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Publications (16)

astro-ph.GA2016

Constraints on photoionization feedback from number counts of ultra-faint high-redshift galaxies in the Frontier Fields

M. Castellano, B. Yue, A. Ferrara +11

We exploit a sample of ultra-faint high-redshift galaxies (demagnified HST magnitude ) in the Frontier Fields clusters A2744 and M0416 to constrain a theoretical mod…

astro-ph.CO2019

Euclid Preparation IV. Impact of undetected galaxies on weak-lensing shear measurements

Euclid Collaboration, N. Martinet, T. Schrabback +22

In modern weak-lensing surveys, the common approach to correct for residual systematic biases in the shear is to calibrate shape measurement algorithms using simulations. These sim…

astro-ph.GA2016

First observational support for overlapping reionized bubbles generated by a galaxy overdensity

M. Castellano, P. Dayal, L. Pentericci +21

We present the analysis of deep HST multi-band imaging of the BDF field specifically designed to identify faint companions around two of the few Ly-alpha emitting galaxies spectros…

astro-ph.GA2020

Euclid preparation: X. The Euclid photometric-redshift challenge

Euclid Collaboration, G. Desprez, S. Paltani +170

Forthcoming large photometric surveys for cosmology require precise and accurate photometric redshift (photo-z) measurements for the success of their main science objectives. Howev…

astro-ph.IM2018

A-PHOT: a new, versatile code for precision aperture photometry

E. Merlin, S. Pilo, A. Fontana +5

We present A-PHOT, a new publicly available code for performing aperture photometry on astronomical images, that is particularly well suited for multi-band extragalactic surveys. A…

astro-ph.GA2018

Spectroscopic investigation of a reionized galaxy overdensity at z=7

M. Castellano, L. Pentericci, E. Vanzella +17

We present deep spectroscopic follow-up observations of the Bremer Deep Field (BDF) where the two 7 bright Ly emitters (LAE) BDF521 and BDF3299 were previously discovere…

astro-ph.GA2016

Characterizing elusive, faint dusty star-forming galaxies: a lensed, optically undetected ALMA galaxy at z~3.3

P. Santini, M. Castellano, A. Fontana +19

We present the serendipitous ALMA detection of a faint submillimeter galaxy (SMG) lensed by a foreground z~1 galaxy. By optimizing the source detection to deblend the system, we ac…

astro-ph.GA2017

The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of faint galaxies at z~3.3 in the CANDELS/GOODS-North, EGS, and COSMOS fields with LBC

A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, D. Paris +41

The reionization of the Universe is one of the most important topics of present day astrophysical research. The most plausible candidates for the reionization process are star-form…

astro-ph.GA2019

UV slope of z3 bright () Lyman-break galaxies in the COSMOS field

S. Pilo, M. Castellano, A. Fontana +7

We analyse a unique sample of 517 bright () LBGs at redshift z3 in order to characterise the distribution of their UV slopes and infer their dust extinction und…

astro-ph.GA2015

The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of galaxies at z=3.3 in the VUDS-LBC/COSMOS field

A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, R. Gerbasi +52

The Lyman continuum (LyC) flux escaping from high-z galaxies into the IGM is a fundamental quantity to understand the physical processes involved in the reionization epoch. We have…

astro-ph.GA2016

The ASTRODEEP Frontier Fields Catalogues: II - Photometric redshifts and rest-frame properties in Abell-2744 and MACS-J0416

M. Castellano, R. Amorín, E. Merlin +35

We present the first public release of photometric redshifts, galaxy rest-frame properties and associated magnification values in the cluster and parallel pointings of the first tw…

astro-ph.GA2017

Optical Line Emission from z6.8 Sources with Deep Constraints on Ly Visibility

M. Castellano, L. Pentericci, A. Fontana +15

We analyze a sample of -dropout galaxies in the CANDELS GOODS South and UDS fields that have been targeted by a dedicated spectroscopic campaign aimed at detecting their Ly

astro-ph.GA2016

The ASTRODEEP Frontier Fields Catalogues: I - Multiwavelength photometry of Abell-2744 and MACS-J0416

E. Merlin, R. Amorìn, M. Castellano +28

We present multiwavelength photometric catalogues (HST, Spitzer and Hawk-I K band) for the first two of the Frontier Fields, Abell2744 and MACSJ0416 (plus their parallel fields). T…

astro-ph.GA2018

On the faint-end of the galaxy luminosity function in the Epoch of Reionization: updated constraints from the HST Frontier Fields

B. Yue, M. Castellano, A. Ferrara +12

Ultra-faint galaxies are hosted by small dark matter halos with shallow gravitational potential wells, hence their star formation activity is more sensitive to feedback effects. Th…

astro-ph.GA2019

Passive galaxies in the early Universe: ALMA confirmation of z~3-5 candidates in the CANDELS GOODS-South field

P. Santini, E. Merlin, A. Fontana +7

The selection of red, passive galaxies in the early Universe is very challenging, especially beyond z~3, and it is crucial to constrain theoretical modelling of the processes respo…

astro-ph.GA2019

Red & Dead CANDELS: massive passive galaxies at the dawn of the Universe

E. Merlin, F. Fortuni, M. Torelli +7

We search the five CANDELS fields (COSMOS, EGS, GOODS-North, GOODS-South and UDS) for passively evolving a.k.a. "red and dead" massive galaxies in the first 2 Gyr after the Big Ban…