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astro-ph2008★ 73 cited

STAGES: the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey

M. E. Gray, Christian Wolf, Marco Barden +26

We present an overview of the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). STAGES is a multiwavelength project designed to probe physical drivers of galaxy evolution ac…

astro-ph2008★ 215 cited

The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall

Christian Wolf, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Michael Balogh +22

We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR…

astro-ph2008

Near-Infrared spectral diagnostics for unresolved stellar population galaxies

M. Cesetti, V. D. Ivanov, L. Morelli

We want to develop spectral diagnostics of stellar populations in the near-infrared (NIR), for unresolved stellar populations. We created a semi-empirical population model and we c…

astro-ph2008★ 104 cited

Obscured star formation in intermediate-density environments: A Spitzer study of the Abell 901/902 supercluster

A. Gallazzi, E. F. Bell, C. Wolf +23

We explore the amount of obscured star-formation as a function of environment in the A901/902 supercluster at z=0.165 in conjunction with a field sample drawn from the A901 and CDF…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Characterizing Barred Galaxies in the Abell 901/902 Supercluster

I. Marinova, S. Jogee, D. Bacon +22

In dense clusters, higher densities at early epochs as well as physical processes, such as ram pressure stripping and tidal interactions become important, and can have direct conse…

astro-ph2008

Morphological Transformations of Galaxies in the A901/02 Supercluster from STAGES

A. L. Heiderman, S. Jogee, D. J. Bacon +23

We present a study of galaxies in the Abell 901/902 Supercluster at z~0.165, based on HST ACS F606W, COMBO-17, Spitzer 24um, XMM-Newton X-ray, and gravitational lensing maps, as pa…

astro-ph2008★ 100 cited

The dark matter environment of the Abell 901/902 supercluster: a weak lensing analysis of the HST STAGES survey

Catherine Heymans, Meghan E. Gray, Chien Y. Peng +21

We present a high resolution dark matter reconstruction of the z=0.165 Abell 901/902 supercluster from a weak lensing analysis of the HST STAGES survey. We detect the four main str…

astro-ph2007★ 66 cited

Environmental dependence of AGN activity in the supercluster A901/2

R. Gilmour, M. E. Gray, O. Almaini +5

We present XMM data for the supercluster A901/2, at z ~ 0.17, which is combined with deep imaging and 17-band photometric redshifts (from the COMBO-17 survey), 2dF spectra and Spit…

astro-ph2007★ 17 cited

Galaxy morphologies and environment in the Abell 901/902 supercluster from COMBO-17

K. P. Lane, M. E. Gray, A. Aragon-Salamanca +2

We present a morphological study of galaxies in the A901/902 supercluster from the COMBO-17 survey. A total of 570 galaxies with photometric redshifts in the range 0.155 < z_phot <…

astro-ph2006★ 15 cited

Morphology-dependent trends of galaxy age with environment in Abell 901/902 seen with COMBO-17

C. Wolf, M. E. Gray, A. Aragon-Salamanca +2

We investigate correlations between galaxy age and environment in the Abell 901/2 supercluster for separate morphologies. Using COMBO-17 data, we define a sample of 530 galaxies, c…

astro-ph2006★ 78 cited

Cosmological constraints from COMBO-17 using 3D weak lensing

T. D. Kitching, A. F. Heavens, A. N. Taylor +5

We present the first application of the 3D cosmic shear method developed in Heavens et al. (2006) and the geometric shear-ratio analysis developed in Taylor et al. (2006), to the C…

astro-ph2005★ 110 cited

Red-sequence galaxies with young stars and dust: The cluster Abell 901/902 seen with COMBO-17

C. Wolf, M. E. Gray, K. Meisenheimer

We report the discovery of a rich component of dusty star-forming galaxies contaminating the red-sequence in the supercluster system comprising Abell 901a, 901b and A902 at redshif…

astro-ph2005★ 510 cited

The Shear TEsting Programme 1: Weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations

Catherine Heymans, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, David Bacon +22

The Shear TEsting Programme, STEP, is a collaborative project to improve the accuracy and reliability of all weak lensing measurements in preparation for the next generation of wid…

astro-ph2004★ 421 cited

A catalogue of the Chandra Deep Field South with multi-colour classification and photometric redshifts from COMBO-17

C. Wolf, K. Meisenheimer, M. Kleinheinrich +9

We present the COMBO-17 object catalogue of the Chandra Deep Field South for public use, covering a field which is 31.5' x 30' in size. This catalogue lists astrometry, photometry…

astro-ph2004★ 41 cited

Evolution of the Dark Matter Distribution with 3-D Weak Lensing

D. J. Bacon, A. N. Taylor, M. L. Brown +7

We present a direct detection of the growth of large-scale structure, using weak gravitational lensing and photometric redshift data from the COMBO-17 survey. We use deep R-band im…

astro-ph2004★ 70 cited

Mapping the 3-D dark matter with weak lensing in COMBO-17

A. N. Taylor, D. J. Bacon, M. E. Gray +7

We present a 3-dimensional lensing analysis of the z=0.16 supercluster A901/2, resulting in a 3-D map of the dark matter distribution within a 3 X 10^{5} [Mpc]^3 volume from the CO…

astro-ph2003★ 53 cited

Linking star-formation and enivronment in the A901/902 supercluster

M. E. Gray, C. Wolf, K. Meisenheimer +4

We investigate correlations between the location of galaxies in dense environments and their degree of star-formation activity. Using photometric redshifts and spectral classificat…

astro-ph2002★ 180 cited

The shear power spectrum from the COMBO-17 survey

M. L. Brown, A. N. Taylor, D. J. Bacon +4

We perform a cosmic shear analysis of the COMBO-17 survey -- a unique dataset with shear quality R-band imaging and accurate photometric redshift estimates (dz=0.05) for ~90% of ga…

astro-ph2001★ 18 cited

Infrared constraints on the dark mass concentration observed in the cluster Abell 1942

Meghan E. Gray, Richard S. Ellis, James R. Lewis +2

We present a deep H-band image of the region in the vicinity of the cluster Abell 1942 containing the puzzling dark matter concentration detected in an optical weak lensing study b…

astro-ph2000★ 21 cited

Infrared observations of gravitational lensing in Abell 2219 with CIRSI

Meghan E. Gray, Richard S. Ellis, Alexandre Refregier +5

We present the first detection of a gravitational depletion signal at near-infrared wavelengths, based on deep panoramic images of the cluster Abell 2219 (z=0.22) taken with the Ca…

astro-ph2000★ 1 cited

Strong and weak lensing analysis of cluster Abell 2219 based on optical and near infrared data

J. Bezecourt, H. Hoekstra, M. E. Gray +3

We present a gravitational lensing study of the massive galaxy cluster A2219 (redshift 0.22). This investigation is based on multicolour images from U through H, which allows photo…

astro-ph1996★ 50 cited

GHRS Monitoring of the Outflowing Material in NGC 4151

Ray J. Weymann, Simon L. Morris, Meghan E. Gray +1

We present the results of a GHRS program to monitor the absorption lines in the spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 caused by outflowing gas from the nucleus. Although we see…