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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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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/…
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…
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.…
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…
Photometric redshift and classification for the XMM-COSMOS sources
M. Salvato, G. Hasinger, O. Ilbert +40
We present photometric redshifts and spectral energy distribution (SED) classifications for a sample of 1542 optically identified sources detected with XMM in the COSMOS field. Our…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A spectroscopic study of a z=1.6 galaxy overdensity with GMASS
Jaron Kurk, Andrea Cimatti, Gianni Zamorani +12
The Galaxy Mass Assembly ultra-deep Spectroscopic Survey samples a part of the CDFS to unprecedented depth. The resulting distribution of 150 z>1.4 redshifts reveals a significant…
GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at z~2. III: The emergence of the color bimodality at z~2
P. Cassata, A. Cimatti, J. Kurk +12
The aim of this work is to study the evolution of the rest frame color distribution of galaxies with the redshift, in particular in the critical interval 1.4<z<3. We combine ultrad…
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…
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…
The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: Testing the gravitational instability paradigm at z ~ 1
C. Marinoni, L. Guzzo, A. Cappi +5
We have reconstructed the three-dimensional density fluctuation maps to z ~ 1.5 using the distribution of galaxies observed in the VVDS-Deep survey. We use this overdensity field t…
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…
GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at redshift z~2. I. The stellar metallicity
C. Halliday, E. Daddi, A. Cimatti +12
Context: Galaxy metallicities have been measured to redshift z~2 by gas-phase oxygen abundances of the interstellar medium using the R23 and N2 methods. Galaxy stellar metallicitie…
GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at 1.4<z<2. II. Superdense passive galaxies: how did they form and evolve ?
A. Cimatti, P. Cassata, L. Pozzetti +13
We combine ultradeep optical spectroscopy from the GMASS project ("Galaxy Mass Assembly ultradeep Spectroscopic Survey") with GOODS multi-band photometry and HST imaging to study a…