The UltraVISTA DR5 RC1 is being made available for testing by the UltraVISTA consortium. If no issues are found, this data will be made public worldwide through the ESO phase 3 portal before the end of the year. UltraVISTA is a deep survey of the COSMOS field using the VIRCAM camera on ESO’s VISTA telescope.… Read More: UltraVISTA data release 5 release candidate 1 now available »
Today we publicly release COSMOS2020, a catalogue of almost a million sources with photometric redshifts and stellar masses in the COSMOS field. COSMOS2020 is described fully in this paper, which has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. We are also providing a python notebook showing how to use the catalogues. Released around five… Read More: Introducing COSMOS2020 »
The objective of this internship is to make a measurement of the cosmic magnification effect in prototype Euclid deep field data. Background ESA’s Euclid satellite aims to uncover the nature of dark matter and dark energy by precisely measuring shapes and positions of a billion galaxies taken with the wide-field VIS camera. Dark matter induces… Read More: Master-2 internship 2019: Measuring cosmic magnification in the Euclid deep… »
So, what is the origin of cosmic structures? In particular, the walls, sheets and filaments composed of galaxies and galaxy clusters? Although the seeding of these structures by tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background remains our dominant paradigm for galaxy formation, there are still — of course — unanswered questions. In particular, what role… Read More: Thesis project: finding the highest redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters »