Search Results - "Paltani, Stephane"
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The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback
Published in Nature (London) (28-09-2017)“…Radiation pressure on dusty gas is the main physical mechanism that regulates the distribution of the circumnuclear material that obscures many supermassive…”
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MAPPING THE GALAXY COLOR-REDSHIFT RELATION: OPTIMAL PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT CALIBRATION STRATEGIES FOR COSMOLOGY SURVEYS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2015)“…ABSTRACT Calibrating the photometric redshifts of 109 galaxies for upcoming weak lensing cosmology experiments is a major challenge for the astrophysics…”
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Ray-tracing Simulations and Spectral Models of X-Ray Radiation in Dusty Media
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2023)“…Abstract Dust can play an important role in shaping the X-ray spectra and images of astrophysical sources. In this work we report on the implementation of dust…”
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The Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (C3R2) Survey: Survey Overview and Data Release 1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2017)“…A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST, and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis…”
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X-ray simulations of polar gas in accreting supermassive black holes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (31-03-2022)“…ABSTRACT Recent observations have shown that a large portion of the mid-infrared (MIR) spectrum of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) stems from the polar regions…”
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A multiwavelength-motivated X-ray model for the Circinus Galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (09-03-2022)“…ABSTRACT Reprocessed X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei can provide fundamental information about the circumnuclear environments of supermassive black…”
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X-ray signatures of the polar dusty gas in AGN
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2019)“…ABSTRACT Recent mid-infrared interferometry observations of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) revealed that a significant part of the dust emission extends…”
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Thermalization of Mesh Reinforced Ultra-Thin Al-Coated Plastic Films: A Parametric Study Applied to the Athena X-IFU Instrument
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2024)“…The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is one of the two focal plane detectors of Athena, a large-class high energy astrophysics space mission approved by ESA…”
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Nonparametric Estimation of Galaxy Cluster Emissivity and Detection of Point Sources in Astrophysics With Two Lasso Penalties
Published in Journal of the American Statistical Association (03-07-2021)“…Astrophysicists are interested in recovering the three-dimensional gas emissivity of a galaxy cluster from a two-dimensional telescope image. Blurring and…”
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NuSTAR Observations of a Heavily X-Ray-obscured AGN in the Dwarf Galaxy J144013+024744
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2023)“…Abstract We present a multiwavelength analysis of the dwarf Seyfert 2 galaxy J144013+024744, a candidate obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) thought to be…”
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Ray-tracing simulations of the soft X-ray scattered emission in obscured active galactic nuclei
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (20-10-2023)“…ABSTRACT Most active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the local Universe are obscured. In these obscured AGNs, an excess is usually observed in the soft X-rays below…”
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The High-Resolution X-Ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometer, SXS, on Astro-H
Published in Journal of low temperature physics (01-06-2012)“…The science and an overview of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer onboard the STRO-H mission are presented. The SXS consists of X-ray focusing mirrors and a…”
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Multi-messenger astrophysics with THESEUS in the 2030s
Published in Experimental astronomy (01-12-2021)“…Multi-messenger astrophysics is becoming a major avenue to explore the Universe, with the potential to span a vast range of redshifts. The growing synergies…”
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Dynamics of the Lyα and C IV Emitting Gas in 3C 273
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NuSTAR view of heavily absorbed AGN: The $R-N_\text{H}$ correlation
Published 22-07-2021“…A&A 653, A162 (2021) The nature of the putative torus and the outer geometry of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are still rather unknown and the subject of active…”
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Hard X-ray colours of neutron star and black hole low mass X-ray binaries with INTEGRAL
Published in Advances in space research (2007)“…The X-ray spectra of low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) can change on short time-scales, making it difficult to follow their spectral characteristics in detail…”
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Ray-tracing simulations and spectral models of X-ray radiation in dusty media
Published 07-06-2023“…Dust can play an important role in shaping the X-ray spectra and images of astrophysical sources. In this work we report on the implementation of dust in the…”
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SED-dependent Galactic Extinction Prescription for Euclid and Future Cosmological Surveys
Published 19-10-2016“…A&A 598, A20 (2017) The outcome of upcoming cosmological surveys will depend on the accurate estimates of photometric redshifts. In the framework of the…”
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Hitomi X-ray observation of the pulsar wind nebula G21.5−0.9
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (01-06-2018)“…Abstract We present results from the Hitomi X-ray observation of a young composite-type supernova remnant (SNR) G21.5−0.9, whose emission is dominated by the…”
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Horizon-AGN virtual observatory -- 2: Template-free estimates of galaxy properties from colours
Published 11-02-2020“…Using the Horizon-AGN hydrodynamical simulation and self-organising maps (SOMs), we show how to compress the complex data structure of a cosmological…”
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