Publications associées à The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVII. The Size and Structure of Globular Cluster Systems and Their Connection to Dark Matter Halos

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Testing a proposed planarity tool for studying satellite systems: The alleged consistency of Milky Way satellite galaxy planes with ΛcDM

Context. The existence of planes of satellite galaxies has been identified as a long-standing challenge to ΛCDM cosmology because satellite systems in cosmological simulations that are as extremely flattened and as strongly kinematically correlated as the ...

2025

Molecular gas in cool-core brightest cluster galaxies at z ≃ 0.4

Pascale Jablonka

The brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) of today are passive and very massive galaxies at the center of their clusters. They still accrete mass by swallowing companions and flows of cold gas, processes which are regulated by radio-mode active galactic nucleu ...

2025

Impact of assembly bias on clustering plus weak lensing cosmological analysis

Antoine Philippe Jacques Rocher

Context. Empirical models of galaxy-halo connection such as the halo occupation distribution (HOD) model have been widely used over the past decades to intensively test perturbative models on quasi-linear scales. However, these models fail to reproduce the ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2024

Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. The third Gaia data release provides photometric time series covering 34 months for about 10 million stars. For many of those stars, a characterisation in Fourier space and their variability classification are also provided. This paper focuses on ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Feasibility of Detecting Interstellar Panspermia in Astrophysical Environments

Claudio Grimaldi

The proposition that life can spread from one planetary system to another (interstellar panspermia) has a long history, but this hypothesis is difficult to test through observations. We develop a mathematical model that takes parameters such as the microbi ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Observable tests of self-interacting dark matter in galaxy clusters: BCG wobbles in a constant density core

David Richard Harvey

Models of cold dark matter (CDM) predict that the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters should be cuspy, centrally concentrated. Constant density cores would be strong evidence for beyond CDM physics, such as self-interacting dark matter (SIDM). A ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Carbon and nitrogen abundances of individual stars in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Pascale Jablonka, Carmela Lardo

We present [C/Fe] and [N/Fe] abundance ratios and CH(lambda 4300) and S(lambda 3883) index measurements for 94 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy from VLT/VIMOS MOS observations at a resolving power R = 1150 at 4020 A. Thi ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Target-based fiber assignment for large survey spectrographs

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Laleh Makarem, Christoph Ernst René Schäfer

Next generation massive spectroscopic survey projects have to process a massive amount of targets. The preparation of subsequent observations should be feasible in a reasonable amount of time. We present a fast algorithm for target assignment that scales a ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Hubble Frontier Fields: a high-precision strong-lensing analysis of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 using similar to 180 multiple images

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Hakim Atek, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Markus Rexroth

We present a high-precision mass model of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, based on a strong gravitational-lensing analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields (HFF) imaging data, which now include both Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera ...

Oxford University Press2015

Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey

Yi Zhang, Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Eduardo Sanchez

We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new gravitationally lensed quasars, discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) based on their multiband photometry and extended morphology in DES images. Images of ...

Oxford Univ Press2015

A fast empirical method for galaxy shape measurements in weak lensing surveys

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, Nicolas Jacques Joseph Marie Cantale

We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a classification of ga ...

Edp Sciences S A2012

Results of the GREAT08 Challenge: an image analysis competition for cosmological lensing

Frédéric Courbin, Anaïs Marie Rassat, Matthias Bethge, Marc Gentile

We present the results of the Gravitational LEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) Challenge, a blind analysis challenge to infer weak gravitational lensing shear distortions from images. The primary goal was to stimulate new ideas by presenting the probl ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2010

Cosmological applications of a wavelet analysis on the sphere

Yves Wiaux, Jason Douglas McEwen

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relic radiation of the Big Bang and as such it contains a wealth of cosmological information. Statistical analyses of the CMB, in conjunction with other cosmological observables, represent some of the most powerfu ...

2007