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astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

CHEX-MATE: exploring the kinematical properties of Planck galaxy clusters

Lorenzo Pizzuti, Rafael Barrena, Mauro Sereno +19

We analyse the kinematical properties of the CHEX-MATE (Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton - Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of structure formation) galaxy c…

astro-ph.CO2024

CHEX-MATE: Dynamical masses for a sample of 101 Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich-selected galaxy clusters

Mauro Sereno, Sophie Maurogordato, Alberto Cappi +23

The Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton - Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of structure formation (CHEX-MATE) is a programme to study a minimally biased sample…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

Velocity dispersion and dynamical masses for 388 Galaxy Clusters and groups. Calibrating the -- scaling relation for the PSZ2 sample

A. Aguado-Barahona, J. A. Rubino-Martin, A. Ferragamo +3

The second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, represents the largest galaxy cluster sample selected by means of their SZ signature in a full-sky su…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 21 cited

Velocity dispersion and dynamical mass for 270 galaxy clusters in the Planck PSZ1 catalogue

A. Ferragamo, R. Barrena, J. A. Rubiño-Martín +6

We present the velocity dispersion and dynamical mass estimates for 270 galaxy clusters included in the first Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) source catalogue, the PSZ1. Part of the…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton: Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of structure formation. I. Programme overview

MATE Collaboration, M. Arnaud, S. Ettori +66

The Cluster HEritage project with XMM-Newton - Mass Assembly and Thermodynamics at the Endpoint of structure formation (CHEX-MATE) is a three mega-second Multi-Year Heritage Progra…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 8 cited

Optical validation and characterisation of Planck PSZ1 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. II. Second year of ITP13 observations

R. Barrena, A. Ferragamo, J. A. Rubiño-Martín +17

We report new galaxy clusters previously unknown included in the PSZ1 catalogue. The results here presented have been achieved during the second year of a 2-year observational prog…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 13 cited

Optical validation and characterization of \Planck\ PSZ2 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. I. First year of LP15 observations

A. Streblyanska, A. Aguado-Barahona, A. Ferragamo +5

Using telescopes at the Canary Island observatories, we conducted the long-term observational programme 128-MULTIPLE-16/15B (LP15), a large and complete optical follow-up campaign…

astro-ph.CO2018

Gravitational lensing detection of an extremely dense environment around a galaxy cluster

Mauro Sereno, Carlo Giocoli, Luca Izzo +8

Galaxy clusters form at the highest density nodes of the cosmic web. The clustering of massive halos is enhanced relative to the general mass distribution and matter beyond the vir…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 22 cited

Characterization of a subsample of the Planck SZ source cluster catalogues using optical SDSS DR12 data

A. Streblyanska, R. Barrena, J. A. Rubino-Martin +5

The Planck catalogues of SZ sources, PSZ1 and PSZ2, are the largest catalogues of galaxy clusters selected through their SZ signature in the full sky. In 2013, we started a long-te…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 30 cited

Optical validation and characterization of Planck PSZ1 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. I. First year of ITP13 observations

R. Barrena, A. Streblyanska, A. Ferragamo +20

We identify new clusters and characterize previously unknown Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources from the first Planck catalogue of SZ sources (PSZ1). The results presented here…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 413 cited

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Metin Ata, Falk Baumgarten, Julian Bautista +60

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 13 cited

BOSS Great Wall: morphology, luminosity, and mass

Maret Einasto, Heidi Lietzen, Mirt Gramann +7

We study the morphology, luminosity and mass of the superclusters from the BOSS Great Wall (BGW), a recently discovered very rich supercluster complex at the redshift . W…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 133 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications of the Fourier space wedges of the final sample

Jan Niklas Grieb, Ariel G. Sánchez, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz +25

We extract cosmological information from the anisotropic power spectrum measurements from the recently completed Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), extending the conce…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 23 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmic Flows and Cosmic Web from Luminous Red Galaxies

Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Chia-Hsun Chuang +31

We present a Bayesian phase-space reconstruction of the cosmic large-scale matter density and velocity fields from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey Data Releas…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 44 cited

Discovery of a massive supercluster system at

H. Lietzen, E. Tempel, L. J. Liivamägi +6

Superclusters are the largest relatively isolated systems in the cosmic web. Using the SDSS BOSS survey we search for the largest superclusters in the redshift range .…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 21 cited

Prospects for high-z cluster detections with Planck, based on a follow-up of 28 candidates using MegaCam@CFHT

R. F. J. van der Burg, H. Aussel, G. W. Pratt +13

The Planck catalogue of SZ sources limits itself to a significance threshold of 4.5 to ensure a low contamination rate by false cluster candidates. This means that only the most ma…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 9 cited

The XMM Cluster Survey: The Halo Occupation Number of BOSS galaxies in X-ray clusters

Nicola Mehrtens, A. Kathy Romer, Robert C. Nichol +26

We present a direct measurement of the mean halo occupation distribution (HOD) of galaxies taken from the eleventh data release (DR11) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Os…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 109 cited

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability Selection and Quasar Luminosity Function

N. Palanque-Delabrouille, Ch. Magneville, Ch. Yèche +11

The SDSS-IV/eBOSS has an extensive quasar program that combines several selection methods. Among these, the photometric variability technique provides highly uniform samples, unaff…

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★ 205 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection

Adam D. Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Abhishek Prakash +34

As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will improve measurements of the cosmological distance scale by applying the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 165 cited

Clustering of intermediate redshift quasars using the final SDSS III-BOSS sample

Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Adam D. Myers, Martin White +7

We measure the two-point clustering of spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the final sample of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) on comoving scales of 4 < s <…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 39 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. XXXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck SZ sources with telescopes in the Canary Islands Observatories

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +187

We present the results of approximately three years of observations of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources with telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories as part of the gene…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 325 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXVII. The Second Planck Catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich Sources

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +257

We present the all-sky Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources detected from the 29 month full-mission data. The catalogue (PSZ2) is the largest SZ-selected sample of ga…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 61 cited

The first Frontier Fields cluster: 4.5μm excess in a z~8 galaxy candidate in Abell 2744

N. Laporte, A. Streblyanska, B. Clement +10

We present in this letter the first analysis of a z~8 galaxy candidate found in the Hubble and Spitzer imaging data of Abell 2744, as part of the Hubble Frontier Fields legacy prog…