Current Research and Projects
Current Research and Projects
•Research themes
➡Galaxy populations in High-z clusters:
‣RDCS1252 page - XMM2235 page (coming soon)
➡Formation and Evolution of Early Type Galaxies
➡Mass profiles of distant clusters from gravitational lensing
➡Evolution of ICM properties
➡High-z galaxies
➡AGN Evolution: check the CDFS page
➡Cosmological parameters
Links to recent talks:
•Structure Formation: IXO Synergies with E-ELT and Euclid, IXO (International X-ray Observatory) Science Meeting, Paris, April 2010
•Resolving the Cosmic X-ray Background and Understanding Structure Formation with a new era of X-ray Surveys,
12th Marcel Grossman Meeting, Paris, July 2009
•The Most Distant Clusters: Baryons and Dark Matter, CosmoClusters workshop, Marseille, May 2009
•Surveys
• CLASH: Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (Multi-Cycle Treasury, PI: M.Postman)
• CANDELS: Cosmic Assembly Near-ingrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
• Chandra Deep Field South: the deepest X-ray survey (for decades)
• GOODS: The Great Observatory Origin Deep Survey
• ACS Intermediate Cluster Survey
• XDCP: XMM Deep Cluster Project
• SpARCS: The Spitzer Adaptation of the Red sequence Cluster Survey
•Future Missions
• Wide FIeld X-ray Telescope: the ultimate X-ray survey
‣ Proceedings of the Bologna 2009 WFXT meeting
• Euclid: mapping the dark universe
‣ Euclid Assessment Study report for the ESA Cosmic Visions (Lauriijs et a. 2009, Euclid Science Study Team)
‣ Newsletter article: Slitless Spectroscopy Simulations with aXeSIM
•ESO-related
• HLA: the Hubble Legacy Archive
‣ Newsletter article: ST-ECF ACS/WFC Grism Sample Release
• E-ELT (the European Extremely Large Telescope)
‣ DRM Science case: The Physics and Mass Assembly of Galaxies out to z ~ 6
‣ Puech et al. 2010: Simulating the physics and mass assembly of distant galaxies out to z ~ 6 with the E-ELT
• GOODS@ESO: the contribution of ESO facilities to GOODS
‣ Oct 08 presentation to ESO LP workshop
‣ Data releases: see Cesarsky Large Programmes from this table