PEACOCK J. A.

Aims. Non-uniform sampling and gaps in sky coverage are common in galaxy redshift surveys, but these effects can degrade galaxy counts-in-cells measurements and density estimates. We carry out a comparative study of methods that aim to fill the gaps to correct for the systematic effects. Our study is motivated by the analysis of the VIMOS...

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Context. The characterisation of cosmic voids gives unique information about the large-scale distribution of galaxies, their evolution, and the cosmological model. Aims. We identify and characterise cosmic voids in the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) at redshift 0.55 < z < 0.9. Methods. A new void search method is developed...

Aims.The aim of this work is to develop a comprehensive method for classifying sources in large sky surveys and to apply the techniques to theVIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Using the optical (u∗, g', r', i') and NIR data (z', Ks), we develop a classifier, based onbroad-band photometry, for identifying stars, AGNs, and...

We measure the evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function from z = 1.3 to z = 0.5 using the first 53 608 redshifts of the ongoing VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). Thanks to its large volume and depth, VIPERS provides a detailed picture of the galaxy distribution at z ≃ 0.8, when the Universe was ≃7 Gyr old. We carefully estimate...

We describe the construction and general features of VIPERS, the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey. This ESO Large Programme is using the Very Large Telescope with the aim of building a spectroscopic sample of ~ 100 000 galaxies with iAB< 22.5 and 0.5 < 1.5. The survey covers a total area of ~ 24 deg2 within the CFHTLS-Wide W1 and W4...

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By using a suite of large box-size N-body simulations that incorporate massive neutrinos as an extra set of particles, with total masses of 0.15, 0.30, and 0.60 eV, we investigate the impact of neutrino masses on the spatial distribution of dark matter haloes and on the distribution of galaxies within the haloes. We compute the bias between the...

Aims: Building on the two-point correlation function analyses of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), we investigate the higher-order correlation properties of the same galaxy samples to test the hierarchical scaling hypothesis at z ~ 1 and the dependence on galaxy luminosity, stellar mass, and redshift. With this work we...