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astro-ph.CO2017★ 45 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): An unbiased estimate of the growth rate of structure at using the clustering of luminous blue galaxies

F. G. Mohammad, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo +34

We use the VIPERS final data release to investigate the performance of colour-selected populations of galaxies as tracers of linear large-scale motions. We empirically select volum…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 201 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): The growth of structures at from redshift-space distortions in the clustering of the PDR-2 final sample

A. Pezzotta, S. de la Torre, J. Bel +36

We present measurements of the growth rate of cosmological structure from the modelling of the anisotropic galaxy clustering measured in the final data release of the VIPERS survey…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 100 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Gravity test from the combination of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing at

S. de la Torre, E. Jullo, C. Giocoli +39

We carry out a joint analysis of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing, with the aim of measuring the growth rate of structure; this is a key quantity for understand…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 98 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey: Measuring the growth rate of structure around cosmic voids

A. J. Hawken, B. R. Granett, A. Iovino +33

We identified voids in the completed VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), using an algorithm based on searching for empty spheres. We measured the cross-correlation…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 16 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). The matter density and baryon fraction from the galaxy power spectrum at redshift

S. Rota, B. R. Granett, J. Bel +37

We use the final catalogue of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to measure the power spectrum of the galaxy distribution at high redshift, presenting results…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 41 cited

Clustering-based redshift estimation: application to VIPERS/CFHTLS

V. Scottez, Y. Mellier, B. R. Granett +36

We explore the accuracy of the clustering-based redshift estimation proposed by Ménard et al. (2013) when applied to VIPERS and CFHTLS real data. This method enables us to reconstr…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 143 cited

The XXL Survey. II. The bright cluster sample: catalogue and luminosity function

F. Pacaud, N. Clerc, P. A. Giles +40

Context. The XXL Survey is the largest survey carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite and covers a total area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields. It primarily aims at…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Reconstruction of the redshift-space galaxy density field

B. R. Granett, E. Branchini, L. Guzzo +43

Aims. Using the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) we aim to jointly estimate the key parameters that describe the galaxy density field and its spatial correlation…

astro-ph.CO2015

A high-dimensional look at VIPERS galaxies

B. R. Granett, U. Abbas, C. Adami +44

We investigate how galaxies in VIPERS (the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey) inhabit the cosmological density field by examining the correlations across the observable pa…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 17 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): On the correct recovery of the count-in-cell probability distribution function

J. Bel, E. Branchini, C. Di Porto +45

We compare three methods to measure the count-in-cell probability density function of galaxies in a spectroscopic redshift survey. From this comparison we found that when the sampl…

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★ 96 cited

Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography from Background Galaxies: The First Megaparsec-Resolution Large-Scale Structure Map at z>2

Khee-Gan Lee, Joseph F. Hennawi, Casey Stark +21

We present the first observations of foreground Lyman- forest absorption from high-redshift galaxies, targeting 24 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with within a $5'…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 29 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey - Searching for Cosmic Voids

D. Micheletti, A. Iovino, A. J. Hawken +46

The characterisation of cosmic voids gives unique information about the large-scale distribution of galaxies, their evolution and the cosmological model. We identify and characteri…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 22 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Measuring nonlinear galaxy bias at z~0.8

C. Di Porto, E. Branchini, J. Bel +46

We use the first release of the VImos Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey of galaxies (VIPERS) of ~50,000 objects to measure the biasing relation between galaxies and mass in the…

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 ()…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 103 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 83 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): A quiescent formation of massive red-sequence galaxies over the past 9 Gyr

A. Fritz, M. Scodeggio, O. Ilbert +46

We explore the evolution of the Colour-Magnitude Relation (CMR) and Luminosity Function (LF) at 0.4<z<1.3 from the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) using ~45,000…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 31 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): from the galaxy clustering ratio measured at

J. Bel, C. Marinoni, B. R. Granett +47

We use a sample of about 22,000 galaxies at from the VIPERS PDR-1 catalogue, to constrain the cosmological model through a measurement of the galaxy {\it clustering ra…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 255 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS): First Data Release of 57 204 spectroscopic measurements

B. Garilli, L. Guzzo, M. Scodeggio +46

We present the first Public Data Release (PDR-1) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). It comprises 57 204 spectroscopic measurements together with all additional info…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 6 cited

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: the redshift distribution N(z) of magnitude-limited samples down to iAB=24.75 and KsAB=22

O. Le Fevre, P. Cassata, O. Cucciati +20

We measure and analyse the redshift distribution N(z) of magnitude-selected samples using spectroscopic redshift measurement from the magnitude-selected VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 408 cited

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey final data release: a spectroscopic sample of 35016 galaxies and AGN out to z~6.7 selected with 17.5<=i_{AB}<=24.7

O. Le Fevre, P. Cassata, O. Cucciati +42

We describe the completed VIMOS VLT Deep Survey, and the final data release of 35016 galaxies and type-I AGN with measured spectroscopic redshifts up to redshift z~6.7, in areas 0.…