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A Search for Close Companions in Sco OB2
Using adaptive optics we study the binary population in the nearby OB association Scorpius OB2. We present the first results of our near-infrared... -
Lyot Coronagraphy at the Palomar and Phase-Mask Coronagraphy at the VLT
In this paper, we report on observations of faint companions and circumstellar disks at the Palomar 200-inch telescope. As a result, we present... -
NACO Observations of NGC 1068
We present various recent results obtained with adaptive optics systems on the very central region of NGC 1068: Grif long-slit spectroscopy in K band... -
AO-Assisted Observations of Ultra-Compact H II Regions
High-spatial resolution observations in the near-infrared (NIR) with Adaptive Optics (AO) represent a powerful tool to investigate massive star... -
Near-Infrared High Resolution Spectroscopy of High-z QSO Absorption Systems with the Subaru Adaptive Optics System
We are conducting a near-infrared (1.0–1.35 μm) high resolution spectroscopic survey of high-z QSOs to study the QSO absorption systems at high... -
Mining the Local Universe: the QSO Space Density
We present progress results of a new survey for bright QSOs (V < 14.5, R < 15.4, B J... -
Field Galaxy Evolution from the Munich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey (MUNICS)
The Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS) is a K’-selected survey covering 1 square degree in the K’ and J near-infrared bands with complementary... -
Nonlinear Peculiar-Velocity Analysis and PCA
We allow for nonlinear effects in the likelihood analysis of peculiar velocities, and obtain... -
Strong Constraints on Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters
In this work we show how galaxy clusters can be used to discriminate among different cosmological models. We have used available X-ray & optical... -
FORCE: FORtran for Cosmic Errors
We review the theory of cosmic errors we have recently developed for count-in-cells statistics. The corresponding FORCE package provides a simple and... -
Automated Classification Techniques for Large Spectroscopic Surveys
With the onset of large, systematically selected spectroscopic surveys we have the opportunity to understand the distribution and evolution of... -
Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman- $\alpha$ Systems
We assess the feasibility of detecting star formation in damped Lyman- $\alpha$... -
Fast Algorithms and Efficient Statistics: N-Point Correlation Functions
We present here a new algorithm for the fast computation of N-Point correlation functions in large astronomical data sets. The algorithm is based on... -
Noise Estimation in CMB Time-Streams and Fast Iterative Map-Making
We describe here an iterative method for jointly estimating the noise power spectrum from a CMB experiment’s time-ordered data, together with the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Mining the Thermal SZ Effect with a Speedy Pixon Algorithm
A Speedy Pixon Algorithm for image reconstruction is applied. Galaxy clusters are extracted from multi-wavelength microwave sky maps using the... -
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.... -
Extracting Knowledge from Very Large Datasets in a Multi-Wavelength Context
The ability to extract knowledge from very large data catalogues resulting from sky surveys or from deep wide fields, observed at various wavelength...