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Peter Capak
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 688
Citations - 76990
Peter Capak is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Redshift. The author has an hindex of 147, co-authored 679 publications receiving 70483 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Capak include Max Planck Society & Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.
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The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Overview*
Nick Scoville,Nick Scoville,Herve Aussel,Marcella Brusa,Peter Capak,C. M. Carollo,Martin Elvis,Mauro Giavalisco,Luigi Guzzo,Guenther Hasinger,Chris Impey,Jean-Paul Kneib,O. LeFevre,Simon J. Lilly,Bahram Mobasher,Alvio Renzini,Alvio Renzini,R. M. Rich,David B. Sanders,Eva Schinnerer,Eva Schinnerer,D. Schminovich,Patrick L. Shopbell,Yoshiaki Taniguchi,Neil De Grasse Tyson +24 more
TL;DR: The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) as mentioned in this paper is designed to probe the correlated evolution of galaxies, star formation, active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and dark matter (DM) with large-scale structure (LSS) over the redshift range z > 0.5-6.
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A Highly Consistent Framework for the Evolution of the Star-Forming "Main Sequence" from z~0-6
Joshua S. Speagle,Joshua S. Speagle,Charles L. Steinhardt,Charles L. Steinhardt,Peter Capak,John D. Silverman +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the evolution of the star-forming galaxy (SFG) main sequence (MS) in stellar mass and star formation rate (SFR) out to z ~ 6.4 Gyr.
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COSMOS Photometric Redshifts with 30-bands for 2-deg2
Olivier Ilbert,Peter Capak,Mara Salvato,Herve Aussel,H. J. McCracken,David B. Sanders,N. Z. Scoville,Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,Stéphane Arnouts,E. Le Floc'h,Bahram Mobasher,Yoshiaki Taniguchi,F. Lamareille,A. Leauthaud,S. S. Sasaki,David R. Thompson,M. Zamojski,G. Zamorani,S. Bardelli,M. Bolzonella,A. Bongiorno,Marcella Brusa,Karina Caputi,C. M. Carollo,T. Contini,R. Cook,Graziano Coppa,Olga Cucciati,S. de la Torre,L. de Ravel,P. Franzetti,Bianca Garilli,Guenther Hasinger,A. Iovino,P. Kampczyk,Jean-Paul Kneib,C. Knobel,K. Kovac,J. F. Le Borgne,V. Le Brun,O. Le Fèvre,Simon J. Lilly,Dagny L. Looper,Christian Maier,Vincenzo Mainieri,Yannick Mellier,M. Mignoli,T. Murayama,R. Pello,Yingjie Peng,E. Perez-Montero,Alvio Renzini,E. Ricciardelli,David Schiminovich,Marco Scodeggio,Yasuhiro Shioya,John D. Silverman,Jason Surace,Masayuki Tanaka,Lidia Tasca,Laurence Tresse,Daniela Vergani,E. Zucca +62 more
TL;DR: In this article, a chi2 template-fitting method was used and calibrated with large spectroscopic samples from VLT-VIMOS and Keck-DEIMOS.
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zCOSMOS: A Large VLT/VIMOS Redshift Survey Covering 0 < z < 3 in the COSMOS Field*
Simon J. Lilly,O. Le Fevre,Alvio Renzini,G. Zamorani,Marco Scodeggio,T. Contini,C. M. Carollo,Guenther Hasinger,Jean-Paul Kneib,A. Iovino,V. Le Brun,Christian Maier,Vincenzo Mainieri,M. Mignoli,John D. Silverman,Lidia Tasca,M. Bolzonella,Angela Bongiorno,D. Bottini,Peter Capak,Karina Caputi,A. Cimatti,Olga Cucciati,Emanuele Daddi,Robert Feldmann,P. Franzetti,B. Garilli,Luigi Guzzo,O. Ilbert,P. Kampczyk,Katarina Kovac,F. Lamareille,A. Leauthaud,J. F. Le Borgne,H. J. McCracken,Christian Marinoni,R. Pello,E. Ricciardelli,Claudia Scarlata,Daniela Vergani,David B. Sanders,Eva Schinnerer,Nick Scoville,Yoshiaki Taniguchi,Stephane Arnouts,Herve Aussel,S. Bardelli,Marcella Brusa,A. Cappi,Paolo Ciliegi,Alexis Finoguenov,Sylvie Foucaud,R. Franceschini,C. Halliday,Chris Impey,C. Knobel,Anton M. Koekemoer,Jaron Kurk,D. Maccagni,Stephen J. Maddox,Bruno Marano,Gianni Marconi,B. Meneux,Bahram Mobasher,C. Moreau,John A. Peacock,Cristiano Porciani,Lucia Pozzetti,Roberto Scaramella,David Schiminovich,Patrick L. Shopbell,Ian Smail,D. J. Thompson,Laurence Tresse,Gianpaolo Vettolani,A. Zanichelli,E. Zucca +76 more
TL;DR: The zCOSMOS-bright survey as discussed by the authors is a large-redshift survey that is being undertaken in the CosMOS field using 600 hr of observation with the VIMOS spectrograph on the 8 m VLT.
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Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
David N. Spergel,N. Gehrels,C. Baltay,David P. Bennett,James B. Breckinridge,Megan Donahue,Alan Dressler,B. S. Gaudi,Thomas P. Greene,Olivier Guyon,Christopher M. Hirata,Jason S. Kalirai,N. J. Kasdin,Bruce Macintosh,Warren Moos,Saul Perlmutter,Marc Postman,Bernard J. Rauscher,Jason Rhodes,Y. Wang,David H. Weinberg,Dominic J. Benford,Michael J. Hudson,W.-S. Jeong,Yannick Mellier,W. A. Traub,T. Yamada,Peter Capak,James W. Colbert,D. Masters,Matthew T. Penny,Dmitry Savransky,D. Stern,Neil T. Zimmerman,Richard K. Barry,Lisa Bartusek,Kalind Carpenter,E. Cheng,F. Dekens,Rick Demers,Kevin Grady,Carole Jackson,G. Kuan,J. W. Kruk,M. Melton,Bijan Nemati,B. Parvin,I. Poberezhskiy,C. Peddie,J. Ruffa,James Wallace,A. Whipple,Edward J. Wollack,F. Zhao +53 more
TL;DR: In 2014, the Science Definition Team (SDT) of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission presented a design reference mission (DRM) for an implementation of WFIRST using one of the 2.4m, Hubble-quality telescopes recently made available to NASA as discussed by the authors.