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most cited4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope

196 citations · 1.8k across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

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★ 43 cited

Exploring 21cm - Lyman Alpha emitter synergies for SKA

Anne Hutter, Pratika Dayal, Volker Müller +1

We study the signatures of reionization and ionizing properties of the early galaxies in the cross-correlations between the 21cm emission from the spin-flip transition of neutral h…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

4MOST - 4m Multi Object Spectroscopic Telescope

Eric Depagne, the 4MOST consortium

4MOST (4m Multi Object Spectroscopic Telescope) is a spectroscopic facility that will be installed on ESO's VISTA around 2020. The science rationale of this facility are to be foun…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Bayesian inference of cosmic density fields from non-linear, scale-dependent, and stochastic biased tracers

Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Volker Müller

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm to generate unbiased samples of the underlying dark matter field from halo catalogues. Our new contribution consists of implementing…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 2 cited

Non-Gaussian inference from non-linear and non-Poisson biased distributed data

Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Volker Müller

We study the statistical inference of the cosmological dark matter density field from non-Gaussian, non-linear and non-Poisson biased distributed tracers. We have implemented a Bay…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 47 cited

The cosmic web of the Local Universe: cosmic variance, matter content and its relation to galaxy morphology

Sebastian E. Nuza, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Steffen Hess +2

We present, for the first time, a Local Universe (LU) characterization using high precision constrained -body simulations based on self-consistent phase-space reconstructions of…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 44 cited

The visibility of Lyman Alpha Emitters: constraining reionization, ionizing photons and dust

A. Hutter, P. Dayal, A. M. Partl +1

We build a physical model for high-redshift Lyman Alpha emitters (LAEs) by coupling state of the art cosmological simulations (GADGET-2) with a dust model and a radiative transfer…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 17 cited

Simulating extremely metal-poor gas and DLA metal content at redshift z=7

Umberto Maio, Benedetta Ciardi, Volker Mueller

We present the first theoretical study of metals in damped Ly-alpha (DLA) systems at redshift z=7. The features of cold, primordial gas are studied by means of N-body, hydro, chemi…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 53 cited

The evolution of HI and CIV quasar absorption line systems at 1.9 < z < 3.2

Tae-Sun Kim, Adrian M. Partl, Robert F. Carswell +1

We have investigated the distribution and evolution of ~3100 intergalactic HI absorbers with HI column densities log N(HI) = [12.75, 17.0] at 1.9 < z < 3.2, using 18 high resolutio…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 196 cited

4MOST - 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope

Roelof S. de Jong, Olga Bellido-Tirado, Cristina Chiappini +82

The 4MOST consortium is currently halfway through a Conceptual Design study for ESO with the aim to develop a wide-field (>3 square degree, goal >5 square degree), high-multiplex (…

astro-ph.CO2011

Measuring the Cosmic Web

Volker Mueller, Kai Hoffmann, Sebastian E. Nuza

A quantitative study of the clustering properties of the cosmic web as a function of absolute magnitude and colour is presented using the SDSS Data Release 7 galaxy survey. Mark co…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 4 cited

Large scale environmental bias of the QSO line of sight proximity effect

Adrian M. Partl, Volker Müller, Gustavo Yepes +1

We analyse the proximity zone of the intergalactic matter around high-redshift quasars in a cosmological environment. In a box of 64 h-1 Mpc base length we employ dark matter only…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 19 cited

Enabling parallel computing in CRASH

Adrian M. Partl, Antonella Maselli, Benedetta Ciardi +2

We present the new parallel version (pCRASH2) of the cosmological radiative transfer code CRASH2 for distributed memory supercomputing facilities. The code is based on a static dom…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 28 cited

Wavelet analysis of the formation of the cosmic web

J. Einasto, G. Hütsi, E. Saar +6

According to the modern cosmological paradigm galaxies and galaxy systems form from tiny density perturbations generated during the very early phase of the evolution of the Univers…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 8 cited

Cosmological radiative transfer for the line-of-sight proximity effect

Adrian M. Partl, Aldo Dall'Aglio, Volker Müller +1

We study the proximity effect in the Ly-a forest around high redshift quasars as a function of redshift and environment employing a set of 3D radiative transfer simulations. The an…

astro-ph2008★ 44 cited

Toward understanding rich superclusters

M. Einasto, E. Saar, V. J. Martinez +10

We present a morphological study of the two richest superclusters from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (SCL126, the Sloan Great Wall, and SCL9, the Sculptor supercluster). We use Mi…

astro-ph2002★ 2 cited

Luminosity function and density field of the Sloan and Las Campanas Redshift Survey

G. Hütsi, J. Einasto, D. L. Tucker +5

The luminosity function of galaxies of the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS) is calculated. The luminosity funct…

astro-ph2002★ 82 cited

Clusters and Superclusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

J. Einasto, G. H"utsi, M. Einasto +5

Two-dimensional high-resolution density field of galaxies of the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with a smoothing lengths 0.8 h^{-1} Mpc is applied to extract cl…

astro-ph2002★ 100 cited

Correlations in the orientations of galaxy clusters

Andreas Faltenbacher, Martin Kerscher, Stefan Gottloeber +1

The relative orientation of clusters' major elongation axes and clusters' angular momentum is studied using a large N-body simulation in a box of 500 Mpc/h base length for a standa…

astro-ph2002★ 61 cited

Spatial distribution of galactic halos and their merger histories

Stefan Gottloeber, Martin Kerscher, Andrey V. Kravtsov +3

We use a novel statistical tool, the mark correlation functions (MCFs), to study clustering of galaxy-size halos as a function of their properties and environment in a high-resolut…

astro-ph2002★ 27 cited

Numerical simulations of the cosmic star formation history

Y. Ascasibar, G. Yepes, S. Gottloeber +1

The cosmic star formation history in Cold Dark Matter dominated cosmological scenarios is studied by means of hydrodynamical numerical simulations. In particular, we explore a low…

astro-ph2002★ 14 cited

The mass function of the Las Campanas loose groups of galaxies

P. Heinamki, J. Einasto, M. Einasto +3

We have determined the mass function of loose groups of galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey. Loose groups of galaxies in the LCRS range in mass from $M \sim 10^{12} {\rm M…

astro-ph2001★ 32 cited

Void Scaling and Void Profiles in CDM Models

S. Arbabi-Bidgoli, V. Mueller

An analysis of voids using cosmological N-body simulations of cold dark matter models is presented. It employs a robust statistics of voids, that was recently applied to discrimina…

astro-ph2000★ 25 cited

Optical and X-ray clusters as tracers of the supercluster-void network. III Distribution of Abell and APM clusters

M. Einasto, J. Einasto, E. Tago +3

We present a comparison of Abell and APM clusters of galaxies as tracers of the large scale structure of the Universe. We investigate selection functions of both cluster catalogs.…