Publications (160)
The 2-10 keV unabsorbed luminosity function of AGN from the XMM-Newton LSS, CDFS and COSMOS surveys
P. Ranalli, E. Koulouridis, I. Georgantopoulos +15
The XMM-LSS, XMM-COSMOS, and XMM-CDFS surveys are complementary in terms of sky coverage and depth. Together, they form a clean sample with the least possible variance in instrumen…
The XMM-LSS cluster sample and its cosmological applications
M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, the XMM-LSS consortium
We present the X-ray source detection procedure that we have developed for the purpose of assembling and characterizing controlled samples of cluster of galaxies for the XMM Large…
The XXL Survey: XLVIII; X-ray follow-up of distant XXL clusters: Masses, scaling relations and AGN contamination
R. T. Duffy, C. H. A. Logan, B. J. Maughan +10
We use deep follow-up XMM-Newton observations of 6 clusters discovered in the XXL Survey at to gain robust measurements of their X-ray properties and to investigate the exten…
The first ISO ERO: a dusty quasar at z = 1.5
M. Pierre, C. Lidman, R. Hunstead +8
We report the discovery of an extremely red object (ERO) in a medium-deep ISOCAM extragalactic survey. The object is also a radio source. Subsequent VLT NIR spectroscopy revealed a…
The XXL Survey XLV. Linking the ages of optically selected groups to their X-ray emission
J. P. Crossett, S. L. McGee, T. J. Ponman +16
We investigate the properties of 232 optical spectroscopically selected groups from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey that overlap the XXL X-ray cluster survey. X-ray aper…
Detector signal characterization with a Bayesian network in XENONnT
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +164
We developed a detector signal characterization model based on a Bayesian network trained on the waveform attributes generated by a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. By per…
The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme
M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89
We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…
Structure detection in the D1 CFHTLS deep field using accurate photometric redshifts: a benchmark
A. Mazure, C. Adami, M. Pierre +9
We investigate structures in the D1 CFHTLS deep field in order to test the method that will be applied to generate homogeneous samples of clusters and groups of galaxies in order t…
X-ray/Optical analysis of the cluster of galaxies Abell 1300: Indications of a post-merger at z = 0.31
L. Lemonon, M. Pierre, R. Hunstead +3
We present ROSAT PSPC and HRI observations of the distant cluster A1300 (z = 0.3071) in conjunction with optical data, to investigate the physics of the intra-cluster medium and th…
The XXL Survey: XXXIII. Chandra Constraints on the AGN Contamination of z > 1 XXL Galaxy Clusters
C. H. A. Logan, B. J. Maughan, M. N. Bremer +11
Context. The XMM-XXL survey uses observations from XMM-Newton to detect clusters of galaxies over a wide range in mass and redshift. The moderate PSF of XMM-Newton means that point…
Application and modeling of an online distillation method to reduce krypton and argon in XENON1T
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +151
A novel online distillation technique was developed for the XENON1T dark matter experiment to reduce intrinsic background components more volatile than xenon, such as krypton or ar…
The XXL Survey LIV. X-ray Luminosity Function and Luminosity-Mass Relation of Optically Selected Galaxy Groups
C. Wood, B. J. Maughan, J. P. Crossett +10
The overlap between the GAMA spectroscopic survey and the XXL X-ray survey was used to study the X-ray properties of optically-selected groups of galaxies. Forced X-ray aperture ph…
The XXL Survey XIX. A realistic population of simulated X-ray AGN: Comparison of models with observations
E. Koulouridis, L. Faccioli, A. M. C. Le Brun +11
Modern cosmological simulations rely heavily on feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in order to stave off overcooling in massive galaxies and galaxy groups and clusters. An…
The XXL Survey X: K-band luminosity - weak-lensing mass relation for groups and clusters of galaxies
F. Ziparo, G. P. Smith, S. L. Mulroy +15
We present the K-band luminosity-halo mass relation, , for a subsample of 20 of the 100 brightest clusters in the XXL Survey observed with WIRCam at the Canad…
The XXL survey: first results and future
M. Pierre, C. Adami, M. Birkinshaw +108
The XXL survey currently covers two 25 sq. deg. patches with XMM observations of ~10ks. We summarise the scientific results associated with the first release of the XXL data set, t…
The XXL Survey XXXII. Spatial clustering of the XXL-S AGN
M. Plionis, L. Koutoulidis, E. Koulouridis +9
The XMM-XXL Survey spans two fields of deg each observed for more than 6Ms with XMM, which provided a sample of tens of thousands of point sources with a flux limit of…
The cosmological analysis of X-ray cluster surveys: IV. Testing ASpiX with template-based cosmological simulations
A. Valotti, M. Pierre, A. Farahi +5
Following extensive tests on analytical toy-catalogues (paper III), we present the results of a more realistic study over a 711 deg2 template-based cosmological simulation. Dark ma…
Design and performance of the field cage for the XENONnT experiment
E. Aprile, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud +161
The precision in reconstructing events detected in a dual-phase time projection chamber depends on an homogeneous and well understood electric field within the liquid target. In th…
Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T
E. Aprile, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud +164
Multiple viable theoretical models predict heavy dark matter particles with a mass close to the Planck mass, a range relatively unexplored by current experimental measurements. We…
The XXL Survey III. Luminosity-temperature relation of the Bright Cluster Sample
P. A. Giles, B. J. Maughan, F. Pacaud +13
The XXL Survey is the largest homogeneous survey carried out with XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50 deg, the survey contains several hundred galaxy clusters out to a redshif…
ASCA observations of massive medium-distant clusters of galaxies. II
H. Matsumoto, M. Pierre, T. G. Tsuru +1
We have selected seven medium-distant clusters of galaxies (z ~ 0.1 - 0.3) for multi-wavelength observations with the goal of investigating their dynamical state. Following Paper I…
The XXL Survey: XXXVII. The role of the environment in shaping the stellar population properties of galaxies at 0.1<z<0.5
V. Guglielmo, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani +6
Exploiting a sample of galaxies drawn from the XXL-N multiwavelength survey, we present an analysis of the stellar population properties of galaxies at 0.1<z<0.5, by studying galax…
WIMP Dark Matter Search using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +175
We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) via elastic DM-xenon-nucleus interactions in the XENONnT experiment. We combine datasets from…
Single-dopant resonance in a single-electron transistor
V. N. Golovach, X. Jehl, M. Houzet +4
Single dopants in semiconductor nanostructures have been studied in great details recently as they are good candidates for quantum bits, provided they are coupled to a detector. He…
Understanding X-ray and optical selection of galaxy clusters: A comparison of the XXL and CAMIRA cluster catalogues obtained in the common XXL-HSC SSP area
J. P. Willis, M. Oguri, M. E. Ramos-Ceja +31
Large samples of galaxy clusters provide knowledge of both astrophysics in the most massive virialised environments and the properties of the cosmological model that defines our Un…
Classification and environmental properties of X-ray selected point-like sources in the XMM-LSS field
O. Melnyk, M. Plionis, A. Elyiv +8
The XMM-Large Scale Structure survey, covering an area of 11.1 sq. deg., contains more than 6000 X-ray point-like sources detected with XMM-Newton down to a flux of 3x10^-15 erg s^…
Direct Measurement of the and Decay Branching Ratios with the XENONnT Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +178
We present precision measurements of and decay branching ratios using and calibration data from…
First Indication of Solar B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +164
We present the first measurement of nuclear recoils from solar B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with the XENONnT dark matter experiment. The central…
The XMM large scale structure survey: optical vs. X-ray classifications of active galactic nuclei and the unified scheme
O. Garcet, P. Gandhi, E. Gosset +25
Our goal is to characterize AGN populations by comparing their X-ray and optical classifications. We present a sample of 99 spectroscopically identified X-ray point sources in the…
The XMM-LSS survey. Survey design and first results
M. Pierre, I. Valtchanov, B. Altieri +36
We have designed a medium deep large area X-ray survey with XMM - the XMM Large Scale Structure survey, XMM-LSS - with the scope of extending the cosmological tests attempted using…
Search for Light Dark Matter in Low-Energy Ionization Signals from XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +165
We report on a blinded search for dark matter with single- and few-electron signals in the first science run of XENONnT relying on a novel detector response framework that is physi…
Galaxy evolution in clusters from z=1 to z=0
S. Andreon, J. Willis, H. Quintana +3
The XMM--LSS project is detecting distant clusters of low mass, quite comparable in mass to the ones in the local universe. This allows a direct comparison of galaxy properties at…
Challenging Spontaneous Quantum Collapse with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174
We report on the search for X-ray radiation as predicted from dynamical quantum collapse with low-energy electronic recoil data in the energy range of 1-140 keV from the first scie…
The Low Frequency Radio Counterpart of the XMM Large Scale Structure Survey
A. S. Cohen, H. J. A. Röttgering, N. E. Kassim +8
The XMM Large Scale Structure Survey (XMM-LSS) is a major project to map the large scale structure of the universe out to cosmological distances. An 8 degree by 8 degree region wil…
Puddle-induced resistance oscillations in the breakdown of the graphene quantum Hall effect
M. Yang, O. Couturaud, W. Desrat +11
We report on the stability of the quantum Hall plateau in wide Hall bars made from a chemically gated graphene film grown on SiC. The quantized plateau appears from fields $…
Colour-detected clusters in the XMM Large Scale Structure Survey
S. Andreon, J. Willis, H. Quintana +3
We present first results on the use of a colour space filter for detecting galaxy clusters at cosmological redshifts in the XMM Large Scale Structure Survey. All clusters studied,…
Constraints on Solar Reflected Dark Matter from a combined analysis of XENON1T and XENONnT data
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +174
We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter upscattered via the solar reflection mechanism in the heavy mediator scenario. Under the Standard Halo Model, keV to MeV dark matter p…
Probing the gravitational potential of a nearby lensing cluster Abell 2104
H. Liang, L. Lemonon, I. Valtchanov +2
The cluster Abell 2104 is one of the lowest redshift clusters (z=0.153) known to have a gravitational lensing arc. We present detailed analysis of the cluster properties such as th…
Probing the Solar B Neutrino Fog with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +176
We report a 3.3 measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from solar B neutrinos using a 6.77 tyr exposure from the XENONnT experiment, inferring…
NIKA2 observations of 3 low-mass galaxy clusters at : pressure profile and - relation
R. Adam, M. Ricci, D. Eckert +64
Three galaxy clusters selected from the XXL X-ray survey at high redshift and low mass ( and M) were observed with NIKA2 to imag…
Low-energy Calibration of XENON1T with an Internal Ar Source
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +161
A low-energy electronic recoil calibration of XENON1T, a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, with an internal Ar source was performed. This calibration source features…
The XXL Survey: XXIII. The Mass Scale of XXL Clusters from Ensemble Spectroscopy
A. Farahi, V. Guglielmo, A. E. Evrard +34
An X-ray survey with the XMM-Newton telescope, XMM-XXL, has identified hundreds of galaxy groups and clusters in two 25 deg fields. Combining spectroscopic and X-ray observatio…
The cosmological analysis of X-ray cluster surveys; III. 4D X-ray observable diagrams
M. Pierre, A. Valotti, L. Faccioli +4
Despite compelling theoretical arguments, the use of clusters as cosmological probes is, in practice, frequently questioned because of the many uncertainties impinging on cluster m…
The XMM-LSS survey: the Class 1 cluster sample over the extended 11 deg and its spatial distribution
N. Clerc, C. Adami, M. Lieu +10
This paper presents 52 X-ray bright galaxy clusters selected within the 11 deg XMM-LSS survey. 51 of them have spectroscopic redshifts (), one is identified at $z_…
Background charges and quantum effects in quantum dots transport spectroscopy
M. Pierre, M. Hofheinz, X. Jehl +4
We extend a simple model of a charge trap coupled to a single-electron box to energy ranges and parameters such that it gives new insights and predictions readily observable in man…
WIMP Dark Matter in the USSM
J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, D. E. López-Fogliani, C. Muñoz +1
The USSM is a extension of the SSM supersymmetric model, where baryon-number-violating operators as well as explicit mass terms are forbidden, and the potential…
The XXL Survey XXV. Cosmological analysis of the C1 cluster number counts
F. Pacaud, M. Pierre, J. -B. Melin +25
Context. We present an estimation of cosmological parameters with clusters of galaxies. Aims. We constrain the , , and parameters from a stand-alone sample of X-ray…
Search for gravitational lens candidates in the XMM-LSS/CFHTLS common field
A. Elyiv, O. Melnyk, F. Finet +5
Our aim was to identify gravitational lens candidates among some 5500 optical counterparts of the X-ray point-like sources in the medium-deep ~11 sq. deg. XMM-LSS survey. We have v…
Angular correlation functions of X-ray point-like sources in the full exposure XMM-LSS field
A. Elyiv, N. Clerc, M. Plionis +8
Our aim is to study the large-scale structure of different types of AGN using the medium-deep XMM-LSS survey. We measure the two-point angular correlation function of ~ 5700 and 25…
Emission of Single and Few Electrons in XENON1T and Limits on Light Dark Matter
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +152
Delayed single- and few-electron emissions plague dual-phase time projection chambers, limiting their potential to search for light-mass dark matter. This paper examines the origin…
The COSPIX mission: focusing on the energetic and obscured Universe
P. Ferrando, A. Goldwurm, P. Laurent +57
Tracing the formation and evolution of all supermassive black holes, including the obscured ones, understanding how black holes influence their surroundings and how matter behaves…
The XXL survey. XLIX. Linking the members star formation histories to the cluster mass assembly in the z=1.98 galaxy cluster XLSSC 122
A. Trudeau, J. P. Willis, D. Rennehan +5
The most massive protoclusters virialize to become clusters at , which is also a critical epoch for the evolution of their member galaxies. XLSSC 122 is a galaxy…
The XXL Survey XXVIII. Galaxy luminosity functions of the XXL-N clusters
M. Ricci, C. Benoist, S. Maurogordato +13
The main goal of this study is to investigate the LF of a sample of 142 X-ray selected clusters, with spectroscopic redshift confirmation and a well defined selection function, spa…
The XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +192
The multi-staged XENON program at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso aims to detect dark matter with two-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers of increasing size and se…
redMaPPer I: Algorithm and SDSS DR8 Catalog
E. S. Rykoff, E. Rozo, M. T. Busha +12
We describe redMaPPer, a new red-sequence cluster finder specifically designed to make optimal use of ongoing and near-future large photometric surveys. The algorithm has multiple…
The XMM-LSS survey: The XMDS/VVDS 4 sigma catalogue
L. Chiappetti, M. Tajer, G. Trinchieri +15
We present a first catalogue of X-ray sources resulting from the central area of the XMM-LSS (Large Scale Structure survey). We describe the reduction procedures and the database t…
Double-Weak Decays of Xe and Xe in the XENON1T and XENONnT Experiments
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +157
We present results on the search for double-electron capture () of Xe and neutrinoless double- decay () of Xe in XENON1T. We consider c…
The XXL Survey: XXXIV. Double irony in XXL-North. A tale of two radio galaxies in a supercluster at z = 0.14
C. Horellou, H. T. Intema, V. SmolÄiÄ +21
We show how the XXL multiwavelength survey can be used to shed light on radio galaxies and their environment. Two prominent radio galaxies were identified in a visual examination o…
Batch discovery of nine z~1 clusters using x-ray and K or R,z' images
S. Andreon, I. Valtchanov, L. R. Jones +5
We present results of an initial search for clusters of galaxies at z~1 and above, using data from 2.9 square degrees of XMM-Newton images. By selecting weak potentially extended X…
The XXL Survey XXIV. The final detection pipeline
L. Faccioli, F. Pacaud, J. -L. Sauvageot +7
A well characterised detection pipeline is an important ingredient for X-ray cluster surveys. We present the final development of the XXL Survey pipeline. The pipeline optimally us…
Search for New Physics in Electronic Recoil Data from XENONnT
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +163
We report on a blinded analysis of low-energy electronic-recoil data from the first science run of the XENONnT dark matter experiment. Novel subsystems and the increased 5.9 tonne…
An X-ray and Radio study of the Cluster A2717
H. Liang, M. Pierre, A. Unewisse +1
We present an X-ray, radio and optical study of the cluster A2717. The central D galaxy is associated with a Wide-Angled-Tailed (WAT) radio source. A Rosat PSPC observation of the…
A multi-wavelength survey of AGN in the XMM-LSS field: I. Quasar selection via the KX technique
Th. Nakos, J. P. Willis, S. Andreon +16
AIMS: We present a sample of candidate quasars selected using the KX-technique. The data cover 0.68 deg^2 of the X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM) Large-Scale Structure (LSS) survey area wh…
The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441
This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…
The XMM Large Scale Structure survey: The X-ray pipeline and survey selection function
F. Pacaud, M. Pierre, A. Refregier +11
We present the X-ray pipeline developed for the purpose of the cluster search in the XMM-LSS survey. It is based on a two-stage procedure via a dedicated handling of the Poisson na…
Euclid preparation. Methodology for validating the Euclid Catalogue of Galaxy Clusters using external data
Euclid Collaboration, J. -B. Melin, S. A. Stanford +315
We present our methodology for identifying known clusters as counterparts to objects in the Euclid Catalogue of Galaxy Clusters (ECGC). Euclid is expected to detect a large number…
Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe
F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser +92
The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe. Out of its 50t tota…
The XMM-LSS cluster sample and its cosmological applications. Prospects for the XMM next decade
M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, J. B. Melin +1
The well defined selection function of the XMM-LSS survey enables a simultaneous modelling of the observed cluster number counts and of the evolution of the L-T relation. We presen…
Search for events in XENON1T associated with Gravitational Waves
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +160
We perform a blind search for particle signals in the XENON1T dark matter detector that occur close in time to gravitational wave signals in the LIGO and Virgo observatories. No pa…
Galaxy groups and low mass clusters at z<0.6: A perspective from the XMM Large Scale Structure survey
J. P. Willis, F. Pacaud, M. Pierre
Galaxy groups and low-mass clusters provide important laboratories in which to study X-ray gas physics and the interplay between galaxy evolution and environmental effects. The X-r…
An approximate likelihood for nuclear recoil searches with XENON1T data
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +151
The XENON collaboration has published stringent limits on specific dark matter -nucleon recoil spectra from dark matter recoiling on the liquid xenon detector target. In this paper…
The XXL survey XXXV. The role of cluster mass in AGN activity
E. Koulouridis, M. Ricci, P. Giles +15
We present the results of a study of the AGN density in a homogeneous and well-studied sample of 167 bona fide X-ray galaxy clusters () from the XXL Survey. The results…
First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +165
We search for dark matter (DM) with a mass [3,12] using an exposure of 3.51 with the XENONnT experiment.We consider spin-indepen…
The XXL Survey XLIV. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich mapping of a low-mass cluster at z~1: a multi-wavelength approach
M. Ricci, R. Adam, D. Eckert +62
In this paper, we present resolved observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, obtained with the NIKA2 camera, towards the cluster of galaxies XLSSC102, a relatively low-ma…
Enhancing Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Sensitivity of Liquid-Xenon Time Projection Chamber with Augmented Convolutional Neural Network
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +173
Dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) that employs a multi-ton-scale liquid xenon (LXe) target mass is a pioneering detector technology to search for dark matter. Beyond its adv…
First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +163
We report on the first search for nuclear recoils from dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the XENONnT experiment which is based on a two-p…
Abell 1451 and 1RXS J131423.6-251521: a multi-wavelength study of two dynamically perturbed clusters of galaxies
I. Valtchanov, T. Murphy, M. Pierre +2
We present results from optical, X-ray and radio observations of two X-ray bright (L_X ~ 10^{45} erg/s) galaxy clusters. A1451 is at redshift z=0.1989 and has line-of-sight velocit…
The XMM Large-Scale Structure Survey: An initial sample of galaxy groups and clusters to a redshift z<0.6
J. P. Willis, F. Pacaud, I. Valtchanov +14
We present X-ray and optical spectroscopic observations of twelve galaxy groups and clusters identified within the XMM Large-Scale Structure (LSS) survey. Groups and clusters are s…
The Spitzer-South Pole Telescope Deep Field: Survey Design and IRAC Catalogs
M. L. N. Ashby, S. A. Stanford, M. Brodwin +18
The Spitzer-South Pole Telescope Deep Field (SSDF) is a wide-area survey using Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) to cover 94 square degrees of extragalactic sky, making it the…
Spectral Measurement of the Bi beta-decay to the Po Ground State with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +170
We report the measurement of the Bi beta-decay spectrum to the ground state of Po using the XENONnT detector. This decay is classified as first-forbidden non-unique…
XXL-HSC: An updated catalogue of high-redshift () X-ray AGN in the XMM-XXL northern field. Constraints on the bright end of the soft logN-logS
E. Pouliasis, I. Georgantopoulos, A. Ruiz +12
X-rays offer a reliable method to identify Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). However, in the high-redshift Universe X-ray AGN are poorly sampled due to their relatively low space densi…
Light Dark Matter Search with 7.8 Tonne-Year of Ionization-Only Data in XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174
We report on a blinded search for dark matter (DM) using ionization-only (S2-only) signals in XENONnT with a total exposure of over 579 days…
The XXL Survey VIII: MUSE characterisation of intracluster light in a z0.53 cluster of galaxies
C. Adami, E. Pompei, T. Sadibekova +11
Within a cluster, gravitational effects can lead to the removal of stars from their parent galaxies. Gas hydrodynamical effects can additionally strip gas and dust from galaxies. T…
Single donor ionization energies in a nanoscale CMOS channel
M. Pierre, R. Wacquez, X. Jehl +3
One consequence of the continued downwards scaling of transistors is the reliance on only a few discrete atoms to dope the channel, and random fluctuations of the number of these d…
The STATiX pipeline for the detection of X-ray transients in three dimensions
A. Ruiz, A. Georgakakis, I. Georgantopoulos +3
The recent serendipitous discovery of a new population of short duration X-ray transients, thought to be associated with collisions of compact objects or stellar explosions in dist…
Low-Energy Nuclear Recoil Calibration of XENONnT with a YBe Photoneutron Source
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +169
Characterizing low-energy, keV-range nuclear recoils near the detector threshold is one of the major challenges for large direct dark matter detectors. To that end, we have success…
Charged excitons in monolayer WSe: experiment and theory
E. Courtade, M. Semina, M. Manca +13
Charged excitons, or X-trions, in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides have binding energies of several tens of meV. Together with the neutral exciton X they domi…
The XXL survey XIV. AAOmega redshifts for the southern XXL field
C. Lidman, F. Ardila, M. Owers +15
We present a catalogue containing the redshifts of 3,660 X-ray selected targets in the XXL southern field. The redshifts were obtained with the AAOmega spectrograph and 2dF fibre p…
The Hot and Energetic Universe: The evolution of galaxy groups and clusters
E. Pointecouteau, T. H. Reiprich, C. Adami +45
Major astrophysical questions related to the formation and evolution of structures, and more specifically of galaxy groups and clusters, will still be open in the coming decade and…
The XXL Survey: VI. The 1000 brightest X-ray point sources
S. Fotopoulou, F. Pacaud, S. Paltani +36
X-ray extragalactic surveys are ideal laboratories for the study of the evolution and clustering of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The XXL Survey spans two fields of a combined 50 $…
AGN X-ray luminosity function and absorption function in the Early Universe ()
E. Pouliasis, A. Ruiz, I. Georgantopoulos +15
The XLF of AGN offers a robust tool to study the evolution and the growth of SMBHs over cosmic time. Owing to the limited area probed by X-ray surveys, optical surveys are routinel…
X-ray analysis and matter distribution in the lens-cluster Abell 2390
M. Pierre, J. F. Le Borgne, G. Soucail +1
We present a deep X-ray ROSAT/HRI observation of the rich cluster-lens Abell 2390 and the analysis of the gas and matter distribution in the cluster. The X-ray centroid coincides w…
A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…
The XXL survey XV: Evidence for dry merger driven BCG growth in XXL-100-GC X-ray clusters
S. Lavoie, J. P. Willis, J. Democles +33
The growth of brightest cluster galaxies is closely related to the properties of their host cluster. We present evidence for dry mergers as the dominant source of BCG mass growth a…
Spectral Energy Distributions of Hard X-ray selected AGNs in the XMDS Survey
M. Polletta, M. Tajer, L. Maraschi +18
We present the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a hard X-ray selected sample. The sample contains 136 sources with F(2-10 keV)>10^-14 erg/cm^2/s and 132 are AGNs. The source…
Comparison of source detection procedures for XMM-Newton images
I. Valtchanov, M. Pierre, R. Gastaud
Procedures based on current methods to detect sources in X-ray images are applied to simulated XMM images. All significant instrumental effects are taken into account, and two kind…
The X-CLASS survey: A catalogue of 1646 X-ray-selected galaxy clusters up to z1.5
E. Koulouridis, N. Clerc, T. Sadibekova +25
Cosmological probes based on galaxy clusters rely on cluster number counts and large-scale structure information. X-ray cluster surveys are well suited for this purpose, since they…
The XMM-LSS project: a short presentation of the survey and of the first results
S. Andreon, M. Pierre
We (Pierre et al. 2003) have designed a medium deep large area X-ray survey with XMM - the XMM Large Scale Structure survey, XMM-LSS - with the scope of extending the cosmological…
The XXL survey: XLII. Detection and characterization of the galaxy population of distant galaxy clusters in the XXL-N/VIDEO field: A tale of variety
A. Trudeau, C. Garrel, J. Willis +16
Context. Distant galaxy clusters provide an effective laboratory in which to study galaxy evolution in dense environments and at early cosmic times. Aims. We aim to identify distan…
The Triggerless Data Acquisition System of the XENONnT Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +162
The XENONnT detector uses the latest and largest liquid xenon-based time projection chamber (TPC) operated by the XENON Collaboration, aimed at detecting Weakly Interacting Massive…