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most citedThe wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

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36 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, Lauren A. MacArthur +51

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a deep, high resolution imaging campaign that used the 1 deg MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carr…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XX. Star formation in the tidal tail of NGC 4254

A. Boselli, A. Lupi, P. Serra +26

ALMA 12CO(1-0) observations of 42 star-forming regions located outside the disc of the Virgo Cluster galaxy NGC4254 within an HI gas tail produced during the galaxy's interaction w…

astro-ph.GA2023

Towards an automatic approach to modelling the circumgalactic medium: new tools for mock making and fitting of metal profiles in large surveys

Alessia Longobardi, Matteo Fossati, Michele Fumagalli +6

We present two new tools for studying and modelling metal absorption lines in the circumgalactic medium. The first tool, dubbed ``NMF Profile Maker'' (NMFPM), uses a non-negativ…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XV. The Halpha luminosity function of the Virgo cluster

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, P. Cote +17

We use a complete set of deep narrow-band imaging data for 384 galaxies gathered during the VESTIGE survey to derive the first Halpha luminosity function (LF) of the Virgo cluster…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 34 cited

Metal line emission from galaxy haloes at z~1

Rajeshwari Dutta, Matteo Fossati, Michele Fumagalli +12

We present a study of the metal-enriched halo gas, traced using MgII and [OII] emission lines, in two large, blind galaxy surveys - the MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) Ana…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).XIV. The main sequence relation in a rich environment down to M_star ~ 10^6 Mo

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, J. Roediger +15

Using a compilation of Halpha fluxes for 384 star forming galaxies detected during the VESTIGE survey, we study several important scaling relations for a complete sample of galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 51 cited

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) -- IV: The gaseous environment of 3-4 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies

Emma K. Lofthouse, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati +9

We study the link between galaxies and HI-selected absorption systems at z~3-4 in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) survey, an ESO large programme consisting of integ…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).XIII. The role of ram-pressure stripping in transforming the diffuse and ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Junais, S. Boissier, A. Boselli +16

Low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBs) contribute to a significant fraction of all the galaxies in the Universe. Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) form a subclass of LSBs that has attr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIII. Stellar Population Gradients in the Virgo Cluster Core Globular Cluster System

Youkyung Ko, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté +24

We present a study of the stellar populations of globular clusters (GCs) in the Virgo Cluster core with a homogeneous spectroscopic catalog of 692 GCs within a major axis distance…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

Tracing the environmental history of observed galaxies via extended fast action minimization method

Elena Sarpa, Alessia Longobardi, Katarina Kraljic +2

We present a novel application of the extended Fast Action Minimization method (eFAM) aimed at assessing the role of the environment in shaping galaxy evolution. We validate our ap…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).XI. Two dimensional H kinematics of the edge-on ram pressure stripped galaxy NGC 4330

M. M. Sardaneta, P. Amram, A. Boselli +18

Using the VESTIGE survey, a deep narrow-band H imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried on at the CFHT with MegaCam, we discovered a long diffuse tail of ionised gas in the e…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).XII. Ionised gas emission in the inner regions of lenticular galaxies

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, A. Longobardi +24

As part of the VESTIGE survey, a blind narrow-band Ha+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the CFHT, we discovered 8 massive lenticular galaxies wi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 63 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).IX. The effects of ram pressure stripping down to the scale of individual HII regions in the dwarf galaxy IC 3476

A. Boselli, A. Lupi, B. Epinat +25

We study the IB(s)m galaxy IC 3476 observed in the context of VESTIGE, a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster. The deep narrow-band (NB) image reveals…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission. VESTIGE VIII. Bridging the cluster-ICM-galaxy evolution at small scales

A. Longobardi, A. Boselli, M. Fossati +20

We measure FIR emission from tails of stripped dust following the ionised and atomic gas components in galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping. We study the dust-to-gas relative…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 40 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIV. Ultra-Compact Dwarf (UCD) Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

Chengze Liu, Patrick Côté, Eric W. Peng +26

We present a study of ultra compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies in the Virgo cluster based mainly on imaging from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). Using 100 deg$^{2}…

astro-ph.IM2020

CASTLE: performances and science cases

S. Lombardo, F. Prada, E. Hugot +23

We present here the Calar Alto Schmidt-Lemaitre Telescope (CASTLE) concept, a technology demonstrator for curved detectors, that will be installed at the Calar Alto Observatory (Sp…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

A discrete chemo-dynamical model of M87's globular clusters: Kinematics extending to ~ 400 kpc

Chao Li, Ling Zhu, R. J. Long +14

We study the mass distribution and kinematics of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 (NGC 4486) using discrete chemo-dynamical, axisymmetric Jeans equation modelling. Our catalogue com…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).VI. Environmental quenching on HII region scales

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, A. Longobardi +15

The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the Canada…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS) VIII. Diffuse dust in the Virgo intra-cluster space

A. Longobardi, A. Boselli, S. Boissier +5

We present the first detection of diffuse dust in the intra-cluster medium of the Virgo cluster out to 0.4 virial radii, and study the radial variation of its properties on a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XVII. A Search for Planetary Nebulae in Virgo Cluster Globular Clusters

Weijia Sun, Eric W. Peng, Youkyung Ko +11

The occurrence of planetary nebulae (PNe) in globular clusters (GCs) provides an excellent chance to study low-mass stellar evolution in a special (low-metallicity, high stellar de…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 31 cited

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).V. Properties of the ionised gas filament of M87

A. Boselli, M. Fossati, A. Longobardi +22

We have observed the giant elliptical galaxy M87 during the Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Galaxy Evolution (VESTIGE), a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey of the Vi…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

The kinematics of the outer halo of M87 as mapped by planetary nebulae

A. Longobardi, M. Arnaboldi, O. Gerhard +2

We present a kinematic study of a sample of 298 planetary nebulas (PNs) in the outer halo of the central Virgo galaxy M87 (NGC~4486). The line-of-sight velocities of these PNs are…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 37 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) XXXI. The kinematics of intra-cluster globular clusters in the core of the Virgo cluster

Alessia Longobardi, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté +21

Intra-cluster (IC) populations are expected to be a natural result of the hierarchical assembly of clusters, yet their low space densities make them difficult to detect and study.…