A. Iovino

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure the evolution of the merger rate for both luminosity/mass selected galaxy samples and investigate its dependence with the local environment, using a sample of 10644 spectroscopically observed galaxies from the zCOSMOS redshift survey to identify pairs of galaxies destined to merge, using only pairs for which the velocity difference and projected separation of both components with confirmed spectroscopic redshift indicate a high probability of merging.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconstructed the three-dimensional density fluctuation maps to z˜ 1.5 using the distribution of galaxies observed in the VVDS-Deep survey and found that the variance and skewness of the galaxy distribution evolve over this redshift interval in a way that is remarkably consistent with predictions of first and second-order perturbation theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply pairwise inverse probability (PIP) weighting to the VIPERS data and fit the resulting monopole and quadrupole moments of the galaxy two-point correlation function with respect to the line-of-sight, making measurements of RSD.

TL;DR: A summary of recent observational work pertaining to the evolution of large scale structure, with particular reference to quasar clustering and the Lyα forest, is given in this article, with a focus on the Ly α forest.

TL;DR: In this article, a wavelet-based method was used to detect diffuse light in a ~10^14 M_odot and z~0.53 cluster of galaxies from imaging and spectroscopic points of view.