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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

7.7k citations · 13.1k across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 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★ 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★ 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.GA2018★ 69 cited

Unveiling the dynamical state of massive clusters through the ICL fraction

Y. Jiménez-Teja, R. Dupke, N. Benítez +34

We have selected a sample of eleven massive clusters of galaxies observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in order to study the impact of the dynamical state on the IntraCluster Ligh…

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.IM2018★ 7.7k cited

The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134

The Astropy project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly-needed functionality to the astronomical communit…

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★ 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.IM2016★ 5 cited

The Astropy Problem

Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151

The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 635 cited

The Frontier Fields: Survey Design

J. M. Lotz, A. Koekemoer, D. Coe +39

The Frontier Fields are a director's discretionary time campaign with HST and the Spitzer Space Telescope to see deeper into the universe than ever before. The Frontier Fields comb…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 37 cited

The Contribution of Halos with Different Mass Ratios to the Overall Growth of Cluster-Sized Halos

Doron Lemze, Marc Postman, Shy Genel +39

We provide a new observational test for a key prediction of the ΛCDM cosmological model: the contributions of mergers with different halo-to-main-cluster mass ratios to cluster-siz…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 40 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 90 cited

CLASH: Complete Lensing Analysis of the Largest Cosmic Lens MACS J0717.5+3745 and Surrounding Structures

Elinor Medezinski, Keiichi Umetsu, Mario Nonino +35

The galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (z=0.55) is the largest known cosmic lens, with complex internal structures seen in deep X-ray, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and dynamical observa…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 192 cited

A Census of Star-Forming Galaxies in the z~9-10 Universe based on HST+Spitzer Observations Over 19 CLASH clusters: Three Candidate z~9-10 Galaxies and Improved Constraints on the Star Formation Rate Density at z~9

R. Bouwens, L. Bradley, A. Zitrin +34

We utilise a two-color Lyman-Break selection criterion to search for z~9-10 galaxies over the first 19 clusters in the CLASH program. A systematic search yields three z~9-10 candid…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 315 cited

A highly magnified candidate for a young galaxy seen when the Universe was 500 Myrs old

Wei Zheng, Marc Postman, Adi Zitrin +33

The early Universe at redshift z\sim6-11 marks the reionization of the intergalactic medium, following the formation of the first generation of stars. However, those young galaxies…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 123 cited

CLASH: Mass Distribution in and around MACS J1206.2-0847 from a Full Cluster Lensing Analysis

Keiichi Umetsu, Elinor Medezinski, Mario Nonino +45

We derive an accurate mass distribution of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (z=0.439) from a combined weak-lensing distortion, magnification, and strong-lensing analysis of wid…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 157 cited

CLASH: Precise New Constraints on the Mass Profile of Abell 2261

Dan Coe, Keiichi Umetsu, Adi Zitrin +43

We precisely constrain the inner mass profile of Abell 2261 (z=0.225) for the first time and determine this cluster is not "over-concentrated" as found previously, implying a forma…