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1. CMB Data Analysis: the Map-Making Problem

   In this poster, we present some new algorithms concerning the mapmaking issue for CMB experiments as well as some steps performed in the far-side...

   Olivier Doré, François R. Bouchet, ... Didier Vibert in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

2. Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys

   We review some of the scientific opportunities and technical challenges posed by the exploration of the large digital sky surveys, in the context of...

   S. G. Djorgovski, R. J. Brunner, ... S. Castro in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

3. Massive Variability Searches: the Past, Present and Future

   Many decades ago a search for variable stars was one of the main areas of astrophysical research. Such searches, conducted with CCD detectors rather...

   Bohdan Paczyński in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

4. NIR Visibility Function of Emission Lines with the Galileo OH Subtracted Spectrograph

   We study here the visibility function of emission lines expected for GOHSS. This spectrograph will accomplish, on spectra observed at resolution...

   Agostino Fiorani, Roberto Scaramella, ... Fabrizio Vitali in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

5. Fast Hough Transform for Robust Detection of Satellite Tracks

   Satellite tracks are frequently observed on images obtained with wide-field imagers and relative long exposure times. In order to prevent false...

   Benoît Vandame in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

6. Measuring Bulk Flows with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in CMB Maps

   We propose a new method to measure the possible large-scale bulk flows in the Universe from cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy maps....

   Fernando Atrio-Barandela, Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, Alexander Kashlinsky in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

7. Blind Source Separation of Multispectral Astronomical Images

   Multispectral images lead to classify pixels, but often with the drawback that each pixel value is the result of a combination of different sources....

   Albert Bijaoui, Danielle Nuzillard in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

8. OPTICON and the Virtual Observatory

   The challenges of multi-wavelength astrophysics require new outlooks from those appropriate to traditional astronomy. The next generation of research...

   Gerry Gilmore in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

9. Mining the CDS Collection: A Learning Experience

   The experiences gained as a result of the CDS/ESO Datamining project are described in this paper as well as a brief outline of the tools developed...

   Patricio F. Ortiz, François Ochsenbein in Mining the Sky

   Conference paper
   

10. DEEP: Pre-DEIMOS Surveys to $I \sim 24$ of Galaxy Evolution and Kinematics

    DEEP is a two-phase program designed to undertake spectroscopic surveys of faint field galaxies with the Keck Telescopes. The scientific goals...

    David C. Koo in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

11. The SED Fitting Method as a Tool for Photometric Redshift Estimate

    Photometric redshift techniques have been extensively applied to ultra-deep galaxy surveys like the Hubble Deep Field North (HDFN; Williams et al.,...

    Michele Massarotti, Angela Iovino, Alberto Buzzoni in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

12. Modeling Faint Morphological Number Counts

    We revisit our recent results concerning comparisons of magnitude and photometric redshift data from the Hubble Deep Fields to statistical...

    Paul Bristow, Steve Phillipps in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

13. Search for Nearby Faint High Proper Motion Stars

    A new high proper motion survey of the southern sky has been started using a re-reduction of APM measurements of UKST plates [15]. The main aim of...

    Ralf-Dieter Scholz in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

14. Optical and Near-IR Identifications of (Sub)Millimeter Background Sources

    We summarise preliminary results of our search for optical and near-infrared counterparts to millimeter continuum background sources discovered in...

    Helmut Dannerbauer, Frank Bertoldi, ... Frazer Owen in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

15. Galaxy Evolution in the Hubble Deep Field North and South

    We derive the redshifts of the galaxies in the HDFN and HDFS, using our own photometric redshift technique (a Basian method using empirical template...

    Armin Gabasch, Ralf Bender in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

16. A Multivariate Analysis of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North

    We measure and statistically compare an array of parameters for over 250 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North, using the WFPC2 and NICMOS images...

    Michael R. Corbin, Andrea Urban, ... Glenn Schneider in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

17. Distant Galaxy Clusters: New Detections and Follow-Up Observations in the Optical.

    A new cluster detection algorithm was developed and applied to the ESO Imaging Survey dataset (EIS), producing a new catalogue of cluster candidates...

    Catarina Lobo, Angela Iovino in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

18. Clustering of Very Red Galaxies in the Las Campanas IR Survey

    We report results from the first 1000 square arc-minutes of the Las Campanas IR survey. We have imaged 1 square degree of high latitude sky in six...

    Patrick McCarthy, Ray Carlberg, ... Rachael Somerville in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

19. High-Energy Large-Area Surveys: From BeppaSAX to Chandra and XMM

    Optical identification of hard X-ray selected BeppoSAX and Chandra sources indicates that a large fraction of the sources are “intermediate” AGN,...

    Fabrizio Fiore, Andrea Comastri, ... the HELLAS Collaboration in Deep Fields

    Conference paper
    

20. Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey of 10,000 deg2 of the high Galactic latitude sky. The SDSS quasar sample...

    **aohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, ... James E. Gunn in Deep Fields

    Conference paper