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most citedMass and environment as drivers of galaxy evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the origin of the Schechter function

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astro-ph2008★ 110 cited

The Environments of Active Galactic Nuclei within the zCOSMOS Density Field

J. D. Silverman, K. Kovac, C. Knobel +58

The impact of environment on AGN activity up to z~1 is assessed by utilizing a mass-selected sample of galaxies from the 10k catalog of the zCOSMOS spectroscopic redshift survey. W…

astro-ph2008★ 107 cited

The spatial clustering of X-ray selected AGN in the XMM-COSMOS field

R. Gilli, G. Zamorani, T. Miyaji +70

We study the spatial clustering of 538 X-ray selected AGN in the 2 deg^2 XMM-COSMOS field that are spectroscopically identified to I_{AB}<23 and span the redshift range z=0.2-3.0.…

astro-ph2008★ 193 cited

Photometric redshifts for the CFHTLS T0004 Deep and Wide fields

J. Coupon, O. Ilbert, M. Kilbinger +15

We compute photometric redshifts based on the template-fitting method in the fourth public release of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. This unique multi-colour cat…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

Physical properties of galaxies and their evolution in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. II. Extending the mass-metallicity relation to the range z=0.89-1.24

E. Perez-Montero, T. Contini, F. Lamareille +39

Aims. We present a continuation of our study about the relation between stellar mass and gas-phase metallicity in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). In this work we extend the deter…

astro-ph2008★ 96 cited

Physical properties of galaxies and their evolution in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. I. The evolution of the mass-metallicity relation up to z~0.9

F. Lamareille, J. Brinchmann, T. Contini +43

We derive the mass-metallicity relation of star-forming galaxies up to , using data from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. Automatic measurement of emission-line fluxes and equi…

astro-ph2008★ 10 cited

The VVDS-VLA Deep Field - IV: Radio-optical properties

S. Bardelli, E. Zucca, M. Bolzonella +51

(abridged) We use the 1.4 GHz VIMOS-VLA Deep Survey and the optical VVDS and the CFHT-LS to compare the properties of radio loud galaxies with respect to the whole population of op…

astro-ph2008★ 236 cited

Ongoing and co-evolving star formation in zCOSMOS galaxies hosting Active Galactic Nuclei

J. D. Silverman, F. Lamareille, C. Maier +60

We present a study of the host galaxies of AGN selected from the zCOSMOS survey to establish if accretion onto supermassive black holes and star formation are explicitly linked up…

astro-ph2008★ 57 cited

The zCOSMOS redshift survey: the three-dimensional classification cube and bimodality in galaxy physical properties

M. Mignoli, G. Zamorani, M. Scodeggio +56

Aims. We investigate the relationships between three main optical galaxy observables (spectral properties, colours, and morphology), exploiting the data set provided by the COSMOS/…

astro-ph2008★ 35 cited

Eddington ratios of faint AGN at intermediate redshift: Evidence for a population of half-starved black holes

I. Gavignaud, L. Wisotzki, A. Bongiorno +51

We use one of the deepest spectroscopic samples of broad line active galactic nuclei (AGN) currently available, extracted from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS), to compute MgII and…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

The close environment of 24 micron galaxies at 0.6<z<1.0 in the COSMOS field

K. I. Caputi, K. Kovac, M. Bolzonella +62

We investigate the close environment of 203 Spitzer 24 micron-selected sources at 0.6<z<1.0 using zCOSMOS-bright redshifts and spectra of I<22.5 AB mag galaxies, over 1.5 sq. deg.…

astro-ph2008★ 1.2k cited

COSMOS Photometric Redshifts with 30-bands for 2-deg2

O. Ilbert, P. Capak, M. Salvato +60

We present accurate photometric redshifts in the 2-deg2 COSMOS field. The redshifts are computed with 30 broad, intermediate, and narrow bands covering the UV (GALEX), Visible-NIR…

astro-ph2008★ 73 cited

The VVDS-SWIRE-GALEX-CFHTLS surveys: Physical properties of galaxies at z below 1.2 from photometric data

C. J. Walcher, F. Lamareille, D. Vergani +42

We intend to show that it is possible to derive the physical parameters of galaxies from their broad-band spectral energy distribution out to a redshift of 1.2. This method has the…

astro-ph2008★ 187 cited

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey :Evolution of the major merger rate since z~1 from spectroscopicaly confirmed galaxy pairs

L. de Ravel, O. Le Fèvre, L. Tresse +48

From the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey we use a sample of 6447 galaxies with I_{AB} < 24 to identify 251 pairs of galaxies, each member with a secure spectroscopic redshift, which are clos…

astro-ph2008

The VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey: Dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass

B. Meneux, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli +8

We have investigated the dependence of galaxy clustering on their stellar mass at z~1, using the data from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). We have measured the projected two-poin…

astro-ph2008★ 162 cited

The Vimos VLT Deep Survey: Global properties of 20000 galaxies in the I_AB<=22.5 WIDE survey

B. Garilli, O. Le Fèvre, L. Guzzo +44

The VVDS-Wide survey has been designed with the general aim of tracing the large-scale distribution of galaxies at z~1 on comoving scales reaching ~100Mpc/h, while providing a good…

astro-ph2008★ 39 cited

The optical spectra of 24 micron galaxies in the COSMOS field: I. Spitzer/MIPS bright sources in the zCOSMOS-bright 10k catalogue

K. I. Caputi, S. J. Lilly, H. Aussel +23

We study zCOSMOS-bright optical spectra for 609 Spitzer/MIPS 24 micron-selected galaxies with S(24um)> 0.30 mJy and I<22.5 (AB mag) over 1.5 sq. deg. of the COSMOS field. From emis…

astro-ph2008★ 670 cited

A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions

L. Guzzo, M. Pierleoni, B. Meneux +48

Observations of distant supernovae indicate that the Universe is now in a phase of accelerated expansion the physical cause of which is a mystery. Formally, this requires the inclu…

astro-ph2008★ 17 cited

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: The K-band follow-up in the 0226-04 field

S. Temporin, A. Iovino, M. Bolzonella +45

AIMS. We present a new Ks-band survey that represents a significant extension to the previous wide-field Ks-band imaging survey within the 0226-04 field of the VIMOS-VLT deep surve…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

GOSSIP, a new VO compliant tool for SED fitting

P. Franzetti, M. Scodeggio, B. Garilli +2

We present GOSSIP (Galaxy Observed-Simulated SED Interactive Program), a new tool developed to perform SED fitting in a simple, user friendly and efficient way. GOSSIP automaticall…