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astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The life of central radio galaxies in clusters: AGN-ICM studies of eRASS1 clusters in the ASKAP fields

Angie Veronica, Thomas H. Reiprich, Florian Pacaud +35

The mechanical feedback from the central AGNs can be crucial for balancing the radiative cooling of the intracluster medium at the cluster centre. We aim to understand the relation…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Retrieving the hot circumgalactic medium physics from the X-ray radial profile from eROSITA with an IlustrisTNG-based forward model

Soumya Shreeram, Johan Comparat, Andrea Merloni +9

Recent eROSITA measurements of the radial profiles of the hot CGM in the Milky-Way stellar mass (MW-mass) regime provide us with a new benchmark to constrain the hot gas around MW-…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 18 cited

eROSITA clusters dynamical state and their impact on the BCG luminosity

A. Zenteno, M. Kluge, R. Kharkrang +30

The Spectrum Roentgen Gamma/eROSITA first public release contains 12,247 clusters and groups. We use the offset between the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) and the X--ray peak (D$_{…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. Optical identification and properties of galaxy clusters and groups in the western galactic hemisphere

M. Kluge, J. Comparat, A. Liu +29

The first SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS1) provides the largest intracluster medium-selected galaxy cluster and group catalog covering the western galactic hemisphere. Compared…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Central radio galaxies in galaxy clusters: Joint surveys by eROSITA and ASKAP

K. Böckmann, M. Brüggen, B. Koribalski +18

The extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission has finished the first eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eR…

astro-ph.CO2023

The X-ray invisible Universe. A look into the halos undetected by eROSITA

P. Popesso, A. Biviano, E. Bulbul +15

The paper presents the analysis of optically selected GAMA groups and clusters in the SRG/eROSITA X-ray map of eFEDS (eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey), in the halo mass range…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 52 cited

Detecting clusters of galaxies and active galactic nuclei in an eROSITA all-sky survey digital twin

R. Seppi, J. Comparat, E. Bulbul +15

The extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory is revolutionizing X-ray astronomy. It provides large s…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 133 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Catalog of galaxy clusters and groups

A. Liu, E. Bulbul, V. Ghirardini +31

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey has been carried out during the PV phase of the SRG/eROSITA telescope and completed in November 2019. This survey is designed to provide t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 41 cited

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Optical confirmation, redshifts, and properties of the cluster and group catalog

M. Klein, M. Oguri, J. J. Mohr +19

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), covering ~140 square degrees, was performed as part of the performance verification phase of the eROSITA telescope on board of th…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 122 cited

The progeny of a Cosmic Titan: a massive multi-component proto-supercluster in formation at z=2.45 in VUDS

O. Cucciati, B. C. Lemaux, G. Zamorani +22

[Abridged] We unveil the complex shape of a proto-supercluster at z~2.45 in the COSMOS field using the spectroscopic redshifts of the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS), complemented b…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 117 cited

First Data Release of the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations: 3D Lyman- Forest Tomography at 2.05 < z < 2.55

Khee-Gan Lee, Alex Krolewski, Martin White +21

Faint star-forming galaxies at can be used as alternative background sources to probe the Lyman- forest in addition to quasars, yielding high sightline densities tha…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 36 cited

A Detection of ~2.3 Cosmic Voids from 3D Lyman- Forest Tomography in the COSMOS Field

Alex Krolewski, Khee-Gan Lee, Martin White +10

We present the most distant detection of cosmic voids () and the first detection of three-dimensional voids in the Lyman- forest. We used a 3D tomographic map of the…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 16 cited

Cosmology with XMM galaxy clusters: the X-CLASS/GROND catalogue and photometric redshifts

J. Ridl, N. Clerc, T. Sadibekova +11

The XMM Cluster Archive Super Survey (X-CLASS) is a serendipitously-detected X-ray-selected sample of 845 galaxy clusters based on 2774 XMM archival observations and covering appro…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 10 cited

Tracing low-mass galaxy clusters with radio relics: the discovery of Abell 3527-bis

F. de Gasperin, H. T. Intema, J. Ridl +6

Galaxy clusters undergo mergers that can generate extended radio sources called radio relics. Radio relics are the consequence of merger-induced shocks that propagate in the intra…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 70 cited

SPIDERS: the spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray selected clusters of galaxies in SDSS-IV

Nicolas Clerc, Andrea Merloni, Yu-Ying Zhang +17

SPIDERS (The SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources) is a program dedicated to the homogeneous and complete spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray AGN and galaxy clusters over a…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 204 cited

Mapping the Galaxy Color-Redshift Relation: Optimal Photometric Redshift Calibration Strategies for Cosmology Surveys

Daniel Masters, Peter Capak, Daniel Stern +17

Calibrating the photometric redshifts of >10^9 galaxies for upcoming weak lensing cosmology experiments is a major challenge for the astrophysics community. The path to obtaining t…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 82 cited

Shadow of a Colossus: A z=2.45 Galaxy Protocluster Detected in 3D Ly-a Forest Tomographic Mapping of the COSMOS Field

Khee-Gan Lee, Joseph F. Hennawi, Martin White +10

Using moderate-resolution optical spectra from 58 background Lyman-break galaxies and quasars at within a area of the COSMOS field ($\sim 1200\,\ma…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 849 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival +143

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. Observations will…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 322 cited

Faint AGNs at z>4 in the CANDELS GOODS-S field: looking for contributors to the reionization of the Universe

E. Giallongo, A. Grazian, F. Fiore +14

In order to derive the AGN contribution to the cosmological ionizing emissivity we have selected faint AGN candidates at in the CANDELS GOODS-South field which is one of the…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 32 cited

The stellar mass - halo mass relation from galaxy clustering in VUDS: a high star formation efficiency at z~3

A. Durkalec, O. Le Fèvre, S. de la Torre +45

The relation between the galaxy stellar mass M_star and the dark matter halo mass M_h gives important information on the efficiency in forming stars and assembling stellar mass in…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 26 cited

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS): IGM transmission towards galaxies with 2.5<z<5.5 and the colour selection of high redshift galaxies

R. Thomas, O. Le Fèvre, V. Le Brun P. Cassata +43

(arXiv abridged abstract) The observed UV rest-frame spectra of distant galaxies are the result of their intrinsic emission combined with absorption along the line of sight produce…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 48 cited

The evolution of clustering length, large-scale bias and host halo mass at 2<z<5 in the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS)

A. Durkalec, O. Le Fèvre, A. Pollo +45

We investigate the evolution of galaxy clustering for galaxies in the redshift range 2.0<<5.0 using the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS). We present the projected (real-space) two…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 353 cited

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey: ~10,000 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts to study galaxy assembly at early epochs 2<z<~6

O. Le Fevre, L. A. M. Tasca, P. Cassata +42

We present the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS), a spectroscopic redshift survey of ~10.000 very faint galaxies to study the major phase of galaxy assembly 2<z<~6. The survey covers…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 77 cited

VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS): Witnessing the Assembly of a Massive Cluster at z~3.3

B. C. Lemaux, O. Cucciati, L. A. M. Tasca +46

Using new spectroscopic observations obtained as part of the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS), we perform a systematic search for overdense environments in the early universe ()…