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KiDSlens: Gotta Catch’em All

VST in the Era of the Large Sky Surveys (2018) 13-13

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Chiara Spiniello, Nicola Napolitano, Fedor Getman, Marilena Spavone, MA Raj, Giuseppe D’Ago, Massimo Capaccioli, Adriano Agnello, A Sergeyev, Crescenzo Tortora, E Petrillo, Elena Bannikova, KIDS Collaboration
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HST grism confirmation of 16 structures at 1.4 < z < 2.8 from the Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (CARLA) survey

Astrophysical Journal Institute of Physics 859:1 (2018) 38

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G Noirot, D Stern, S Mei, D Wylezalek, EA Cooke, C De Breuck, A Galametz, NA Hatch, J Vernet, M Brodwin, P Eisenhardt, AH Gonzalez, Matthew Jarvis, A Rettura, N Seymour

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We report spectroscopic results from our 40-orbit Hubble Space Telescope slitless grism spectroscopy program observing the 20 densest Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (CARLA) candidate galaxy clusters at 1.4 1.4.
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Order in the chaos: eccentric black hole binary mergers in triples formed via strong binary-binary scatterings

(2018)

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Manuel Arca-Sedda, Gongjie Li, Bence Kocsis
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Caught in the rhythm I. How satellites settle into a plane around their central galaxy

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 613 (2018) ARTN A4

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C Welker, Y Dubois, C Pichon, J Devriendt, NE Chisari
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The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 479:1 (2018) 25-42

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RJ McLure, L Pentericci, A Cimatti, JS Dunlop, D Elbaz, A Fontana, K Nandra, R Amorin, M Bolzonella, A Bongiorno, AC Carnall, M Castellano, M Cirasuolo, O Cucciati, F Cullen, S De Barros, SL Finkelstein, F Fontanot, P Franzetti, M Fumana, A Gargiulo, B Garilli, L Guaita, WG Hartley, A Iovino

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VANDELS is a uniquely deep spectroscopic survey of high-redshift galaxies with the VIMOS spectrograph on ESO'sVery Large Telescope (VLT). The survey has obtained ultradeep optical (0.48 < ? < 1.0 μm) spectroscopy of ≃2100 galaxies within the redshift interval 1.0≤z≤ 7.0, over a total area of ≃0.2 deg2centred on the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey and Chandra Deep Field South fields. Based on accurate photometric redshift pre-selection, 85 per cent of the galaxies targeted by VANDELS were selected to be at z ≥ 3. Exploiting the red sensitivity of the refurbished VIMOS spectrograph, the fundamental aim of the survey is to provide the high-signal-to-noise ratio spectra necessary to measure key physical properties such as stellar population ages, masses, metallicities, and outflow velocities from detailed absorption-line studies. Using integration times calculated to produce an approximately constant signal-tonoise ratio (20>tint>80 h), theVANDELS survey targeted: (a) bright star-forming galaxies at 2.4≤z≤5.5, (b) massive quiescent galaxies at 1.0≤z≤2.5, (c) fainter star-forming galaxies at 3.0≤z≤7.0, and (d) X-ray/Spitzer-selected active galactic nuclei and Herschel-detected galaxies. By targeting two extragalactic survey fields with superb multiwavelength imaging data, VANDELS will produce a unique legacy data set for exploring the physics underpinning high-redshift galaxy evolution. In this paper, we provide an overview of the VANDELS survey designed to support the science exploitation of the first ESO public data release, focusing on the scientific motivation, survey design, and target selection.
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