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

123 citations · 1.4k across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) Euclid spectroscopy of quasars. 2. Physical properties from spectral fitting

Euclid Collaboration, J. Calhau, G. Calderone +312

A substantial volume of spectroscopic data has become available with the Euclid Data Release (Q1), which represents a unique opportunity to study quasars (QSOs) in the Euclid Deep…

astro-ph.IM2025

Moonlit sky polarization patterns from Cerro Paranal

B. Pereira, S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, A. M. Mourao +5

We investigate the polarization patterns from the moonlit sky as observed from the European Southern Observatory at Cerro Paranal. The moonlit sky background can be significant in…

astro-ph.GA2025

A gradient boosting and broadband approach to finding Lyman-α emitting galaxies beyond narrowband surveys

A. Vale, A. Paulino-Afonso, A. Humphrey +5

In this work, we test whether gradient-boosting algorithms, trained on broadband photometric data from traditional Lyman- emitting (LAE) surveys, can efficiently and accurately…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Through the fog: a complementary optical galaxy classification scheme for 'intermediate' redshifts

Duarte Muñoz Santos, Cirino Pappalardo, Henrique Miranda +10

Understanding galaxy classification depends on our interpretation of their spectra. To date, the hydrogen Balmer lines remain the most consistent way to classify galaxies, but at '…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Exploring the physical properties of Type II Quasar candidates at intermediate redshifts with CIGALE

P. A. C. Cunha, A. Humphrey, J. Brinchmann +4

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) significantly influence galaxy evolution. Specific sources such as obscured AGNs, especially Type II quasars (QSO2), still remain understudied. We char…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Active galactic nuclei identification using diffusion-based inpainting of Euclid VIS images

Euclid Collaboration, G. Stevens, S. Fotopoulou +271

Light emission from galaxies exhibit diverse brightness profiles, influenced by factors such as galaxy type, structural features and interactions with other galaxies. Elliptical ga…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Exploring galaxy morphology across cosmic time through Sersic fits

Euclid Collaboration, L. Quilley, I. Damjanov +333

We present the results of the single-component Sérsic profile fitting for the magnitude-limited sample of \IE galaxies within the 63.1 deg area of the Euclid Quick Data Re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Compact Size, High SFR: Defining Morphological Features of Ly-Emitters

Keunho Kim, Anahita Alavi, Christopher Snapp-Kolas +7

The mechanisms of Ly photon escape are key to understanding galaxy evolution and cosmic reionization, yet remain poorly understood. We investigate the UV-continuum sizes of 23 L…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Importance of modelling the nebular continuum in galaxy spectra

Henrique Miranda, Ciro Pappalardo, José Afonso +7

The neglect of modelling both stellar and nebular emission significantly affects the derived physical properties of galaxies, particularly those with high star formation rates. Whi…

astro-ph.IM2024

Euclid: Searches for strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural nets in Early Release Observations of the Perseus field

R. Pearce-Casey, B. C. Nagam, J. Wilde +204

The Euclid Wide Survey (EWS) is predicted to find approximately 170 000 galaxy-galaxy strong lenses from its lifetime observation of 14 000 deg^2 of the sky. Detecting this many le…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 20 cited

Euclid: The Early Release Observations Lens Search Experiment

J. A. Acevedo Barroso, C. M. O'Riordan, B. Clément +206

We investigated the ability of the Euclid telescope to detect galaxy-scale gravitational lenses. To do so, we performed a systematic visual inspection of the Eucl…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Identifying type II quasars at intermediate redshift with few-shot learning photometric classification

P. A. C. Cunha, A. Humphrey, J. Brinchmann +5

We aim to identify QSO2 candidates in the redshift desert using optical and infrared photometry. At this intermediate redshift range, most of the prominent optical emission lines i…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Selection of powerful radio galaxies with machine learning

R. Carvajal, I. Matute, J. Afonso +12

We developed and trained a pipeline of three machine learning (ML) models than can predict which sources are more likely to be an AGN and to be detected in specific radio surveys.…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Improving machine learning-derived photometric redshifts and physical property estimates using unlabelled observations

A. Humphrey, P. A. C. Cunha, A. Paulino-Afonso +5

In the era of huge astronomical surveys, machine learning offers promising solutions for the efficient estimation of galaxy properties. The traditional, `supervised' paradigm for t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 6 cited

An investigation of the star-forming main sequence considering the nebular continuum emission at low-z

Henrique Miranda, Ciro Pappalardo, Polychronis Papaderos +7

The code FADO is the first publicly available population spectral synthesis tool that treats the contribution from ionised gas to the observed emission self-consistently. We study…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

A Sample of Dust Attenuation Laws for DES Supernova Host Galaxies

J. Duarte, S. González-Gaitán, A. Mourao +58

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are useful distance indicators in cosmology, provided their luminosity is standardized by applying empirical corrections based on light-curve properties…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Revisiting stellar properties of star-forming galaxies with stellar and nebular spectral modelling

Leandro S. M. Cardoso, Jean Michel Gomes, Polychronis Papaderos +5

Spectral synthesis is a powerful tool for interpreting the physical properties of galaxies by decomposing their spectral energy distributions into the main luminosity contributors…

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.CO2022★ 11 cited

Systematic errors on optical-SED stellar mass estimates for galaxies across cosmic time and their impact on cosmology

A. Paulino-Afonso, S. González-Gaitán, L. Galbany +7

Studying galaxies at different cosmic epochs entails several observational effects that need to be taken into account to compare populations across a large time span in a consisten…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 16 cited

The LEGA-C of nature and nurture in stellar populations of galaxies at z~0.6-1.0: D4000 and H-delta reveal different assembly histories for quiescent galaxies in different environments

David Sobral, Arjen van der Wel, Rachel Bezanson +11

Galaxy evolution is driven by a variety of physical processes which are predicted to proceed at different rates for different dark matter haloes and environments across cosmic time…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

The Synchrony of Production & Escape: Half the Bright Ly Emitters at have Lyman Continuum Escape Fractions

Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Pascal A. Oesch +14

The ionizing photon escape fraction (LyC ) of star-forming galaxies is the single greatest unknown in the reionization budget. Stochastic sightline effects prohibit t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 69 cited

(Re)Solving Reionization with Lyα: How Bright Lyα Emitters account for the Cosmic Ionizing Background

Jorryt Matthee, Rohan P. Naidu, Gabriele Pezzulli +12

The cosmic ionizing emissivity from star-forming galaxies has long been anchored to UV luminosity functions. Here we introduce an emissivity framework based on Ly emitters (LAEs…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

The evolution of the UV luminosity and stellar mass functions of Lyman-alpha emitters from z~2 to z~6

Sérgio Santos, David Sobral, Josh Butterworth +7

We measure the evolution of the rest-frame UV luminosity function (LF) and the stellar mass function (SMF) of Lyman-alpha (Lya) emitters (LAEs) from z~2 to z~6 by exploring ~4000 L…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 78 cited

The X-SHOOTER Lyman- survey at z=2 (XLS-z2) I: What makes a galaxy a Lyman- emitter?

Jorryt Matthee, David Sobral, Matthew Hayes +9

We present the first results from the X-SHOOTER Lyman- survey at (XLS-). XLS- is a deep spectroscopic survey of 35 Lyman- emitters (LAEs) utilising …