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The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): An unbiased estimate of the growth rate of structure at using the clustering of luminous blue galaxies
F. G. Mohammad, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo +34
We use the VIPERS final data release to investigate the performance of colour-selected populations of galaxies as tracers of linear large-scale motions. We empirically select volum…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): The growth of structures at from redshift-space distortions in the clustering of the PDR-2 final sample
A. Pezzotta, S. de la Torre, J. Bel +36
We present measurements of the growth rate of cosmological structure from the modelling of the anisotropic galaxy clustering measured in the final data release of the VIPERS survey…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Gravity test from the combination of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing at
S. de la Torre, E. Jullo, C. Giocoli +39
We carry out a joint analysis of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing, with the aim of measuring the growth rate of structure; this is a key quantity for understand…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey: Measuring the growth rate of structure around cosmic voids
A. J. Hawken, B. R. Granett, A. Iovino +33
We identified voids in the completed VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), using an algorithm based on searching for empty spheres. We measured the cross-correlation…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Exploring the dependence of the three-point correlation function on stellar mass and luminosity at 0.5<z<1.1
M. Moresco, F. Marulli, L. Moscardini +34
The three-point correlation function (3PCF) is a powerful probe to investigate the clustering of matter in the Universe in a complementary way with respect to lower-order statistic…
CLASH-VLT: A Highly Precise Strong Lensing Model of the Galaxy Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Abell S1063) and Prospects for Cosmography
G. B. Caminha, C. Grillo, P. Rosati +32
We perform a comprehensive study of the total mass distribution of the galaxy cluster RXCJ2248 () with a set of high-precision strong lensing models, which take advantage…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Hierarchical scaling and biasing
A. Cappi, F. Marulli, J. Bel +47
We investigate the higher-order correlation properties of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to test the hierarchical scaling hypothesis at z~1 and the depende…
The galaxy-halo connection from a joint lensing, clustering and abundance analysis in the CFHTLenS/VIPERS field
J. Coupon, S. Arnouts, L. van Waerbeke +31
We present new constraints on the relationship between galaxies and their host dark matter halos, measured from the location of the peak of the stellar-to-halo mass ratio (SHMR), u…
CLASH-VLT: Insights on the mass substructures in the Frontier Fields Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 through accurate strong lens modeling
C. Grillo, S. H. Suyu, P. Rosati +25
We present a detailed mass reconstruction and a novel study on the substructure properties in the core of the CLASH and Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. We show an…
Dark matter-baryons separation at the lowest mass scale: the Bullet Group
F. Gastaldello, M. Limousin, G. Foëx +13
We report on the X-ray observation of a strong lensing selected group, SL2S J08544-0121, with a total mass of which revealed a separatio…
Intra Cluster Light properties in the CLASH-VLT cluster MACS J1206.2-0847
V. Presotto, M. Girardi, M. Nonino +46
We aim at constraining the assembly history of clusters by studying the intra cluster light (ICL) properties, estimating its contribution to the fraction of baryons in stars, f*, a…
CLASH-VLT: Constraints on the Dark Matter Equation of State from Accurate Measurements of Galaxy Cluster Mass Profiles
Barbara Sartoris, Andrea Biviano, Piero Rosati +39
A pressureless scenario for the Dark Matter (DM) fluid is a widely adopted hypothesis, despite the absence of a direct observational evidence. According to general relativity, the…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Never mind the gaps: comparing techniques to restore homogeneous sky coverage
O. Cucciati, B. R. Granett, E. Branchini +28
[Abridged] Non-uniform sampling and gaps in sky coverage are common in galaxy redshift surveys, but these effects can degrade galaxy counts-in-cells and density estimates. We carry…
CLASH-VLT: spectroscopic confirmation of a z=6.11 quintuply lensed galaxy in the Frontier Fields Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431
I. Balestra, E. Vanzella, P. Rosati +41
We present VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) observations of a z 6 galaxy quintuply imaged by the Frontier Fields galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (z=0.348). This sub-L^*, h…
CLASH-VLT: The mass, velocity-anisotropy, and pseudo-phase-space density profiles of the z=0.44 galaxy cluster MACS 1206.2-0847
A. Biviano, P. Rosati, I. Balestra +44
We use an unprecedented data-set of about 600 redshifts for cluster members, obtained as part of a VLT/VIMOS large programme, to constrain the mass profile of the z=0.44 cluster MA…
CLASH: Photometric redshifts with 16 HST bands in galaxy cluster fields
S. Jouvel, O. Host, O. Lahav +35
The Cluster Lensing And Supernovae survey with Hubble (CLASH) is an Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Multi-Cycle Treasury program observing 25 massive galaxy clusters. CLASH observatio…
Dark energy with gravitational lens time delays
T. Treu, P. J. Marshall, F. -Y. Cyr-Racine +35
Strong lensing gravitational time delays are a powerful and cost effective probe of dark energy. Recent studies have shown that a single lens can provide a distance measurement wit…
VIPERS: An Unprecedented View of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure Halfway Back in the Life of the Universe
L. Guzzo, U. Abbas, C. Adami +48
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) is an ongoing ESO Large Programme to map in detail the large-scale distribution of galaxies at 0.5 < z <1.2. With a combinat…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Galaxy clustering and redshift-space distortions at z=0.8 in the first data release
S. de la Torre, L. Guzzo, J. A. Peacock +47
We present in this paper the general real- and redshift-space clustering properties of galaxies as measured in the first data release of the VIPERS survey. VIPERS is a large redshi…
The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): spectral classification through Principal Component Analysis
A. Marchetti, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo +51
We develop a Principal Component Analysis aimed at classifying a sub-set of 27,350 spectra of galaxies in the range 0.4 < z < 1.0 collected by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshi…
Distance Measurements and Stellar Population Properties via Surface Brightness Fluctuations
Alexander Fritz
Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBFs) are one of the most powerful techniques to measure the distance and to constrain the unresolved stellar content of extragalactic systems. For…
The power spectrum from the angular distribution of galaxies in the CFHTLS-Wide fields at redshift ~0.7
B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo, J. Coupon +32
We measure the real-space galaxy power spectrum on large scales at redshifts 0.5 to 1.2 using optical colour-selected samples from the CFHT Legacy Survey. With the redshift distrib…
A Photometric Redshift of z ~ 9.4 for GRB 090429B
A. Cucchiara, A. J. Levan, D. B. Fox +33
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serve as powerful probes of the early Universe, with their luminous afterglows revealing the locations and physical properties of star forming galaxies at t…
Mass dependent Evolution of Field Early-Type Galaxies Since z=1
Alexander Fritz, Inger Jorgensen, Ricardo P. Schiavon
We present the Fundamental Plane (FP) of field early-type galaxies at 0.5<z<1.0. Our project is a continuation of our efforts to understand the formation and evolution of early-typ…