5 papers
The Wonderful World of Binary Stars
Andrea Barone, Henri M. J. Boffin, Beatrice Caccherano +6
During the 2026 ESO La Silla Observing school, about twenty students attended lectures and performed observations to learn various aspects of observational astronomy. The school, w…
The ESPRESSO Redshift Drift Experiment III -- The Third Epoch of QSO J052915.80-435152.0
Andrea Trost, Catarina M. J. Marques, S. Cristiani +25
The Sandage-Loeb test probes cosmic expansion directly by measuring the redshift drift in quasar absorption features in a model-independent way. In this series of papers, we have l…
From the Intergalactic to the Interstellar Scales -- EQUALS: a High-resolution Legacy Survey of Gas in the Distant Universe Using ESPRESSO
Trystyn Berg, Valentina D'Odorico, Elisa Boera +14
Understanding how the Universe evolved from diffuse primordial gas into the rich cosmic web we observe today is one of the great challenges of modern astrophysics. Quasar absorptio…
Detecting the IGM metal enrichment with the 2-point correlation function of the flux. Application to the UVES deep spectrum
Simona Di Stefano, Valentina D'Odorico, Guido Cupani +5
The distribution and the abundance of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM) have strong implications on galaxy formation and evolution models. The ionic transitions of heavy ele…
The ESPRESSO Redshift Drift Experiment I -- High-resolution spectra of the Lyman- forest of QSO J052915.80-435152.0
Andrea Trost, Catarina M. J. Marques, Stefano Cristiani +25
The measurement of the temporal evolution in the redshift of distant objects, the redshift drift, is a probe of universal expansion and cosmology. We perform the first steps toward…