Publications (25)
WINGS-SPE III: Equivalent width measurements, spectral properties and evolution of local cluster galaxies
J. Fritz, B. M. Poggianti, A. Cava +11
[Abridged] We investigate the frequency of the various spectral types as a function both of the clusters' properties and of the galaxies' characteristics. In this way, using the sa…
X-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope
Joel Vernet, H. Dekker, S. D'Odorico +87
X-shooter is the first 2nd generation instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope(VLT). It is a very efficient, single-target, intermediate-resolution spectrograph that was installe…
A spectrophotometric model applied to cluster galaxies: the WINGS dataset
J. Fritz, B. M. Poggianti, D. Bettoni +8
[Abridged] The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS) is a project aiming at the study of the galaxy populations in clusters in the local universe (0.04<z<0.07) and the in…
On the connection between shape and stellar population in early-type galaxies
M. D'Onofrio, T. Valentinuzzi, G. Fasano +11
We report on the discovery of a relation between the stellar mass of early-type galaxies (hereafter ETGs), their shape, as parametrized by the Sersic index , and their ste…
The evolution of the galactic morphological types in clusters
G. Fasano, B. Poggianti, W. Couch +3
The morphological types of galaxies in nine clusters in the redshift range 0.1<z<0.25 are derived from very good seeing images taken at the NOT and the La Silla Danish telescopes.…
WINGS: A WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey. II. Deep optical photometry of 77 nearby clusters
J. Varela, M. D'Onofrio, C. Marmo +10
(Abridged) Context. This is the second paper of a series devoted to the WIde Field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). WINGS is a long term project which is gathering wide-field,…
WINGS Data Release: a database of galaxies in nearby clusters
A. Moretti, B. M. Poggianti, G. Fasano +15
[Abridged] To effectively investigate galaxy formation and evolution, it is of paramount importance to exploit homogeneous data for large samples of galaxies in different environme…
WINGS-SPE II: A catalog of stellar ages and star formation histories, stellar masses and dust extinction values for local clusters galaxies
J. Fritz, B. M. Poggianti, A. Cava +12
The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy clusters Survey (WINGS) is a project whose primary goal is to study the galaxy populations in clusters in the local universe (z<0.07) and of the influe…
The Fundamental Plane of Early Type Galaxies in Nearby Clusters from the WINGS Database
M. D'Onofrio, G. Fasano, J. Varela +10
By exploting the data of three large surveys (WINGS, NFPS and SDSS), we present here a comparative analysis of the Fundamental Plane (FP hereafter) of the early-type galaxies (ETGs…
WINGS: a WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey. I - Optical imaging
G. Fasano, C. Marmo, J. Varela +9
This is the first paper of a series that will present data and scientific results from the WINGS project, a wide-field, multiwavelength imaging and spectroscopic survey of galaxies…
Morphology of galaxies in the WINGS clusters
G. Fasano, E. Vanzella, A. Dressler +12
We present the morphological catalog of galaxies in nearby clusters of the WINGS survey (Fasano et al. 2006). The catalog contains a total number of 39923 galaxies, for which we pr…
OGLE-2008-BLG-510: first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly - brown dwarf or stellar binary?
V. Bozza, M. Dominik, N. J. Rattenbury +103
The microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-510 is characterised by an evident asymmetric shape of the peak, promptly detected by the ARTEMiS system in real time. The skewness of the ligh…
Superdense Massive Galaxies in Wings Local Clusters
T. Valentinuzzi, J. Fritz, B. M. Poggianti +12
Massive quiescent galaxies at z>1 have been found to have small physical sizes, hence to be superdense. Several mechanisms, including minor mergers, have been proposed for increasi…
WINGS: a WIde-field nearby Galaxy-cluster survey III. Deep near-infrared photometry of 28 nearby clusters
T. Valentinuzzi, D. Woods, G. Fasano +12
Context. This is the third paper of a series devoted to the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS).WINGS is a long term project aimed at gathering wide-field, multiband im…
The scaling relations of early--type galaxies in clusters I. Surface photometry in seven nearby clusters
G. Fasano, D. Bettoni, M. D'Onofrio +2
This is the first paper of a series investigating the scaling relations of early-type galaxies in clusters. Here we illustrate the multi-band imagery and the image reduction and ca…
WINGS: a Wide-field Imaging Nearby Galaxy clusters Survey
G. Fasano, D. Bettoni, C. Marmo +4
We present a two-band, wide-field imaging survey of an X-ray selected sample of 78 clusters in the redshift range z=0.03-0.07. The aim of the project is to provide the astronomical…
Substructures in WINGS clusters
M. Ramella, A. Biviano, A. Pisani +10
We search for and characterize substructures in the projected distribution of galaxies observed in the wide field CCD images of the 77 nearby clusters of the WIde-field Nearby Gala…
The red-sequence of 72 WINGS local galaxy clusters
T. Valentinuzzi, B. M. Poggianti, G. Fasano +14
We study the color-magnitude red sequence and blue fraction of 72 X-ray selected galaxy clusters at z=0.04-0.07 from the WINGS survey, searching for correlations between the charac…
High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing. I. The transiting planetary system WASP-5
John Southworth, T. C. Hinse, U. G. Joergensen +20
We present high-precision photometry of two transit events of the extrasolar planetary system WASP-5, obtained with the Danish 1.54m telescope at ESO La Silla. In order to minimise…
The WINGS Survey: a progress report
G. Fasano, B. Poggianti, D. Bettoni +7
A two-band (B and V) wide-field imaging survey of a complete, all-sky X-ray selected sample of 78 clusters in the redshift range z=0.04-0.07 is presented. The aim of this survey is…
OGLE 2008--BLG--290: An accurate measurement of the limb darkening of a Galactic Bulge K Giant spatially resolved by microlensing
P. Fouque, D. Heyrovsky, S. Dong +115
Gravitational microlensing is not only a successful tool for discovering distant exoplanets, but it also enables characterization of the lens and source stars involved in the lensi…
The Shapes of BCGs and normal Ellipticals in Nearby Clusters
G. Fasano, D. Bettoni, B. Ascaso +13
We compare the apparent axial ratio distributions of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and normal ellipticals (Es) in our sample of 75 galaxy clusters from the WINGS survey. Most B…
The hybrid solution for the Fundamental Plane
M. D'Onofrio, G. Fasano, A. Moretti +14
By exploiting the database of early-type galaxies (ETGs) members of the WINGS survey of nearby clusters, we address here the long debated question of the origin and shape of the Fu…
WINGS-SPE Spectroscopy in the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey
A. Cava, D. Bettoni, B. M. Poggianti +11
Aims. We present the results from a comprehensive spectroscopic survey of the WINGS (WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey) clusters, a program called WINGS-SPE. The WINGS-SPE sa…
The scaling relation of early-type galaxies in clusters. II: Spectroscopic data for galaxies in eight nearby clusters
D. Bettoni, M. Moles, P. Kjaergaard +2
AIMS: We present in this work low and intermediate resolution spectroscopic data collected for 152 early type galaxies in 8 nearby clusters with z 0.10. METHODS: We use low…