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Revealing galaxy candidates out to z similar to 16 with JWST observations of the lensing cluster SMACS0723

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Hakim Atek, Johan Richard

One of the main goals of the JWST is to study the first galaxies in the Universe. We present a systematic photometric analysis of very distant galaxies in the first JWST deep field towards the massive lensing cluster SMACS0723. As a result, we report the d ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Euclid preparation XXI. Intermediate-redshift contaminants in the search for z > 6 galaxies within the Euclid Deep Survey

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Gianluca Castignani, Austin Chandler Peel, Jean-Luc Starck, Maurizio Martinelli, Hakim Atek, Yi Wang, Richard Massey, Marcello Farina

Context. The Euclid mission is expected to discover thousands of z > 6 galaxies in three deep fields, which together will cover a similar to 50 deg(2) area. However, the limited number of Euclid bands (four) and the low availability of ancillary data could ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

The BUFFALO HST Survey

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Pascale Jablonka, David Richard Harvey, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Mathilde Jauzac, Huanyuan Shan, Hakim Atek, Anja Von der Linden, Matthieu Schaller, Céline Tchernin

The Beyond Ultra-deep Frontier Fields and Legacy Observations (BUFFALO) is a 101 orbit + 101 parallel Cycle 25 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury program taking data from 2018 to 2020. BUFFALO will expand existing coverage of the Hubble Frontier Fields ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

The extreme faint end of the UV luminosity function at z similar to 6 through gravitational telescopes: a comprehensive assessment of strong lensing uncertainties

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Hakim Atek, Johan Richard

2018

Mapping substructure in the HST Frontier Fields cluster lenses and in cosmological simulations

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Hakim Atek, Mathilde Jauzac, Johan Richard, Cristina Popa

We map the lensing-inferred substructure in the first three clusters observed by the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields (HSTFF) Initiative: Abell 2744 (z = 0.308), MACSJ 0416, (z = 0.396) and MACSJ 1149 (z = 0.543). Statistically resolving dark matter ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

A High Space Density of Luminous Ly alpha Emitters at z similar to 6.5

Hakim Atek, Patrick Mccarthy

We present the results of a systematic search for Ly alpha emitters (LAEs) at 6 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 7.6 using the HST WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey. Our total volume over this redshift range is similar to ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Strong-lensing analysis of MACSJ0717.5+3745 from Hubble Frontier Fields observations: How well can the mass distribution be constrained?

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

We present a strong-lensing analysis of MACSJ0717.5+3745 (hereafter MACS J0717), based on the full depth of the Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) observations, which brings the number of multiply imaged systems to 61, ten of which have been spectroscopically con ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Are long gamma-ray bursts biased tracers of star formation? Clues from the host galaxies of the Swift/BAT6 complete sample of bright LGRBs II. Star formation rates and metallicities at z < 1

Hakim Atek

Aims. Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are associated with the deaths of massive stars and might therefore be a potentially powerful tool for tracing cosmic star formation. However, especially at low redshifts (z < 1.5) LGRBs seem to prefer particular types o ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

The Spitzer-Irac/Mips Extragalactic Survey (Simes) In The South Ecliptic Pole Field

Hakim Atek

We present the Spitzer-IRAC/MIPS Extragalactic survey (SIMES) in the South Ecliptic Pole field. The large area covered (7.7 deg(2)), together with one of the lowest Galactic cirrus emissions in the entire sky and a very extensive coverage by Spitzer, Hersc ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

The extraordinary amount of substructure in the Hubble Frontier Fields cluster Abell 2744

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, David Richard Harvey, Huanyuan Shan, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Hakim Atek, Mathilde Jauzac, Markus Rexroth, Céline Tchernin, Richard Massey, Johan Richard

We present a joint optical/X-ray analysis of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). Our strong- and weak-lensing analysis within the central region of the cluster, i.e. at R < 1 Mpc from the brightest cluster galaxy, reveals eight substructures ...

Oxford Univ Press2016