3D Spectroscopy of Local Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies: Kinematics of NGC 7673 (2009)
Pérez-Gallego, J., Guzmán, R., Castillo-Morales, A., Castander, F. J., Gallego, J., Garland, C. A., ...
The kinematic properties of the ionized gas of local Luminous Compact Blue Galaxy (LCBG) NGC 7673 are presented using three dimensional data taken with the PPAK integral field unit at the 3.5-m...
Near-IR Galaxy Counts and Evolution from the Wide-Field ALHAMBRA survey (2009)
Cristobal-Hornillos, D., Aguerri, J. A. L., Moles, M., Perea, J., Castander, F. J., Broadhurst, T., ...
The ALHAMBRA survey aims to cover 4 square degrees using a system of 20 contiguous, equal width, medium-band filters spanning the range 3500 A to 9700 A plus the standard JHKs filters. Here we...
Optimal filter systems for photometric redshift estimation (2008)
Benitez, N., Moles, M., Aguerri, J. A. L., Alfaro, E., Broadhurst, T., Cabrera, J., ...
In the next years, several cosmological surveys will rely on imaging data to estimate the redshift of galaxies, using traditional filter systems with 4-5 optical broad bands; narrower filters improve...
The ALHAMBRA Project: A large area multi medium-band optical and NIR photometric survey (2008)
Moles, M., Benítez, N., Aguerri, J. A. L., Alfaro, E. J., Broadhurst, T., Cabrera-Caño, J., ...
(ABRIDGED) We describe the first results of the ALHAMBRA survey which provides cosmic tomography of the evolution of the contents of the Universe over most of Cosmic history. Our approach employs 20...
First results from the ALHAMBRA-Survey (2008)
Fernandez-Soto, A., Aguerri, J. A. L., Alfaro, E. J., Benitez, N., Broadhurst, T., ...
We present the first results from the ALHAMBRA survey. ALHAMBRA will cover a relatively wide area (4 square degrees) using a purposely-designed set of 20 medium-band filters, down to an homogeneous...
What are the Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies? (2007)
Pisano, D. J., Garland, C. A., Guzman, R., Gallego, J. Perez, Castander, F. J., Gruel, N.
Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) are common at z~1, contributing significantly to the total star formation rate density. By z~0, they are a factor of ten rarer. While we know that LCBGs evolve...
Garland, C. A., Pisano, D. J., Williams, J. P., Guzman, R., Castander, F. J., Sage, L. J.
We present the results of a VLA and OVRO-MMA follow-up to our single-dish surveys of the neutral atomic and molecular gas in a sample of nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs). These luminous,...
Cy 2201-3201: An Edge-on Spiral Gravitational Lens (2006)
Castander, F. J., Treister, E., Maza, J., Gawiser, E.
We present the CXOCY J220132.8-320144 system, which is composed of an edge-on spiral galaxy at z=0.32 lensing a z=3.9 background quasar. Two images of the quasar are seen. The geometry of the system...
Galaxy Star Formation as a function of Environment (2006)
F. J. Castander, M. Bernardi, D. G. Gilbank, P. L. Gómez, T. Goto, C. J. Miller, ...
Galaxy Star Formation as a function of Environment
Ota, N., Inada, N., Oguri, M., Mitsuda, K., Richards, G. T., Suto, Y., ...
We present results from Chandra observations of SDSS J1004+4112, a strongly lensed quasar system with a maximum image separation of 15". All four bright images of the quasar, as well as resolved...
Gawiser, MUSYC Collaboration: E., Van Dokkum, P. G., Herrera, D., Maza, J., Castander, F. J., Infante, L., ...
We present UBVRIz' optical images of the 0.32 square degree Extended Hubble Deep Field South. This is one of four fields comprising the MUSYC survey, which is optimized for the study of galaxies at...
Dynamical and content evolution of a sample of clusters from z~0 to z~0.5 (2005)
Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Mazure, A., Nichol, R. C., Ulmer, M. P.
In this paper, we present an analysis of the dynamics and segregation of galaxies in rich clusters from z~0.32 to z~0.48 taken from the CFHT Optical PDCS (COP) survey and from the CNOC survey...
The CFH Optical PDCS survey (COP) I: The Data (2005)
Adami, C., Holden, B., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Ulmer, M. P., ...
This paper presents and gives the COP (COP: CFHT Optical PDCS; CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; PDCS: Palomar Distant Cluster Survey) survey data. We describe our photometric and spectroscopic...
Garland, C. A., Williams, J. P., Pisano, D. J., Guzman, R., Castander, F. J., Brinkmann, J.
We present the results of a single-dish beam-matched survey of the three lowest rotational transitions of CO in a sample of 20 local (D < 70 Mpc) Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs). These ~L*,...
The dark clump near Abell 1942: dark matter halo or statistical fluke? (2005)
Erben, T., Schneider, P., Castander, F. J.
Weak lensing surveys provide the possibility of identifying dark matter halos based on their total matter content rather than just the luminous matter content. On the basis of two sets of...
Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Hogg, D. W., Scoccimarro, R., Blanton, M. R., Nichol, R. C., ...
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over...
Garland, C. A., Pisano, D. J., Williams, J. P., Guzman, R., Castander, F. J.
We present single-dish H I spectra obtained with the Green Bank Telescope, along with optical photometric properties from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, of 20 nearby (D < 70 Mpc) Luminous Compact Blue...
An X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nucleus at z=4.6 Discovered by the CYDER Survey (2004)
Treister, E., Castander, F.J., Maccarone, T.J., Herrera, D., Gawiser, E., Maza, J., ...
We present the discovery of a high-redshift, X-ray-selected active galactic nucleus (AGN) by the Calan-Yale Deep Extragalactic Research (CYDER) survey: CXOCY J033716.7-050153, located at z=4.61, the...
Coppi, P.S., Treister, E., Castander, F.J., Maccarone, T.J., Gawiser, E., Maza, J., ...
We present the results of deep optical imaging and spectroscopy of archival Chandra sources with intermediate fluxes (>1e-15 erg/cm2/sec). 267 Chandra sources were detected in 5 archival fields, with...
A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Quadruple Images Separated by 14.62 Arcseconds (2003)
Inada, N., Oguri, M., Pindor, B., Hennawi, J. F., Chiu, K., Zheng, W., ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures predicts the existence...
Oguri, M., Inada, N., Keeton, C. R., Pindor, B., Hennawi, J. F., Gregg, M. D., ...
We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62''. The system has...
The Neutral ISM in Nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (2003)
Garland, C. A., Pisano, D. J., Williams, J. P., Guzman, R., Castander, F. J.
We observed 20 nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) in HI and CO(J=2-1) with the GBT and JCMT. These ~L^star galaxies are blue, high surface brightness, starbursting, high metallicity...
Gilbank, David G., Bower, Richard G., Castander, F. J., Ziegler, B. L.
Data from a new, wide field, coincident optical and X-ray survey, the X-ray Dark Cluster Survey (XDCS) are presented. This survey comprises simultaneous and independent searches for clusters of...
High Redshift X-Ray Selected Quasars: CXOCY J125304.0-090737 joins the club (2003)
Castander, F. J., Treister, E., Maccarone, T. J., Coppi, P. S., Maza, J., Zepf, S. E., ...
We present a new X-ray selected high redshift quasar CXOCY J125304.0-090737 at z=4.179, discovered by the Calan-Yale Deep Extragalactic Research (CYDER) Survey. This quasar is the fifth X-ray...
Galaxy Star Formation as a function of Environment (2003)
Balogh , M. L., Bernardi , M., Bower , R. G., Castander , F. J., Connolly , A. J., Gilbank , D. G., ...
The Spectroscopic Variability of GRB 021004 (2002)
Matheson, T., Garnavich, P. M., Foltz, C., West, S., Williams, G., Falco, E., ...
We present spectra of the optical transient (OT) associated with GRB 021004. The spectra show a blue continuum with superposed absorption features and one emission line. We confirm two intervening...
Galaxy clustering in early Sloan Digital Sky Survey redshift data (2002)
Zehavi, I., Blanton, M. R., Frieman, J. A., Weinberg, D. H., Mo, H. J., Strauss, M. A., ...
We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5700 km s(-1) less than or equal...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, C., Lupton, R. H., Bernardi, M., Blanton, M. R., Burles, S., Castander, F. J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS (2001)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01
Eisenstein, D. J., Annis, J., Gunn, J. E., Szalay, A. S., Connolly, A. J., Nichol, R. C., ...
We describe the target selection and resulting properties of a spectroscopic sample of luminous, red galaxies (LRG) from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These galaxies are...
Confidence limits of evolutionary synthesis models III. On time-integrated quantities (2001)
Cervino, M., Gomez-Flechoso, M. A., Castander, F. J., Schaerer, D., Molla, M., Knodlseder, J., ...
Evolutionary synthesis models are a fundamental tool to interpret the properties of observed stellar systems. In order to achieve a meaningful comparison between models and real data, it is necessary...
Dynamical and content evolution of a sample of clusters from z~0 to z~0.5 (2000)
Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Mazure, A., Nichol, R. C., Ulmer, M. P.
In this paper, we present an analysis of the dynamics and segregation of galaxies in rich clusters from z~0.32 to z~0.48 taken from the CFHT Optical PDCS (COP) survey and from the CNOC survey...
Confidence levels of evolutionary synthesis models (2000)
Cervino, M., Luridiana, V., Castander, F. J.
The stochastic nature of the IMF in young stellar clusters implies that clusters of the same mass and age do not present the same unique values of their observed parameters. Instead they follow a...
CFHT Optical PDCS Survey II: Evolution in the Space Density of Clusters of Galaxies (2000)
Holden, B. P., Adami, C., Nichol, R. C., Castander, F. J., Lubin, L. M., Romer, A. K., ...
We present the first dynamical study of the optically selected Palomar Distant Cluster Survey (PDCS). We show that eleven out of twelve PDCS clusters we observed are real over-densities of galaxies....
The CFH Optical PDCS survey (COP) I: The Data (2000)
Adami, C., Holden, B., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Ulmer, M. P., ...
This paper presents and gives the COP (COP: CFHT Optical PDCS; CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; PDCS: Palomar Distant Cluster Survey) survey data. We describe our photometric and spectroscopic...
Dynamical and content evolution of a sample of clusters from z~0 to z~0.5 (2000)
Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Mazure, A., Nichol, R. C., Ulmer, M. P.
In this paper, we present an analysis of the dynamics and segregation of galaxies in rich clusters from z~0.32 to z~0.48 taken from the CFHT Optical PDCS (COP) survey and from the CNOC survey...
The CFH Optical PDCS survey (COP) I: The Data (2000)
Adami, C., Holden, B., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Ulmer, M. P., ...
This paper presents and gives the COP (COP: CFHT Optical PDCS; CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; PDCS: Palomar Distant Cluster Survey) survey data. We describe our photometric and spectroscopic...
Dynamical and content evolution of a sample of clusters from z~0 to z~0.5 (2000)
Adami, C., Holden, B. P., Castander, F. J., Mazure, A., Nichol, R. C., Ulmer, M. P.
In this paper, we present an analysis of the dynamics and segregation of galaxies in rich clusters from z~0.32 to z~0.48 taken from the CFHT Optical PDCS (COP) survey and from the CNOC survey...
The CFH Optical PDCS survey (COP) I: The Data (2000)
Adami, C., Holden, B., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C., Mazure, A., Ulmer, M. P., ...
This paper presents and gives the COP (COP: CFHT Optical PDCS; CFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope; PDCS: Palomar Distant Cluster Survey) survey data. We describe our photometric and spectroscopic...
Erben, T., Van Waerbeke, L., Mellier, Y., Schneider, P., Castander, F. J., ...
A weak-lensing analysis of wide-field $V$- and $I$-band images centered on the cluster Abell 1942 has uncovered a mass concentration $\sim 7$ arcminutes South of the cluster center. A statistical...
A Bayesian Inference Analysis of the X-ray Cluster Luminosity-Temperature Relation (1998)
Reichart, D. E., Castander, F. J., Nichol, R. C.
We present a Bayesian inference analysis of the Markevitch (1998) and Allen & Fabian (1998) cooling flow corrected X-ray cluster temperature catalogs that constrains the slope and the evolution of...
A Photometric Investigation of the GRB970228 Afterglow and the Associated Nebulosity (1998)
We carefully analyze the WFPC2 and STIS images of GRB970228. We measure magnitudes for the GRB970228 point source component in the WFPC2 images of $V=26.20^{+0.14}_{-0.13}$,...
The Extinction Towards the GRB970228 Field (1998)
We determine the local galactic extinction towards the field of gamma-ray burst GRB970228 using a variety of methods. We develop a maximum likelihood method for measuring the extinction by comparing...
The Optical Afterglow of GRB 971214: R and J Photometry (1998)
Diercks, A., Deutsch, E. W., Castander, F. J., Corson, C., Gilmore, G., Lamb, D. Q., ...
We present an R-band and J-band photometry of an optical transient which is likely to be associated with the gamma-ray burst event GRB 971214. Our first measurement took place 13 hours after the...
Reichart, D. E., Nichol, R. C., Castander, F. J., Burke, D. J., Romer, A. K., Holden, B. P., ...
From the Press-Schechter mass function and the empirical X-ray cluster luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation, we construct an X-ray cluster luminosity function that can be applied to the growing...
A Dynamical Study of Optically Selected Distant Clusters (1997)
Bower, Richard G., Castander, F. J., Couch, Warrick J., Ellis, R. S., Boehringer, H.
We present a programme of spectroscopic observations of galaxies in a sample of optically-selected clusters taken from the catalogue of Couch et al (1991). Previous ROSAT observations of these...
The Deficit of Distant Galaxy Clusters in the RIXOS X-ray Survey (1995)
Castander, F. J., Bower, R. G., Ellis, R. S., Aragon-Salamanca, A., Mason, K. O., Hasinger, G., ...
Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally bound systems and therefore provide an important way of studying the formation and evolution of the large scale structure of the Universe. Cluster...