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most citedRELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

RELICS: Properties of z>5.5 Galaxies Inferred from Spitzer and Hubble Imaging Including A Candidate z~6.8 Strong [OIII] Emitter

Victoria Strait, Marusa Bradac, Dan Coe +26

We present constraints on the physical properties (including stellar mass, age, and star formation rate) of 207 galaxy candidates from the Reionization Lens…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

RELICS: A Very Large () Cluster Lens -- RXC J0032.1+1808

Ana Acebron, Adi Zitrin, Dan Coe +38

Extensive surveys with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) over the past decade, targeting some of the most massive clusters in the sky, have uncovered dozens of galaxy-clust…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 18 cited

The High-Redshift Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey: Follow-Up Optical Imaging

Emmet Golden-Marx, E. L. Blanton, R. Paterno-Mahler +6

Here we present new red sequence overdensity measurements for 77 fields in the high- Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) survey, based on - and -band imaging taken…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 11 cited

An X-ray Detection of Star Formation In a Highly Magnified Giant Arc

M. B. Bayliss, M. McDonald, K. Sharon +19

In the past decade, our understanding of how stars and galaxies formed during the first 5 billion years after the Big Bang has been revolutionized by observations that leverage gra…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 31 cited

RELICS: Spectroscopy of gravitationally-lensed reionization-era analogs and implications for CIII] detections at

Ramesh Mainali, Daniel P Stark, Mengtao Tang +17

Recent observations have revealed the presence of strong CIII] emission (EW Å) in galaxies, the origin of which remains unclear. In an effort to understand…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 45 cited

Stellar Properties of z ~ 8 Galaxies in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Victoria Strait, Marusa Bradac, Dan Coe +18

Measurements of stellar properties of galaxies when the universe was less than one billion years old yield some of the only observational constraints of the onset of star formation…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 74 cited

Strong Lens Models for 37 Clusters of Galaxies from the SDSS Giant Arcs Survey

Keren Sharon, Matthew B. Bayliss, Håkon Dahle +12

We present strong gravitational lensing models for 37 galaxy clusters from the SDSS Giant Arcs Survey. We combine data from multi-band Hubble Space Telescope WFC3imaging, with grou…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 210 cited

RELICS: Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Dan Coe, Brett Salmon, Marusa Bradac +54

Large surveys of galaxy clusters with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, including CLASH and the Frontier Fields, have demonstrated the power of strong gravitational lensing…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 39 cited

RELICS: Strong Lensing Analysis of MACS J0417.5-1154 and Predictions for Observing the Magnified High-Redshift Universe with JWST

Guillaume Mahler, Keren Sharon, Carter Fox +37

Strong gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies probes the mass distribution at the core of each cluster and magnifies the universe behind it. MACS J0417.5-1154 at z=0.443 is…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 22 cited

RELICS: High-Resolution Constraints on the Inner Mass Distribution of the z=0.83 Merging Cluster RXJ0152.7-1357 from strong lensing

Ana Acebron, May Alon, Adi Zitrin +37

Strong gravitational lensing (SL) is a powerful means to map the distribution of dark matter. In this work, we perform a SL analysis of the prominent X-ray cluster RXJ0152.7-1357 (…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 29 cited

RELICS: Strong-lensing analysis of the massive clusters MACS J0308.9+2645 and PLCK G171.9-40.7

Ana Acebron, Nathália Cibirka, Adi Zitrin +37

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters has become a powerful tool for probing the high-redshift Universe, magnifying distant and faint background galaxies. Reliable strong…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 28 cited

RELICS: A Strong Lens Model for SPT-CLJ0615-5746, a z=0.972 Cluster

Rachel Paterno-Mahler, Keren Sharon, Dan Coe +30

We present a lens model for the cluster SPT-CLJ06155746, which is the highest redshift () system in the Reionization of Lensing Clusters Survey (RELICS), making it the…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 28 cited

RELICS: Strong Lensing analysis of the galaxy clusters Abell S295, Abell 697, MACS J0025.4-1222, and MACS J0159.8-0849

Nathália Cibirka, Ana Acebron, Adi Zitrin +37

We present a strong-lensing analysis of four massive galaxy clusters imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope in the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey. We use a Light-Traces-Mass t…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 69 cited

A Candidate Galaxy Strongly Lensed into a Spatially Resolved Arc

Brett Salmon, Dan Coe, Larry Bradley +27

The most distant galaxies known are at z~10-11, observed 400-500 Myr after the Big Bang. The few z~10-11 candidates discovered to date have been exceptionally small- barely resolve…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 61 cited

The Magellan Evolution of Galaxies Spectroscopic and Ultraviolet Reference Atlas (MEGaSaURA) I: The Sample and the Spectra

J. R. Rigby, M. B. Bayliss, K. Sharon +7

We introduce Project MEGaSaURA: The Magellan Evolution of Galaxies Spectroscopic and Ultraviolet Reference Atlas. MEGaSaURA comprises medium-resolution, rest-frame ultraviolet spec…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 72 cited

RELICS: Strong Lens Models for Five Galaxy Clusters From the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey

Catherine Cerny, Keren Sharon, Felipe Andrade-Santos +31

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters magnifies background galaxies, enhancing our ability to discover statistically significant samples of galaxies at z>6, in order to c…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 92 cited

The Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS) and the Brightest High-z Galaxies

Brett Salmon, Dan Coe, Larry Bradley +31

Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy population…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 12 cited

Spatially Resolved Patchy Lyman- Emission Within the Central Kiloparsec of a Strongly Lensed Quasar Host Galaxy at z = 2.8

Matthew B. Bayliss, Keren Sharon, Ayan Acharyya +10

We report the detection of extended Lyman- emission from the host galaxy of SDSS~J2222+2745, a strongly lensed quasar at . Spectroscopic follow-up clearly reveals exten…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 36 cited

Lens Model and Time Delay Predictions for the Sextuply Lensed Quasar SDSS J2222+2745

Keren Sharon, Matthew B. Bayliss, Hakon Dahle +7

SDSS J2222+2745 is a galaxy cluster at z=0.49, strongly lensing a quasar at z=2.805 into six widely separated images. In recent HST imaging of the field, we identify additional mul…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 54 cited

Probing the Outskirts of the Early Stage Galaxy Cluster Merger A1750

Esra Bulbul, Scott W. Randall, Matthew Bayliss +12

We present results from recent Suzaku and Chandra X-ray, and MMT optical observations of the strongly merging "double cluster" A1750 out to its virial radius, both along and perpen…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 4 cited

Extragalactic Jets as Probes of Distant Clusters of Galaxies and the Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey

Elizabeth L. Blanton, Rachel Paterno-Mahler, Joshua D. Wing +6

We are conducting a large survey of distant clusters of galaxies using radio sources with bent jets and lobes as tracers. These radio sources are driven by AGN and achieve their be…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 11 cited

Merger Signatures in the Galaxy Cluster Abell 98

Rachel Paterno-Mahler, Scott W. Randall, Esra Bulbul +5

We present results from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of Abell 98 (A98), a galaxy cluster with three major components: a relatively bright subcluster to the north (A98N), a d…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 79 cited

Deep Chandra Observations of the Extended Gas Sloshing Spiral in A2029

Rachel Paterno-Mahler, Elizabeth L. Blanton, Scott W. Randall +1

Recent X-ray observations of galaxy clusters have shown that there is substructure present in the intracluster medium (ICM), even in clusters that are seemingly relaxed. This subst…