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Photometric redshifts for the CFHTLS-Wide
Fabrice Brimioulle, Michael Lerchster, Stella Seitz +2
We want to derive bias free, accurate photometric redshifts for those fields of the CFHTLS-Wide data which are covered in the u*, g', r', i' and z' filters and are public on Januar…
Absorption line indices in the UV. Empirical and theoretical stellar population models
C. Maraston, L. A. Nieves, R. Bender +1
(Abridged). Stellar absorption lines in the optical have been extensively studied and constitute an important stellar population diagnostic for galaxies in the local universe and u…
Structure and Formation of Elliptical and Spheroidal Galaxies
John Kormendy, David B. Fisher, Mark E. Cornell +1
New surface photometry of all known elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster is added to published data to derive composite profiles over large dynamic ranges. Sersic functions fit…
The supermassive black hole of Fornax A
N. Nowak, R. P. Saglia, J. Thomas +3
The radio galaxy Fornax A (NGC 1316) is a prominent merger remnant in the outskirts of the Fornax cluster. Its giant radio lobes suggest the presence of a powerful AGN and thus a c…
A Stellar Dynamical Measurement of the Black Hole Mass in the Maser Galaxy NGC 4258
Christos Siopis, Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer +13
We determine the mass of the black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 by constructing axisymmetric dynamical models of the galaxy. These models are constrained by hig…
Towards A Census of Earth-mass Exo-planets with Gravitational Microlensing
J. P. Beaulieu, E. Kerins, S. Mao +26
Thirteen exo-planets have been discovered using the gravitational microlensing technique (out of which 7 have been published). These planets already demonstrate that super-Earths (…
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of Coma cluster early-type galaxies IV. Completing the dataset
E. M. Corsini, G. Wegner, R. P. Saglia +3
The long-slit spectra obtained along the minor axis, offset major axis and diagonal axis are presented for 12 E and S0 galaxies of the Coma cluster drawn from a magnitude-limited s…
The Black Hole Mass and Extreme Orbital Structure in NGC1399
Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer, Jason Pinkney +12
The largest galaxies, and in particular central galaxies in clusters, offer unique insight into understanding the mechanism for the growth of nuclear black holes. We present Hubble…
The supermassive black hole in NGC4486a detected with SINFONI at the VLT
N. Nowak, R. P. Saglia, J. Thomas +4
The near-infrared integral field spectrograph SINFONI at the ESO VLT opens a new window for the study of central supermassive black holes. With a near-IR spatial resolution similar…
Astro-WISE: Chaining to the Universe
Edwin A. Valentijn, John P. McFarland, Jan Snigula +18
The recent explosion of recorded digital data and its processed derivatives threatens to overwhelm researchers when analysing their experimental data or when looking up data items…
The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: III. optical identification and multiwavelength properties of a large sample of X-ray selected sources
M. Brusa, G. Zamorani, A. Comastri +31
[ABRIGED] We present the optical identification of a sample of 695 X-ray sources detected in the first 1.3 deg^2 of the XMM-COSMOS survey, down to a 0.5-2 keV (2-10 keV) limiting f…
Intense Star-formation and Feedback at High Redshift: Spatially-resolved Properties of the z=2.6 Submillimeter Galaxy SMMJ14011+0252
N. P. H. Nesvadba, M. D. Lehnert, R. Genzel +9
We present a detailed analysis of the spatially-resolved properties of the lensed submillimeter galaxy SMMJ14011+0252 at z=2.56, combining deep near-infrared integral-field data ob…
The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST. VI. Bimodal Central Surface Brightness Profiles
Tod R. Lauer, Karl Gebhardt, S. M. Faber +9
We combine the results from several HST investigations of the central structure of early-type galaxies to generate a large sample of parameterized surface photometry. The studies i…
The Star-Forming Torus and Stellar Dynamical Black Hole Mass in the Seyfert 1 Nucleus of NGC3227
R. Davies, J. Thomas, R. Genzel +7
We report R~4300 VLT SINFONI adaptive optics integral field K-band spectroscopy of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC3227 at a spatial resolution of 0.085" (7pc). We present t…
The evolution of the mass function split by morphology up to redshift 1 in the FORS Deep and the GOODS-S Fields
M. Pannella, U. Hopp, R. P. Saglia +5
We study the evolution of the stellar mass density for the separate families of bulge-dominated and disk-dominated galaxies over the redshift range 0.25 < z < 1.15. We derive quant…
A counter-rotating core in the dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 510
D. Thomas, F. Brimioulle, R. Bender +4
We present optical long-slit spectra of the Virgo dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 510 at high spectral and spatial resolution. Heliocentric velocities and velocity dispersions as funct…
HST STIS spectroscopy of the triple nucleus of M31: two nested disks in Keplerian rotation around a Supermassive Black Hole
Ralf Bender, John Kormendy, Gary Bower +12
We present HST spectroscopy of the nucleus of M31 obtained with STIS. Spectra taken around the CaT lines at 8500 see only the red giants in the double bright- ness peaks P1 and P2.…
Specific star formation rates to redshift 5 from the FORS Deep Field and the GOODS-S Field
Georg Feulner, Armin Gabasch, Mara Salvato +3
We explore the build-up of stellar mass in galaxies over a wide redshift range 0.4 < z < 5.0 by studying the evolution of the specific star formation rate (SSFR), defined as the st…
EDisCS -- the ESO Distant Cluster Survey -- Sample Definition and Optical Photometry
S. D. M. White, D. I. Clowe, L. Simard +23
We present the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) a survey of 20 fields containing distant galaxy clusters with redshifts ranging from 0.4 to almost 1.0. Candidate clusters were c…
VLT Spectroscopy of Globular Cluster Systems, II. Spectroscopic Ages, Metallicities, and [alpha/Fe] Ratios of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies
Thomas H. Puzia, Markus Kissler-Patig, Daniel Thomas +5
An analysis of ages, metallicities, and [alpha/Fe] ratios of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies is presented, based on Lick index measurements summarized in Puzia et a…
VLT Spectroscopy of Globular Cluster Systems, I. The Photometric and Spectroscopic Dataset
Thomas H. Puzia, Markus Kissler-Patig, Daniel Thomas +6
We present Lick line-index measurements of extragalactic globular clusters in seven early-type galaxies (NGC 1380, 2434, 3115, 3379, 3585, 5846, and 7192) with different morphologi…
Regularized orbit models unveiling the stellar structure and dark matter halo of the Coma elliptical NGC 4807
J. Thomas, R. P. Saglia, R. Bender +5
This is the second in a series of papers dedicated to unveil the mass structure and orbital content of a sample of flattened early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster. The ability of…
Oxygen and neon abundances of planetary nebulae in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4697
R. H. Mendez, D. Thomas, R. P. Saglia +3
This paper presents deep spectra of 14 planetary nebulae (PNs) at a variety of angular distances from the center of the flattened elliptical galaxy NGC 4697. Both near the center a…
The stellar mass function of galaxies to z ~ 5 in the Fors Deep and GOODS-S fields
N. Drory, M. Salvato, A. Gabasch +4
We present a measurement of the evolution of the stellar mass function (MF) of galaxies and the evolution of the total stellar mass density at 0<z<5. We use deep multicolor data in…