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astro-ph.CO2012★ 124 cited

A precise and accurate determination of the cosmic microwave background temperature at z=0.89

S. Muller, A. Beelen, J. H. Black +6

According to the Big Bang theory and as a consequence of adiabatic expansion of the Universe, the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) increases linearly with redsh…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 98 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. XI: The gas content of dark matter halos: the Sunyaev-Zeldovich-stellar mass relation for locally brightest galaxies

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +194

We present the scaling relation between Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal and stellar mass for almost 260,000 locally brightest galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Surv…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 63 cited

Inferring the mass of sub-millimetre galaxies by exploiting their gravitational magnification of background galaxies

H. Hildebrandt, L. van Waerbeke, D. Scott +25

Dust emission at sub-millimetre wavelengths allows us to trace the early phases of star formation in the Universe. In order to understand the physical processes involved in this mo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 601 cited

The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor and Dust-to-Gas Ratio on Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Galaxies

K. M. Sandstrom, A. K. Leroy, F. Walter +42

We present kiloparsec (kpc) spatial resolution maps of the CO-to-H2 conversion factor (alpha_co) and dust-to-gas ratio (DGR) in 26 nearby, star-forming galaxies. We have simultaneo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 96 cited

HerMES: Unveiling obscured star formation - the far infrared luminosity function of ultraviolet-selected galaxies at z~1.5

S. Heinis, V. Buat, M. Béthermin +22

We study the far-infrared (IR) and sub-millimeter properties of a sample of ultraviolet (UV) selected galaxies at z\sim1.5. Using stacking at 250, 350 and 500 um from Herschel Spac…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 4 cited

Optimal estimator for the amplitude of the bispectrum from IR sources

F. Lacasa, N. Aghanim

We devise a fast and optimal estimator for the amplitude of the bispectrum of clustered Infrared (IR) point-sources. We show how this estimator can account for the cases of partial…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 46 cited

The local luminosity function of star-forming galaxies derived from the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalogue

Mattia Negrello, Marcel Clemens, Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo +18

The Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalog (ERCSC) has offered the first opportunity to accurately determine the luminosity function of dusty galaxies in the very local Univer…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 9 cited

Momentum dependence of the bispectrum in two-field inflation

Eleftheria Tzavara, Bartjan van Tent

We examine the momentum dependence of the bispectrum of two-field inflationary models within the long-wavelength formalism. We determine the sources of scale dependence in the expr…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 59 cited

The Colors of Central and Satellite Galaxies in zCOSMOS out to z ~ 0.8 and Implications for Quenching

C. Knobel, S. J. Lilly, K. Kovac +47

We examine the red fraction of central and satellite galaxies in the large zCOSMOS group catalog out to z ~ 0.8 correcting for both the incompleteness in stellar mass and for the l…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 63 cited

A Population of z>2 Far-Infrared Herschel-SPIRE selected Starbursts

C. M. Casey, S. Berta, M. Béthermin +29

We present spectroscopic observations for a sample of 36 Herschel-SPIRE 250-500um selected galaxies (HSGs) at 2<z<5 from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). Re…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 170 cited

A Redshift Survey of Herschel Far-Infrared Selected Starbursts and Implications for Obscured Star Formation

C. M. Casey, S. Berta, M. Béthermin +30

We present Keck spectroscopic observations and redshifts for a sample of 767 Herschel-SPIRE selected galaxies (HSGs) at 250, 350, and 500um, taken with the Keck I Low Resolution Im…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 34 cited

Cosmic Evolution of Star-Formation Enhancement in Close Major-Merger Galaxy Pairs Since z = 1

C. K. Xu, D. L. Shupe, M. B'ethermin +22

The infrared (IR) emission of M_* galaxies (10^{10.4} < M_{star} < 10^{11.0} M_\sun) in galaxy pairs, derived using data obtained in Herschel (PEP/HerMES) and Spitzer (S-COSMOS) su…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 61 cited

Proto-groups at 1.8<z<3 in the zCOSMOS-deep sample

C. Diener, S. J. Lilly, C. Knobel +48

We identify 42 candidate groups lying between 1.8<z<3.0 from a sample of 3502 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the zCOSMOS-deep redshift survey within the same redshift int…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 7 cited

Microwave and radio emission of dusty star-forming galaxies: Implication for the cosmic radio background

Nathalie Ysard, Guilaine Lagache

We use the most up-to-date cosmological evolution models of star-forming (SF) galaxies and radio sources to compute the extragalactic number counts and the cosmic background from 4…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 20 cited

BAORadio: A digital pipeline for radio interferometry and 21 cm mapping of large scale structures

Réza Ansari, Jean-Eric Campagne, Pierre Colom +5

3D mapping of matter distribution in the universe through the 21 cm radio emission of atomic hydrogen HI is a complementary approach to optical surveys for the study of the Large S…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 234 cited

A unified empirical model for infrared galaxy counts based on observed physical evolution of distant galaxies

Matthieu Béthermin, Emanuele Daddi, Georgios Magdis +10

We reproduce the mid-infrared to radio galaxy counts with a new empirical model based on our current understanding of the evolution of main-sequence (MS) and starburst (SB) galaxie…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 30 cited

Neutron injection during primordial nucleosynthesis alleviates the primordial 7Li problem

Daniel Albornoz Vasquez, Alexander Belikov, Alain Coc +2

We present a parametrized study of the effects of free thermal neutron injection on primordial nucleosynthesis, where both the rate and the time scale of injection are varied. This…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 52 cited

Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +208

About half of the baryons of the Universe are expected to be in the form of filaments of hot and low density intergalactic medium. Most of these baryons remain undetected even by t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 168 cited

HerMES: Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies and the Clustering of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies

M. P. Viero, L. Wang, M. Zemcov +51

We present measurements of the auto- and cross-frequency power spectra of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) at 250, 350, and 500um (1200, 860, and 600 GHz) from observations tot…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 69 cited

Planck intermediate results. X. Physics of the hot gas in the Coma cluster

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +207

We present an analysis of Planck satellite data on the Coma Cluster observed via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. Planck is able, for the first time, to detect SZ emission up to r ~ 3…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 40 cited

Reconstruction of high-resolution SZ maps from heterogeneous datasets using needlets

Mathieu Remazeilles, Nabila Aghanim, Marian Douspis

The aim of this work is to propose a joint exploitation of heterogeneous datasets from high-resolution/few-channel experiments and low-resolution/many-channel experiments by using…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Detection of Iron Kα Emission from a Complete Sample of Submillimeter Galaxies

Robert R. Lindner, Andrew J. Baker, Alexandre Beelen +2

We present an X-ray stacking analysis of a sample of 38 submillimeter galaxies with <z>=2.6 discovered at >4σ significance in the Lockman Hole North with the MAMBO array. We find a…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Planck intermediate results. VI: The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +200

The survey of galaxy clusters performed by Planck through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has already discovered many interesting objects, thanks to the whole coverage of the sky. One…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 244 cited

The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths

J. Delabrouille, M. Betoule, J. -B. Melin +39

We present the Planck Sky Model (PSM), a parametric model for the generation of all-sky, few arcminute resolution maps of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths, i…