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most citedThe VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey: ~10,000 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts to study galaxy assembly at early epochs 2<z<~6

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40 papers

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Metal content of the circumgalactic medium around star-forming galaxies at z 2.6 as revealed by the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey

H. Méndez-Hernández, P. Cassata, E. Ibar +20

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the location where the interplay between large-scale outflows and accretion onto galaxies occurs. Metals in different ionization states flowing b…

astro-ph.GA2022

z~2-9 Galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Field Clusters I: Source Selection and Surface Density-Magnification Constraints from >2500 galaxies

R. J. Bouwens, G. Illingworth, R. S. Ellis +4

We assemble a large comprehensive sample of 2534 z~2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 galaxies lensed by the six clusters from the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program. Making use of the a…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 52 cited

Sizes of Lensed Lower-luminosity z=4-8 Galaxies from the Hubble Frontier Field Program

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. G. van Dokkum +3

We constrain the rest-UV size-luminosity relation for star-forming galaxies at z~4 and z~6, 7, and 8 identified behind clusters from the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program. The s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

Low-luminosity galaxies in the early universe have observed sizes similar to star cluster complexes

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. G. van Dokkum +3

We compare the sizes and luminosities of faint -8 galaxies magnified by the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) clusters with star-forming regions, as well as more evolved objects, i…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 70 cited

The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: The reversal of the star-formation rate density relation at

B. C. Lemaux, O. Cucciati, O. Le Fèvre +28

Utilizing spectroscopic observations taken for the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS), new observations from Keck/DEIMOS, and publicly available observations of large samples of star-f…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 6 cited

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey: the Ly emission line morphology at

B. Ribeiro, O. Le Fèvre, A. Paulino-Afonso +20

The Lyman- (Ly) emission line has been ubiquitously used to confirm and study high redshift galaxies. We report on the line morphology as seen in the 2D spectra from the VIMO…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 20 cited

The Size and Pervasiveness of Ly-UV Spatial Offsets in Star-Forming Galaxies at

B. C. Lemaux, S. Fuller, M. Bradač +20

We study the projected spatial offset between the ultraviolet continuum and Ly emission for 65 lensed and unlensed galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (), the fi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Towards Studying Hierarchical Assembly in Real Time: A Milky Way Progenitor Galaxy at z = 2.36 under the Microscope

Tom O. Zick, Daniel R. Weisz, Bruno Ribeiro +4

We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging and near-infrared spectroscopy from Keck/MOSFIRE to study the sub-structure around the progenitor of a Milky Way-mass galaxy in the Hubb…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

ALMA reveals the molecular gas properties of 5 star-forming galaxies across the main sequence at 3 < z < 3.5

Paolo Cassata, Daizhong Liu, Brent Groves +17

We present the detection of CO(5-4) with S/N> 7 - 13 and a lower CO transition with S/N > 3 (CO(4-3) for 4 galaxies, and CO(3-2) for one) with ALMA in band 3 and 4 in five main seq…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 26 cited

VIS3COS: III. environmental effects on the star formation histories of galaxies at z~0.8 seen in [OII], H, and Dn4000

Ana Paulino-Afonso, David Sobral, Behnam Darvish +5

[ABRIDGED] We present spectroscopic observations of 466 galaxies in and around a superstructure at targeted by the VIMOS Spectroscopic Survey of a Supercluster in the C…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 51 cited

The evolution of rest-frame UV properties, Lya EWs and the SFR-Stellar mass relation at z~2-6 for SC4K LAEs

Sérgio Santos, David Sobral, Jorryt Matthee +6

We explore deep rest-frame UV to FIR data in the COSMOS field to measure the individual spectral energy distributions (SED) of the ~4000 SC4K (Sobral et al. 2018) Lyman-alpha (Lya)…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 29 cited

VIS3COS: II. Nature and nurture in galaxy structure and morphology

Ana Paulino-Afonso, David Sobral, Behnam Darvish +7

We study the impact of local density and stellar mass on the morphology of ~500 quiescent (Q) and SFGs from the VIS3COS survey. We perform B/D decomposition of the SBPs and find ~4…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 48 cited

The UV and Ly Luminosity Functions of galaxies and the Star Formation Rate Density at the end of HI reionization from the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS)

Y. Khusanova, O. Le Fèvre, P. Cassata +25

We establish a robust statistical description of the star-forming galaxy population at the end of cosmic HI reionization () from a large sample of 52 galaxies with…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 26 cited

VIS3COS: I. survey overview and the role of environment and stellar mass on star formation

Ana Paulino-Afonso, David Sobral, Behnam Darvish +5

We present the VIMOS Spectroscopic Survey of a Supercluster in the COSMOS field (VIS3COS) at z~0.84. We use VIMOS high-resolution spectra (GG475 filter) to spectroscopically select…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 123 cited

Slicing COSMOS with SC4K: the evolution of typical Lya emitters and the Lya escape fraction from z~2 to z~6

David Sobral, Sérgio Santos, Jorryt Matthee +4

We present and explore deep narrow- and medium-band data obtained with the Subaru and the Isaac Newton telescopes in the ~2 deg COSMOS field. We use these data as an extremely…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Very low-luminosity galaxies in the early universe have observed sizes similar to single star cluster complexes

R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. A. Oesch +4

We compare the sizes and luminosities of 307 faint z=6-8 sources revealed by the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program with sources in the nearby universe. Making use of the latest…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 78 cited

Ly-Lyman Continuum connection in 3.5 < z < 4.3 star-forming galaxies from the VUDS survey

F. Marchi, L. Pentericci, L. Guaita +16

To identify the galaxies responsible for the reionization of the Universe, we must rely on the investigation of the Lyman Continuum (LyC) properties of z<5 star-forming galaxies, w…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 65 cited

On the UV compactness and morphologies of typical Lyman-a emitters from z~2 to z~6

Ana Paulino-Afonso, David Sobral, Bruno Ribeiro +8

We investigate the rest-frame UV morphologies of a large sample of Lyman-a emitters (LAEs) from z~2 to z~6, selected in a uniform way with 16 different narrow- and medium-bands ove…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: The role of HI kinematics and HI column density on the escape of Lyalpha photons in star-forming galaxies at 2<z<4

L. Guaita, M. Talia, L. Pentericci +22

We selected a sample of 76 Lya emitting galaxies from the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS) at 2<z<4. We estimated the velocity of the neutral gas flowing out of the interstellar medi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 103 cited

The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: Emerging from the Dark, a Massive Proto-Cluster at z~4.57

B. C. Lemaux, O. Le Fèvre, O. Cucciati +20

Using spectroscopic observations taken for the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS) we report here on the discovery of PCl J1001+0220, a massive proto-cluster located at $z_{spec}\sim4.5…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 46 cited

Characterization of star-forming dwarf galaxies at 0.1 0.9 in VUDS: Probing the low-mass end of the mass-metallicity relation

A. Calabrò, R. Amorín, A. Fontana +19

We present the discovery and spectrophotometric characterization of a large sample of 164 faint ( - mag) star-forming dwarf galaxies (SFDGs) at redshift $0.1…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 3 cited

Analogs of primeval galaxies two billion years after the Big Bang

Ricardo Amorín, A. Fontana, E. Pérez-Montero +30

Deep observations are revealing a growing number of young galaxies in the first billion year of cosmic time. Compared to typical galaxies at later times, they show more extreme emi…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 57 cited

New constraints on the average escape fraction of Lyman continuum radiation in z~4 galaxies from the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS)

F. Marchi, L. Pentericci, L. Guaita +20

Determining the average fraction of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons escaping high redshift galaxies is essential for understanding how reionization proceeded in the z>6 Universe. We…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 43 cited

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey: A major merger origin for the high fraction of galaxies at with two bright clump

B. Ribeiro, O. Le Fèvre, P. Cassata +12

(Abridged) The properties of stellar clumps in star forming galaxies and their evolution over the redshift range are presented and discussed in the context…