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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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astro-ph.CO2019★ 64 cited

CODEX clusters. The Survey, the Catalog, and Cosmology of the X-ray Luminosity Function

A. Finoguenov, E. Rykoff, N. Clerc +17

Large area catalogs of galaxy clusters constructed from ROSAT All Sky Survey provide the base for our knowledge on the population of clusters thanks to the long-term multiwavelengt…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 24 cited

Stellar population properties of individual massive early-type galaxies at 1.4 < z < 2

I. Lonoce, C. Maraston, D. Thomas +4

We analyse publicly available, individual spectra of four, massive () early-type galaxies with redshifts in the range 1.4 < z < 2 to determine their stellar con…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

Exploring the Diversity of Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei Identified in SDSS-IV/SPIDERS

Julien Wolf, Mara Salvato, Damien Coffey +8

We present a statistical analysis of the optical properties of an X-ray selected Type 1 AGN sample, using high signal to-noise ratio () spectra of the counterparts of the R…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 27 cited

The Mass-Metallicity Relation at : Redshift Evolution and Parameter Dependency

Chi Huang, Hu Zou, Xu Kong +11

The spectra of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digit Sky Survey (SDSS) are used to study the mass-metal…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 76 cited

Multi-tracer extension of the halo model: probing quenching and conformity in eBOSS

Shadab Alam, John A. Peacock, Katarina Kraljic +2

We develop a new Multi-Tracer Halo Occupation Distribution (\texttt{MTHOD}) framework for the galaxy distribution and apply it to the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surv…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 36 cited

Stellar mass -- halo mass relation for the brightest central galaxies of X-ray clusters since z~0.65

G. Erfanianfar, A. Finoguenov, K. Furnell +25

We present the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) catalog for SPectroscoic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS) DR14 cluster program value-added catalog. We list the 416 BCGs…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

Machine Learning Classifiers for Intermediate Redshift Emission Line Galaxies

Kai Zhang, David J. Schlegel, Brett H. Andrews +5

Classification of intermediate redshift ( = 0.3--0.8) emission line galaxies as star-forming galaxies, composite galaxies, active galactic nuclei (AGN), or low-ionization nuclea…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 21 cited

[OII] emitters in MultiDark-Galaxies and DEEP2

G. Favole, V. Gonzalez-Perez, A. Orsi +13

We use three semi-analytic models (SAMs) of galaxy formation and evolution, run on the same 1Gpc MultiDark Planck2 cosmological simulation, to investigate the properties of…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

SDSS-IV/SPIDERS: A Catalogue of X-Ray Selected AGN Properties; Spectral Properties and Black Hole Mass Estimates for SPIDERS SDSS DR14 Type 1 AGN

Damien Coffey, Mara Salvato, Andrea Merloni +7

This work presents the catalogue of optical spectral properties for all X-ray selected SPIDERS active galactic nuclei (AGN) up to SDSS DR14. SPIDERS (SPectroscopic IDentification o…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 37 cited

The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition

The MSE Science Team, Carine Babusiaux, Maria Bergemann +258

(Abridged) The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is an end-to-end science platform for the design, execution and scientific exploitation of spectroscopic surveys. It will unvei…

astro-ph.CO2019

4MOST Consortium Survey 8: Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS)

J. Richard, J. -P. Kneib, C. Blake +14

The 4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS) will perform stringent cosmological tests via spectroscopic clustering measurements that will complement the best lensing, cosmic microwav…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 23 cited

4MOST Consortium Survey 6: Active Galactic Nuclei

A. Merloni, D. A. Alexander, M. Banerji +17

X-ray and mid-infrared emission are signposts of the accretion of matter onto the supermassive black holes that reside at the centres of most galaxies. As a major step towards unde…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

4MOST Consortium Survey 5: eROSITA Galaxy Cluster Redshift Survey

A. Finoguenov, A. Merloni, J. Comparat +11

Groups and clusters of galaxies are a current focus of astronomical research owing to their role in determining the environmental effects on galaxies and the constraints they provi…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 8 cited

4MOST Survey Strategy Plan

G. Guiglion, C. Battistini, C. P. M. Bell +30

The current status of and motivation for the 4MOST Survey Strategy, as developed by the Consortium science team, are presented here. Key elements of the strategy are described, suc…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 7 cited

4MOST Scientific Operations

C. J. Walcher, M. Banerji, C. Battistini +65

The 4MOST instrument is a multi-object spectrograph that will address Galactic and extragalactic science cases simultaneously by observing targets from a large number of different…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 311 cited

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

R. S. de Jong, O. Agertz, A. Agudo Berbel +335

We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Vis…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 29 cited

Testing gravity with galaxy-galaxy lensing and redshift-space distortions using CFHT-Stripe 82, CFHTLenS and BOSS CMASS datasets

E. Jullo, S. de la Torre, M. -C. Cousinou +10

The combination of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing (GGL) and Redshift Space Distortion of galaxy clustering (RSD) is a privileged technique to test General Relativity predictions, and break…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 3 cited

Dark Matter Science in the Era of LSST

Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Kevork N. Abazajian +177

Astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, empirical measurements of dark matter. In the coming decade, astrophysical observations will guide other experimental…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 68 cited

Active Galactic Nuclei and their Large-scale Structure: an eROSITA mock catalogue

J. Comparat, A. Merloni, M. Salvato +15

In the context of the upcoming SRG/eROSITA survey, we present an N-body simulation-based mock catalogue for X-ray selected AGN samples. The model reproduces the observed hard X-ray…