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Mapping dark matter in the Bullet Cluster using JWST imaging and spectroscopy
Gregor Rihtaršič, Maruša Bradač, Guillaume Desprez +23
We present an updated gravitational lens model of the Bullet cluster (1E 0657-56) by combining JWST NIRCam imaging and NIRSpec spectroscopy. Although previous lens models relied on…
LATIS: Constraints on the Galaxy-halo Connection at from Galaxy-galaxy and Galaxy-Ly Clustering
Andrew B. Newman, Mahdi Qezlou, Nima Chartab +6
The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos is often quantified using the stellar mass-halo mass (SMHM) relation. Optical and near-infrared imaging surveys have led to a…
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations
Metin Ata, Khee-Gan Lee, Claudio Dalla Vecchia +5
Cosmological simulations are crucial tools in studying the Universe, but they typically do not directly match real observed structures. Constrained cosmological simulations, on the…
Second Data Release of the COSMOS Lyman-alpha Mapping and Tomographic Observation: The First 3D Maps of the Detailed Cosmic Web at 2.05<z<2.55
Benjamin Horowitz, Khee-Gan Lee, Metin Ata +12
We present the second data release of the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) Survey conducted with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck-I telescope. This…
The less and the more IGM transmitted galaxies from z~2.7 to z~6 from VANDELS and VUDS
R. Thomas, L. Pentericci, O. Le Fèvre +22
Aim. Our aim is to analyse the variance of the Inter-Galactic Medium transmission (IGM) by studying this parameter in the rest-frame UV spectra of a large sample of high redshift g…
An Optical Observational Cluster Mass Function at with the ORELSE Survey
D. Hung, B. C. Lemaux, R. R. Gal +11
We present a new mass function of galaxy clusters and groups using optical/near-infrared wavelength spectroscopic and photometric data from the Observations of Redshift Evolution i…
BIRTH of the COSMOS Field: Primordial and Evolved Density Reconstructions During Cosmic High Noon
Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Khee-Gan Lee +5
This work presents the first comprehensive study of structure formation at the peak epoch of cosmic star formation over in the COSMOS field, including the most…
LATIS: The Ly Tomography IMACS Survey
Andrew B. Newman, Gwen C. Rudie, Guillermo A. Blanc +15
We introduce LATIS, the Ly Tomography IMACS Survey, a spectroscopic survey at Magellan designed to map the z=2.2-2.8 intergalactic medium (IGM) in three dimensions by observing…
Spectroscopically Confirmed Lyman-Alpha Emitters from Redshift 5 to 7 Behind Ten Galaxy Cluster Lenses
Spencer Fuller, Brian Lemaux, Maruša Bradač +10
We present 36 spectroscopically confirmed intrinsically UV-faint Ly emitting galaxies from follow-up observations with Keck/DEIMOS of gravitationally lensed high-redshift candid…
H0LiCOW - IX. Cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332 and a new measurement of the Hubble constant
S. Birrer, T. Treu, C. E. Rusu +15
We present a blind time-delay strong lensing (TDSL) cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332. We combine the relative time delay between the quasar images,…
Merging Cluster Collaboration: A Panchromatic Atlas of Radio Relic Mergers
Nathan Golovich, William A. Dawson, David M. Wittman +13
Golovich et al. 2017b presents an optical imaging and spectroscopic survey of 29 radio relic merging galaxy clusters. In this paper, we study this survey to identify substructure a…
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…
MC: Subaru and Hubble Space Telescope Weak-Lensing Analysis of the Double Radio Relic Galaxy Cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9
Kyle Finner, M. James Jee, Nathan Golovich +6
The second most significant detection of the Planck Sunyaev Zel'dovich survey, PLCK~G287.0+32.9 () boasts two similarly bright radio relics and a radio halo. One radio rel…
Merging Cluster Collaboration: Optical and Spectroscopic Survey of a Radio-Selected Sample of Twenty Nine Merging Galaxy Clusters
Nathan Golovich, William A. Dawson, David M. Wittman +11
Multi-band photometric and multi-object spectroscopic surveys of merging galaxy clusters allow for the characterization of the distributions of constituent dark matter and galaxy p…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On the intermediate-redshift central stellar mass-halo mass relation, and implications for the evolution of the most massive galaxies since z~1
Francesco Shankar, Hong Guo, Vincent Bouillot +20
The stellar mass-halo mass relation is a key constraint in all semi-analytic, numerical, and semi-empirical models of galaxy formation and evolution. However, its exact shape and r…
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…
Spitzer UltRa Faint SUrvey Program (SURFS UP) I: An Overview
Maruša Bradač, Russell Ryan, Stefano Casertano +14
SURFSUP is a joint Spitzer and HST Exploration Science program using 10 galaxy clusters as cosmic telescopes to study z >~ 7 galaxies at intrinsically lower luminosities, enabled b…
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 ()…
Discovery of a rich proto-cluster at z=2.9 and associated diffuse cold gas in the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS)
O. Cucciati, G. Zamorani, B. C. Lemaux +42
[Abridged] We characterise a massive proto-cluster at z=2.895 that we found in the COSMOS field using the spectroscopic sample of the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS). This is one of…