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most citedAccurate photometric redshifts for the CFHT Legacy Survey calibrated using the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey

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33 papers

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.GA2016★ 119 cited

The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey First Data Release: spectra and spectroscopic redshifts of 698 objects up to z~6 in CANDELS

L. A. M. Tasca, O. Le Fevre, B. Ribeiro +45

This paper describes the first data release (DR1) of the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (VUDS). The DR1 includes all low-resolution spectroscopic data obtained in 276.9 arcmin2 of the CAN…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 92 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Environmental effects shaping the galaxy stellar mass function

I. Davidzon, O. Cucciati, M. Bolzonella +38

We exploit the first public data release of VIPERS to investigate environmental effects in galaxy evolution between and . The large number of spectroscopic redshift…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 104 cited

The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of galaxies at z=3.3 in the VUDS-LBC/COSMOS field

A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, R. Gerbasi +52

The Lyman continuum (LyC) flux escaping from high-z galaxies into the IGM is a fundamental quantity to understand the physical processes involved in the reionization epoch. We have…

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.GA2014★ 163 cited

The evolving SFR-M_star relation and sSFR since z~5 from the VUDS spectroscopic survey

L. A. M. Tasca, O. Le Fevre, N. P. Hathi +44

We study the evolution of the star formation rate (SFR) - stellar mass (M_star) relation and specific star formation rate (sSFR) of star forming galaxies (SFGs) since a redshift z~…

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.GA2014★ 127 cited

The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS): fast increase of the fraction of strong Lyman alpha emitters from z=2 to z=6

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

Aims. The aim of this work is to constrain the evolution of the fraction of Lya emitters among UV selected star forming galaxies at 2<z<6, and to measure the stellar escape fractio…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 56 cited

Discovering extremely compact and metal-poor, star-forming dwarf galaxies out to z ~ 0.9 in the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey

Ricardo Amorín, V. Sommariva, M. Castellano +42

We report the discovery of 31 low-luminosity (-14.5 > M_{AB}(B) > -18.8), extreme emission line galaxies (EELGs) at 0.2 < z < 0.9 identified by their unusually high rest-frame equi…

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★ 350 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). An unprecedented view of galaxies and large-scale structure at 0.5<z<1.2

L. Guzzo, M. Scodeggio, B. Garilli +47

We describe the construction and general features of VIPERS, the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey. This `Large Programme' has been using the ESO VLT with the aim of build…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 116 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). A precise measurement of the galaxy stellar mass function and the abundance of massive galaxies at redshifts 0.5<z<1.3

I. Davidzon, M. Bolzonella, J. Coupon +47

We measure the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function from z=1.3 to z=0.5 using the first 53,608 redshifts of the ongoing VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). We esti…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 112 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Luminosity and stellar mass dependence of galaxy clustering at 0.5<z<1.1

F. Marulli, M. Bolzonella, E. Branchini +46

We investigate the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and stellar mass in the redshift range 0.5<z<1.1, using the first ~55000 redshifts from the VIMOS Public Extragalac…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 314 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Galaxy clustering and redshift-space distortions at z=0.8 in the first data release

S. de la Torre, L. Guzzo, J. A. Peacock +47

We present in this paper the general real- and redshift-space clustering properties of galaxies as measured in the first data release of the VIPERS survey. VIPERS is a large redshi…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 52 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). A Support Vector Machine classification of galaxies, stars and AGNs

K. Malek, A. Solarz, A. Pollo +47

The aim of this work is to develop a comprehensive method for classifying sources in large sky surveys and we apply the techniques to the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 31 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): spectral classification through Principal Component Analysis

A. Marchetti, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo +51

We develop a Principal Component Analysis aimed at classifying a sub-set of 27,350 spectra of galaxies in the range 0.4 < z < 1.0 collected by the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshi…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 49 cited

Galaxy cluster searches based on photometric redshifts in the four CFHTLS Wide fields

F. Durret, C. Adami, A. Cappi +19

We have developed a method for detecting clusters in large imaging surveys, based on the detection of structures in galaxy density maps made in slices of photometric redshifts. Thi…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 174 cited

Galaxy clustering in the CFHTLS-Wide: the changing relationship between galaxies and haloes since z ~ 1.2

J. Coupon, M. Kilbinger, H. J. McCracken +9

We present a detailed investigation of the changing relationship between galaxies and the dark matter haloes they inhabit from z~1.2 to the present day. We do this by comparing pre…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 181 cited

The Vimos VLT Deep Survey: Stellar mass segregation and large-scale galaxy environment in the redshift range 0.2<z<1.4

M. Scodeggio, D. Vergani, O. Cucciati +49

Hierarchical models of galaxy formation predict that the properties of a dark matter halo depend on the large-scale environment surrounding the halo. As a result of this correlatio…