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astro-ph.CO2015★ 23 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 147 cited

CLASH-VLT: A Highly Precise Strong Lensing Model of the Galaxy Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Abell S1063) and Prospects for Cosmography

G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +32

We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXCJ2248 () with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 23 cited

The XXL Survey VII: A supercluster of galaxies at z=0.43

E. Pompei, C. Adami, D. Eckert +15

The XXL Survey is the largest homogeneous and contiguous survey carried out with XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields, it primarily investi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 143 cited

The XXL Survey. II. The bright cluster sample: catalogue and luminosity function

F. Pacaud, N. Clerc, P. A. Giles +40

Context. The XXL Survey is the largest survey carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite and covers a total area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields. It primarily aims at…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 89 cited

The XXL Survey IV. Mass-temperature relation of the bright cluster sample

Maggie Lieu, Graham P. Smith, Paul A. Giles +18

The XXL survey is the largest survey carried out by XMM-Newton. Covering an area of 50deg, the survey contains galaxy clusters out to a redshift 2 and to an X-r…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 102 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 116 cited

The XXL Survey. XIII. Baryon content of the bright cluster sample

D. Eckert, S. Ettori, J. Coupon +20

Traditionally, galaxy clusters have been expected to retain all the material accreted since their formation epoch. For this reason, their matter content should be representative of…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 21 cited

Prospects for high-z cluster detections with Planck, based on a follow-up of 28 candidates using MegaCam@CFHT

R. F. J. van der Burg, H. Aussel, G. W. Pratt +13

The Planck catalogue of SZ sources limits itself to a significance threshold of 4.5 to ensure a low contamination rate by false cluster candidates. This means that only the most ma…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 929 cited

Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. II: Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions

Chiara Caprini, Mark Hindmarsh, Stephan Huber +8

We investigate the potential for the eLISA space-based interferometer to detect the stochastic gravitational wave background produced by strong first-order cosmological phase trans…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 36 cited

CMB reconstruction from the WMAP and Planck PR2 data

J. Bobin, F. Sureau, J-L Starck

In this article, we describe a new estimate of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) intensity map reconstructed by a joint analysis of the full Planck 2015 data (PR2) and WMAP nin…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 38 cited

Planck intermediate results. XL. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Virgo cluster

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202

The Virgo cluster is the largest Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) source in the sky, both in terms of angular size and total integrated flux. Planck's wide angular scale and frequency covera…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 68 cited

Cosmological limits on neutrino unknowns versus low redshift priors

Eleonora Di Valentino, Elena Giusarma, Olga Mena +2

Recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Planck mission have significantly improved previous constraints on the neutri…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 152 cited

Rapidly Rising Transients in the Supernova - Superluminous Supernova Gap

Iair Arcavi, William M. Wolf, D. Andrew Howell +26

We present observations of four rapidly rising (t_{rise}~10d) transients with peak luminosities between those of supernovae (SNe) and superluminous SNe (M_{peak}~-20) - one discove…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 140 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect--cosmic infrared background correlation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +199

We use Planck data to detect the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the infrared emission from the galaxies that make up the the cosmic infrar…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 24 cited

The Arrowhead Mini-Supercluster of Galaxies

Daniel Pomarede, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman +1

Superclusters of galaxies can be defined kinematically from local evaluations of the velocity shear tensor. The location where the smallest eigenvalue of the shear is positive and…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 82 cited

Cosmological Hints of Modified Gravity ?

Eleonora Di Valentino, Alessandro Melchiorri, Joseph Silk

The recent measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropies made by the Planck satellite have provided impressive confirmation of the CDM co…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 21 cited

Quasar Host Environments: The view from Planck

Loïc Verdier, Jean-Baptiste Melin, James G. Bartlett +3

We measure the far-infrared emission of the general quasar (QSO) population using Planck observations of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey QSO sample. By applying multi-c…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 81 cited

Effective Theory of Dark Energy at Redshift Survey Scales

Jérôme Gleyzes, David Langlois, Michele Mancarella +1

We explore the phenomenological consequences of general late-time modifications of gravity in the quasi-static approximation, in the case where cold dark matter is non-minimally co…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 2 cited

Polarized CMB recovery with sparse component separation

Jerome Bobin, Florent Sureau, Jean-Luc Starck

The polarization modes of the cosmological microwave background are an invaluable source of information for cosmology, and a unique window to probe the energy scale of inflation. E…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 80 cited

Planck 2013 results. XXXI. Consistency of the Planck data

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Arnaud +180

The Planck design and scanning strategy provide many levels of redundancy that can be exploited to provide tests of internal consistency. One of the most important is the compariso…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 107 cited

Cosmological Axion and neutrino mass constraints from Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data

Eleonora Di Valentino, Elena Giusarma, Massimiliano Lattanzi +3

Axions currently provide the most compelling solution to the strong CP problem. These particles may be copiously produced in the early universe, including via thermal processes. Th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 98 cited

Planck 2015 results. III. LFI systematic uncertainties

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, J. Aumont +166

We present the current accounting of systematic effect uncertainties for the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) that are relevant to the 2015 release of the Planck cosmological results…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 104 cited

Beyond six parameters: extending CDM

Eleonora Di Valentino, Alessandro Melchiorri, Joseph Silk

Cosmological constraints are usually derived under the assumption of a parameters -CDM theoretical framework or simple one-parameter extensions. In this paper we present, fo…