page_title: Lauro Moscardini
section_title: Some Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Lauro Moscardini / Some Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: Two spiral galaxies are locked in a spellbinding, swirling dance in this image from the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The two interacting galaxies — NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 — together form an intriguing astronomical object named Arp 271, the subject of this, the final image captured by VIMOS before it was decommissioned on 24 March 2018. VIMOS — or, in full, the VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph — was active on the VLT for an impressive 16 years. During that time it helped scientists to uncover the wild early lives of massive galaxies, observe awe-inspiring triple-galaxy interactions, and explore deep cosmic questions such as how the Universe’s most massive galaxies grew so large. Instead of focusing on single objects, VIMOS was able to capture detailed information about hundreds of galaxies at once. This sensitive instrument collected the spectra of tens of thousands of galaxies throughout the Universe, showing how they formed, grew, and evolved. Arp 271 is framed against a backdrop of distant galaxies in this view, and wisps of bluish gas, dust and young stars can be seen bridging the gap between the two galaxies — a result of their mutual gravitational interaction. Like many astronomical observations, this image looks back in time. Thanks to the vast gulf of space separating the Earth and Arp 271, this image shows how the galaxies looked over 110 million years ago: the amount of time it has taken their light to reach us. This kind of collision and merger is also thought to be the eventual fate of the Milky Way, which scientists believe will undergo a similar interaction with our neighbouring galaxy Andromeda.
context_page_description: Lauro Moscardini is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist. Moscardini has studied N-body cosmological simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions. The research activity is mainly focussed in the field of theoretical and observational cosmology, in particular with the application of numerical techniques in astrophysics and the study of the formation of large cosmic structures. Moscardini's research is a mixture of observations and building models of large scale structures in the universe.
context_section_description: Non-Gaussian initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations. II - Cold Dark Matter models; Moscardini, L., Matarrese, S., Lucchin, F., & Messina, A.; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 1 Feb 1991; 
  Modelling galaxy clustering at high redshift; Lauro Moscardini,  Peter Coles,  Francesco Lucchin,  Sabino Matarrese; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 30 August 1998; 
  X-ray properties of galaxy clusters and groups from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation; S. Borgani, G. Murante, V. Springel, A. Diaferio, K. Dolag, L. Moscardini, G. Tormen, L. Tornatore, P. Tozzi; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 28 Oct 2003; arXiv:astro-ph/0310794
  A dynamical model for the distribution of dark matter and gas in galaxy clusters; Elena Rasia, Giuseppe Tormen, Lauro Moscardini; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 15 Sep 2003, last revised 3 Mar 2004; arXiv:astro-ph/0309405
  The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Gravity test from the combination of redshift-space distortions and galaxy-galaxy lensing at 0.5 < z < 1.2; S. de la Torre, E. Jullo, C. Giocoli, A. Pezzotta, J. Bel, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli, M. Scodeggio, M. Bolzonella, U. Abbas, C. Adami, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, A. Iovino, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, K. Małek, F. Marulli, M. Polletta, A. Pollo, L.A.M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A. Zanichelli, S. Arnouts, E. Branchini, J. Coupon, G. De Lucia, O. Ilbert, T. Moutard, L. Moscardini, J. A. Peacock, R. B. Metcalf, F. Prada, G. Yepes; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 16 Dec 2016, last revised 28 Aug 2017; arXiv:1612.05647
  Fast weak-lensing simulations with halo model; Carlo Giocoli, Sandra Di Meo, Massimo Meneghetti, Eric Jullo, Sylvain de la Torre, Lauro Moscardini, Marco Baldi, Pasquale Mazzotta, R. Benton Metcalf; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society;  10 Jan 2017, last revised 5 Jun 2017, 470, pp. 3574 - 3590; arXiv:1701.02739
  AMICO: optimised detection of galaxy clusters in photometric surveys; Bellagamba, Fabio; Roncarelli, Mauro; Maturi, Matteo; Moscardini, Lauro; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 16 October 2017, 473, pp. 5221 - 5236; arXiv:1705.03029
  Probing primordial features with next-generation photometric and radio surveys; Mario Ballardini, Fabio Finelli, Roy Maartens, Lauro Moscardini; Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics; 20 Dec 2017 (v1), last revised 4 Apr 2018; arXiv:1712.07425
  Searching for galaxy clusters in the Kilo-Degree Survey; M. Radovich, E. Puddu, F. Bellagamba, M. Roncarelli, L. Moscardini, S.Bardelli, A. Grado, F. Getman, M. Maturi, Z. Huang, N. Napolitano, J. McFarland, E. Valentijn, M. Bilicki; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 11 Jan 2017, 598, pp. A107 - A118; arXiv:1701.02954
  The XXL Survey: XXXII. Spatial clustering of the XXL-S AGN; M. Plionis, L.Koutoulidis, E. Koulouridis, L. Moscardini, C. Lidman, M. Pierre, C. Adami, L. Chiappetti, L. Faccioli, S. Fotopoulou, F. Pacaud, S. Paltani; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 17 Apr 2018; arXiv:1804.06409
  Weak-lensing peaks in simulated light cones: Investigating the coupling between dark matter and dark energy; Carlo Giocoli, Lauro Moscardini, Marco Baldi, Massimo Meneghetti, Robert B. Metcalf; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 17 May 2018, 478, pp. 5436 - 5448; arXiv:1801.01886
  The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): The complexity of galaxy populations at 0.4 < z < 1.3 revealed with unsupervised machine-learning algorithms; M. Siudek, K. Małek, A. Pollo, T. Krakowski, A. Iovino, M. Scodeggio, T. Moutard, G. Zamorani, L. Guzzo, B. Garilli, B. R. Granett, M. Bolzonella, S. de la Torre, U. Abbas, C. Adami, D. Bottini, A. Cappi, O. Cucciati, I. Davidzon, P. Franzetti, A. Fritz, J. Krywult, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fèvre, D. Maccagni, F. Marulli, M. Polletta, L.A.M. Tasca, R. Tojeiro, D. Vergani, A. Zanichelli, S. Arnouts, J. Bel, E. Branchini, J. Coupon, G. De Lucia, O. Ilbert, C. P. Haines, L. Moscardini, T. T. Takeuchi; Astronomy & Astrophy
caption: Two spiral galaxies are locked in a spellbinding, swirling dance in this image from the VIMOS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The two interacting galaxies — NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 — together form an intriguing astronomical object named Arp 271, the subject of this, the final image captured by VIMOS before it was decommissioned on 24 March 2018.
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