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2024.04.16
The 4MOST instrument and upcoming spectroscopic surveys
The 4MOST consortium has been selected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to provide the ESO community with a fibre-fed spectroscopic survey facility on the VISTA telescope with a large enough field-of-view to survey a large fraction of the southern sky in a few years. The facility will be able to simultaneously obtain spectra of ~2400 objects distributed over an hexagonal field-of-vie...
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2024.04.15
X-ray emissions from the large scale structure of the Universe with an eROSITA focus
I will present the maps of the large scale structure at soft X-ray wavelength obtained by eROSITA. I will discuss how the observed emission unravels the properties of the circum-galactic medium of our Milky-Way and nearby galaxies.Then I discuss what astrophysical and cosmological information is contained in the map subtended by X-ray detected clusters and Active galactic nuclei
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2024.03.29
Dust Dynamics in Planet Formation Processes & Towards Multi-stage Studies
Dust plays an important role in planet formation as they grow from micron sized grains to over Mm sized planets. The intermediate stage, to form km-sized planetesimals from mm-cm sized dust particles, has been found to be difficult. These mm-cm sized dust particles frequently distribute in ring-like structures in protoplanetary disks as revealed in ALMA observations. Here, I present a series of...
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2024.03.20
AGN selection and demographics: a new age with JWST/MIRI
Completing the census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) activity is the key to study the build-up of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and understand their relations with the host galaxy properties. Nevertheless, many AGNs are obscured by dust and gas, making the identification of such systems a challenging task even today. In this talk, I will present the first results on the AGN identifications ...
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2024.02.28
Weak Lensing Without Shape Noise
Weak gravitational lensing imprints a coherent distortion onto the observed shapes of distant galaxies. At the image level, this gravitational shear degenerates with the intrinsic shape of galaxies, and the weak lensing signal-to-noise from an individual galaxy is of order 0.01. I will describe Kinematic Lensing, a new technique combining imaging and galaxy kinematics to measure weak lensing wi...
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