The search for the primordial B-modes polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation,carrying the signature of the primordial gravitational...
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TalkDust polarization spectral dependence as major constraint for primordial CMB B-modes detection
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TalkExtragalactic background light and its implications for galaxy evolution and gamma-ray astronomy
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is of fundamental importance both for understanding the entire process of galaxy evolution and for gamma-ray astronomy...
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TalkGalaxy evolution and cosmology using gamma rays observed with Fermi-LAT
The light emitted by all galaxies across the history of the Universe is encoded in the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL), the diffuse cosmic...
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PublicationHerMES: deep number counts at 250 μm, 350 μm and 500 μm in the COSMOS and GOODS-N fields and the build-up of the cosmic infrared background
Aims: The Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver (SPIRE) onboard the Herschel space telescope has provided confusion limited maps of deep fields at 250 μm...
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PublicationHerMES: SPIRE Science Demonstration Phase maps†‡
We describe the production and verification of sky maps of the five Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) fields observed as part of the Herschel...
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NewsIAU Symposium: Professional and Amateur astronomers, united in the same cause
During the past week over a hundred specialists from all over the world have been meeting in La Laguna to discuss the study, in different areas of astrophysics...
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PublicationMetal-line emission from the warm-hot intergalactic medium - I. Soft X-rays
Emission lines from metals offer one of the most promising ways to detect the elusive warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM; 105 < T < 107K), which is thought to...
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PublicationMetal-line emission from the warm-hot intergalactic medium - II. Ultraviolet
Approximately half the baryons in the local Universe are thought to reside in the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), i.e. diffuse gas with temperatures in...
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PublicationNoise from undetected sources in Dark Energy Survey images
For ground-based optical imaging with current CCD technology, the Poisson fluctuations in source and sky background photon arrivals dominate the noise budget...