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astro-ph.CO2011★ 39 cited

Powellsnakes II: a fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in multi-frequency astronomical data sets

Pedro Carvalho, Graça Rocha, M. P. Hobson +1

Powellsnakes is a Bayesian algorithm for detecting compact objects embedded in a diffuse background, and was selected and successfully employed by the Planck consortium in the prod…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 92 cited

Baryon Content of Massive Galaxy Clusters at z=0-0.6

Yen-Ting Lin, S. Adam Stanford, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt +3

We study the relationship between two major baryonic components in galaxy clusters, namely the stars in galaxies, and the ionized gas in the intracluster medium (ICM), using 94 clu…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 30 cited

Foreground Analysis Using Cross-Correlations of External Templates on the 7-year WMAP data

Tuhin Ghosh, A. J. Banday, Tess Jaffe +4

WMAP data when combined with ancillary data on free-free, synchrotron and dust allow an improved understanding of the spectrum of emission from each of these components. Here we ex…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 35 cited

The shapes of Milky Way satellites: looking for signatures of tidal stirring

Ewa L. Lokas, Steven R. Majewski, Stelios Kazantzidis +4

We study the shapes of Milky Way satellites in the context of the tidal stirring scenario for the formation of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The standard procedures used to measure sh…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 49 cited

Variable Accretion Rates and Fluffy First Stars

Rowan J. Smith, Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai +2

We combine the output of hydrodynamical simulations of Population III star cluster formation with stellar evolution models, and calculate the evolution of protostars experiencing v…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 74 cited

A Detection of Weak Lensing Magnification using Galaxy Sizes and Magnitudes

Fabian Schmidt, Alexie Leauthaud, Richard Massey +5

Weak lensing is commonly measured using shear through galaxy ellipticities, or using the effect of magnification bias on galaxy number densities. Here, we report on the first detec…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 387 cited

Protostellar Feedback Halts the Growth of the First Stars in the Universe

Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai, Naoki Yoshida +1

The first stars fundamentally transformed the early universe by emitting the first light and by producing the first heavy elements. These effects were predetermined by the mass dis…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 19 cited

Measuring the Geometry of the Universe from Weak Gravitational Lensing behind Galaxy Groups in the HST COSMOS survey

James E. Taylor, Richard J. Massey, Alexie Leauthaud +12

Gravitational lensing can provide pure geometric tests of the structure of space-time, for instance by determining empirically the angular diameter distance-redshift relation. This…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 99 cited

X-ray, lensing and Sunyaev Zel'dovich triaxial analysis of Abell 1835 out to R_{200}

Andrea Morandi, Marceau Limousin, Jack Sayers +6

Measuring the intrinsic shape and orientation of dark matter (DM) and intracluster (IC) gas in galaxy clusters is crucial to constraining their formation and evolution, and for enh…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 50 cited

CLASH: Discovery of a Bright z~6.2 Dwarf Galaxy Quadruply Lensed by MACS J0329.6-0211

A. Zitrin, J. Moustakas, L. Bradley +22

We report the discovery of a z_{phot}=6.18^{+0.05}_{-0.07} (95% confidence level) dwarf galaxy, lensed into four images by the galaxy cluster MACS J0329.6-0211 (z_{l}=0.45). The ga…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 38 cited

Magnification by Galaxy Group Dark Matter Halos

Jes Ford, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Ludovic Van Waerbeke +6

We report on the detection of gravitational lensing magnification by a population of galaxy groups, at a significance level of 4.9 sigma. Using X-ray selected groups in the COSMOS…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 128 cited

Kiloparsec-scale Spatial Offsets in Double-peaked Narrow-line Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Markers for Selection of Compelling Dual Active Galactic Nucleus Candidates

Julia M. Comerford, Brian F. Gerke, Daniel Stern +5

Merger-remnant galaxies with kpc-scale separation dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) should be widespread as a consequence of galaxy mergers and triggered gas accretion onto superm…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 53 cited

Resolving the Galaxies within a Giant Lya Nebula: Witnessing the Formation of a Galaxy Group?

Moire K. M. Prescott, Arjun Dey, Mark Brodwin +8

Detailed analysis of the substructure of Lya nebulae can put important constraints on the physical mechanisms at work and the properties of galaxies forming within them. Using high…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 106 cited

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Reverberation Mapping of Markarian 50

A. J. Barth, A. Pancoast, S. J. Thorman +46

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011 observing campaign was carried out over the course of 11 weeks in Spring 2011. Here we present the first results from this program, a measureme…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 38 cited

The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: VI. The Volumetric Type Ia Supernova Rate

K. Barbary, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah +40

We present a measurement of the volumetric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate out to z ~ 1.6 from the Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. In observations spanning 189 orbi…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 22 cited

Three QSOs acting as strong gravitational lenses

F. Courbin, C. Faure, S. G. Djorgovski +8

We report the discovery of three new cases of QSOs acting as strong gravitational lenses on background emission line galaxies: SDSS J0827+5224 (zQSO = 0.293, zs = 0.412), SDSS J091…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 180 cited

AGES: The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey

C. S. Kochanek, D. J. Eisenstein, R. J. Cool +12

The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) is a redshift survey covering, in its standard fields, 7.7 square degrees of the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS).…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 85 cited

Unburned Material in the Ejecta of Type Ia Supernovae

Gastón Folatelli, M. M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell +17

(Abridged) The presence of unburned material in the ejecta of normal Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) is investigated using early-time spectroscopy obtained by the CSP. The tell-tale sig…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 2 cited

Lensed galaxies in CANDELS

Asantha Cooray, Hai Fu, Jae Calanog +16

We present results from a search for gravitationally lensed galaxies present in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera-3 (WFC3) images of the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR De…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 32 cited

Modeling the evolution of infrared galaxies : clustering of galaxies in the Cosmic Infrared Background

Aurélie Pénin, Olivier Doré, Guilaine Lagache +1

Star-forming galaxies are a highly biased tracer of the underlying dark matter density field. Their clustering can be studied through the cosmic infrared background anisotropies. T…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 76 cited

HerMES: point source catalogues from deep Herschel-SPIRE observations

A. J. Smith, L. Wang, S. J. Oliver +38

We describe the generation of single-band point source catalogues from submillimetre Herschel-SPIRE observations taken as part of the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel Mu…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 45 cited

A Candidate Dual AGN at z=1.175

R. Scott Barrows, Daniel Stern, Kristin Madsen +10

The X-ray source CXOXBJ142607.6+353351 (CXOJ1426+35), which was identified in a 172 ks Chandra image in the Bootes field, shows double-peaked rest-frame optical/UV emission lines,…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 105 cited

A Kiloparsec-Scale Binary Active Galactic Nucleus Confirmed by the Expanded Very Large Array

Hai Fu, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Roberto J. Assef +6

We report the confirmation of a kpc-scale binary active galactic nucleus (AGN) with high-resolution radio images from the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA). SDSS J150243.1+111557 is…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 76 cited

Strong Lensing by a Node of the Cosmic Web. The Core of MACS J0717.5+3745 at z=0.55

M. Limousin, H. Ebeling, J. Richard +9

We present results of a strong-lensing analysis of MACS J0717.5+3745 (hereafter MACS J0717), an extremely X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z=0.55. Observations at different wavelen…