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most citedThe Atlas3D project -- I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

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astro-ph.CO2025

Euclid preparation. LXXIV. Euclidised observations of Hubble Frontier Fields and CLASH galaxy clusters

Euclid Collaboration, P. Bergamini, M. Meneghetti +263

We present HST2EUCLID, a novel Python code to generate Euclid realistic mock images in the , , , and photometric bands based on panchro…

astro-ph.IM2024

Object classification with Convolutional Neural Networks: from KiDS to Euclid

G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, C. A. Marocico, Y. Mzayek +11

Large-scale imaging surveys have grown about 1000 times faster than the number of astronomers in the last 3 decades. Using Artificial Intelligence instead of astronomer's brains fo…

astro-ph.IM2024

Piggybacking astronomical hazard investigations on scientific Big Data missions

Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Teymoor Saifollahi, Rees Williams +2

Current and upcoming large optical and near-infrared astronomical surveys have fundamental science as their primary drivers. To cater to those, these missions scan large fractions…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 52 cited

The Pan-STARRS1 z>5.6 quasar survey II: Discovery of 55 Quasars at 5.6<z<6.5

Eduardo Banados, Jan-Torge Schindler, Bram P. Venemans +20

The identification of bright quasars at z>6 enables detailed studies of supermassive black holes, massive galaxies, structure formation, and the state of the intergalactic medium w…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 2 cited

Euclid Preparation: XIV. The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) Survey: Data Release 3

Euclid Collaboration, S. A. Stanford, D. Masters +183

The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) survey is obtaining spectroscopic redshifts in order to map the relation between galaxy color and redshift to a depth…

astro-ph.CO2021

Euclid preparation: XI. Mean redshift determination from galaxy redshift probabilities for cosmic shear tomography

Euclid Collaboration, O. Ilbert, S. de la Torre +162

The analysis of weak gravitational lensing in wide-field imaging surveys is considered to be a major cosmological probe of dark energy. Our capacity to constrain the dark energy eq…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 20 cited

Multi-wavelength scaling relations in galaxy groups: a detailed comparison of GAMA and KiDS observations to BAHAMAS simulations

Arthur Jakobs, Massimo Viola, Ian McCarthy +18

We study the scaling relations between the baryonic content and total mass of groups of galaxies, as these systems provide a unique way to examine the role of non-gravitational pro…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 74 cited

Photometric redshifts for the Kilo-Degree Survey. Machine-learning analysis with artificial neural networks

M. Bilicki, H. Hoekstra, M. J. I. Brown +24

We present a machine-learning photometric redshift analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3, using two neural-network based techniques: ANNz2 and MLPQNA. Despite limited c…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 219 cited

The third data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey and associated data products

J. T. A. de Jong, G. A. Verdoes Kleijn, T. Erben +40

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an ongoing optical wide-field imaging survey with the OmegaCAM camera at the VLT Survey Telescope. It aims to image 1500 square degrees in four fil…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 6 cited

High-precision astrometry towards ELTs

Davide Massari, Giuliana Fiorentino, Eline Tolstoy +13

With the aim of paving the road for future accurate astrometry with MICADO at the European-ELT, we performed an astrometric study using two different but complementary approaches t…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 66 cited

Star formation in z>1 3CR host galaxies as seen by Herschel

P. Podigachoski, P. D. Barthel, M. Haas +15

We present Herschel (PACS and SPIRE) far-infrared (FIR) photometry of a complete sample of z>1 3CR sources, from the Herschel GT project The Herschel Legacy of distant radio-loud A…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 10 cited

Monitoring the photometric behavior of OmegaCAM with Astro-WISE

Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Konrad H. Kuijken, Edwin A. Valentijn +5

The OmegaCAM wide-field optical imager is the sole instrument on the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory. The instrument, as well as the telescope, have been designed…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1 cited

The Data Zoo in Astro-WISE

Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Andrey N. Belikov, John P. McFarland

In this paper we describe the way the Astro-WISE information system (or simply Astro-WISE) supports the data from a wide range of in- struments and combines multiple surveys and th…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 421 cited

The Kilo-Degree Survey

Jelte T. A. de Jong, Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Konrad H. Kuijken +3

The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) is a 1500 square degree optical imaging survey with the recently commissioned OmegaCAM wide-field imager on the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). A suite of…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 41 cited

The jet-cloud interacting radio galaxy PKS B2152-699. I. Structures revealed in new deep radio and X-ray observations

D. M. Worrall, M. Birkinshaw, A. J. Young +5

PKS B2152-699 has radio power characteristic of sources that dominate radio feedback. We present new deep ATCA, Chandra and optical observations, and test the feedback model. We re…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 1 cited

Astro-WISE Information System

Willem-Jan Vriend, Edwin A. Valentijn, Andrey Belikov +1

Astro-WISE is a scientific information system for the data processing of optical images. In this paper we review main features of Astro-WISE and describe the current status of the…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 137 cited

The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey IV. Intergalactic Globular Clusters and the Massive Globular Cluster System at the Core of the Coma Galaxy Cluster

Eric W. Peng, Henry C. Ferguson, Paul Goudfrooij +21

Intracluster stellar populations are a natural result of tidal interactions in galaxy clusters. Measuring these populations is difficult, but important for understanding the assemb…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 1.1k cited

The Atlas3D project -- I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

Michele Cappellari, Eric Emsellem, Davor Krajnovic +23

The Atlas3D project is a multi-wavelength survey combined with a theoretical modeling effort. The observations span from the radio to the millimeter and optical, and provide multi-…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 50 cited

The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey. II. Data Description and Source Catalogs

Derek Hammer, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Carlos Hoyos +45

The Coma cluster was the target of a HST-ACS Treasury program designed for deep imaging in the F475W and F814W passbands. Although our survey was interrupted by the ACS instrument…

astro-ph2002★ 34 cited

Gas Kinematics and the Black Hole Mass at the Center of the Radio Galaxy NGC 4335

Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Roeland van der Marel, Tim de Zeeuw +2

(abridged) We investigate the kinematics of the central gas disk of the radio-loud elliptical galaxy NGC 4335, derived from HST/STIS long-slit spectroscopic observations of Halpha+…

astro-ph2002★ 204 cited

The counterrotating core and the black hole mass of IC1459

M. Cappellari, E. K. Verolme, R. P. van der Marel +5

The E3 giant elliptical galaxy IC1459 is the prototypical galaxy with a fast counterrotating stellar core. We obtained one HST/STIS long-slit spectrum along the major axis of this…