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20042026
most citedThe fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey: ugri imaging and nine-band optical-IR photometry over 1000 square degrees

322 citations · 4.4k across the 115 of their papers we have counts for

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117 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Different paths, same appearance: an intermediate-age red nugget at z~0.13

F. La Barbera, F. Buitrago, I. Ferreras +1

Massive ultra-compact galaxies are commonly regarded as nearby relics of the compact quiescent population at z~2-3, and detailed studies have focused so far only on old systems in…

astro-ph.GA2026

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations IV. Testing warm dark matter cosmologies with galaxy scaling relations: A joint simulation-observation study using DREAMS simulations

M. Silvestrini, C. Tortora, V. Busillo +9

Small-scale discrepancies in the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm have motivated the exploration of alternative dark matter (DM) models, such as warm dark matter (WDM). We…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations III. The physics behind the emergence of the golden mass scale

C. Tortora, V. Busillo, N. R. Napolitano +5

We investigate the origin and evolution of the "golden mass" (halo mass , stellar mass ), linked to peak star f…

astro-ph.GA2023

DenseLens -- Using DenseNet ensembles and information criteria for finding and rank-ordering strong gravitational lenses,

Bharath Chowdhary Nagam, Léon V. E. Koopmans, Edwin A. Valentijn +5

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art technique for identifying strong gravitational lenses. Although they are highly successful in recovering genuine lens…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Total and dark mass from observations of galaxy centers with Machine Learning

Sirui Wu, Nicola R. Napolitano, Crescenzo Tortora +4

The galaxy total mass inside the effective radius encode important information on the dark matter and galaxy evolution model. Total "central" masses can be inferred via galaxy dyna…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations -- I. Constraining physical processes in local star-forming galaxies

Valerio Busillo, Crescenzo Tortora, Nicola R. Napolitano +4

We compare the structural properties and dark matter content of star-forming galaxies taken from the CAMELS cosmological simulations to the observed trends derived from the SPARC s…