conducted by the general pathology department of Institute of dentistry, CMH Lahore,from September 17, 2021, to January 17, 2022. Total of sixtyage and sex matched participants were included in the study and further divided into two groups. In study group thirtyconfirmed cases of oral squamous cell carcinoma on pathologywere recruited. Oxidative stress markers were measured and statistically analyses done by using SPSS software version 25. The results showed increase levels of malondialdehyde, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine, isoprostanes, interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha as compared to the control groups (p= 0.023, 0.001, 0.041, 0.000 and 0.033 respectively). Oxidative stress markers are elevatedlevels of oxidative stress marked are found in patients of OSCC. That may lead to swift progression of disease and may increase mortality rate.
Published: 2022
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5. The Effect of Ivermectin on Reducing Viral Symptoms in Patients with Mild COVID-19

Author: K. U. Abbas, S. Muhammad, and S. F. Ding
Published: 2022
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6. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

Author: G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley, A. Hourihane, A. Gonneau, G. G. Sacco, J. R. Lewis, L. Magrini, P. François, R. D. Jeffries, S. E. Koposov, A. Bragaglia, E. J. Alfaro, C. Allende Prieto, R. Blomme, A. J. Korn, A. C. Lanzafame, E. Pancino, A. Recio-Blanco, R. Smiljanic, S. Van Eck, T. Zwitter, T. Bensby, E. Flaccomio, M. J. Irwin, E. Franciosini, L. Morbidelli, F. Damiani, R. Bonito, E. D. Friel, J. S. Vink, L. Prisinzano, U. Abbas, D. Hatzidimitriou, E. V. Held, C. Jordi, E. Paunzen, A. Spagna, R. J. Jackson, J. Maíz Apellániz, M. Asplund, P. Bonifacio, S. Feltzing, J. Binney, J. Drew, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. Micela, I. Negueruela, T. Prusti, H.-W. Rix, A. Vallenari, M. Bergemann, A. R. Casey, P. de Laverny, A. Frasca, V. Hill, K. Lind, L. Sbordone, S. G. Sousa, V. Adibekyan, E. Caffau, S. Daflon, D. K. Feuillet, M. Gebran, J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez, G. Guiglion, A. Herrero, A. Lobel, T. Merle, Š. Mikolaitis, D. Montes, T. Morel, G. Ruchti, C. Soubiran, H. M. Tabernero, G. Tautvaišienė, G. Traven, M. Valentini, M. Van der Swaelmen, S. Villanova, C. Viscasillas Vázquez, A. Bayo, K. Biazzo, G. Carraro, B. Edvardsson, U. Heiter, P. Jofré, G. Marconi, C. Martayan, T. Masseron, L. Monaco, N. A. Walton, S. Zaggia, V. Aguirre Børsen-Koch, J. Alves, L. Balaguer-Nunez, P. S. Barklem, D. Barrado, M. Bellazzini, S. R. Berlanas, A. S. Binks, A. Bressan, R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, L. Casagrande, L. Casamiquela, R. S. Collins, V. D'Orazi, M. L. L. Dantas, V. P. Debattista, E. Delgado-Mena, P. Di Marcantonio, A. Drazdauskas, N. W. Evans, B. Famaey, M. Franchini, Y. Frémat, X. Fu, D. Geisler, O. Gerhard, E. A. González Solares, E. K. Grebel, M. L. Gutiérrez Albarrán, F. Jiménez-Esteban, H. Jönsson, T. Khachaturyants, G. Kordopatis, J. Kos, N. Lagarde, H.-G. Ludwig, L. Mahy, M. Mapelli, E. Marfil, S. L. Martell, S. Messina, A. Miglio, I. Minchev, A. Moitinho, J. Montalban, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, C. Morossi, N. Mowlavi, A. Mucciarelli, D. N. A. Murphy, N. Nardetto, S. Ortolani, F. Paletou, J. Palouš, J. C. Pickering, A. Quirrenbach, P. Re Fiorentin, J. I. Read, D. Romano, N. Ryde, N. Sanna, W. Santos, G. M. Seabroke, L. Spina, M. Steinmetz, E. Stonkuté, E. Sutorius, F. Thévenin, M. Tosi, M. Tsantaki, N. Wright, R. F. G. Wyse, M. Zoccali, J. Zorec, D. B. Zucker, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-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), 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), Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Astrofísica Estelar (AE), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, European Research Council, and German Research Foundation
Subjects: stars, astro-ph.SR, stars: abundances, astro-ph.GA, kinematics and dynamics, FOS: Physical sciences, Surveys, CHEMICAL-COMPOSITION, STELLAR SPECTRA, stellar content, spectroscopic, methods, spectroscopic [Techniques], Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, surveys, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, stellar content [Galaxy], observational [Methods], observational, EQUIVALENT WIDTHS, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), CALIBRATION, DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXY, Galaxy: stellar content, abundances, BLUE STARS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, kinematics and dynamics [Galaxy], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, EVOLUTION, NLTE-MODELS, Galaxy, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), abundances [Stars], astro-ph.EP, BLANKETED MODEL ATMOSPHERES, methods: observational, techniques, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, techniques: spectroscopic, FGK BENCHMARK STARS, astro-ph.IM, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: Full list of authors: Gilmore, G.; Randich, S.; Worley, C. C.; Hourihane, A.; Gonneau, A.; Sacco, G. G.; Lewis, J. R.; Magrini, L.; Francois, P.; Jeffries, R. D.; Koposov, S. E.; Bragaglia, A.; Alfaro, E. J.; Allende Prieto, C.; Blomme, R.; Korn, A. J.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Pancino, E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Smiljanic, R.; Van Eck, S.; Zwitter, T.; Bensby, T.; Flaccomio, E.; Irwin, M. J.; Franciosini, E.; Morbidelli, L.; Damiani, F.; Bonito, R.; Friel, E. D.; Vink, J. S.; Prisinzano, L.; Abbas, U.; Hatzidimitriou, D.; Held, E., V; Jordi, C.; Paunzen, E.; Spagna, A.; Jackson, R. J.; Maiz Apellaniz, J.; Asplund, M.; Bonifacio, P.; Feltzing, S.; Binney, J.; Drew, J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Micela, G.; Negueruela, I; Prusti, T.; Rix, H-W; Vallenari, A.; Bergemann, M.; Casey, A. R.; de Laverny, P.; Frasca, A.; Hill, V; Lind, K.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S. G.; Adibekyan, V; Caffau, E.; Daflon, S.; Feuillet, D. K.; Gebran, M.; Gonzalez Hernandez, J., I; Guiglion, G.; Herrero, A.; Lobel, A.; Montes, D.; Morel, T.; Ruchti, G.; Soubiran, C.; Tabernero, H. M.; Tautvaisiene, G.; Traven, G.; Valentini, M.; Van der Swaelmen, M.; Villanova, S.; Vazquez, C. Viscasillas; Bayo, A.; Biazzo, K.; Carraro, G.; Edvardsson, B.; Heiter, U.; Jofre, P.; Marconi, G.; Martayan, C.; Masseron, T.; Monaco, L.; Walton, N. A.; Zaggia, S.; Borsen-Koch, V. Aguirre; Alves, J.; Balaguer-Nunez, L.; Barklem, P. S.; Barrado, D.; Bellazzini, M.; Berlanas, S. R.; Binks, A. S.; Bressan, A.; Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.; Casagrande, L.; Casamiquela, L.; Collins, R. S.; D'Orazi, V; Dantas, M. L. L.; Debattista, V. P.; Delgado-Mena, E.; Di Marcantonio, P.; Drazdauskas, A.; Evans, N. W.; Famaey, B.; Franchini, M.; Fremat, Y.; Fu, X.; Geisler, D.; Gerhard, O.; Solares, E. A. Gonzalez; Grebel, E. K.; Gutierrez Albarran, M. L.; Jimenez-Esteban, F.; Jonsson, H.; Khachaturyants, T.; Kordopatis, G.; Kos, J.; Lagarde, N.; Ludwig, H-G; Mahy, L.; Mapelli, M.; Marfil, E.; Martell, S. L.; Messina, S.; Miglio, A.; Minchev, I; Moitinho, A.; Montalban, J.; Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.; Morossi, C.; Mowlavi, N.; Mucciarelli, A.; Murphy, D. N. A.; Nardetto, N.; Ortolani, S.; Paletou, F.; Palous, J.; Pickering, J. C.; Quirrenbach, A.; Fiorentin, P. Re; Read, J., I; Romano, D.; Ryde, N.; Sanna, N.; Santos, W.; Seabroke, G. M.; Spina, L.; Steinmetz, M.; Stonkute, E.; Sutorius, E.; Thevenin, F.; Tosi, M.; Tsantaki, M.; Wright, N.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Zoccali, M.; Zorec, J.; Zucker, D. B.-- This is an Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., Context. The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100 000 stars, including large representative samples of the stellar populations in the Galaxy, and a well-defined sample of 60 (plus 20 archive) open clusters. We provide internally consistent results calibrated on benchmark stars and star clusters, extending across a very wide range of abundances and ages. This provides a legacy data set of intrinsic value, and equally a large wide-ranging dataset that is of value for the homogenisation of other and future stellar surveys and Gaia's astrophysical parameters. Aims. This article provides an overview of the survey methodology, the scientific aims, and the implementation, including a description of the data processing for the GIRAFFE spectra. A companion paper introduces the survey results. Methods. Gaia-ESO aspires to quantify both random and systematic contributions to measurement uncertainties. Thus, all available spectroscopic analysis techniques are utilised, each spectrum being analysed by up to several different analysis pipelines, with considerable effort being made to homogenise and calibrate the resulting parameters. We describe here the sequence of activities up to delivery of processed data products to the ESO Science Archive Facility for open use. Results. The Gaia-ESO Survey obtained 202 000 spectra of 115 000 stars using 340 allocated VLT nights between December 2011 and January 2018 from GIRAFFE and UVES. © G. Gilmore et al. 2022. Conclusions. The full consistently reduced final data set of spectra was released through the ESO Science Archive Facility in late 2020, with the full astrophysical parameters sets following in 2022. A companion article reviews the survey implementation, scientific highlights, the open cluster survey, and data products., Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002. These data products have been processed by the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and by the FLAMES/UVES reduction team at INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. Public access to the data products is via the ESO SAF, and the Gaia-ESO Survey Data Archive, prepared and hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, which is funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. We acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell’ Istruzione, dell’ Università’ e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grant “Premiale VLT 2012”. The project presented here benefited in development from discussions held during the Gaia-ESO workshops and conferences supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. R.S. acknowledges support from the National Science Centre, Poland (2014/15/B/ST9/03981). This work was partly supported by the INAF grant for mainstream projects: “Enhancing the legacy of the Gaia-ESO Survey for open cluster science”. F.J.E. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MINECO/FEDER through the grant AYA2017-84089 and MDM-2017-0737 at Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu, and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064 through the ESCAPE – the European Science Cluster of Astronomy and Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures project. T.B. was funded by the “The New Milky Way” project grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. S.R.B. acknowledges support by the Spanish Government under grants AYA2015-68012-C2-2-P and PGC2018-093741-B-C21/C22 (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). W.J.S. acknowledges CAPES for a PhD studentship. J.M.A. acknowledges support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación through grants AYA2013-40611-P, AYA2016-75931-C2-2-P, and PGC2018-095049-B-C22. T.M. and others from STAR institute, Liege, Belgium are grateful to Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS for support, and are also indebted for an ESA/PRODEX Belspo contract related to the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium and for support through an ARC grant for Concerted Research Actions financed by the Federation Wallonie-Brussels.. This research has been partially supported by the following grants: MIUR Premiale “Gaia-ESO survey” (PI S. Randich), MIUR Premiale “MiTiC: Mining the Cosmos” (PI B. Garilli), the ASI-INAF contract 2014-049-R.O: “Realizzazione attività tecniche/scientifiche presso ASDC” (PI Angelo Antonelli), Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, progetto: “Know the star, know the planet” (PI E. Pancino), and Progetto Main Stream INAF: “Chemo-dynamics of globular clusters: the Gaia revolution” (PI E. Pancino). V.A. acknowledges the support from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through Investigador FCT contract nr. IF/00650/2015/CP1273/CT0001. A.J.K. acknowledges support by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). A.B. acknowledges support by ANID, – Millennium Science Initiative Program – NCN19_171, and FONDECYT regular 1190748. E.M. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) through project MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” – Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA). T.Z. acknowledges financial support of the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding no. P1-0188) and the European Space Agency (Prodex Experiment Arrangement No. C4000127986). P.J. acknowledges support FONDECYT Regular 1200703. The work of I.N. is partially supported by the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades under grant PGC2018-093741-B-C21 (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). Funding for this work has been provided by the ARC Future Fellowship FT160100402. C.A.P. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Government through research grants MINECO AYA 2014-56359-P, MINECO AYA2017-86389-P, and MICINN PID2020-117493GB-I00. S.F. was supported by the grants 2011-5042 and 2016-03412 from the Swedish Research Council and the project grant “The New Milky Way” from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. C.A.S.U. is supported through STFC grants: ST/H004157/1, ST/J00541X/1, ST/M007626/1, ST/N005805/1, ST/T003081/1. Work reported here benefited from support through the GREAT-ITN FP7 project Grant agreement ID: 264895. D.K.F. acknowledges funds from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the framework of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award endowed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the grant 2016-03412 from the Swedish Research Council. A.H. acknowledges support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and ERD Funds through grants PGC-2018-091 3741-B-C22 and CEX2019-000920-S. X.F. acknowledges the support of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2020M670023. M.L.L.D. acknowledges the Polish NCN grant number 2019/34/E/ST9/00133. Part of this work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 138713538 – SFB 881 (“The Milky Way System”, subproject A09). M.Z. acknowledges support from the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) grants: FONDECYT Regular 1191505, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics ICN12-009, BASAL Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies AFB-170002. R.B. acknowledges support from the project PRIN-INAF 2019 “Spectroscopically Tracing the Disk Dispersal Evolution”. H.M.T. acknowledges financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through projects PID2019-109522GB-C51,54/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and the Centre of Excellence “María de Maeztu” award to Centro de Astrobiología (MDM-2017-0737). J.I.G.H. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) project AYA2017-86389-P, and also from the Spanish MICINN under 2013 Ramѳn y Cajal program RYC-2013-14875. V.P.D. is supported by STFC Consolidated grant ST/R000786/1. N.L. acknowledges financial support from “Programme National de Physique Stellaire” (PNPS) and the “Programme National Cosmology et Galaxies (PNCG)” of CNRS/INSU, France. A.R.C. is supported in part by the Australian Research Council through a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE190100656). Parts of this research were supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE170100013. P.S.B. is supported by the Swedish Research Council through individual project grants with contract Nos. 2016-03765 and 2020-03404. A.M. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 772293 – project ASTEROCHRONOMETRY). J.P. was supported by the project RVO: 67985815. E.D.M. acknowledges the support from FCT through the research grants UIDB/04434/2020 & UIDP/04434/2020 and through Investigador FCT contract IF/00849/2015/CP1273/CT0003. This work was (partially) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU/FEDER, UE) through grant RTI2018-095076-B-C21, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia 'María de Maeztu’) through grant CEX2019-000918-M. S.L.M. acknowledges the support of the UNSW Scientia Fellowship program and the Australian Research Council through Discovery Project grant DP180101791. GT acknowledges financial support of the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P1-0188) and the European Space Agency (Prodex Experiment Arrangement No. C4000127986). S.G.S acknowledges the support from FCT through Investigador FCT contract nr. CEECIND/00826/2018 and POPH/FSE (EC). H.G.L. acknowledges financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 138713538 – SFB 881 (“The Milky Way System”, subproject A04). This work was (partially) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU/FEDER, UE) through grant RTI2018-095076-B-C21, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia ’María de Maeztu’) through grant CEX2019-000918-M. T.K. is supported by STFC Consolidated grant ST/R000786/1. M.V. acknowledges the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, project number: 428473034). T.M. is supported by a grant from the Fondation ULB. We acknowledge financial support from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, from project AYA2016-79425-C3-1-P and PID2019-109522GB-C5[4]/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. U.H. acknowledges support from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen). D.G. gratefully acknowledges support from the Chilean Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA) BASAL grant AFB-170002. D.G. also acknowledges financial support from the Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Universidad de La Serena through the Programa de Incentivo a la Investigación de Académicos (PIA-DIDULS). A. Lobel acknowledges support in part by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office under contract No. BR/143/A2/BRASS. We acknowledge financial support from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, from project AYA2016-79425-C3-1-P and PID2019-109522GB-C5[4]/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. A.M. acknowledges the support from the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Portuguese Strategic Programme UID/FIS/00099/2019 for CENTRA. T.M. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) through the Spanish State Research Agency, under the Severo Ochoa Program 2020-2023 (CEX2019-000920-S). E.J.A. acknowledges funding from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the “Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa” award to the Instituto de Astrofísica de An- dalucía (SEV-2017-0709).
Published: 2022
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7. The Gaia-ESO Survey: Target selection of open cluster stars

Author: A. Bragaglia, E. J. Alfaro, E. Flaccomio, R. Blomme, P. Donati, M. Costado, F. Damiani, E. Franciosini, L. Prisinzano, S. Randich, E. D. Friel, D. Hatztidimitriou, A. Vallenari, A. Spagna, L. Balaguer-Nunez, R. Bonito, T. Cantat Gaudin, L. Casamiquela, R. D. Jeffries, C. Jordi, L. Magrini, J. E. Drew, R. J. Jackson, U. Abbas, M. Caramazza, C. Hayes, F. M. Jiménez-Esteban, P. Re Fiorentin, N. Wright, A. Bayo, T. Bensby, M. Bergemann, G. Gilmore, A. Gonneau, U. Heiter, A. Hourihane, E. Pancino, G. Sacco, R. Smiljanic, S. Zaggia, J. S. Vink, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Junta de Andalucía, and European Commission
Subjects: general [Open clusters and associations], radial velocities [Techniques], Stars: abundances, Techniques: spectroscopic, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Open clusters and associations: general, Surveys, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Stars: kinematics and dynamics, spectroscopic [Techniques], Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Techniques: radial velocities, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), abundances [Stars], kinematics and dynamics [Stars], Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract: Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a public, high-resolution spectroscopic survey, conducted with the multi-object spectrograph Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph (FLAMES) on the Very Large Telescope (European Southern Observatory, ESO, Cerro Paranal, Chile) from December 2011 to January 2018. Gaia-ESO has targeted all the main stellar components of the Milky Way, including thin and thick disc, bulge, and halo. In particular, a large sample of open clusters has been observed, from very young ones, just out of the embedded phase, to very old ones. Aims. The different kinds of clusters and stars targeted in them are useful to reach the main science goals of the open cluster part of GES, which are the study of the open cluster structure and dynamics, the use of open clusters to constrain and improve stellar evolution models, and the definition of Galactic disc properties (e.g., metallicity distribution). Methods. The Gaia-ESO Survey is organised in 19 working groups (WGs), each one being responsible for a task. We describe here the work of three of them, one in charge of the selection of the targets within each cluster or association (WG4), one responsible for defining the most probable candidate member stars (WG1), and another one in charge of the preparation of the observations (WG6). As the entire GES has been conducted before the second Gaia data release, we could not make use of the Gaia astrometry to define cluster member candidates. We made use of public and private photometry to select the stars to be observed with FLAMES, once brought on a common astrometric system (the one defined by 2MASS). Candidate target selection was based on ground-based proper motions, radial velocities, and X-ray properties when appropriate, for example, and it was mostly used to define the position of the clusters’ evolutionary sequences in the colour-magnitude diagrams. Targets for GIRAFFE were then selected near the sequences in an unbiased way. We used known information on membership, when available, only for the few stars to be observed with UVES. Results. We collected spectra for 62 confirmed clusters in the main observing campaign (and a few more clusters were taken from the ESO archive). Among them are very young clusters, where the main targets are pre-main sequence stars, clusters with very hot and massive stars currently on the main sequence, intermediate-age and old clusters where evolved stars are the main targets. Our strategy of making the selection of targets as inclusive and unbiased as possible and of observing a significant and representative fraction of all possible targets permitted us to collect the largest, most accurate, and most homogeneous spectroscopic data set on open star clusters ever achieved. © ESO 2022., This research has made use of the SIMBAD database (Wenger 2000), operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France and of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier). The original description of the VizieR service was published in Ochsenbein et al. (2000). This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System. We made extensive use of TOPCAT (http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/, Taylor 2005). We benefited from discussions in various Gaia-ESO workshops supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT (Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training) Research Network Program. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. We acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grants ‘Premiale VLT 2012’ and ‘The Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies’ (prot. 2010LY5N2T). E.J.A. acknowledges the financial support by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, through grant AYA2010-17631, and by the Consejeria de Educacion y Ciencia de la Junta de Andalucia, through TIC101 and P08-TIC-4075. This work was partially supported by the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training (GREAT-ITN) Marie Curie network, funded through the European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement no 264895. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant no 320360. This work was partly supported by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. T.B. was funded by grant No. 621-2009-3911 and grant No. 2018-0485 from The Swedish Research Council. E.J.A. also acknowledges ESF GREAT grant No 6901. R.S. acknowledges support from the National Science Centre, Poland (2014/15/B/ST9/03981). U.H. acknowledges support from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen). F.J.E. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MINECO/FEDER through the grant AYA2017-84089 and MDM-2017-0737 at Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu, and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064 through the ESCAPE – The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures project.
Published: 2022

8. The Gaia -ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy

Author: S. Randich, G. Gilmore, L. Magrini, G. G. Sacco, R. J. Jackson, R. D. Jeffries, C. C. Worley, A. Hourihane, A. Gonneau, C. Viscasillas Vazquez, E. Franciosini, J. R. Lewis, E. J. Alfaro, C. Allende Prieto, T. Bensby, R. Blomme, A. Bragaglia, E. Flaccomio, P. François, M. J. Irwin, S. E. Koposov, A. J. Korn, A. C. Lanzafame, E. Pancino, A. Recio-Blanco, R. Smiljanic, S. Van Eck, T. Zwitter, M. Asplund, P. Bonifacio, S. Feltzing, J. Binney, J. Drew, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. Micela, I. Negueruela, T. Prusti, H.-W. Rix, A. Vallenari, A. Bayo, M. Bergemann, K. Biazzo, G. Carraro, A. R. Casey, F. Damiani, A. Frasca, U. Heiter, V. Hill, P. Jofré, P. de Laverny, K. Lind, G. Marconi, C. Martayan, T. Masseron, L. Monaco, L. Morbidelli, L. Prisinzano, L. Sbordone, S. G. Sousa, S. Zaggia, V. Adibekyan, R. Bonito, E. Caffau, S. Daflon, D. K. Feuillet, M. Gebran, J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez, G. Guiglion, A. Herrero, A. Lobel, J. Maiz Apellaniz, T. Merle, Š. Mikolaitis, D. Montes, T. Morel, C. Soubiran, L. Spina, H. M. Tabernero, G. Tautvaišiene, G. Traven, M. Valentini, M. Van der Swaelmen, S. Villanova, N. J. Wright, U. Abbas, V. Aguirre Børsen-Koch, J. Alves, L. Balaguer-Nunez, P. S. Barklem, D. Barrado, S. R. Berlanas, A. S. Binks, A. Bressan, R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, L. Casagrande, L. Casamiquela, R. S. Collins, V. D'Orazi, M. L. L. Dantas, V. P. Debattista, E. Delgado-Mena, P. Di Marcantonio, A. Drazdauskas, N. W. Evans, B. Famaey, M. Franchini, Y. Frémat, E. D. Friel, X. Fu, D. Geisler, O. Gerhard, E. A. Gonzalez Solares, E. K. Grebel, M. L. Gutierrez Albarran, D. Hatzidimitriou, E. V. Held, F. Jiménez-Esteban, H. Jönsson, C. Jordi, T. Khachaturyants, G. Kordopatis, J. Kos, N. Lagarde, L. Mahy, M. Mapelli, E. Marfil, S. L. Martell, S. Messina, A. Miglio, I. Minchev, A. Moitinho, J. Montalban, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, C. Morossi, N. Mowlavi, A. Mucciarelli, D. N. A. Murphy, N. Nardetto, S. Ortolani, F. Paletou, J. Palouš, E. Paunzen, J. C. Pickering, A. Quirrenbach, P. Re Fiorentin, J. I. Read, D. Romano, N. Ryde, N. Sanna, W. Santos, G. M. Seabroke, A. Spagna, M. Steinmetz, E. Stonkuté, E. Sutorius, F. Thévenin, M. Tosi, M. Tsantaki, J. S. Vink, N. Wright, R. F. G. Wyse, M. Zoccali, J. Zorec, D. B. Zucker, N. A. Walton, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Astrofísica Estelar (AE), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, European Research Council, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (ObAS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-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), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Techniques: spectroscopic, Surveys, fundamental parameters [Stars], VELOCITY DISPERSION PROFILES, spectroscopic [Techniques], Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, LITHIUM DEPLETION, TRUMPLER 20, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Stars: fundamental parameters, general [Open clusters and associations], Stars: abundances, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Open clusters and associations: general, INNER-DISK, CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, GAMMA VELORUM CLUSTER, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, SURVEY MEMBERSHIP PROBABILITIES, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), SURVEY GALACTIC EVOLUTION, abundances [Stars], 6TH DATA RELEASE, MILKY-WAY, Catalogs
Abstract: Full list of authors: Randich, S.; Gilmore, G.; Magrini, L.; Sacco, G. G.; Jackson, R. J.; Jeffries, R. D.; Worley, C. C.; Hourihane, A.; Gonneau, A.; Vazquez, C. Viscasillas; Franciosini, E.; Lewis, J. R.; Alfaro, E. J.; Allende Prieto, C.; Bensby, T.; Blomme, R.; Bragaglia, A.; Flaccomio, E.; Francois, P.; Irwin, M. J.; Koposov, S. E.; Korn, A. J.; Lanzafame, A. C.; Pancino, E.; Recio-Blanco, A.; Smiljanic, R.; Van Eck, S.; Zwitter, T.; Asplund, M.; Bonifacio, P.; Feltzing, S.; Binney, J.; Drew, J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Micela, G.; Negueruela, I; Prusti, T.; Rix, H-W; Vallenari, A.; Bayo, A.; Bergemann, M.; Biazzo, K.; Carraro, G.; Casey, A. R.; Damiani, F.; Frasca, A.; Heiter, U.; Hill, V; Jofre, P.; de Laverny, P.; Lind, K.; Marconi, G.; Martayan, C.; Masseron, T.; Monaco, L.; Morbidelli, L.; Prisinzano, L.; Sbordone, L.; Sousa, S. G.; Zaggia, S.; Adibekyan, V; Bonito, R.; Caffau, E.; Daflon, S.; Feuillet, D. K.; Gebran, M.; Gonzalez Hernandez, J., I; Guiglion, G.; Herrero, A.; Lobel, A.; Maiz Apellaniz, J.; Montes, D.; Morel, T.; Soubiran, C.; Spina, L.; Tabernero, H. M.; Traven, G.; Valentini, M.; Van der Swaelmen, M.; Villanova, S.; Wright, N. J.; Abbas, U.; Borsen-Koch, V. Aguirre; Alves, J.; Balaguer-Nunez, L.; Barklem, P. S.; Barrado, D.; Berlanas, S. R.; Binks, A. S.; Bressan, A.; Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.; Casagrande, L.; Casamiquela, L.; Collins, R. S.; D'Orazi, V; Dantas, M. L. L.; Debattista, V. P.; Delgado-Mena, E.; Di Marcantonio, P.; Drazdauskas, A.; Evans, N. W.; Famaey, B.; Franchini, M.; Fremat, Y.; Friel, E. D.; Fu, X.; Geisler, D.; Gerhard, O.; Solares, E. A. Gonzalez; Grebel, E. K.; Gutierrez Albarran, M. L.; Hatzidimitriou, D.; Held, E., V; Jimenez-Esteban, F.; Jonsson, H.; Jordi, C.; Khachaturyants, T.; Kordopatis, G.; Kos, J.; Lagarde, N.; Mahy, L.; Mapelli, M.; Marfil, E.; Martell, S. L.; Messina, S.; Miglio, A.; Minchev, I; Moitinho, A.; Montalban, J.; Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.; Morossi, C.; Mowlavi, N.; Mucciarelli, A.; Murphy, D. N. A.; Nardetto, N.; Ortolani, S.; Paletou, F.; Palous, J.; Paunzen, E.; Pickering, J. C.; Quirrenbach, A.; Fiorentin, P. Re; Read, J., I; Romano, D.; Ryde, N.; Sanna, N.; Santos, W.; Seabroke, G. M.; Spagna, A.; Steinmetz, M.; Stonkute, E.; Sutorius, E.; Thevenin, F.; Tosi, M.; Tsantaki, M.; Vink, J. S.; Wright, N.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Zoccali, M.; Zorec, J.; Zucker, D. B.; Walton, N. A., Context. In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances for large samples of Galactic stars, complementing Gaia astrometry. Among those surveys, the Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey, the only one performed on a 8m class telescope, was designed to target 100 000 stars using FLAMES on the ESO VLT (both Giraffe and UVES spectrographs), covering all the Milky Way populations, with a special focus on open star clusters. Aims. This article provides an overview of the survey implementation (observations, data quality, analysis and its success, data products, and releases), of the open cluster survey, of the science results and potential, and of the survey legacy. A companion article reviews the overall survey motivation, strategy, Giraffe pipeline data reduction, organisation, and workflow. Methods. We made use of the information recorded and archived in the observing blocks; during the observing runs; in a number of relevant documents; in the spectra and master catalogue of spectra; in the parameters delivered by the analysis nodes and the working groups; in the final catalogue; and in the science papers. Based on these sources, we critically analyse and discuss the output and products of the Survey, including science highlights. We also determined the average metallicities of the open clusters observed as science targets and of a sample of clusters whose spectra were retrieved from the ESO archive. Results. The Gaia-ESO Survey has determined homogeneous good-quality radial velocities and stellar parameters for a large fraction of its more than 110 000 unique target stars. Elemental abundances were derived for up to 31 elements for targets observed with UVES. Lithium abundances are delivered for about 1/3 of the sample. The analysis and homogenisation strategies have proven to be successful; several science topics have been addressed by the Gaia-ESO consortium and the community, with many highlight results achieved. Conclusions. The final catalogue will be released through the ESO archive in the first half of 2022, including the complete set of advanced data products. In addition to these results, the Gaia-ESO Survey will leave a very important legacy, for several aspects and for many years to come. © ESO 2022., Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programmes ID 188.B-3002, 193-B-0936, and 197.B-1074. These data products have been processed by the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and by the FLAMES/UVES reduction team at INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. Public access to the data products is via the ESO Archive, and the Gaia-ESO Survey Data Archive, prepared and hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, which is funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. We acknowledge the support from INAF PRIN and Ministero dell’ Universitá e della Ricerca (MUR) in the form of the grant “Premiale VLT 2012” and “Premiale Mitic”. This work was partly supported by the INAF grant for mainstream projects: “Enhancing the legacy of the Gaia-ESO Survey for open cluster science”. The project presented here benefited in development from discussions held during the Gaia-ESO workshops and conferences supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. R. Smiljanic acknowledges support from the National Science Centre, Poland (2014/15/B/ST9/03981). F.J.E. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MINECO/FEDER through the grant AYA2017-84089 and MDM-2017-0737 at Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Unidad de Excelencia Mar a de Maeztu, and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 824064 through the ESCAPE - The European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures project. T.B. was funded by the “The New Milky Way” project grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. S.R.B. acknowledges support by the Spanish Government under grants AYA2015-68012-C2-2-P and PGC2018-093741-B-C21/C22 (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). W.J.S. acknowledges CAPES for a PhD studentship. J.M.A. acknowledges support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaciόn through grants AYA2013-40611-P, AYA2016-75931-C2-2-P, and PGC2018-095049-B-C22. T.M. and others from STAR institute, Liege, Belgium are grateful to Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS for support, and are also indebted for an ESA/PRODEX Belspo contract related to the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium and for support through an ARC grant for Concerted Research Actions financed by the Federation Wallonie-Brussels. This research has been partially supported by the ASI-INAF contract 2014-049-R.O: “Realizzazione attività tecniche/scientifiche presso ASDC” (PI Angelo Antonelli). V.A.acknowledges the support from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through Investigador FCT contract nr. IF/00650/2015/CP1273/CT0001. AJK acknowledges support by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). AB acknowledges support by ANID, – Millennium Science Initiative Program – NCN19_171, and FONDECYT regular 1190748. E.M. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) through project MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” – Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA). T.Z. acknowledges financial support of the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding no. P1-0188) and the European Space Agency (Prodex Experiment Arrangement No. C4000127986). P.J. acknowledges support FONDECYT Regular 1200703. The work of I.N. is partially supported by the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaciόn y Universidades under grant PGC2018-093741-B-C21 (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). Funding for this work has been provided by the ARC Future Fellowship FT160100402. CAP acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Government through research grants MINECO AYA 2014-56359-P, MINECO AYA2017-86389-P, and MICINN PID2020-117493GB-I00. S.F. was supported by the grants 2011-5042 and 2016- 03412 from the Swedish Research Council and the project grant “The New Milky Way” from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. CASU is supported through STFC grants: ST/H004157/1, ST/J00541X/1, ST/M007626/1, ST/N005805/1, ST/T003081/1. Work reported here benefited from support through the GREAT-ITN FP7 project Grant agreement ID: 264895. DKF acknowledges funds from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the framework of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award endowed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the grant 2016-03412 from the Swedish Research Council. A.H. acknowledges support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaciόn and ERD Funds through grants PGC-2018-091 3741-B-C22 and CEX2019-000920-S. X.F. acknowledge the support of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2020M670023. M.L.L. Dantas acknowledges the Polish NCN grant number 2019/34/E/ST9/00133. Part of this work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 138713538 – SFB 881 (“The Milky Way System”, subproject A09). M.Z. acknowledge support from the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) grants: FONDECYT Regular 1191505, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics ICN12-009, BASAL Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies AFB-170002. R.B. acknowledges support from the project PRIN-INAF 2019 “Spectroscopically Tracing the Disk Dispersal Evolution”. HMT acknowledges financial support from the Agencia Estatal de Investigaciόn of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaciόn y Universidades through projects PID2019-109522GB-C51,54/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and the Centre of Excellence “María de Maeztu” award to Centro de Astrobiología (MDM-2017-0737). JIGH acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) project AYA2017-86389-P, and also from the Spanish MICINN under 2013 Ramøn y Cajal program RYC-2013-14875. V.P.D. is supported by STFC Consolidated grant ST/R000786/1. N.L. acknowledges financial support from “Programme National de Physique Stellaire” (PNPS) and the “Programme National Cosmology et Galaxies (PNCG)” of CNRS/INSU, France. A.R.C. is supported in part by the Australian Research Council through a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE190100656). Parts of this research were supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE170100013. PSB is Supported by the Swedish Research Council through individual project grants with contract Nos. 2016-03765 and 2020-03404. A.M. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 772293 - project ASTEROCHRONOMETRY). J.P. was supported by the project RVO: 67985815. E.D.M. acknowledges the support from FCT through the research grants UIDB/04434/2020 & UIDP/04434/2020 and through Investigator FCT contract IF/00849/2015/CP1273/CT0003. This work was (partially) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU/FEDER, UE) through grant RTI2018-095076-B-C21, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”) through grant CEX2019-000918-M. S.L.M. acknowledges the support of the UNSW Scientia Fellowship program and the Australian Research Council through Discovery Project grant DP180101791. G.T. acknowledges financial support of the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding no. P1-0188) and the European Space Agency (Prodex Experiment Arrangement No. C4000127986). S.G.S. acknowledges the support from FCT through Investigador FCT contract no. CEECIND/00826/2018 and POPH/FSE (EC). H.G.L. acknowledges financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - Project-ID 138713538 – SFB 881 (“The Milky Way System”, subproject A04). This work was (partially) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU/FEDER, UE) through grant RTI2018-095076-B-C21, and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”) through grant CEX2019-000918-M. T.K. is supported by STFC Consolidated grant ST/R000786/1. M.V. acknowledges the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, project number: 428473034). T.M. is supported by a grant from the Fondation ULB. We acknowledge financial support from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaciόn y Universidades, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, from project AYA2016-79425-C3-1-P and PID2019-109522GB-C5[4]/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. U.H. acknowledges support from the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen). D.G. gratefully acknowledges support from the Chilean Centro de Excelencia en Astrofίsica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA) BASAL grant AFB-170002. D.G. also acknowledges financial support from the Direcciόn de Investigaciόn y Desarrollo de la Universidad de La Serena through the Programa de Incentivo a la Investigaciόn de Académicos (PIA-DIDULS). A. Lobel acknowledges support in part by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office under contract no. BR/143/A2/BRASS. We acknowledge financial support from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaciόn y Universidades, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, from project AYA2016-79425-C3-1-P and PID2019-109522GB-C5[4]/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. AM acknowledges the support from the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Portuguese Strategic Programme UID/FIS/00099/2019 for CENTRA. T.M. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) through the Spanish State Research Agency, under the Severo Ochoa Program 2020-2023 (CEX2019-000920-S). E.J.A. acknowledges funding from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the “Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa” award to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709).
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9. Gaia early data release 3: the astrometric solution

Author: V. Sanchez Gimenez, C. Barache, J. Torra, F. Torra, Sergei A. Klioner, S. Liao, David Hobbs, G. Gracia-Abril, Francois Mignard, Alexey Mints, A. Masip, X. Peñalosa Esteller, Roberto Morbidelli, Rossella Cancelliere, C. Fabricius, J. Castañeda, E. Poggio, D. Molina, Nicholas Rowell, Stefano Bertone, Patrick Charlot, E. F. del Peloso, M. Hauser, E. del Pozo, M. Ramos-Lerate, L. Balaguer-Núñez, Jose M Hernandez, H. Steidelmüller, C. Pagani, A. de Torres, R. Buzzi, Lennart Lindegren, Ugo Becciani, H. I. Siddiqui, E. Fraile, S. Bartolomé, D. Souami, C. Crowley, Eva Sciacca, Mario Gai, Luciana Bianchi, David Teyssier, R. Geyer, M. Clotet, Nigel Hambly, Martin Altmann, Alex Bombrun, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Anthony G. A. Brown, Pasquale Panuzzo, F. Taris, Michael Davidson, E. Licata, Jordi Portell, Iain A. Steele, K. Janßen, Ulrich Bastian, P. Re Fiorentin, N. Garralda, P. Esquej, Beatrice Bucciarelli, M. Biermann, Ronald Drimmel, E. Anglada Varela, W. van Reeven, Mariateresa Crosta, W. Löffler, T. Carlucci, A. Sagristà Sellés, S. Bouquillon, Tim Lister, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Thomas Hilger, A. G. Butkevich, D. Busonero, M. Bernet, Richard L. Smart, Agnes Fienga, U. Abbas, E. Utrilla, Stefan Jordan, E. Gerlach, C.A. Stephenson, Jon Marchant, Alessandro Spagna, M. Sarasso, Paul J. McMillan, M. Garcia-Reinaldos, U. Lammers, C. P. Murphy, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Zoltan Balog, J.J. González-Vidal, Alberto Vecchiato, Alberto Riva, Alcione Mora, Raphael Guerra, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Commission, German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swedish National Space Agency, University of Bristol, and University College London
Subjects: Astrophysics - instrumentation and methods for astrophysics, Proper motion, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Data analysis, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, instruments [Space vehicles], Methods: data analysis, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Methods, Space vehicles: instruments, data analysis [Methods], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Mathematics, Data processing, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Epoch (reference date), Parallaxes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space vehicles, Astrometry, Geodesy, Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy), Satellite, Proper motions, Parallax, Instruments, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: [Context] Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3-21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operational phase. [Aims] We describe the input data, the models, and the processing used for the astrometric content of Gaia EDR3, as well as the validation of these results performed within the astrometry task. [Methods] The processing broadly followed the same procedures as for Gaia DR2, but with significant improvements to the modelling of observations. For the first time in the Gaia data processing, colour-dependent calibrations of the line- and point-spread functions have been used for sources with well-determined colours from DR2. In the astrometric processing these sources obtained five-parameter solutions, whereas other sources were processed using a special calibration that allowed a pseudocolour to be estimated as the sixth astrometric parameter. Compared with DR2, the astrometric calibration models have been extended, and the spin-related distortion model includes a self-consistent determination of basic-angle variations, improving the global parallax zero point. [Results] Gaia EDR3 gives full astrometric data (positions at epoch J2016.0, parallaxes, and proper motions) for 1.468 billion sources (585 millionwith five-parameter solutions, 882 million with six parameters), and mean positions at J2016.0 for an additional 344 million.Solutions with five parameters are generally more accurate than six-parameter solutions, and are available for 93% of the sources brighter than the 17th magnitude. The median uncertainty in parallax and annual proper motion is 0.02-0.03 mas at magnitude G = 9-14, and around 0.5 mas at G = 20. Extensive characterisation of the statistical properties of the solutions is provided, including the estimated angular power spectrum of parallax bias from the quasars., This work was financially supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the Gaia project; the German Aerospace Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR) through grants 50QG0501, 50QG0601, 50QG0901, 50QG1401 and 50QG1402; the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO/FEDER, UE) through grants ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R, RTI2018-095076-B-C21 and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”) through grants MDM-2014-0369 and CEX2019-000918-M; the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen); and the United Kingdom Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) through the following grants to the University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester, the Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory of University College London, and the United Kingdom Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL): PP/D006511/1, PP/D006546/1, PP/D006570/1, ST/I000852/1, ST/J005045/1, ST/K00056X/1, ST/K000209/1, ST/K000756/1, ST/L006561/1, ST/N000595/1, ST/N000641/1, ST/N000978/1, ST/N001117/1, ST/S000089/1, ST/S000976/1, ST/S001123/1, ST/S001948/1, ST/S002103/1, and ST/V000969/1.
Published: 2021
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10. Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution

Author: Luciana Bianchi, A. de Torres, Geraldine Bourda, G. Comoretto, Werner Hofmann, David Hobbs, Iain A. Steele, M. Biermann, Alex Bombrun, U. Stampa, Mario G. Lattanzi, Alberto Vecchiato, Jose M Hernandez, B. Holl, Martin Altmann, Alberto Riva, C.A. Stephenson, H. Steidelmüller, H. I. Siddiqui, U. Abbas, N. Cheek, Sergei A. Klioner, S. Bouquillon, G. Gracia, E. Licata, C. Crowley, Ugo Becciani, A. Abreu, Stefan Jordan, Daniel Michalik, J. Torra, J. H. J. de Bruijne, T. Carlucci, J. Castañeda, Thomas Hilger, Rossella Cancelliere, J. M. Martín-Fleitas, A. Mora, W. Löffler, Eva Sciacca, Roberto Morbidelli, C. Fabricius, A. Hutton, Stefano Bertone, Patrick Charlot, R. Messineo, R. Buzzi, Alexandre Humberto Andrei, M. Ramos-Lerate, C. Barache, R. Drimmel, L. Balaguer-Núñez, Lennart Lindegren, S. Liao, J.J. González-Vidal, F. van Leeuwen, Michael Davidson, M. Sarasso, Francois Mignard, T. Brüsemeister, Richard L. Smart, Nicholas Rowell, Paul J. McMillan, D. Busonero, F. Taris, E. Anglada, Agnes Fienga, U. Lammers, Jordi Portell, Ulrich Bastian, E. Poggio, P. Esquej, Beatrice Bucciarelli, R. Geyer, M. Clotet, Nigel Hambly, Tim Lister, Jon Marchant, Alessandro Spagna, A. van Elteren, Raphael Guerra, F. de Felice, Mariateresa Crosta, M. Hauser, W. van Reeven, H. Lenhardt, Mario Gai, N. Garralda, E. Salguero, E. Fraile, Maison des Agriculteurs, Association pour le Développement de l'Apiculture Provençale (ADAPI), Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Langage, lettres et arts du spectacle, information et communication - Dpt Lettres et arts du spectacle (UGA UFR LLASIC LAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Zentrum für astronomie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), Department of nuclear medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen (UIB)-University of Bergen (UIB), Department of Plant Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University [Port Elizabeth, South Africa], Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología [Lugo, Spain], Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli [Lugo, Spain] (LREC), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [A Coruña, Spain] (USC )-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [A Coruña, Spain] (USC ), AUTRES, Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174) (FEMTO-ST), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CEA Le Ripault (CEA Le Ripault), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), M2A 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Besançon, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Laboratorio de Inmunologıa y Virologıa, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Heckscher-Klinikum, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Département immunologie-oncologie, Sanofi-Synthélabo, Laboratoire de Cosmologie, Astrophysique Stellaire & Solaire, de Planétologie et de Mécanique des Fluides (CASSIOPEE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Hepatology, Birkbeck College [University of London]-Foundation for Liver Research, Human Cancer Genetics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Astrophysics Research Institute [Liverpool] (ARI), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Astrometry, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Association pour le Developpement de l'Apiculture Provencale (ADAPI), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB), Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Nelson Mandela University [Port Elizabeth], Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC )-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada [Madrid] (FMC), Facultad de Ciencas [Madrid], Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), 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)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), 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), Universitat de Barcelona, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), 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: instruments [space vehicles], Proper motion, Astrometria, Epoch (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Paral·laxi, 01 natural sciences, proper motions, 0103 physical sciences, data analysis [methods], reference systems, space vehicles: instruments, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Parallax, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrometry, astrometry, parallaxes, methods: data analysis, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy), Satellite, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Reference frame
Abstract: Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 22 months of its operational phase. We describe the input data, models, and processing used for the astrometric content of Gaia DR2, and the validation of these results performed within the astrometry task. Some 320 billion centroid positions from the pre-processed astrometric CCD observations were used to estimate the five astrometric parameters (positions, parallaxes, and proper motions) for 1332 million sources, and approximate positions at the reference epoch J2015.5 for an additional 361 million mostly faint sources. Special validation solutions were used to characterise the random and systematic errors in parallax and proper motion. For the sources with five-parameter astrometric solutions, the median uncertainty in parallax and position at the reference epoch J2015.5 is about 0.04 mas for bright (G, 25 pages, 29 figures. Special A&A issue on Gaia Data Release 2
Published: 2018
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11. 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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12. Aberrant behaviour plausibility in road traffic violations, errors and lapses

Author: Sitti Asmah Hassan, H. Z. U. Abbas, Nordiana Mashros, and Rizwan Ullah Faiz
Subjects: Correlation, symbols.namesake, Statistics, Capital city, symbols, Statistical analysis, Set (psychology), Psychology, human activities, Road traffic, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
Abstract: Road traffic crashes have been formidable concern for road safety engineer and different techniques have been applied to address such problems. Driving Behaviour is one of the pivotal issue that arises as in every country, state and region; though such issues play significant role in socio-economic development of country. The aim to conduct this study was to estimate driver traits and correlation between violation, errors, and lapses. Questionnaires are used to measure aberrant behaviour and its plausibility to be involved in road traffic crashes. A questionnaire was developed based on the Manchester Driving Behaviour Questionnaire to estimate the correlation. Data was collected from the capital city (Islamabad) of Pakistan. Statistical analysis was carried out to set up the correlation using the Pearson Correlation. It was estimated from the model results that violations are positively associated and correlated with lapses and errors. Lapses are positively associated and correlated to violations and errors. Errors are positively associated and correlated to lapses and violations.
Published: 2019
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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.
Published: 2017
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16. 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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17. Gaia Data Release 1, Pre-processing and source list creation

Author: C. Fabricius, U. Bastian, J. Portell, J. Castañeda, M. Davidson, N. C. Hambly, M. Clotet, M. Biermann, A. Mora, D. Busonero, A. Riva, A. G. A. Brown, R. Smart, U. Lammers, J. Torra, R. Drimmel, G. Gracia, W. Löffler, A. Spagna, L. Lindegren, S. Klioner, A. Andrei, N. Bach, L. Bramante, T. Brüsemeister, G. Busso, J. M. Carrasco, M. Gai, N. Garralda, J. J. González-Vidal, R. Guerra, M. Hauser, S. Jordan, C. Jordi, H. Lenhardt, F. Mignard, R. Messineo, A. Mulone, I. Serraller, U. Stampa, P. Tanga, A. van Elteren, W. van Reeven, H. Voss, U. Abbas, W. Allasia, M. Altmann, S. Anton, C. Barache, U. Becciani, J. Berthier, L. Bianchi, A. Bombrun, S. Bouquillon, G. Bourda, B. Bucciarelli, A. Butkevich, R. Buzzi, R. Cancelliere, T. Carlucci, P. Charlot, R. Collins, G. Comoretto, N. Cross, M. Crosta, F. de Felice, A. Fienga, F. Figueras, E. Fraile, R. Geyer, J. Hernandez, D. Hobbs, W. Hofmann, S. Liao, E. Licata, M. Martino, P. J. McMillan, D. Michalik, R. Morbidelli, P. Parsons, M. Pecoraro, M. Ramos-Lerate, M. Sarasso, H. Siddiqui, I. Steele, H. Steidelmüller, F. Taris, A. Vecchiato, A. Abreu, E. Anglada, S. Boudreault, M. Cropper, B. Holl, N. Cheek, C. Crowley, J. M. Fleitas, A. Hutton, J. Osinde, N. Rowell, E. Salguero, E. Utrilla, N. Blagorodnova, M. Soffel, J. Osorio, D. Vicente, J. Cambras, H.-H. Bernstein, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University [Port Elizabeth, South Africa], Zentrum für astronomie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Open University of Israël, Department of nuclear medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB), Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen (UiB), Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología [Lugo, Spain], Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli [Lugo, Spain] (LREC), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC )-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Institute of Hepatology, Birkbeck College [University of London]-Foundation for Liver Research, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), ARHEOINVEST, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza [Lasi], Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), CICEnergigune, Astrometry, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratorio de Inmunologıa y Virologıa, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Pesca, Universidade Federal de Rondônia [Brésil] (UNIR), Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University [New York], AUTRES, EURIX (.), Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Récepteurs et Canaux Ioniques Membranaires (RCIM), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Langage, lettres et arts du spectacle, information et communication - Dpt Lettres et arts du spectacle (UGA UFR LLASIC LAS), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims - UMR 7312 (ICMR), SFR Condorcet, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), M2A 2016, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Solvay (France), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Human Cancer Genetics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Astrophysics Research Institute [Liverpool] (ARI), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Centre of Technology and Systems (CTS), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia = School of Science & Technology (FCT NOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA)-Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA), Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada [Madrid] (FMC), Facultad de Ciencas [Madrid], Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Heckscher-Klinikum, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, University of Bergen (UIB)-University of Bergen (UIB), University of Bergen (UIB), Universidade Federal de Rondônia, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Récepteurs et Canaux Ioniques Membranaires (RCIM), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA)-Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA), Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Nelson Mandela University [Port Elizabeth], Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), EURIX Software Innovators, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-SFR Condorcet, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), ITA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, NLD, CHN, SWE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [A Coruña, Spain] (USC )-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [A Coruña, Spain] (USC ), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Géoazur (GEOAZUR), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Astrometria, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, Star (graph theory), 01 natural sciences, Set (abstract data type), Astrometry, Methods: data analysis, Space vehicles: instruments, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Point (geometry), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), QC, QB, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Payload, Galaxies, Galàxies, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Cardinal point, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Algorithm
Abstract: International audience; Context. The first data release from the Gaia mission contains accurate positions and magnitudes for more than a billion sources, and proper motions and parallaxes for the majority of the 2.5 million Hipparcos and Tycho-2 stars. Aims: We describe three essential elements of the initial data treatment leading to this catalogue: the image analysis, the construction of a source list, and the near real-time monitoring of the payload health. We also discuss some weak points that set limitations for the attainable precision at the present stage of the mission. Methods: Image parameters for point sources are derived from one-dimensional scans, using a maximum likelihood method, under the assumption of a line spread function constant in time, and a complete modelling of bias and background. These conditions are, however, not completely fulfilled. The Gaia source list is built starting from a large ground-based catalogue, but even so a significant number of new entries have been added, and a large number have been removed. The autonomous onboard star image detection will pick up many spurious images, especially around bright sources, and such unwanted detections must be identified. Another key step of the source list creation consists in arranging the more than 1010 individual detections in spatially isolated groups that can be analysed individually. Results: Complete software systems have been built for the Gaia initial data treatment, that manage approximately 50 million focal plane transits daily, giving transit times and fluxes for 500 million individual CCD images to the astrometric and photometric processing chains. The software also carries out a successful and detailed daily monitoring of Gaia health.
Published: 2016
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18. Gaia Data Release 1: Astrometry - one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes

Author: J. Castañeda, Agnes Fienga, F. Raison, W. van Reeven, Mario G. Lattanzi, Lennart Lindegren, M. Sarasso, Michael Soffel, H. Steidelmüller, Stefan Jordan, J. H. J. de Bruijne, Tim Lister, C. Fabricius, Paul J. McMillan, W. Löffler, T. Carlucci, A. Hutton, Francois Mignard, Raphael Guerra, Alexandre Humberto Andrei, E. Joliet, Ugo Becciani, G. Comoretto, Mario Gai, A. Mora, Berry Holl, William O'Mullane, I. Serraller, U. Abbas, Sonia Anton, Daniel Michalik, M. Hauser, N. Bach, Jon Marchant, P. Parsons, N. Garralda, J.J. González-Vidal, Alessandro Spagna, C. Barache, Luciana Bianchi, H. I. Siddiqui, David Hobbs, J. Torra, T. Brüsemeister, U. Stampa, R. Geyer, Alberto Vecchiato, F. Taris, F. de Felice, M. Clotet, Nigel Hambly, Patrick Charlot, S. Bouquillon, Alberto Riva, Roberto Morbidelli, U. Lammers, Maria Teresa Crosta, G. Gracia, Jordi Portell, Ulrich Bastian, Beatrice Bucciarelli, F. Figueras, Richard L. Smart, Alex Bombrun, S. Liao, R. Drimmel, Iain A. Steele, M. Ramos-Lerate, Michael Davidson, Jérôme Berthier, Sergei A. Klioner, A. G. Butkevich, M. Biermann, D. Busonero, Jose M Hernandez, R. Messineo, Martin Altmann, A. de Torres, Sven Zschocke, H. Lenhardt, G. Bourda, J. Osorio, E. Fraile, Universitat de Barcelona, Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), Zentrum für astronomie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Solvay (France), Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Langage, lettres et arts du spectacle, information et communication - Dpt Lettres et arts du spectacle (UGA UFR LLASIC LAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Heckscher-Klinikum, AUTRES, Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ARHEOINVEST, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza [Lasi], Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Sciences, Philosophie, Humanités (SPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen (UIB), Department of nuclear medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen (UIB)-University of Bergen (UIB), Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Reims - UMR 7312 (ICMR), SFR Condorcet, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), M2A 2016, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Open University of Israël, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University [Port Elizabeth, South Africa], Géoazur (GEOAZUR), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrometry, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratorio de Inmunologıa y Virologıa, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Pesca, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University [New York], Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, Universidad de Granada (UGR), Laboratoire Génome et Informatique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Human Cancer Genetics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center-College of Medicine and Public Health [Colombus], Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Lohrmann Observatory, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center - Academisch Medisch Centrum [Amsterdam] (AMC), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), British Geological Survey (BGS), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Bergen (UiB), University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB), Nelson Mandela University [Port Elizabeth], Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), 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)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade Federal de Rondônia [Brésil] (UNIR), 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 de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), 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: instruments [space vehicles], Astrometria, Epoch (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mecànica celeste, proper motions, 0103 physical sciences, Celestial mechanics, data analysis [methods], reference systems, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Frame (networking), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrometry, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Magnitude (astronomy), parallaxes, International Celestial Reference Frame, Satellite, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Reference frame
Abstract: Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) contains astrometric results for more than 1 billion stars brighter than magnitude 20.7 based on observations collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months of its operational phase. We give a brief overview of the astrometric content of the data release and of the model assumptions, data processing, and validation of the results. For stars in common with the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues, complete astrometric single-star solutions are obtained by incorporating positional information from the earlier catalogues. For other stars only their positions are obtained by neglecting their proper motions and parallaxes. The results are validated by an analysis of the residuals, through special validation runs, and by comparison with external data. Results. For about two million of the brighter stars (down to magnitude ~11.5) we obtain positions, parallaxes, and proper motions to Hipparcos-type precision or better. For these stars, systematic errors depending e.g. on position and colour are at a level of 0.3 milliarcsecond (mas). For the remaining stars we obtain positions at epoch J2015.0 accurate to ~10 mas. Positions and proper motions are given in a reference frame that is aligned with the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) to better than 0.1 mas at epoch J2015.0, and non-rotating with respect to ICRF to within 0.03 mas/yr. The Hipparcos reference frame is found to rotate with respect to the Gaia DR1 frame at a rate of 0.24 mas/yr. Based on less than a quarter of the nominal mission length and on very provisional and incomplete calibrations, the quality and completeness of the astrometric data in Gaia DR1 are far from what is expected for the final mission products. The results nevertheless represent a huge improvement in the available fundamental stellar data and practical definition of the optical reference frame., Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2016
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19. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The coevolution of galaxy morphology and colour to z~1

Author: C. Adami, Agnieszka Pollo, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Julien Bel, Enzo Branchini, A. Cappi, A. Iovino, O. Cucciati, Katarzyna Małek, D. Bottini, M. Scodeggio, A. Zanichelli, S. de la Torre, Daniela Vergani, O. Le Fèvre, P. Franzetti, H. J. McCracken, G. Zamorani, I. Davidzon, U. Abbas, D. Maccagni, L. A. M. Tasca, Adriana Gargiulo, G. De Lucia, Jean Coupon, C. P. Haines, Luigi Guzzo, B. Garilli, M. Polletta, Rita Tojeiro, B. R. Granett, M. Bolzonella, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi, J. Krywult, Lauro Moscardini, S. Arnouts, Alexander Fritz, Federico Marulli, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Krywult, J., Tasca, L. A. M., Pollo, A., Vergani, D., Bolzonella, M., Davidzon, I., Iovino, A., Gargiulo, A., Haines, C. P., Scodeggio, M., Guzzo, L., Zamorani, G., Garilli, B., Granett, B. R., De La Torre, S., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Bottini, D., Cappi, A., Cucciati, O., Franzetti, P., Fritz, A., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Polletta, M., Tojeiro, R., Zanichelli, A., Arnouts, S., Bel, J., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Coupon, J., De Lucia, G., Ilbert, O., Mccracken, H. J., Moscardini, L., Takeuchi, T. T., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF- Milano, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CPT - E3 Cosmologie, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Tasca, L.A.M., Haines, C.P., Granett, B.R., Branchini, E., Mccracken, H.J., and Takeuchi, T.T.
Subjects: Galaxies: statistics, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: general, Galaxies: structure, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, structure [Galaxies], FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Imaging data, Photometry (optics), statistics [Galaxies], evolution, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Physics::Atomic Physics, structure, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, Galaxies: statistic, statistic [Galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, general [Galaxies], 3rd-DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysic, evolution [Galaxies], Redshift survey, galaxies: general, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Early type, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], QC Physics, statistics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, Cosmic time
Abstract: We explore the evolution of the statistical distribution of galaxy morphological properties and colours over the redshift range $0.5, Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2016
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20. 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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21. The Dependence of Star Formation Activity on Stellar Mass Surface Density and Sersic Index in zCOSMOS Galaxies at 0.5 <z <0.9 Compared with SDSS Galaxies at 0.04 <z <0.08

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

Author: Jarjis U. Abbas
Subjects: Commerce, Factory (object-oriented programming), Sample (statistics), Business
Published: 2006
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23. Nerve conduction and sensorineural function in dental hygienists using high frequency ultrasound handpieces

Author: Marc Croteau, Donald R. Peterson, Gregory Neely, M Atwood-Sanders, Nicholas Warren, Tohr Nilsson, John D. Meyer, R. W. Fu, Anthony J. Brammer, Tim Morse, Ronnie Lundström, Claudia Michalak-Turcotte, Esko Toppila, Martin Cherniack, Heather Bruneau, and U Abbas
Subjects: Adult, Male, Dental Instruments, medicine.medical_treatment, Neural Conduction, Dentistry, Vibration, Nerve conduction velocity, stomatognathic system, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Ultrasonics, Paresthesia, Ulnar Nerve, business.industry, Ultrasound, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Median Nerve, stomatognathic diseases, Cross-Sectional Studies, medicine.anatomical_structure, Female, Dental Hygienists, Occupational exposure, business, Nerve conduction, Dental restoration, High frequency ultrasound, Sensory nerve
Abstract: Oscillatory vibration from industrial power tools poses a well-recognized risk of peripheral nerve injury. There have been reports of elevated vibrotactile perception thresholds (VPT) among dentists, dental technicians, and dental hygienists, using rotary devices and ultrasonics. Elevated VPTs are an indicator of small fiber nerve or mechanoreceptor injury, but the high frequencies associated with dental instruments are presumed by the ISO to exceed physiological response upper thresholds. This study examines nerve conduction and sensorineural deficits in dental hygienists.A cross-sectional study of 94 experienced dental hygienists was conducted to assess peripheral nerve function and clinical signs and symptoms. Specialized testing included measurement of VPTs for three different categories of mechanoreceptors, sensory nerve conduction tests with fractionated digit and palmar segments, and measurement of calibrated pinch force with force sensitive resistors (FSRs) during a simulated procedure.Chronic hand paresthesias were described by 44.7% of experienced dental hygienists. Sensory nerve conduction velocity (SNCV) across the wrist-palm segment of the median nerve. VPTs were particularly elevated at the FAII mechanoreceptor among experienced dental hygienists. Compared to participants without carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), as defined by study criteria, 14 experienced hygienists with diagnosed CTS had almost twice the average weekly use of vibratory instruments -8.3 hr versus 4.5 hr, and had SNCV deficits along the digit -47.11 m/sec (+8.70) versus 42.57 m/sec (+8.25), and across the wrist -44.04 m/sec (+7.15) versus 41.36 m/sec (+9.27). There was a distinct subset of dental hygienists (27%) with a combination of low calibrated pinch force in simulations, subjective loss of strength and elevated VPTs, especially in the FAII mechanoreceptor population -110.82 db (+8.57) versus 104.84 db (+6.80) in the rest of the cohort. This subset also had a higher prevalence of paresthesias (67% vs. 39%) and greater cumulative vibration exposure (OR = 1.206 [CI 1.005-1.448]), than other hygienists.The high levels of paresthesias observed among dental hygienists appear to be attributable to several pathophysiological mechanisms, including, sensory nerve demyelination at the carpal tunnel and intrinsic to the digits, and dysfunction of fingertip mechanoreceptors. A distinct sub-population appears to exhibit a high level of accumulated abnormality.
Published: 2006
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24. A high-dimensional look at VIPERS galaxies

Author: Stephane Arnouts, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, P. Hudelot, C. Marinoni, M. Polletta, M. Bolzonella, C. Adami, C. Di Porto, G. Zamorani, Katarzyna Małek, Yannick Mellier, L. Paioro, P. Franzetti, A. Pollo, H. J. McCracken, U. Abbas, B. Garilli, D. Maccagni, A. Cappi, Rita Tojeiro, Angela Burden, J. Krywult, L. A. M. Tasca, O. Le Fevre, Benjamin R. Granett, A. Fritz, J. Bel, A. Marchetti, D. Bottini, Vipers Team, Federico Marulli, M. Fumana, Luigi Guzzo, Will J. Percival, G. De Lucia, D. Vergani, E. Branchini, Robert C. Nichol, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, L. Moscardini, Jean Coupon, John A. Peacock, I. Davidzon, A. Iovino, A. Zanichelli, and Marco Scodeggio
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate how galaxies in VIPERS (the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey) inhabit the cosmological density field by examining the correlations across the observable parameter space of galaxy properties and clustering strength. The high-dimensional analysis is made manageable by the use of group-finding and regression tools. We find that the major trends in galaxy properties can be explained by a single parameter related to stellar mass. After subtracting this trend, residual correlations remain between galaxy properties and the local environment pointing to complex formation dependencies. As a specific application of this work we build subsamples of galaxies with specific clustering properties for use in cosmological tests., Comment: 3 pages. To appear in Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 306, A. H. Heavens & J.-L. Starck, eds
Published: 2015
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25. Rewriting History: Fever of Unknown Origin

Author: Arsalan Shabbir, Jenna R. Bordelon, Syeda U. Abbas, and Andrew L. Ross
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Granuloma, business.industry, Injections, Subcutaneous, MEDLINE, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Silicones, General Medicine, Cosmetic Techniques, medicine.disease, Dermatology, Fever of Unknown Origin, Methylprednisolone, Immunology, medicine, Humans, Female, Fever of unknown origin, business, Medical History Taking
Published: 2014

26. The

Author: T. Cantat-Gaudin, A. Vallenari, S. Zaggia, A. Bragaglia, R. Sordo, J. E. Drew, J. Eisloeffel, H. J. Farnhill, E. Gonzalez-Solares, R. Greimel, M. J. Irwin, A. Kupcu-Yoldas, C. Jordi, R. Blomme, L. Sampedro, M. T. Costado, E. Alfaro, R. Smiljanic, L. Magrini, P. Donati, E. D. Friel, H. Jacobson, U. Abbas, D. Hatzidimitriou, and A. Spagna
Published: 2014

27. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: L. Guzzo, M. Scodeggio, B. Garilli, B. R. Granett, A. Fritz, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, M. Bolzonella, D. Bottini, and E. Branchini
Published: 2014

28. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: A. Fritz, M. Scodeggio, O. Ilbert, M. Bolzonella, I. Davidzon, J. Coupon, B. Garilli, L. Guzzo, G. Zamorani, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, D. Bottini, and E. Branchini
Published: 2014

29. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS)

Author: B. Garilli, L. Guzzo, M. Scodeggio, M. Bolzonella, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, D. Bottini, and E. Branchini et al.
Published: 2014

30. A new approach for accurate determination of particle sizes in microfluidic impedance cytometry

Author: N. Priyadarshi, U. Abbasi, V. Kumaran, and P. Chowdhury
Subjects: Technology, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TA1-2040
Abstract: In microfluidic impedance cytometry, the change in impedance is recorded as an individual cell passes through a channel between electrodes deposited on its walls, and the particle size is inferred from the amplitude of the impedance signal using calibration. However, because the current density is nonuniform between electrodes of finite width, there could be an error in the particle size measurement because of uncertainty about the location of the particle in the channel cross section. Here, a correlation is developed relating the particle size to the signal amplitude and the velocity of the particle through the channel. The latter is inferred from the time interval between the two extrema in the impedance curve as the particle passes through a channel with cross-sectional dimensions of 50 μm (width) × 30 μm (height) with two pairs of parallel facing electrodes. The change in impedance is predicted using 3D COMSOL finite-element simulations, and a theoretical correlation that is independent of particle size is formulated to correct the particle diameter for variations in the cross-sectional location. With this correlation, the standard deviation in the experimental data is reduced by a factor of two to close to the standard deviation reported in the manufacturer specifications.
Published: 2022
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31. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: I. Davidzon, M. Bolzonella, J. Coupon, O. Ilbert, S. Arnouts, S. de la Torre, A. Fritz, G. De Lucia, A. Iovino, B. R. Granett, G. Zamorani, L. Guzzo, U. Abbas, C. Adami, J. Bel, D. Bottini, E. Branchini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, P. Franzetti, M. Fumana, and B. Garilli
Published: 2013

32. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: F. Marulli, M. Bolzonella, E. Branchini, I. Davidzon, S. de la Torre, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo, A. Iovino, L. Moscardini, A. Pollo, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, and J. Bel et al.
Published: 2013

33. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: K. MaBek, A. Solarz, A. Pollo, A. Fritz, B. Garilli, M. Scodeggio, A. Iovino, B. R. Granett, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, M. Bolzonella, D. Bottini, E. Branchini, A. Cappi, J. Coupon, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, G. De Lucia, S. de la Torre, P. Franzetti, M. Fumana, and L. Guzzo
Published: 2013

34. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: S. de la Torre, L. Guzzo, J. A. Peacock, E. Branchini, A. Iovino, B. R. Granett, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, and J. Bel
Published: 2013

35. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). An unprecedented view of galaxies and large-scale structure at 0.5<z<1.2

Author: L. Guzzo, M. Scodeggio, B. Garilli, B. R. Granett, U. Abbas, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, M. Bolzonella, D. Bottini, E. Branchini, A. Cappi, J. Coupon, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, G. De Lucia, S. de la Torre, A. Fritz, P. Franzetti, M. Fumana, P. Hudelot, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fxe8vre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, H. J. McCracken, L. Paioro, J. A. Peacock, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, H. Schlagenhaufer, L. A. M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani, A. Zanichelli, and A. Burden
Published: 2013

36. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS IN THE INTERACTION AND MERGING OF GALAXIES IN zCOSMOS

Author: P. Kampczyk, S. J. Lilly, L. de Ravel, O. Le Fèvre, M. Bolzonella, C. M. Carollo, C. Diener, C. Knobel, K. Kovač, C. Maier, A. Renzini, M. T. Sargent, D. Vergani, U. Abbas, S. Bardelli, A. Bongiorno, R. Bordoloi, K. Caputi, T. Contini, G. Coppa, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, A. Iovino, J.-P. Kneib, A. M. Koekemoer, F. Lamareille, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, A. Leauthaud, V. Mainieri, M. Mignoli, R. Pello, Y. Peng, E. Perez Montero, E. Ricciardelli, M. Scodeggio, J. D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tasca, L. Tresse, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, M. Fumana, L. Guzzo, J. Kartaltepe, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, P. Oesch, C. Porciani, L. Pozzetti, R. Scaramella, AUTRES, Institute for Astronomy [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Chicago, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB - UMR 12), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (OATo), College of Computing (GATECH), Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta], Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Hunan Normal University (HNU), 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), National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astronomy, 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), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hunan Normal University, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Kampczyk P., Lilly S. J., de Ravel L., Le Fèvre O., Bolzonella M., Carollo C. M., Diener C., Knobel C., Kovac K., Maier C., Renzini A., Sargent M. T., Vergani D., Abbas U., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Bordoloi R., Caputi K., Contini T., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de la Torre S., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Iovino A., Kneib J.-P., Koekemoer A. M., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Leauthaud A., Mainieri V., Mignoli M., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Scodeggio M., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Fumana M., Guzzo L., Kartaltepe J., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Pozzetti L., and Scaramella R.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: starburst, MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION, Astrophysics, Kinematics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, STAR-FORMATION RATES, MERGER RATE EVOLUTION, 01 natural sciences, SIMILAR-TO 1, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: general, galaxies: interactions, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], 0103 physical sciences, Fraction (mathematics), education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, QB, Physics, education.field_of_study, FORMATION HISTORY, Star formation, CLOSE PAIRS, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: high-redshift, Galaxies: statistics, Large-scale structure of Universe, CNOC2 REDSHIFT SURVEY, DISK GALAXIES, Environmental variation, Galaxy, Redshift, COSMOS FIELD, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, Irregular galaxy, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: (Abridged) We analyze the environments and galactic properties (morphologies and star-formation histories) of a sample of 153 close kinematic pairs in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1 identified in the zCOSMOS-bright 10k spectroscopic sample of galaxies. Correcting for projection effects, the fraction of close kinematic pairs is three times higher in the top density quartile than in the lowest one. This translates to a three times higher merger rate because the merger timescales are shown, from mock catalogues based on the Millennium simulation, to be largely independent of environment once the same corrections for projection is applied. We then examine the morphologies and stellar populations of galaxies in the pairs, comparing them to control samples that are carefully matched in environment so as to remove as much as possible the well-known effects of environment on the properties of the parent population of galaxies. Once the environment is properly taken into account in this way, we find that the early-late morphology mix is the same as for the parent population, but that the fraction of irregular galaxies is boosted by 50-75%, with a disproportionate increase in the number of irregular-irregular pairs (factor of 4-8 times), due to the disturbance of disk galaxies. Future dry-mergers, involving elliptical galaxies comprise less than 5% of all close kinematic pairs. In the closest pairs, there is a boost in the specific star-formation rates of star-forming galaxies of a factor of 2-4, and there is also evidence for an increased incidence of post star-burst galaxies. Although significant for the galaxies involved, the "excess" star-formation associated with pairs represents only about 5% of the integrated star-formation activity in the parent sample. Although most pair galaxies are in dense environments, the effects of interaction appear to be largest in the lower density environments., 38 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2013
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37. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)

Author: O. Cucciati, D. Bottini, Stephane Arnouts, S. de la Torre, Luigi Guzzo, M. Polletta, M. Bolzonella, Yannick Mellier, L. Paioro, Marco Scodeggio, Robert C. Nichol, Jean Coupon, O. Le Fevre, C. Di Porto, B. R. Granett, U. Abbas, A. Zanichelli, A. Cappi, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, H. J. McCracken, G. De Lucia, L. Moscardini, A. Iovino, E. Branchini, Katarzyna Małek, Angela Burden, C. Adami, Stefanie Phleps, H. Schlagenhaufer, John A. Peacock, D. Maccagni, Rita Tojeiro, L. A. M. Tasca, C. Marinoni, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, J. Bel, A. Marchetti, B. Garilli, A. Pollo, A. Fritz, M. Wolk, D. Vergani, J. Krywult, Will J. Percival, Federico Marulli, M. Fumana, 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 - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Département de Radiologie [CHU de Rennes], Université de Rennes (UR), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Institut Pasteur, Fondation Cenci Bolognetti - Istituto Pasteur Italia, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), University of Leeds, Bel, J., Branchini, ENZO FRANCO, Di Porto, C., Cucciati, O., Granett, B. R., Iovino, A., De La Torre, S., Marinoni, C., Guzzo, L., Moscardini, L., Cappi, A., Abbas, U., Adami, C., Arnouts, S., Bolzonella, M., Bottini, D., Coupon, J., Davidzon, I., De Lucia, G., Fritz, A., Franzetti, P., Fumana, M., Garilli, B., Ilbert, O., Krywult, J., Le Brun, V., Le Fèvre, O., Maccagni, D., Małek, K., Marulli, F., Mccracken, H. J., Paioro, L., Polletta, M., Pollo, A., Schlagenhaufer, H., Scodeggio, M., Tasca, L. A. M., Tojeiro, R., Vergani, D., Zanichelli, A., Burden, A., Marchetti, A., Mellier, Y., Nichol, R. C., Peacock, J. A., Percival, W. J., Phleps, S., Wolk, 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, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Branchini, E., Granett, B.R., Mccracken, H.J., Tasca, L.A.M., Nichol, R.C., Peacock, J.A., and Percival, W.J.
Subjects: Absolute magnitude, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Probability density function, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, high-redshift [Galaxies], [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], statistics [Galaxies], 0103 physical sciences, Gamma distribution, QB Astronomy, cosmological parameters [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, STFC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Parametric statistics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmology: observations, ST/I001204/1, Galaxies: high-redshift, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd-DAS, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift survey, large scale structure of the Universe [cosmology], observations [cosmology], Redshift, Galaxy, QC Physics, astro-ph.CO, Probability distribution, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We compare three methods to measure the count-in-cell probability density function of galaxies in a spectroscopic redshift survey. From this comparison we found that when the sampling is low (the average number of object per cell is around unity) it is necessary to use a parametric method to model the galaxy distribution. We used a set of mock catalogues of VIPERS, in order to verify if we were able to reconstruct the cell-count probability distribution once the observational strategy is applied. We find that in the simulated catalogues, the probability distribution of galaxies is better represented by a Gamma expansion than a Skewed Log-Normal. Finally, we correct the cell-count probability distribution function from the angular selection effect of the VIMOS instrument and study the redshift and absolute magnitude dependency of the underlying galaxy density function in VIPERS from redshift $0.5$ to $1.1$. We found very weak evolution of the probability density distribution function and that it is well approximated, independently from the chosen tracers, by a Gamma distribution., Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2016
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38. Track C Epidemiology and Prevention Science

Author: E. Munyi, P. Iracheta, W. El Sadr, Thomas L. Patterson, N. McGrath, W. Areekul, J. Konikoff, J.S. Graff-Zivin, J. Valladares, O. Levina, A. Wohl, G. Kirk, C. Nhlapo, S. Hoffman, A. Hughes, S. Bertagnolio, S. Gari, B. Grinsztejn, L. Sherr, C. Mattson, T. Finlayson, M. Schim van der Loeff, J.M. Wekesa, R. Qazi, B. Elul, D. Nsona, B. Le, Margaret Hellard, L. Cottle, G. Kwesigabo, P. Mushati, M. Sangeeth, J.T. Maricato, S. Kippax, W. Aung, M. Yu, A. Ochieng, A. Bennani, I. Massud, K. Kardos, K. Muessig, M. Kato, D.N. Raugi, A. Mkhwanazi, M. Roehler, J. Casillas, G. Rutherford, S.J. Gange, N. Kumarasamy, O. Abaza, H.C. Johnson, J.B.F. de Wit, K. Brady, K. Sigaloff, Colleen F. Kelley, J. Kuruc, Supriya D. Mehta, M. Thrun, G. Likatavicius, K. Muldoon, P. Cherutich, M. Siminyu, C. Scanlon, B. Rodriguez, T. Okeyo Adipo, C. Nyamukapa, D. Reach, M. Morris, I. N'Doye, B. Engelsmann, V. Suwanvanichkij, S. Khobragade, J. Nielsen-Bobbit, J. Mitchell, S. Phillips, C.B. Borkowf, C. Nitrahally Mallachar, D.L. Sodora, T. Guadamuz, Christopher K Fairley, G. Phatedi, V. Tepper, J. Willig, Han-Zhu Qian, K. Underhill, E.R.M. Nunes, E. Machakaire, J. Bouscaillou, M. Boyes, L.D. Chava, M. Taylor, X. Zhang, Charles S. Morrison, V. Sharma, R. Firestone, M.R. Lamb, H. James, S.M. Cohen, H. Crane, J. Coleman, K.W. Ranby, H. Van Renterghem, J. Eckenrode, S. Mwalili, M.H. Ngolobe, J. Mitty, S. Sivalenka, T. Bhatnagar, S. Abel, I. Oumzil, J.R. Lama, E. Connick, S. Kennedy, K. Nielsen-Saines, H. Muyinda, Y.M. Nakamura, P. Thomas, R. Salata, I. Kuo, F. Sall, J. Menten, G. Mkandawire, E. Mills, K.A. Gebo, Rob J. Fredericksen, P. Kasonde, S. Braunstein, Erin M. Kahle, B. Kilama, L. Beer, I. de Beer, N. Elkot, C.K. Cunningham, G. Peytavin, T.-Y. Liu, J.W. Eaton, T. Chuenchitra, Jorge Sanchez, N. Hamunime, R. Grant, J.E. Mantell, T. Mashigo, N. Nazim, N.N. Zheng, B. Cutler, R. Rangsin, N. Knight, A.M. Malone, J. Zaidi, P. Edwards, J.T. Brooks, K. Alami, M.K. Mainkar, A. Kowalski, N. Jack, D. Pieterse, Mark Stoove, M. Mirira, C. Schumacher, A.J. Schmidt, W. Jaoko, C.M. Lowndes, S. Atallah, B. Yang, M. Fox, R. Lebelonyane, B. Feldman, S. Caffe, James Kiarie, A. Simo, E. Kajawo, L. Thomas, T.B. Masvawure, R. Staub, C. Ngoloyi, S. Galea, E.L. Ross, F. Noubary, J. Vanhommerig, S. Patel, S. Khanakwa, L. Hightow-Weidman, S. Braithwaite, P. Perchal, J. Mulilo, C.S. Meade, M. Tsepe, A. Suthar, W. Zule, B. Singh, B. Panchia, L. Yin, J. Skinner, S. Ramanathan, K.M. Gray, H. Ramy, S.M. Graham, M.T. Schechter, H. Zhang, R. Harrison, J.P. Zukurov, A. Gonzalez-Rodríguez, L. Johnston, Maria Prins, T. Smith, S. Stoelzl, N. Siegfried, D. De Angelis, G. Paz-Bailey, D. Taljaard, D. Operario, J.D. Fishel, Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Jared M. Baeten, K.J. Sikkema, A. Urbina, S. Birnel-Henderson, Deborah Donnell, J. Borders, R. Killian, G. Mavise, H. Gamieldien, S. Isac, D. Yang, J. Gunthorp, A. Lansky, K.N. Althoff, M. Vincent, J. Lingappa, Patrick S. Sullivan, M.E.E. Kretzschmar, W. Hanekom, M. De Klerk, C. Odhiambo, J. Shafi, V. Kodali, H. Jackson, S. Bharat, Michael Pickles, R. Geskus, R. Jones, L. Vu, P. Messeri, W. Duffus, R. Limaye, M. Collumbien, G. Allen, E. Elghamrawy, R. Spijker, F. Traore, N. Abdallar, K. Lythgoe, Eli S. Rosenberg, M. van de Laar, S. Stromdahl, A. Bowring, P. Schmid, Grant Colfax, S. Duncan, V. Elharrar, T. Madidimalo, H. Tran Viet, M. Tran Thi, K.E. Nelson, D.C. Sokal, S. Mathew, M. Baum, R. Hari Kumar, Sonia Napravnik, J. Lou, Paula M. Frew, M. Alary, Mari M. Kitahata, Tsungai Chipato, R.C. Berg, I. Maclean, D. Kimanga, Y.T. Duong, L. Jacobson, David R. Bangsberg, F. Odhiambo, A. Malone, G. Wang, E. Schiff, Y. Ding, C. Mlambo, D. Wheeler, J. Martin, A. Kwon, X. Xia, R. Granich, Yuhua Ruan, L.-G. Bekker, Stephen L. Boswell, S. Johnson, F. Njenga, F. Gardner, S. Sherman, Q. Abdool Karim, A. Hoare, K. Thomas, Connie Celum, A. Balaji, L. Metsch, M.J. Mugavero, J. Hahn, J. Denison, M. Kretzschmar, M.R. Lozada, A. Zee, J. Frohlich, P.-L. Chen, D. Vyas, Z.A. Stein, I. Hoffman, S. Weber, S. Abou Elmagd, J. Kriebs, D. Skinner, H. Cross, E. Piwowar-Manning, R. Wiegand, B. Furness, A.C. Voetsch, Q. Awori, S. Kapiga, V. Mugisha, R. Nkambule, F. Tanser, S.E. Hawes, R. Ochai, C. Mathews, Myron Essex, M. Chilila, P. MacPhail, P. Michel, J.H. McMahon, V. Sharp, P. Dupas, M. Schaan, Tonia Poteat, S.A. Kaplan, J. Peinado, L. Zhang, P. Weatherburn, N.M. Fernandes, I. Nieves-Rivera, M. Eberhart, A. Presanis, J. Tejero, A. Pettifor, N. Wadonda, R. Adhikary, S. Shoptaw, K. Page, Nelly Mugo, C. Kuo, D. Cohan, V. Delpech, G.D. Kirk, J. Stover, M. Cohen, V. Cummings, C. Johnson, J. Pilotto, J. Tiffany, S. Rajaram, F. Assouab, V. Akelo, Jeanne M. Marrazzo, Y. Shao, J. Schulden, M. Mahy, Z. Hennessey, A. Sunantarod, S. Meesiri, T. Hallett, J.R. Williams, K. Hayashi, M. Barone, A. La Marca, T. Gamble, J. Moguche, S.Y. Hong, K. Kana, B.R. Santos, Mary S. Campbell, B. Auvert, C.H. Watts, P. Ntshangase, A.M. Foss, A. Anglemyer, P. Li, S.P. Ravi, T.J. Smith, Mark N. Lurie, L. Laurenco, A. Chaturvedula, A.C. Justice, J. Sayles, K. Rou, S. Behel, G. de Bruyn, A. Cescon, S. Pont, Till Bärnighausen, R.A. Willis, D. Forrest, P. Vickerman, A. Cope, M. Eliya, J. Mellors, H.B. Jaspan, J. Grinsdale, Y. Dong, James I. Mullins, R. Detels, N. Roth, J.-A.S. Passmore, S.E. Bradley, R. King, C. Latkin, S. Kandula, E. Wahome, D. Celentano, P. Goswami, B. Tee, A. Thiongo, K. Kaplan, J. Pienaar, M.W. Ross, P. Kaleebu, S. Chariyalertsak, K.F. Kelley, E. Valverde, Susan Scheer, M. Bhattacharya, J. Kinuthia, R. Brookmeyer, E. Mwamburi, A. Castel, G. Trapence, R. Helmy, G. Bicego, Carol El-Hayek, P. Chavez, E. Brown, C. Frangakis, E. Rodríguez-Nolasco, M. Colvin, Stefan Baral, A. Delgado-Borrego, J. Kessler, M.C. Weinstein, H. Shasulwe, B. Koblin, M. Magnus, W. Zhou, M.H. Watt, David Moore, J.B. Reed, C. Debaulieu, M.R. Jordan, F. Martinson, K. Nucifora, P.W. Young, L. Kayla, W. Matthews, M. Motamedi, J. Gweshe, B. El Omari, R. Ondondo, C. Kahlert, X. Cao, J. Okanda, G. Makana, V. Go, R. Colebunders, R. Simba, I. Hall, R. Bakker, P. Vernazza, D. Exner-Cortens, A. Brown, L. Kurtz, K.R. Amico, H. Ntalasha, R. Baggaley, N. Song, T. Aragon, R.S. Hogg, J. Nikisi, F. Mwanga, C. Shepard, O. Koole, K. Buchacz, P. Gonzales, A. Martin, B. Santos, D. Lewis, G. Anderson, C. Polis, S. Derendinger, K. Mayer, S. Vermund, A. Griffin, Samuel R. Friedman, M.S. Cohen, F.J. Muro, D. Patel, A. Sugarbaker, M. Musheke, C. Beyrer, C. Kwok, B.P. Yadav, J. Kaplan, R. Zulz, C. Mullis, R. Bailey, R. Dickson, T. Subramaniam, Katerina A. Christopoulos, K.A. Webb, J. Mbwambo, A. Phillips, M.A. Lampe, M. Muthui, R. Washington, T. Abdalla, J. Margolick, Matthew J. Mimiaga, Helen Rees, H.M.J.P. Vidanapathirana, R. Kamwi, Z. Yin, E.L. Frazier, M. Orkin, M. Beksinska, S.A. Strathdee, Andrea L. Wirtz, S. Elkamhawi, C. Soliman, T. Kerr, G. Pappas, Renee Heffron, S. Bachman, N. Forster, C. Mapanje, M. Goldstein, J. McMahon, P. Nair, J. Banda, M. Kall, R. Fichorova, Nelson K. Sewankambo, W. Zhu, D. Nicca, J.A. Moss, N. Habarta, E.J. Sanders, B. Riggan, P. Roberts, W. Heneine, D. Shabangu, J.L. Burgos, R. Ducharme, M. Toure, G.P. Garnett, R. Arafat, C. Ryan, E. Grapsa, P.M. Spittal, Kenneth Ngure, J. Waldura, M. Hosseinipour, N. Mensah, J. Ellard, T. Tang, R. Smith, J. Grund, R. Wood, Dean Murphy, M.-P. Sy, S. Gregson, R.A. Coutinho, D. Burns, Robert W. Coombs, N. Rafif, J.G. Hakim, S. Sahay, M.-L. Newell, M.L. Ngeruka, S.P. Fiorillo, C.-P. Pau, M. Decker, M. Getahun, E. Eduardo, L. Dumba, Joseph Makhema, T. Crea, J. Schillinger, Y. Jia, M. Sulkowski, Grace John-Stewart, F. Mbofana, Sam Phiri, N.B. Kiviat, B.P.X. Grady, V. Cambiano, T. Friel, David E Leslie, Y. Gebre, N. Muraguri, L. Valleroy, J. Skarbinski, P. Nadol, C. Kerr, T. Brewer, A. Ghani, M. Chen, L. Mills, S. Mital, C. Qiu, A.D. Paltiel, Janet J. Myers, C. van Gemert, R. Panchia, S. Agolory, A. Koler, P. Dietze, A. Jonas, N. Taruberekera, N. Philip, S.R. Nesheim, S. Tsui, J.P. Bitega, R. Abdool, C. Nekesa, J.G. Kahn, S. Townsell, S. Chan, A. Mujugira, V. Capo-Chichi, P. Rebeiro, Y. van Weert, J. Limba, K. Morrow, J. Birungi, E. Van Praag, L. Juárez-Figueroa, W. Miller, L.X. Deng, D. MacKellar, D. Kiima, V.D. Ojeda, P.L. Chu, S. Ohaga, J. Bradley, T. Sripaipan, C. Nguyen, R. Coutinho, E. Gardner, K.L. Vincent, A. Surendera Babu, A. Pharris, N. He, M. Maskew, S. Moses, A. Khan, H. Wang, M. Akello, Brandon O'Hara, J. Evans, D.E. Bennett, G.F. Webb, U. Abbas, C. Pretorius, M. Egger, R.S. Gupta, M. Mulenga, M. Odiit, C.E. Jones, M.F. Schim van der Loeff, I. Shaikh, A.D. Smith, D. Mark, G. Otieno, M. van Rooijen, T. Exner, A. Aghaizu, A. Vu, T. Ahmed, M. Wolverton, L. Seemann, Gustavo F. Doncel, A. Kharsany, C. Botao, J. Brown, J. Eaton, D. Krakower, J. Justman, Sheryl A. McCurdy, J. Otchere Darko, I. Denham, S. Fields, T. Taha, V. Jumbe, Z. Mwandi, K. Sey, T. Webster-León, M.A. Chiasson, W. Burman, E. Daniel, F. Deyounks, R. Willis, C. Kunzel, B. Greenberg, M. Lalota, B. George, R. Sitta, S. Abdool Karim, M. Kganakga, N. van der Knaap, S. Griffith, Z. Wu, C. del Rio, A. Briceno, R.P. Walensky, M.G. Anderson, Q. Vu Minh, R. Cabello, J.R.S. Malungo, H.J. Prudden, M. Mulatu, Y.Q. Chen, M.M. Baum, F. Mawazini, G. Phillips, B. Williams, F. van Aar, T. Noori, K. Curtis, L. Cluver, S. Huang, S. Safren, N. Westercamp, M. Pereyra, B. Nichols, L. Robertson, A. Oster, G. Kamanga, I. Butkyavichene, S. Ketende, W. Dothi, T. van de Laar, S. Bodika, L. Pang, S.J. de Vlas, B. Bearnot, M. Wallace, E. Duflo, F.M. Chimbwandira, L. Ramakrishnan, W. Kanjipite, A. Del Riego, S. Willis, S.L. Cherne, S. Merten, D. Hoover, A.K. Hesseling, E. Daniloff, K. Agot, L. Wang, Y. Ma, T. Heijman, Marie-Claude Boily, Susan Buchbinder, N. Luhmann, A.E. Phillips, D. Kamba, E. Op de Coul, L.M.R. Janini, M. Kolber, D. Reirden, G. Osorio, S.C. Kalichman, S. Combes, A. Auld, J. Rosenberger, H. Lin, A.S. de Vos, M. Paczkowski, E. Pouget, W. Davis, C. Mauck, M. Berry, S. Godbole, S. Mannheimer, N. Bock, C. Sexton, O. Whiteside, A. Bocour, S.K. Mohammed, J.G. Garcia-Lerma, T. Quinn, E. Losina, J.H.d.S. Pilotto, L. Werner, D. Newman, K. Russell, M. Chakela, S. Rowan, E. Wood, K.M. Mitchell, D. Novak, S. Rao, S. Roux, L. Ti, Edwin Were, J. Moss, G. Seage, A. Wongthanee, A. Muadinohamba, A. Crooks, X. Li, W. Motta, Noah Kiwanuka, M. McCauley, M.G. Rangel, G. Ravasi, B. Pick, T. West, R.N. Rimal, K. Bowa, J. Xu, P. Rhodes, J. Thorne, C. Avila, Michael S. Saag, E.A. Kelvin, A. Nqeketo, G.-M. Santos, H. El Rhilani, G.S. Gottlieb, N. Wang, S. Williams, I. Halldorsdottir, L.P. Jacobson, O. Mellouk, M. Sweat, L.R. Metsch, K. Sabin, S. Philip, S. Badal-Faesen, G. Sal y Rosas, D.H. Evans, R. Kumari, B. Tempalski, H.S. Okuku, I. Sanne, R.D. Moore, Y. Wang, A. Mbandi, S. Messinger, I. Balan, K. Kahuure, D. Kerrigan, J.J. van der Helm, D.L. Ellenberger, S.E. Kellerman, M. Sweeney, J. Opoku, H. Ginindza, D. Suryawanshi, N. Kikumbih, B.S. Parekh, J. Heffelfinger, C. Hart, B. Marshall, M. Jordan, O. Laeyendecker, O.N. Gill, S. Lee, G.R. Seage, C.-C. Udeagu, Travis Sanchez, J. White, J. Mwambi, J. Gilman, J. Talley, R. Baltussen, P. Galatowitsch, Kenneth H. Fife, T.R. Sterling, C. Mao, T. Frasca, A. Speksnijder, M. Nguyen Le, E. Dinenno, S. Kawichai, S. Hong, A. Gagner, L. Ouarsas, J. Goller, C. Watson, E. White, R. Monasch, N. Chotirosniramit, L. McNamara, D. van de Vijver, V. Hu, Sarah E. Rutstein, R. Glaubius, R.S. Paranjape, J. Peterson, P. Swain, Johnstone Kumwenda, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, F. Wabwire-Mangen, A. Buchanan, K.A. Freedberg, K. Shannon, J.C. Makoni, N. Rosenberg, J. Montaner, R. Koul, J. Zhang, E. Shihepo, J. Wang, H. Tran Vu, J.A. Smit, M. Sinunu, K. Chesang, G. Muzaaya, E.J. Schouten, V. Joseph, C. Karema, B.M. Ramesh, J.A.C. Hontelez, K. Torpey, G. Guillon, R. Taljaard, J. Elliott, R. Rao, D. Wilson, T.B. Hallett, Y.D. Mukadi, D.R. Holtgrave, K. Yotruean, M. Rasi, K.H. Mayer, M. Horberg, C. Chariyalertsak, C.-S. Leu, S. Billy, R. Lee, P. Suwannawong, Barrot H. Lambdin, R. Heimer, J. Tosswill, Marsha Rosengarten, A. Tripathi, M. Williams-Sherlock, C. Dolezal, M. Makhanya, A.T. Urbanus, C. Hendrix, C. Mwangi, P. Srikantiah, W. Jimbo, A. Puren, T. Smolskaia, M. Kamal, H. Li, G. Murphy, P. Masson, N. Benbow, E. Umar, A. Binagwaho, Papa Salif Sow, P. Lissouba, G. Olilo, P. Pathela, M. Mugavero, M. Cousins, S. Swindells, D. Callander, Z. Mabude, G. Cardenas, M.B. Klein, D. Sherard, C. Toohey, M. Holt, A. Pandey, D. Hedeker, Kimberly A. Powers, J. Astemborski, R. Gregg, M. Cribbin, Edith Nakku-Joloba, C. Furlow-Parmley, A. Abadie, Joseph J. Eron, D. Stéphanie, E. Kersh, P. Oyaro, P. Kohler, D.B. Hanna, H. Götz, H.I. Hall, S. Eshleman, K. Eritsyan, A. Carballo-Diéguez, G. Mujaranji, R. Needle, L. Lacroix, S. Singh, L. Wilton, J. Gallant, A. Howard, H.A. Pollack, J. Mermin, J. Schinkel, and S. Lovelace
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, 030505 public health, business.industry, Gonorrhea, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Miami, medicine.disease_cause, medicine.disease, Virology, 03 medical and health sciences, Cross matching, 0302 clinical medicine, Infectious Diseases, Family medicine, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, 0305 other medical science, business
Published: 2012
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39. Comparison of the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey with the Munich semi-analytical model : I. Magnitude counts, redshift distribution, colour bimodality, and galaxy clustering

Author: S. de la Torre, B. Meneux, G. De Lucia, J. Blaizot, O. Le Fèvre, B. Garilli, O. Cucciati, Y. Mellier, A. Pollo, U. Abbas, D. Bottini, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, L. Guzzo, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pelló, L. Pozzetti, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, S. de la Torre, B. Meneux, G. De Lucia, J. Blaizot, O. Le Fèvre, B. Garilli, O. Cucciati, Y. Mellier, A. Pollo, U. Abba, D. Bottini, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnout, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Cappi, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, L. Guzzo, O. Ilbert, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, C. Marinoni, A. Mazure, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pelló, L. Pozzetti, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani, and E. Zucca
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Universe, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, 10. No inequality, Cluster analysis, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], Physics, cosmology: observation, galaxies, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, large-scale structure of, Redshift, Galaxy, observations [cosmology], Bimodality, Distribution (mathematics), statistics, Space and Planetary Science, Magnitude (astronomy), large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey, high-redshift [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: This paper presents a detailed comparison between high-redshift observations from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) and predictions from the Munich semi-analytical model of galaxy formation. In particular, we focus this analysis on the magnitude, redshift, and colour distributions of galaxies, as well as their clustering properties. We constructed 100 quasi-independent mock catalogues, using the output of the semi-analytical model presented in De Lucia & Blaizot (2007).We then applied the same observational selection function of the VVDS-Deep survey, so as to carry out a fair comparison between models and observations. We find that the semi-analytical model reproduces well the magnitude counts in the optical bands. It tends, however, to overpredict the abundance of faint red galaxies, in particular in the i' and z' bands. Model galaxies exhibit a colour bimodality that is only in qualitative agreement with the data. In particular, we find that the model tends to overpredict the number of red galaxies at low redshift and of blue galaxies at all redshifts probed by VVDS-Deep observations, although a large fraction of the bluest observed galaxies is absent from the model. In addition, the model overpredicts by about 14 per cent the number of galaxies observed at 0.2, Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2011

40. Design and Implementation of Advanced Wireless Tongue Drive/ Operated System for Paralyzed, Disabled & Quadriplegic Patients

Author: U, Abbas, primary and MZ, Shaikh, additional
Published: 2016
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41. zCOSMOS 10k-bright spectroscopic sample: exploring mass and environment dependence in early-type galaxies

Author: V. Mainieri, Marcella Carollo, E. Zucca, Michele Moresco, J. F. Le Borgne, Andrea Cimatti, L. de Ravel, A. Cappi, Micol Bolzonella, Lidia Tasca, F. Lamareille, S. Bardelli, Simon J. Lilly, P. Oesch, P. Memeo, U. Abbas, A. Iovino, Alvio Renzini, Cristiano Porciani, Y. Peng, M. Mignoli, E. Ricciardelli, O. Le Fèvre, C. Halliday, Jean-Paul Kneib, D. Maccagni, P. Franzetti, C. Knobel, Graziano Coppa, Gianni Zamorani, Masaomi Tanaka, Anton M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Bottini, Daniela Vergani, Laurence Tresse, Olga Cucciati, Lucia Pozzetti, E. Perez Montero, S. de la Torre, Angela Bongiorno, Bianca Garilli, B. Meneux, Christian Maier, Luigi Guzzo, Christian Marinoni, John D. Silverman, P. Kampczyk, Roberto Scaramella, R. Pello, M. Scodeggio, K. Kovac, Thierry Contini, H. J. McCracken, Preethi Nair, S. Di Cesare, Karina Caputi, Nick Scoville, Claudia Scarlata, V. Le Brun, Paolo Cassata, Moresco M., Pozzetti L., Cimatti A., Zamorani G., Mignoli M., di Cesare S., Bolzonella M., Zucca E., Lilly S., Kova&#269, K., Scodeggio M., Cassata P., Tasca L., Vergani D., Halliday C., Carollo M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Févre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Iovino A., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tresse L., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Nair P., Oesch P., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Scarlata C., Scoville N., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), surveys, 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, galaxies: statistics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: fundamental parameters, Sample (graphics), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Early type, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Equivalent width
Abstract: We present the analysis of the U-V rest-frame color distribution and some spectral features as a function of mass and environment for two sample of early-type galaxies up to z=1 extracted from the zCOSMOS spectroscopic survey. The first sample ("red galaxies") is defined with a photometric classification, while the second ("ETGs") by combining morphological, photometric, and spectroscopic properties to obtain a more reliable sample. We find that the color distribution of red galaxies is not strongly dependent on environment for all mass bins, with galaxies in overdense regions redder than galaxies in underdense regions with a difference of 0.027\pm0.008 mag. The dependence on mass is far more significant, with average colors of massive galaxies redder by 0.093\pm0.007 mag than low-mass galaxies throughout the entire redshift range. We study the color-mass relation, finding a mean slope 0.12\pm0.005, while the color-environment relation is flatter, with a slope always smaller than 0.04. The spectral analysis that we perform on our ETGs sample is in good agreement with our photometric results: we find for D4000 a dependence on mass between high and low-mass galaxies, and a much weaker dependence on environment (respectively a difference of of 0.11\pm0.02 and of 0.05\pm0.02); for the equivalent width of H{\delta}we measure a difference of 0.28\pm0.08 {\AA}across the same mass range and no significant dependence on environment.By analyzing the lookback time of early-type galaxies, we support the possibility of a downsizing scenario, in which massive galaxies with a stronger D4000 and an almost constant equivalent width of $H\delta$ formed their mass at higher redshift than lower mass ones. We also conclude that the main driver of galaxy evolution is the galaxy mass, the environment playing a subdominant role., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2010
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42. The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey: evolution in the halo occupation number since z∼ 1★

Author: A. Pollo, M. Bolzonella, O. Le Fevre, Yannick Mellier, S. Paltani, S. Bardelli, R. Scaramella, Angela Bongiorno, Jarle Brinchmann, R. Pello, R. Merighi, C. Adami, P. Franzetti, Marco Scodeggio, L. de Ravel, F. Lamareille, I. Gavignaud, Stéphane Charlot, D. Maccagni, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, Paola Merluzzi, Paolo Ciliegi, Alain Mazure, D. Bottini, A. Zanichelli, B. Garilli, Stephane Arnouts, M. Radovich, Lucia Pozzetti, Bruno Marano, T. Contini, U. Abbas, Enrique Perez-Montero, C. Marinoni, O. Cucciati, L. Tresse, S. de la Torre, M. Bondi, Luigi Guzzo, Sylvie Foucaud, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, G. Vettolani, B. Meneux, A. Cappi, L. Gregorini, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, and D. Vergani
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Dynamical friction, Halo, 10. No inequality, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We model the evolution of the mean galaxy occupation of dark-matter halos over the range $0.1 0.1 M_0$ merger event occuring between redshifts of 0.5 and 1.0. Futhermore, we find that more luminous galaxies are found to occupy more massive halos irrespectively of the redshift. Finally, the average number of galaxies per halo shows little increase from redshift z$\sim$ 1.0 to z$\sim$ 0.5, with a sharp increase by a factor $\sim$3 from z$\sim$ 0.5 to z$\sim$ 0.1, likely due to the dynamical friction of subhalos within their host halos.
Published: 2010
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43. Properties and environment of radio-emitting galaxies in the VLA-zCOSMOS survey

Author: S. Bardelli, E. Schinnerer, V. Smolčic, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, M. Mignoli, C. Halliday, K. Kovač, P. Ciliegi, K. Caputi, A. M. Koekemoer, A. Bongiorno, M. Bondi, M. Bolzonella, D. Vergani, L. Pozzetti, C. M. Carollo, T. Contini, J.-P. Kneib, O. Le Fèvre, S. Lilly, V. Mainieri, A. Renzini, M. Scodeggio, G. Coppa, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, A. Iovino, P. Kampczyk, C. Knobel, F. Lamareille, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, C. Maier, R. Pellò, Y. Peng, E. Perez-Montero, E. Ricciardelli, J. D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tasca, L. Tresse, U. Abbas, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, L. Guzzo, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, P. Oesch, C. Porciani, R. Scaramella, P. Capak, D. Sanders, N. Scoville, Y. Taniguchi, K. Jahnke, 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), S.Bardelli, E.Schinnerer, V.Smolcic, G.Zamorani, E.Zucca, M.Mignoli, C.Halliday, K.Kovac, P.Ciliegi, K.Caputi, A.M.Koekemoer, A.Bongiorno, M.Bondi, M.Bolzonella, D.Vergani, L.Pozzetti, C.M.Carollo, T.Contini, J.-P.Kneib, O.LeFevre, S.Lilly, V.Mainieri, A.Renzini, M.Scodeggio, G.Coppa, O.Cucciati, S.delaTorre, L.deRavel, P.Franzetti, B.Garilli, A.Iovino, P.Kampczyk, C.Knobel, F.Lamareille, J.-F.LeBorgne, V.LeBrun, C.Maier, R.Pello`, Y.Peng, E.Perez-Montero, E.Ricciardelli, J.D.Silverman, M.Tanaka, L.Tasca, L.Tresse, U.Abba, D.Bottini, A.Cappi, P.Cassata, A.Cimatti, L.Guzzo, A.Leauthaud, D.Maccagni, C.Marinoni, H.J.McCracken, P.Memeo, B.Meneux, P.Oesch, C.Porciani, R.Scaramella, P.Capak, D.Sander, N.Scoville, Y.Taniguchi, K.Jahnke, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Astronomy
Subjects: radio continuum: planetary systems, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Infrared, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, 0103 physical sciences, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, radio continuum: galaxies, Mass distribution, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Galaxies: fundamental parameters, Galaxies: general, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Radio continuum: galaxies, Radio continuum: planetary systems, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: fundamental parameters, galaxies: general, Galaxy, Redshift, Interstellar medium, galaxies: luminosity function, 13. Climate action, mass function, Spectral energy distribution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the properties and the environment of radio sources with optical counterpart from the combined VLA-COSMOS and zCOSMOS samples. The advantage of this sample is the availability of optical spectroscopic information, high quality redshifts, and accurate density determination. By comparing the star formation rates estimated from the optical spectral energy distribution with those based on the radio luminosity, we divide the radio sources in three families, passive AGN, non-passive AGN and star forming galaxies. These families occupy specific regions of the 8.0-4.5 $\mu$m infrared color--specific star formation plane, from which we extract the corresponding control samples. Only the passive AGN have a significantly different environment distribution from their control sample. The fraction of radio-loud passive AGN increases from ~2% in underdense regions to ~15% for overdensities (1+delta) greater than 10. This trend is also present as a function of richness of the groups hosting the radio sources. Passive AGN in overdensities tend to have higher radio luminosities than those in lower density environments. Since the black hole mass distribution is similar in both environments, we speculate that, for low radio luminosities, the radio emission is controlled (through fuel disponibility or confinement of radio jet by local gas pressure) by the interstellar medium of the host galaxy, while in other cases it is determined by the structure (group or cluster) in which the galaxy resides., Comment: 17 pages, 17 figures, A&A in press
Published: 2010
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44. zCOSMOS - 10k-bright spectroscopic sample. The bimodality in the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function: exploring its evolution with redshift

Author: L. Pozzetti, M. Bolzonella, E. Zucca, G. Zamorani, S. Lilly, A. Renzini, M. Moresco, M. Mignoli, P. Cassata, L. Tasca, F. Lamareille, C. Maier, B. Meneux, C. Halliday, P. Oesch, D. Vergani, K. Caputi, K. Kovač, A. Cimatti, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, Y. Peng, M. Carollo, T. Contini, J.-P. Kneib, O. Le Févre, V. Mainieri, M. Scodeggio, S. Bardelli, A. Bongiorno, G. Coppa, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, P. Kampczyk, C. Knobel, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, R. Pellò, E. Perez Montero, E. Ricciardelli, J. D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tresse, U. Abbas, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, L. Guzzo, A. M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, P. Memeo, C. Porciani, R. Scaramella, C. Scarlata, N. Scoville, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), AUTRES, 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 Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA Los Angeles], University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California-University of California, 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, INAF- Milano, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College School of Medicine, Tokai University, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), L. Pozzetti, M. Bolzonella, E. Zucca, G. Zamorani, S. Lilly, A. Renzini, M. Moresco, M. Mignoli, P. Cassata, L. Tasca, F. Lamareille, C. Maier, B. Meneux, C. Halliday, P. Oesch, D. Vergani, K. Caputi, K. Kovac, A. Cimatti, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, Y. Peng, M. Carollo, T. Contini, J.P. Kneib, O. Le F'evre, V. Mainieri, M. Scodeggio, S. Bardelli, A. Bongiorno, G. Coppa, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, P. Kampczyk, C. Knobel, J.F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, R. Pell`o, E. Perez Montero, E. Ricciardelli, J.D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tresse, U. Abba, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, L. Guzzo, A.M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H.J. McCracken, P. Memeo, C. Porciani, R. Scaramella, C. Scarlata, N. Scoville, and Astronomy
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), EXTREMELY RED GALAXIES, Stellar mass, EARLY DATA RELEASE, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: formation, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, galaxies: statistics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, SIMILAR-TO 1, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, FORMATION HISTORY, education.field_of_study, Number density, Spiral galaxy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], VLT DEEP SURVEY, DISK GALAXIES, Redshift, Galaxy, COSMOS FIELD, Stars, galaxies: luminosity function, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, mass function, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function (MF) up to z~1 from the zCOSMOS-bright 10k spectroscopic sample. We investigate the total MF and the contribution of ETGs and LTGs, defined by different criteria (SED, morphology or star formation). We unveil a galaxy bimodality in the global MF, better represented by 2 Schechter functions dominated by ETGs and LTGs, respectively. For the global population we confirm that low-mass galaxies number density increases later and faster than for massive galaxies. We find that the MF evolution at intermediate-low values of Mstar (logM, Revised version, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2010
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45. K+a galaxies in the zCOSMOS Survey: Physical properties of systems in their post-starburst phase

Author: D. Vergani, G. Zamorani, S. Lilly, F. Lamareille, C. Halliday, M. Scodeggio, C. Vignali, P. Ciliegi, M. Bolzonella, M. Bondi, K. Kovač, C. Knobel, E. Zucca, K. Caputi, L. Pozzetti, S. Bardelli, M. Mignoli, A. Iovino, C. M. Carollo, T. Contini, J.-P. Kneib, O. Le Fèvre, V. Mainieri, A. Renzini, A. Bongiorno, G. Coppa, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, P. Kampczyk, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, C. Maier, R. Pello, Y. Peng, E. Perez Montero, E. Ricciardelli, J. D. Silverman, M. Tanaka, L. Tasca, L. Tresse, U. Abbas, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, L. Guzzo, A. M. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, P. Oesch, C. Porciani, R. Scaramella, P. Capak, D. Sanders, N. Scoville, Y. Taniguchi, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (OAA), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), AUTRES, 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, INAF- Milano, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Astronomia, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), University of Chicago, 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), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia [Bologna], Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College School of Medicine, Tokai University, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Materials & Process technology, Boeing Company [Chicago], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Astronomy, Vergani D., Zamorani G., Lilly S.J., Lamareille F., Halliday C., Scodeggio M., Vignali C., Ciliegi P., Bolzonella M., Bondi M., Kovac K., Knobel C., Zucca E., Caputi K., Pozzetti L., Bardelli S., Mignoli M., Iovino A., Carollo C.M., Contini T., Kneib J.-P., Le Fevre O., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Bongiorno A., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de la Torre S., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Garilli B., Kampczyk P., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pello R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J.D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Abbas U., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cassata P., Cimatti A., Guzzo L., Koekemoer A.M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H.J., Memeo P., Meneux B., Oesch P., Porciani C., Scaramella R., Capak P., Sanders D., Scoville N., Taniguchi Y., Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)-Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), galaxies: evolution – galaxies: fundamental parameters – galaxies: luminosity function, mass function – cosmology: observations – galaxies: formation, Stellar mass, Formation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Luminosity, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Phase (matter), 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, galaxies: formation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Luminosity function, Spectral properties, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: fundamental parameters, Galaxies, Fundamental parameters - Galaxies, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Cosmology, galaxies: luminosity function, Observations - Galaxies, Evolution - Galaxies, Luminosity function, mass function, Space and Planetary Science, mass function, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The identities of the main processes triggering and quenching star-formation in galaxies remain unclear. A key stage in evolution, however, appears to be represented by post-starburst galaxies. To investigate their impact on galaxy evolution, we initiated a multiwavelength study of galaxies with k+a spectral features in the COSMOS field. We examine a mass-selected sample of k+a galaxies at z=0.48-1.2 using the spectroscopic zCOSMOS sample. K+a galaxies occupy the brightest tail of the luminosity distribution. They are as massive as quiescent galaxies and populate the green valley in the colour versus luminosity (or stellar mass) distribution. A small percentage (, 17 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics on 09/09/2009 (no changes wrt v1)
Published: 2010
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46. The spatial clustering of X-ray selected AGN in the XMM-COSMOS field

Author: E. Zucca, Andrea Comastri, C. Knobel, O. Le Fèvre, S. de la Torre, N. Z. Scoville, Francesca Civano, Fabrizio Fiore, Alexie Leauthaud, J. F. Le Borgne, Roberto Gilli, Chris Impey, L. de Ravel, M. Mignoli, Alessandro Cimatti, F. Lamareille, M. Bolzonella, Roberto Scaramella, Takamitsu Miyaji, G. Zamorani, Günther Hasinger, J. Walcher, Lidia Tasca, M. Fumana, Jean-Paul Kneib, P. Memeo, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, Angela Bongiorno, K. Kovac, S. Bardelli, Christian Maier, M. Scodeggio, Daniela Vergani, Nico Cappelluti, P. Franzetti, Christian Marinoni, H. J. McCracken, D. Bottini, A. Iovino, P. Kampczyk, E. Perez Montero, Olga Cucciati, Laurence Tresse, R. Pello, Jonathan R. Trump, Y. Peng, Luigi Guzzo, E. Ricciardelli, Emanuele Daddi, Cristiano Porciani, Cristian Vignali, Thierry Contini, Mara Salvato, Masayuki Tanaka, Alexis Finoguenov, Graziano Coppa, Paolo Cassata, Lucia Pozzetti, John D. Silverman, Vincenzo Mainieri, Peter Capak, C. M. Carollo, Marcella Brusa, Bianca Garilli, B. Meneux, Simon J. Lilly, Karina Caputi, Alvio Renzini, Pascal Oesch, A. Cappi, U. Abbas, Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Astronomy, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), 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 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), R. Gilli, G. Zamorani, T. Miyaji, J. Silverman, M. Brusa, V. Mainieri, N. Cappelluti, E. Daddi, C. Porciani, L. Pozzetti, F. Civano, A. Comastri, A. Finoguenov, F. Fiore, M. Salvato, C. Vignali, G. Hasinger, S. Lilly, C. Impey, J. Trump, P. Capak, H. McCracken, N. Scoville, Y. Taniguchi, C.M. Carollo, T. Contini, J.-P. Kneib, O. LeFevre, A. Renzini, M. Scodeggio, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, A. Bongiorno, K. Caputi, A. Cimatti, G. Coppa, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, L. de Ravel, P. Franzetti, B. Garilli, A. Iovino, P. Kampczyk, C. Knobel, K. Kovac, F. Lamareille, J.-F. Le Borgne, V. Le Brun, C. Maier, M. Mignoli, R. Pello', Y. Peng, E. Perez Montero, E. Ricciardelli, M. Tanaka, L. Tasca, L. Tresse, D. Vergani, E. Zucca, U. Abba, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, P. Cassata, M. Fumana, L. Guzzo, A. Leauthaud, D. Maccagni, C. Marinoni, P. Memeo, B. Meneux, P. Oesch, R. Scaramella, and J. Walcher
Subjects: QSOS, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, Stellar mass, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, 2-POINT CORRELATION-FUNCTION, Large-scale structure of universe, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Luminosity, SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLES, GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEY, 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, EVOLUTION SURVEY COSMOS, galaxies: active – cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe – cosmology: observations – X-rays: galaxies, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmology, Cosmology: observations, Galaxies: active, X-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, POINT-SOURCE CATALOGS, cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, Universe, Galaxy, Redshift, Correlation function (statistical mechanics), LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, cosmology: observations, DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], ANGULAR-CORRELATION
Abstract: We study the spatial clustering of 538 X-ray selected AGN in the 2 deg^2 XMM-COSMOS field that are spectroscopically identified to I_{AB} 3 x 10^{10} M_sun) at the same redshift. This suggests that AGN at z~1 are preferentially hosted by massive galaxies, as observed both in the local and in the distant (z~2) Universe. (shortened), Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in A&A. Language edited version
Published: 2009
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47. The Optical Spectra of Spitzer 24 μm Galaxies in the Cosmic Evolution Survey Field. II. Faint Infrared Sources in the zCOSMOS-Bright 10k Catalog

Author: David Schiminovich, G. Zamorani, H. J. McCracken, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, P. Kampczyk, Yoshi Taniguchi, E. Ricciardelli, Alvio Renzini, M. Bolzonella, U. Abbas, Peter Capak, J. P. Kneib, D. Maccagni, E. Le Floc'h, S. J. Lilly, M. Elvis, Nick Scoville, Marco Scodeggio, J. Kartaltepe, F. Lamareille, Roberto Scaramella, J. F. Le Borgne, Dave Frayer, Masaomi Tanaka, L. A. M. Tasca, Enrique Perez-Montero, T. Contini, L. de Ravel, Christian Maier, L. Tresse, Katarina Kovac, A. Leauthaud, Christian Marinoni, K. Caputi, D. B. Sanders, A. Cappi, P. Memeo, D. Vergani, H. Aussel, Y. Peng, M. Zamojski, Graziano Coppa, C. Knobel, Vincenzo Mainieri, A. Iovino, John D. Silverman, Claudia Scarlata, Jason Surace, B. Meneux, Anton M. Koekemoer, Cristiano Porciani, A. Cimatti, S. Bardelli, G. Hasinger, E. Zucca, D. Bottini, Mara Salvato, Paolo Cassata, Lucia Pozzetti, B. Garilli, Angela Bongiorno, O. Le Fevre, Pascal Oesch, P. Franzetti, R. Pello, M. Mignoli, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, C. M. Carollo, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de 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), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, Luminous infrared galaxy, Star formation, Extinction (astronomy), galaxies: active, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Redshift, Luminosity, infrared: galaxies, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Galaxies: abundances, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: starburst, Infrared: galaxies, galaxies: abundances, galaxies: evolution, Line (formation), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; We have used the zCOSMOS-bright 10k sample to identify 3244 Spitzer/MIPS 24 μm-selected galaxies with 0.06 mJy < S 24 μm lsim 0.50 mJy and I AB < 22.5, over 1.5 deg2 of the COSMOS field, and studied different spectral properties, depending on redshift. At 0.2 < z < 0.3, we found that different reddening laws of common use in the literature explain the dust extinction properties of ~80% of our infrared (IR) sources, within the error bars. For up to 16% of objects, instead, the Hα λ6563/Hβ λ4861 ratios are too high for their IR/UV attenuations, which is probably a consequence of inhomogeneous dust distributions. In only a few of our galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.3, the IR emission could be mainly produced by dust heated by old rather than young stars. Besides, the line ratios of ~22% of our galaxies suggest that they might be star-formation/nuclear-activity composite systems. At 0.5 < z < 0.7, we estimated galaxy metallicities for 301 galaxies: at least 12% of them are securely below the upper-branch mass-metallicity trend, which is consistent with the local relation. Finally, we performed a combined analysis of the Hδ equivalent width versus Dn (4000) diagram for 1722 faint and bright 24 μm galaxies at 0.6 < z < 1.0, spanning two decades in mid-IR luminosity. We found that, while secondary bursts of star formation are necessary to explain the position of the most luminous IR galaxies in that diagram, quiescent, exponentially declining star formation histories can well reproduce the spectral properties of ~40% of the less luminous sources. Our results suggest a transition in the possible modes of star formation at total IR luminosities L TIR ≈ (3 ± 2) × 1011 L sun.
Published: 2009
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48. The zCOSMOS Survey. The dependence of clustering on luminosity and stellar mass at z=0.2-1

Author: C. Knobel, Graziano Coppa, Anton M. Koekemoer, M. Fumana, E. Zucca, Alvio Renzini, Lidia Tasca, A. Iovino, J. F. Le Borgne, Cristiano Porciani, M. Scodeggio, B. Meneux, P. Memeo, John D. Silverman, Luigi Guzzo, U. Abbas, Y. Peng, C. M. Carollo, Daniela Vergani, Pascal Oesch, Roberto Scaramella, V. Le Brun, V. Mainieri, Simon J. Lilly, E. Ricciardelli, Christian Maier, Thierry Contini, Christian Marinoni, Roser Pello, Olga Cucciati, L. de Ravel, Laurence Tresse, G. Zamorani, K. Kovac, Karina Caputi, P. Kampczyk, H. J. McCracken, J. P. Kneib, A. Cappi, Micol Bolzonella, Alexie Leauthaud, S. Bardelli, Bianca Garilli, Angela Bongiorno, E. Perez Montero, Alessandro Cimatti, Masayuki Tanaka, S. de la Torre, P. Franzetti, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, F. Lamareille, Paolo Cassata, Lucia Pozzetti, D. Bottini, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Universitats-Sternwarte [München], Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), 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), AUTRES, INAF- Milano, University of Chicago, Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT), Institute of Astronomy [ETH Zürich], Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Bologna (IASF-Bo), Meneux B., Guzzo L., de La Torre S., Porciani C., Zamorani G., Abbas U., Bolzonella M., Garilli B., Iovino A., Pozzetti L., Zucca E., Lilly S. J., Le Fèvre O., Kneib J.-P., Carollo C. M., Contini T., Mainieri V., Renzini A., Scodeggio M., Bardelli S., Bongiorno A., Caputi K., Coppa G., Cucciati O., de Ravel L., Franzetti P., Kampczyk P., Knobel C., Kova&#269, K., Lamareille F., Le Borgne J.-F., Le Brun V., Maier C., Pellò R., Peng Y., Perez Montero E., Ricciardelli E., Silverman J. D., Tanaka M., Tasca L., Tresse L., Vergani D., Bottini D., Cappi A., Cimatti A., Cassata P., Fumana M., Koekemoer A. M., Leauthaud A., Maccagni D., Marinoni C., McCracken H. J., Memeo P., Oesch P., Scaramella R., Astronomy, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, Large-scale structure of Universe, media_common.quotation_subject, SPACE CORRELATION-FUNCTIONS, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEY, 1ST EPOCH DATA, 0103 physical sciences, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, Cluster analysis, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Galaxy: evolution, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmology: observations, Astronomy and Astrophysics, VLT DEEP SURVEY, Covariance, ENVIRONMENTAL DEPENDENCE, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Universe, HALO OCCUPATION DISTRIBUTION, Amplitude, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, REAL-SPACE, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass at redshifts z ~ [0.2-1] using the first zCOSMOS 10K sample. We measure the redshift-space correlation functions xi(rp,pi) and its projection wp(rp) for sub-samples covering different luminosity, mass and redshift ranges. We quantify in detail the observational selection biases and we check our covariance and error estimate techniques using ensembles of semi-analytic mock catalogues. We finally compare our measurements to the cosmological model predictions from the mock surveys. At odds with other measurements, we find a weak dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity in all redshift bins explored. A mild dependence on stellar mass is instead observed. At z~0.7, wp(rp) shows strong excess power on large scales. We interpret this as produced by large-scale structure dominating the survey volume and extending preferentially in direction perpendicular to the line-of-sight. We do not see any significant evolution with redshift of the amplitude of clustering for bright and/or massive galaxies. The clustering measured in the zCOSMOS data at 0.5=10 is only marginally consistent with predictions from the mock surveys. On scales larger than ~2 h^-1 Mpc, the observed clustering amplitude is compatible only with ~1% of the mocks. Thus, if the power spectrum of matter is LCDM with standard normalization and the bias has no unnatural scale-dependence, this result indicates that COSMOS has picked up a particularly rare, ~2-3 sigma positive fluctuation in a volume of ~10^6 h^-1 Mpc^3. These findings underline the need for larger surveys of the z~1 Universe to appropriately characterize the level of structure at this epoch., Comment: 18 pages, 21 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2009
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49. The close environment of 24 micron galaxies at 0.6<z<1.0 in the COSMOS field

Author: Mara Salvato, O. Cucciati, S. de la Torre, J. F. Le Borgne, John D. Silverman, Dave Frayer, T. Contini, C. M. Carollo, E. Zucca, A. Cappi, Christian Maier, Jason Surace, E. Ricciardelli, Angela Bongiorno, Christian Marinoni, O. Le Fevre, B. Meneux, H. J. McCracken, A. Iovino, M. Bolzonella, Peter Capak, D. Vergani, D. Bottini, L. A. M. Tasca, H. Aussel, D. B. Sanders, Paolo Cassata, Lucia Pozzetti, P. Kampczyk, B. Garilli, P. Franzetti, Alvio Renzini, D. Maccagni, Pascal Oesch, Nick Scoville, F. Lamareille, J. Kartaltepe, Masaomi Tanaka, M. Fumana, U. Abbas, L. de Ravel, Cristiano Porciani, A. Cimatti, R. Pello, M. Mignoli, C. Knobel, L. Tresse, Graziano Coppa, Vincenzo Mainieri, A. Leauthaud, Y. Peng, K. Caputi, P. Memeo, Roberto Scaramella, G. Zamorani, S. Bardelli, E. Le Floc'h, J. P. Kneib, Marco Scodeggio, Katarina Kovac, Claudia Scarlata, Enrique Perez-Montero, S. J. Lilly, V. Le Brun, O. Ilbert, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de 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), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 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), 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), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Field (physics), Stellar mass, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Infrared: galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We investigate the close environment of 203 Spitzer 24 micron-selected sources at 0.61.4. We find that LIRGs at 0.61.4 within 1 Mpc and +/- 500 km/s). The contrast between the activities of the close environments of LIRGs and ULIRGs appears especially enhanced in the COSMOS field density peak at z~0.67, because LIRGs on this peak have a larger fraction of passive neighbours, while ULIRGs have as active close environments as those outside the large-scale structure. The differential environmental activity is related to the differences in the distributions of stellar mass ratios between LIRGs/ULIRGs and their close neighbours, as well as in the general local density fields. At 0.8, Comment: ApJ, in press. 9 pages, including 5 figures
Published: 2008
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50. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. Testing the gravitational instability paradigm at z ~ 1

Author: C. Marinoni, L. Guzzo, A. Cappi, O. Le Fèvre, A. Mazure, B. Meneux, A. Pollo, A. Iovino, H. J. McCracken, R. Scaramella, S. de la Torre, J. M. Virey, D. Bottini, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, J. P. Picat, M. Scodeggio, L. Tresse, G. Vettolani, A. Zanichelli, C. Adami, S. Arnouts, S. Bardelli, M. Bolzonella, S. Charlot, P. Ciliegi, T. Contini, S. Foucaud, P. Franzetti, I. Gavignaud, O. Ilbert, F. Lamareille, B. Marano, G. Mathez, R. Merighi, S. Paltani, R. Pellò, L. Pozzetti, M. Radovich, D. Vergani, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca, U. Abbas, M. Bondi, A. Bongiorno, J. Brinchmann, A. Buzzi, O. Cucciati, L. de Ravel, L. Gregorini, Y. Mellier, P. Merluzzi, E. Perez-Montero, P. Taxil, S. Temporin, C. J. Walcher, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207 (CPT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF- Milano, 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), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), 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), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna (OABO), European Southern Observatory (ESO), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (OAC), Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna] (IRA), Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), Universidade do Porto, Bernardo, Elizabeth, AUTRES, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Marinoni C., Guzzo L., Cappi A., Le Fèvre O., Mazure A., Meneux B., Pollo A., Iovino A., McCracken H. J., Scaramella R., de La Torre S., Virey J. M., Bottini D., Garilli B., Le Brun V., Maccagni D., Picat J. P., Scodeggio M., Tresse L., Vettolani G., Zanichelli A., Adami C., Arnouts S., Bardelli S., Bolzonella M., Charlot S., Ciliegi P., Contini T., Foucaud S., Franzetti P., Gavignaud I., Ilbert O., Lamareille F., Marano B., Mathez G., Merighi R., Paltani S., Pellò R., Pozzetti L., Radovich M., Vergani D., Zamorani G., Zucca E., Abbas U., Bondi M., Bongiorno A., Brinchmann J., Buzzi A., Cucciati O., de Ravel L., Gregorini L., Mellier Y., Merluzzi P., Perez-Montero E., Taxil P., Temporin S., and Walcher C. J.
Subjects: statistics [galaxies], Distribution (number theory), Field (physics), FOS: Physical sciences, Probability density function, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), GALASSIE, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], GRAVITAZIONE, galaxies: high-redshift, cosmology: theory, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, Physics, large-scale structure of Universe [cosmology], Galaxy: evolution, theory [cosmology], [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astronomy and Astrophysics, COSMOLOGIA, COSMOLOGIA OSSERVATIVA, cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe, Redshift, Galaxy, SURVEY, Space and Planetary Science, Skewness, [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], evolution [galaxy], Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics), [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], high-redshift [galaxies]
Abstract: We have reconstructed the three-dimensional density fluctuation maps to z ~ 1.5 using the distribution of galaxies observed in the VVDS-Deep survey. We use this overdensity field to measure the evolution of the probability distribution function and its lower-order moments over the redshift interval 0.7, Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, A&A in Press
Published: 2008
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