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Probing the faint-end luminosity function of Lyman-alpha emitters at 3 < z < 7 behind 17 MUSE lensing clusters

Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Johan Richard

Context. This paper presents a study of the galaxy Lyman-alpha luminosity function (LF) using a large sample of 17 lensing clusters observed by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). The magnification resulting ...

Edp Sciences S A2023

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: a detector for luminosity measurement at CMS using silicon pixel sensors

André Donadon Servelle, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Valérie Scheurer

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at the CMS experiment at the LHC. It is located approximately 1.75 m from the interaction point and arranged into 16 "telescopes", with eight telescopes installe ...

2023

Performance of the MALTA telescope

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro, Abhishek Sharma

MALTA is part of the Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel sensors designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS imaging technology. A custom telescope with six MALTA planes has been developed for test beam campaigns at SPS, CERN, with the ability to host several devices under ...

SPRINGER2023

The GRANDMA network in preparation for the fourth gravitational-wave observing run

Jieping Zhu, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Xiao Wang

GRANDMA is a world-wide collaboration with the primary scientific goal of studying gravitational-wave sources, discovering their electromagnetic counterparts and characterizing their emission. GRANDMA involves astronomers, astrophysicists, gravitational-wa ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

The Pristine survey - XVII. The C-19 stream is dynamically hot and more extended than previously thought

Pascale Jablonka, Carmela Lardo

The C-19 stream is the most metal-poor stellar system ever discovered, with a mean metallicity [Fe/H] = -3.38 +/- 0.06. Its low metallicity dispersion (sigma([Fe/H]) < 0.18 at the 95 per cent confidence level) and variations in sodium abundances strongly s ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Fundamental bounds on the precision of iSCAT, COBRI and dark-field microscopy for 3D localization and mass photometry

Jonathan Yuelin Dong

Interferometric imaging is an emerging technique for particle tracking and mass photometry. Mass or position are estimated from weak signals, coherently scattered from nanoparticles or single molecules, and interfered with a co-propagating reference. In th ...

2021

Development and evaluation of galaxy shape measurement algorithms for radio interferometric data

Vasileios Angelopoulos

The purpose of this Thesis is to develop, test, and characterize different models attempting to tackle the problem of measurement of galaxy shapes applied in interferometric observations. Shape measurement is a tool for estimating the underlying shear due ...

EPFL2021

The Tucana dwarf spheroidal galaxy: not such a massive failure after all

Pascale Jablonka

Context. Isolated local group (LG) dwarf galaxies have evolved most or all of their life unaffected by interactions with the large LG spirals and therefore offer the opportunity to learn about the intrinsic characteristics of this class of objects. Aims. O ...

2020

The Pristine survey XI: the FORS2 sample

Pascale Jablonka, Carmela Lardo

Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are old objects that mostly formed very early after the big bang. They are rare and, to select them, we have to rely on low-resolution spectroscopic or photometric surveys; specifically the combination of narrow- and broad- ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Euclid preparation VIII. The Complete Calibration of the Colour-Redshift Relation survey: VLT/KMOS observations and data release

Murat Kunt, Georges Meylan, Gianluca Castignani, Santiago Serrano Guisan, Yi Wang, Richard Massey

The Complete Calibration of the Colour-Redshift Relation survey (C3R2) is a spectroscopic e ffort involving ESO and Keck facilities designed specifically to empirically calibrate the galaxy colour-redshift relation - P(z jC) to the Euclid depth (iAB = 24 : ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Rui Ning Wang, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) has become one of the most common approaches for increasing the efficiency of nonlinear three-wave mixing processes in integrated photonic circuits. Here, we provide a study of dispersion engineering of QPM second-harmonic (SH) g ...

2020

Precision Positioning of Microrobots for Multi-Object Spectrographs

Luzius Gregor Kronig

How does one study the evolution of the Milky Way, or the expansion of the Universe, or explore the mysteries of Dark energy? To investigate these complex topics, astronomers require data, and a great deal of it, in the form of the spectra of stars, galaxi ...

EPFL2020

Kinematic and metallicity properties of the Aquarius dwarf galaxy from FORS2 MXU spectroscopy

Pascale Jablonka

Context. Dwarf galaxies found in isolation in the Local Group (LG) are unlikely to have interacted with the large LG spirals, and therefore environmental effects such as tidal and ram-pressure stripping should not be the main drivers of their evolution. Ai ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Multi-object spectroscopic operations with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of more than 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Development of coherent mid-infrared source using chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

Sida Xing

Many molecule bonds have vibration frequencies in the mid-infrared band. Thus, this band is of great interest to molecular spectroscopy, material processing and medical applications. However, many optical materials typically used for laser sources experien ...

EPFL2019

Nanophotonic Supercontinuum-Based Mid-Infrared Dual-Comb Spectroscopy

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng, Wolfgang Hänsel

An optically stabilized dual-comb system at telecom wavelength is used to drive a mid-infrared spectroscopy for parallel gas-phase detection in the functional group region from 2800-3600 cm -1 . A coherent broadband intensity-enhanced spectrum in the mid-i ...

IEEE2019

Low-dimensional data embedding for scalable astronomical imaging in the SKA telescope era

Vijay Kartik

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences known to humanity. We have been studying celestial objects for millennia, and continue to peer deeper into space in our thirst for knowledge about our origins and the universe that surrounds us. Radio astronomy -- ob ...

EPFL2018

Observation of Bloch Surface waves in the mid-infrared spectral range

Hans Peter Herzig, Grégoire Maxime Smolik, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes

We present the observation of Bloch Surface Waves in the mid-infrared spectral range. A dielectric multi-layer coating made of ZnSe and YbF3 deposited on a CaF2 substrate is designed and fabricated specifically for that purpose. The structure supports the ...

IEEE2018

Toward Bloch Surface Wave-Assisted Spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared Region

Hans Peter Herzig, Grégoire Maxime Smolik, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes

We present the first observation of Bloch surface waves in the mid-infrared spectral range. Bloch surface waves are electromagnetic states that can propagate at the interface between a continuous dielectric medium and a periodic stack of materials. We desi ...

2018

Stellar chemo-kinematics of the Cetus dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Pascale Jablonka

Context. The great majority of early-type dwarf galaxies, in the Local Group as well as in other galaxy groups, are found in the vicinity of much larger galaxies, making it hard to disentangle the role of internal versus external effects in driving their e ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2018