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astro-ph2008

Spitzer--IRAC Imagery and Photometry of Ultracompact HII Regions With Extended Emission

E. de la Fuente, A. Porras, J. M. C. Grave +6

We present the results of a morphological study performed to a sample of Ultracompact (UC) HII regions with Extended Emission (EE) using Spitzer--IRAC imagery and 3.6 cm VLA conf.…

astro-ph2008★ 24 cited

GMIMS: The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey

M. Wolleben, T. L. Landecker, E. Carretti +10

The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS) is a project to map the diffuse polarized emission over the entire sky, Northern and Southern hemispheres, from 300 MHz to 1.8 GHz. W…

astro-ph2008★ 193 cited

Photometric redshifts for the CFHTLS T0004 Deep and Wide fields

J. Coupon, O. Ilbert, M. Kilbinger +15

We compute photometric redshifts based on the template-fitting method in the fourth public release of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. This unique multi-colour cat…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Testing gravity on large scales. The skewness of the galaxy distribution at z~1

C. Marinoni, L. Guzzo, A. Cappi +54

We study the evolution of the low-order moments of the galaxy overdensity distribution over the redshift interval 0.7<z<1.5. We find that the variance and the normalized skewness e…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

Physical properties of galaxies and their evolution in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. II. Extending the mass-metallicity relation to the range z=0.89-1.24

E. Perez-Montero, T. Contini, F. Lamareille +39

Aims. We present a continuation of our study about the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). In this work we extend the deter…

astro-ph2008★ 10 cited

The VVDS-VLA Deep Field - IV: Radio-optical properties

S. Bardelli, E. Zucca, M. Bolzonella +51

(abridged) We use the 1.4 GHz VIMOS-VLA Deep Survey and the optical VVDS and the CFHT-LS to compare the properties of radio loud galaxies with respect to the whole population of op…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Gamma ray emission and stochastic particle acceleration in galaxy clusters

G. Brunetti, P. Blasi, R. Cassano +1

FERMI (formely GLAST) will shortly provide crucial information on relativistic particles in galaxy clusters. We discuss non-thermal emission in the context of general calculations…

astro-ph2008★ 56 cited

Molecular gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA). XI. A complete gravity torque map of NGC4579: new clues on bar evolution

S. Garcia-Burillo, S. Fernandez-Garcia, F. Combes +6

We create a complete gravity torque map of the disk of the LINER/Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC4579. We quantify the efficiency of angular momentum transport and search for signatures of s…

astro-ph2008★ 255 cited

A low-frequency radio halo associated with a cluster of galaxies

G. Brunetti, S. Giacintucci, R. Cassano +7

Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe, containing about 10^15 solar masses of hot (10^8 K) gas, galaxies and dark matter in a typical v…

astro-ph2008★ 136 cited

Results of WEBT, VLBA and RXTE monitoring of 3C 279 during 2006-2007

V. M. Larionov, S. G. Jorstad, A. P. Marscher +2

We present radio-to-optical data taken by the WEBT, supplemented by VLBA and RXTE observations, of 3C 279. Our goal is to use this extensive database to draw inferences regarding t…

astro-ph2008★ 23 cited

NIR/Optical Counterparts of Hotspots in Radio Galaxies

K. -H. Mack, M. A. Prieto, G. Brunetti +1

We present new high spatial resolution VLT and VLA observations of a sample of nine low-power (P_{1.4 GHz} < 10^{25} W/Hz) radio hotspots. Infrared/optical emission is definitely d…

astro-ph2008★ 101 cited

A new activity phase of the blazar 3C 454.3. Multifrequency observations by the WEBT and XMM-Newton in 2007-2008

C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata, V. M. Larionov +2

We present and analyse the WEBT multifrequency observations of 3C 454.3 in the 2007-2008 observing season, including XMM-Newton observations and near-IR spectroscopic monitoring, a…

astro-ph2008★ 128 cited

Double relics in Abell 2345 and Abell 1240: spectral index and polarization analysis

A. Bonafede, G. Giovannini, L. Feretti +2

The aim of the present work is to study the radio properties of double relics in Abell 1240 and Abell 2345 in the framework of double relic formation models. We present new Very La…

astro-ph2008★ 50 cited

A high resolution view of the jet termination shock in a hot spot of the nearby radio galaxy Pictor A: implications for X-ray models of radio galaxy hot spots

S. J. Tingay, E. Lenc, G. Brunetti +1

Images made with the VLBA have resolved the region in a nearby radio galaxy, Pictor A, where the relativistic jet that originates at the nucleus terminates in an interaction with t…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

Structures of the magnetoionic media around the FR I radio galaxies 3C 31 and Hydra A

R. A. Laing, A. H. Bridle, P. Parma +1

We use high-quality VLA images of the Fanaroff & Riley Class I radio galaxy 3C 31 at six frequencies in the range 1365 to 8440MHz to explore the spatial scale and origin of the rot…

astro-ph2008★ 29 cited

The two INTEGRAL X-ray transients IGR J17091--3624 and IGR J17098--3628: a multi-wavelength long term campaign

F. Capitanio, M. Giroletti, M. Molina +7

IGR J17091-3624 and IGR J17098-3628 are two X-ray transients discovered by INTEGRAL and classified as possible black hole candidates (BHCs). We present here the results obtained fr…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

The low-mass YSO CB230-A: investigating the protostar and its jet with NIR spectroscopy and Spitzer observations

Fabrizio Massi, Claudio Codella, Jan Brand +2

A jet from the low-mass YSO CB230-A had been discovered in NIR narrow-band images. We aim to investigate the physical properties of the region from where the jet is launched. Our a…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Molecular Gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA). X. The Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3147

V. Casasola, F. Combes, S. Garcia-Burillo +3

We present CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) observations of the SA(rs)bc Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3147, obtained with the IRAM interferometer at 1\farcs9 1\farcs6 and 1\farcs6 1\far…

astro-ph2008★ 84 cited

The dust un-biased cosmic star formation history from the 20 cm VLA-COSMOS survey

V. Smolcic, E. Schinnerer, G. Zamorani +8

We derive the cosmic star formation history (CSFH) out to z=1.3 using a sample of ~350 radio-selected star-forming galaxies, a far larger sample than in previous, similar studies.…

astro-ph2008★ 175 cited

Shock Waves in Eulerian Cosmological Simulations: Main Properties and Acceleration of Cosmic Rays

F. Vazza, G. Brunetti, C. Gheller

We analyze the properties of Large Scale Shocks in a cosmological volume of size 103Mpc/h simulated with the public 1.0.1 release of the ENZO code. Different methods to identify an…

astro-ph2008★ 19 cited

Radio continuum properties of young planetary nebulae

L. Cerrigone, G. Umana, C. Trigilio +3

We have selected a small sample of post-AGB stars in transition towards the planetary nebula and present new Very Large Array multi-frequency high-angular resolution radio observat…

astro-ph2008★ 73 cited

The VVDS-SWIRE-GALEX-CFHTLS surveys: Physical properties of galaxies at z below 1.2 from photometric data

C. J. Walcher, F. Lamareille, D. Vergani +42

We intend to show that it is possible to derive the physical parameters of galaxies from their broad-band spectral energy distribution out to a redshift of 1.2. This method has the…

astro-ph2008★ 187 cited

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey :Evolution of the major merger rate since z~1 from spectroscopicaly confirmed galaxy pairs

L. de Ravel, O. Le Fèvre, L. Tresse +48

From the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey we use a sample of 6447 galaxies with I_{AB} < 24 to identify 251 pairs of galaxies, each member with a secure spectroscopic redshift, which are clos…

astro-ph2008★ 27 cited

The QSO proximity effect at redshift <z>=2.6 with the FLO approach

V. D'Odorico, M. Bruscoli, F. Saitta +4

We revisit the proximity effect produced by QSOs at redshifts 2.1-3.3 applying the FLO approach (Saitta et al. 2008) to a sample of ~6300 Ly-alpha lines fitted in 21 high resolutio…