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astro-ph2008★ 110 cited

The Environments of Active Galactic Nuclei within the zCOSMOS Density Field

J. D. Silverman, K. Kovac, C. Knobel +58

The impact of environment on AGN activity up to z~1 is assessed by utilizing a mass-selected sample of galaxies from the 10k catalog of the zCOSMOS spectroscopic redshift survey. W…

astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

Evidence of Star Formation in Local S0 Galaxies: Spitzer Observations of the SAURON Sample

Pasquale Temi, Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews +1

We discuss infrared Spitzer observations of early type galaxies in the SAURON sample at 24, 60 and 170 microns. When compared with 2MASS Ks band luminosities, lenticular (S0) galax…

astro-ph2008★ 20 cited

A HST/WFPC2 survey of bright young clusters in M31. I. VdB0, a massive star cluster seen at ~= 25 Myr

S. Perina, P. Barmby, M. A. Beasley +12

{Aims.} We introduce our imaging survey of possible young massive globular clusters in M31 performed with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescop…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

G. Giacomelli

The ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope, at a depth of 2475 m in the Mediterranean Sea, near Toulon, is taking data in its final configuration of 12 detection lines. Each line is…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Local Star formation triggered by SN shocks in magnetized diffuse neutral clouds

M. R. M. Leao, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, D. Falceta-Goncalves +2

In this work, considering the impact of a SNR with a neutral magnetized cloud we derived analytically a set of conditions which are favorable for driving gravitational instability…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

White dwarfs in the Capodimonte deep field

R. Silvotti, S. Catalan, M. Cignoni +4

In this article we describe the search for white dwarfs (WDs) in the multi-band photometric data of the Capodimonte deep field survey. The WD candidates were selected through the V…

astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

Observing the clustering properties of galaxy clusters in dynamical dark-energy cosmologies

C. Fedeli, L. Moscardini, M. Bartelmann

We study the clustering properties of galaxy clusters expected to be observed by various forthcoming surveys both in the X-ray and sub-mm regimes by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

astro-ph2008★ 104 cited

Modeling the cosmological co-evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies: II. The clustering of quasars and their dark environment

Silvia Bonoli, Federico Marulli, Volker Springel +3

We use semi-analytic modeling on top of the Millennium simulation to study the joint formation of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes. Our goal is to test scenario…

astro-ph2008★ 36 cited

Unveiling the high energy tail of 1E 1740.7-2942 with INTEGRAL

L. Bouchet, M. Del Santo, E. Jourdain +4

The microquasar 1E 1740.7-2942 is observed with Integral since Spring 2003. Here, we report on the source high energy behaviour by using the first three years of data collected wit…

astro-ph2008

N-body simulations in modified Newtonian dynamics

Carlo Nipoti, Pasquale Londrillo, Luca Ciotti

We describe some results obtained with N-MODY, a code for N-body simulations of collisionless stellar systems in modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). We found that a few fundamental…

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★ 44 cited

Primordial non-Gaussianities in the Intergalactic Medium

M. Viel, E. Branchini, K. Dolag +3

We present results from the first high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of non-Gaussian cosmological models. We focus on the statistical properties of the transmitted Lyman-al…

astro-ph2008★ 53 cited

Reconstructing mass profiles of simulated galaxy clusters by combining Sunyaev-Zeldovich and X-ray images

S. Ameglio, S. Borgani, E. Pierpaoli +3

We present a method to recover mass profiles of galaxy clusters by combining data on thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) and X-ray imaging, thereby avoiding to use any information on X…

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★ 96 cited

Physical properties of galaxies and their evolution in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. I. The evolution of the mass-metallicity relation up to z~0.9

F. Lamareille, J. Brinchmann, T. Contini +43

We derive the mass-metallicity relation of star-forming galaxies up to , using data from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. Automatic measurement of emission-line fluxes and equi…

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★ 15 cited

Two-component galaxy models: the effect of density profile at large radii on the phase-space consistency

Luca Ciotti, Lucia Morganti

It is well known that the density and anisotropy profile in the inner regions of a stellar system with positive phase-space distribution function are not fully independent. Here we…

astro-ph2008★ 79 cited

Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. VII. Identification of 20 Galactic and extragalactic hard X-ray sources

N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Palazzi +17

Within the framework of our program of assessment of the nature of unidentified or poorly known INTEGRAL sources, we present here spectroscopy of optical objects, selected through…

astro-ph2008★ 100 cited

The full contribution of a stochastic background of magnetic fields to CMB anisotropies

Daniela Paoletti, Fabio Finelli, Francesco Paci

We study the contribution of a stochastic background (SB) of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) on the anisotropies in temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background…

astro-ph2008

Supernova Explosions and the Triggering of Galactic Fountains and Outflows

E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, C. Melioli, A. D'Ercole +2

We review here the effects of supernovae (SNe) explosions on the environment of star-forming galaxies. Randomly distributed, clustered SNe explosions cause the formation of hot sup…

astro-ph2008

Star formation triggered by SNR impact into magnetized neutral clouds

M. R. M. Leao, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, D. Falceta-Goncalves +2

Considering the physical conditions that are relevant for triggering star formation in interactions involving SN shocks and neutral clouds, we have built diagrams of the SNR radius…

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★ 236 cited

Ongoing and co-evolving star formation in zCOSMOS galaxies hosting Active Galactic Nuclei

J. D. Silverman, F. Lamareille, C. Maier +60

We present a study of the host galaxies of AGN selected from the zCOSMOS survey to establish if accretion onto supermassive black holes and star formation are explicitly linked up…

astro-ph2008★ 57 cited

The zCOSMOS redshift survey: the three-dimensional classification cube and bimodality in galaxy physical properties

M. Mignoli, G. Zamorani, M. Scodeggio +56

Aims. We investigate the relationships between three main optical galaxy observables (spectral properties, colours, and morphology), exploiting the data set provided by the COSMOS/…