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We present the VST Optical Imaging of the CDFS and ES1 Fields (VOICE) Survey, a VST INAF Guaranteed Time program designed to provide optical coverage of two 4 deg$^2$ cosmic windows in the Southern hemisphere. VOICE provides the first,…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2014-12-03
A. Zurlo , A. Vigan , D. Mesa , R. Gratton , C. Moutou , M. Langlois , R. U. Claudi , L. Pueyo , A. Boccaletti , A. Baruffolo , J. -L. Beuzit , A. Costille , S. Desidera , K. Dohlen , M. Feldt , T. Fusco , T. Henning , M. Kasper , P. Martinez , O. Moeller-Nilsson , D. Mouillet , A. Pavlov , P. Puget , J. -F. Sauvage , M. Turatto , S. Udry , F. Vakili , R. Waters , R. F. Wildi
The workhorse instruments of the 8-10m class observatories have become their multi-object spectrographs (MOS), providing comprehensive follow-up to both ground-based and space-borne imaging. With the advent of deeper imaging surveys from,…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2013-03-04
Chris Evans , Mathieu Puech , Beatriz Barbuy , Nate Bastian , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Elisabetta Caffau , Jean-Gabriel Cuby , Gavin Dalton , Ben Davies , Jim Dunlop , Hector Flores , Francois Hammer , Lex Kaper , Bertrand Lemasle , Simon Morris , Laura Pentericci , Patrick Petitjean , Daniel Schaerer , Eduardo Telles , Niraj Welikala , Bodo Ziegler
The EXTraS project (Exploring the X-ray Transient and variable Sky) will characterise the temporal behaviour of the largest ever sample of objects in the soft X-ray range (0.1-12 keV) with a complex, systematic and consistent analysis of…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2019-08-15
A. De Luca , R. Salvaterra , A. Tiengo , D. D'Agostino , M. G. Watson , F. Haberl , J. Wilms