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Italo Balestra
Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Publications - 172
Citations - 12421
Italo Balestra is an academic researcher from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Galaxy cluster. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 172 publications receiving 11061 citations. Previous affiliations of Italo Balestra include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Max Planck Society.
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Improved constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe up to z ∼ 1.1 from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers
Michele Moresco,Andrea Cimatti,Raul Jimenez,Lucia Pozzetti,G. Zamorani,Micol Bolzonella,James Dunlop,F. Lamareille,F. Lamareille,M. Mignoli,H. J. Pearce,Piero Rosati,Daniel Stern,Licia Verde,E. Zucca,C. M. Carollo,Thierry Contini,Thierry Contini,Jean-Paul Kneib,O. Le Fèvre,S. Lilly,Vincenzo Mainieri,Alvio Renzini,Marco Scodeggio,Italo Balestra,Italo Balestra,Raphael Gobat,Ross J. McLure,S. Bardelli,Angela Bongiorno,Karina Caputi,Olga Cucciati,S. de la Torre,L. de Ravel,P. Franzetti,Bianca Garilli,A. Iovino,P. Kampczyk,C. Knobel,K. Kovac,K. Kovac,J. F. Le Borgne,J. F. Le Borgne,V. Le Brun,Christian Maier,Christian Maier,R. Pello,R. Pello,Yingjie Peng,Enrique Pérez-Montero,V. Presotto,V. Presotto,John D. Silverman,Masayuki Tanaka,Lidia Tasca,Laurence Tresse,Daniela Vergani,Omar Almaini,Luke A. Barnes,Rongmon Bordoloi,E. J. Bradshaw,A. Cappi,Robert Chuter,Michele Cirasuolo,Graziano Coppa,Graziano Coppa,C. Diener,S. Foucaud,William G. Hartley,Marc Kamionkowski,Anton M. Koekemoer,C. López-Sanjuan,H. J. McCracken,Preethi Nair,Pascal Oesch,Pascal Oesch,Adam Stanford,Adam Stanford,Niraj Welikala +78 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented new improved constraints on the Hubble parameter H(z) in the redshift range 0.15 -1.1, obtained from the differential spectroscopic evolution of early-type galaxies as a function of redshift.
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Clash: weak-lensing shear-and-magnification analysis of 20 galaxy clusters*
Keiichi Umetsu,Elinor Medezinski,Mario Nonino,Julian Merten,Marc Postman,Massimo Meneghetti,Massimo Meneghetti,Megan Donahue,Nicole G. Czakon,Alberto Molino,Stella Seitz,Daniel Gruen,Doron Lemze,Italo Balestra,Narciso Benítez,Andrea Biviano,Tom Broadhurst,Holland C. Ford,Claudio Grillo,Anton M. Koekemoer,Peter Melchior,Amata Mercurio,John Moustakas,Piero Rosati,Adi Zitrin +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a joint shear-and-magnification weak-lensing analysis of a sample of 16 X-ray-regular and 4 high magnification galaxy clusters at 0.19 ≾ z ≾ 0.69 was presented.
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The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/VIMOS Spectroscopy in the GOODS-South Field: Part II
Italo Balestra,Vincenzo Mainieri,P. Popesso,Mark Dickinson,Mario Nonino,Piero Rosati,H. Teimoorinia,E. Vanzella,Stefano Cristiani,C. J. Cesarsky,R. A. E. Fosbury,Harald Kuntschner,A. Rettura,Goods Team +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, Popesso et al. presented the full data set of the VIMOS spectroscopic campaign of the ESO/GOODS program in the CDFS, which complements the FORS2 ESO andGOODs spectroscopy campaign.
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The radial and azimuthal profiles of Mg II absorption around 0,5 <z <0,9 zCosmos galaxies of different colors, masses, and environments
Rongmon Bordoloi,Simon J. Lilly,C. Knobel,M. Bolzonella,P. Kampczyk,C. M. Carollo,A. Iovino,E. Zucca,Thierry Contini,Thierry Contini,Jean-Paul Kneib,O. Le Fèvre,V. Mainieri,Alvio Renzini,M. Scodeggio,G. Zamorani,Italo Balestra,S. Bardelli,Angela Bongiorno,Karina Caputi,Olga Cucciati,S. de la Torre,L. de Ravel,Bianca Garilli,Bianca Garilli,K. Kovac,F. Lamareille,F. Lamareille,J. F. Le Borgne,J. F. Le Borgne,V. Le Brun,Christian Maier,M. Mignoli,R. Pello,R. Pello,Yingjie Peng,E. Perez Montero,E. Perez Montero,E. Perez Montero,V. Presotto,Claudia Scarlata,John D. Silverman,Masayuki Tanaka,Lidia Tasca,Laurence Tresse,Daniela Vergani,Luke A. Barnes,A. Cappi,Andrea Cimatti,Graziano Coppa,C. Diener,P. Franzetti,Anton M. Koekemoer,C. López-Sanjuan,H. J. McCracken,Michele Moresco,Preethi Nair,Pascal Oesch,Pascal Oesch,Lucia Pozzetti,Niraj Welikala +60 more
TL;DR: In this article, the radial and azimuthal distribution of Mg II gas within 200 kpc (physical) of ~ 4000 galaxies at redshifts 0.5 1.
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Accreting supermassive black holes in the COSMOS field and the connection to their host galaxies
Angela Bongiorno,Andrea Merloni,Marcella Brusa,Benjamin Magnelli,Mara Salvato,M. Mignoli,G. Zamorani,Fabrizio Fiore,David J. Rosario,Vincenzo Mainieri,H. Hao,Andrea Comastri,Cristian Vignali,Cristian Vignali,Italo Balestra,S. Bardelli,S. Berta,Francesca Civano,P. Kampczyk,E. Le Floc'h,Elisabeta Lusso,Dieter Lutz,Lucia Pozzetti,Francesca Pozzi,L. Riguccini,Francesco Shankar,John D. Silverman +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the host galaxy properties of a large sample of active galactic nuclei (AGNs; ∼1700 objects) with Lbol ranging from 1043 to 1047 erg s−1, obtained by combining X-ray and optical spectroscopic selections.