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A Cepheid distance to the Fornax cluster and the local expansion rate of the Universe

scientific article published in Nature

A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Gemini/GMOS study of intermediate luminosity early-type Virgo cluster galaxies. I. Globular cluster and stellar kinematics

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) I. Introduction to the survey

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) II. Constraining the quenching time in the stripped galaxy NGC 4330

scholarly article

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) III. Star formation in the stripped gas of NGC 4254

scholarly article

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) IV. A tail of ionised gas in the merger remnant NGC4424

scholarly article

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) V. Properties of the ionised gas filament of M 87

scientific article

A large nuclear accretion disk in the active galaxy NGC4261

scientific article published in Nature

AGN STORM 2. I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817

An Update on the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys

Astronomy: Feeding the first quasars.

scientific article published in January 2003

Beyond the Bulge: A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Dark Matter Halos

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Black hole demographics from the M bullet - relation

scholarly article by D. Merritt & Laura Ferrarese published 21 January 2001 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Central Masses and Broad‐Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation‐Mapping Database

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dark Matter in Ultra-diffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster from Their Globular Cluster Populations

Detecting Low-Mass Supermassive Black Holes

scholarly article by Himel Ghosh et al published 2008 in AIP Conference Proceedings

Determining the zero-point calibration for AGN black hole mass estimates

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Discovery of a large population of ultraluminous X-ray sources in the bulgeless galaxies NGC 337 and ESO 501-23

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of an active supermassive black hole in the bulgeless galaxy NGC 4561

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of nuclear X-ray sources in sings galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of supermassive black holes in normal galaxies

scholarly article published 2010

Distance to the Virgo cluster galaxy M100 from Hubble Space Telescope observations of Cepheids

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: “The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XI. Catalog of Globular Cluster Candidates” (ApJS, 221, 13)

scholarly article published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Erratum: “The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Properties of Ultra-compact Dwarfs in the M87, M49, and M60 Regions” (2015, APJ, 812, 34)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Erratum: “Virgo Redux: The Masses and Stellar Content of Nuclei in Early-type Galaxies from Multiband Photometry and Spectroscopy” (2017, ApJ, 849, 55)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 4261 from Hubble Space Telescope Images and Spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for the rapid formation of low-mass early-type galaxies in dense environments

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant

scientific article published on 20 May 2001

Finding Local Low-mass Supermassive Black Holes

scholarly article by Smita Mathur et al published 2008 in AIP Conference Proceedings

First Hubble Space Telescope observations of the brightest stars in the Virgo galaxy M100 = NGC 4321

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

First Stellar Velocity Dispersion Measurement of a Luminous Quasar Host with Gemini North Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

G2C2 – I. Homogeneous photometry for Galactic globular clusters in SDSS passbands

scientific article

G2C2 – II. Integrated colour–metallicity relations for Galactic globular clusters in SDSS passbands

scientific article

Galaxies at the extremes: ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Virgo cluster

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Galaxy scaling relations from the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys: no evidence for a dwarf-giant dichotomy

HFF-DeepSpace Photometric Catalogs of the 12 Hubble Frontier Fields, Clusters, and Parallels: Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Stellar Masses

scholarly article

IGCs in the Virgo Cluster

Infrared spectroscopy of nearby radio active elliptical galaxies

Investigating the Merger Origin of Early-type Galaxies using Ultra-deep Optical Images

Low‐Level Nuclear Activity in Nearby Spiral Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mass Estimations of Supermassive Black Holes in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

scholarly article by Elena Dalla Bontà et al published 19 December 2009 in Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT

NGC 4370: a case study for testing our ability to infer dust distribution and mass in nearby galaxies

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

New constraints on a complex relation between globular cluster colors and environment

scholarly article

Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXI. The Weak Lensing Masses of the CFHTLS and NGVS RedGOLD Galaxy Clusters and Calibration of the Optical Richness

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Optical and infrared photometry of globular clusters in NGC 1399: evidence for color-metallicity nonlinearity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Origin of ultra-compact dwarfs: a dynamical perspective

Probing the mass assembly of massive nearby galaxies with deep imaging

article published in 2012

Spectacular tails of ionized gas in the Virgo cluster galaxy NGC 4569

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Stellar Population Properties of Ultracompact Dwarfs in M87: A Mass–Metallicity Correlation Connecting Low-metallicity Globular Clusters and Compact Ellipticals

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Stellar velocity dispersion measurements in high-luminosity quasar hosts and implications for the AGN black hole mass scale

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Stripped gas as fuel for newly formed H ii regions in the encounter between VCC 1249 and M 49: a unified picture from NGVS and GUViCS

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass–Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Past, Present and Future Research

scholarly article by Laura Ferrarese & Holland Ford published February 2005 in Space Science Reviews

Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. I. Bulge luminosities from dedicated near-infrared data

scholarly article by Ronald Läsker et al published 12 December 2013 in The Astrophysical Journal

Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. II. The correlation with near-infrared luminosity revisited

scholarly article by Ronald Läsker et al published 12 December 2013 in The Astrophysical Journal

Supermassive black holes in BCGs

scholarly article by E. Dalla Bontà et al published August 2006 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Surface brightness fluctuations in the Hubble space telescope ACS/WFC F814W bandpass and an update on galaxy distances

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey and Data Reduction Procedures

scientific article published in April 2007

The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. II. The Central Brightness Profiles of Early‐Type Galaxies: A Characteristic Radius on Nuclear Scales and the Transition from Central Luminosity Deficit to Excess

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. VI. The nuclei of early-type galaxies in the Fornax cluster

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The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XI. Catalog of globular cluster candidates

The ACS Fornax cluster survey. IV. Deprojection of the surface brightness profiles of early-type galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax clusters: investigating the "Core/Power-law dichotomy"

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax cluster survey. IX. The color-magnitude relation of globular cluster systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax cluster survey. V. Measurement and recalibration of surface brightness fluctuations and a precise value of the Fornax-Virgo relative distance

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax cluster survey. VIII. The luminosity function of globular clusters in Virgo and Fornax early-type galaxies and its use as a distance indicator

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax cluster survey. X. Color gradients of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Fornax cluster survey. XII. Diffuse star clusters in early-type galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. II. Data Reduction Procedures

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. III.ChandraandHubble Space TelescopeObservations of Low‐Mass X‐Ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in M87

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. Data Reduction Procedures for Surface Brightness Fluctuation Measurements with the Advanced Camera for Surveys

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IX. The Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Early‐Type Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. Isophotal Analysis and the Structure of Early‐Type Galaxies

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. Resolving the Connection between Globular Clusters and Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VIII. The Nuclei of Early‐Type Galaxies

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Half‐Light Radii of Globular Clusters in Early‐Type Galaxies: Environmental Dependencies and a Standard Ruler for Distance Estimation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XI. The Nature of Diffuse Star Clusters in Early‐Type Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. SBF Distance Catalog and the Three‐dimensional Structure of the Virgo Cluster

scientific article published on 20 January 2007

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIV. Analysis of Color‐Magnitude Relations in Globular Cluster Systems

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. The Formation Efficiencies of Globular Clusters in Early‐Type Galaxies: The Effects of Mass and Environment

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ACS Virgo cluster survey XVI. Selection procedure and catalogs of globular cluster candidates

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The ACS Virgo cluster survey. XVII. The spatial alignment of globular cluster systems with early-type host galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Advanced Camera for Surveys Virgo Cluster Survey. V. Surface Brightness Fluctuation Calibration for Giant and Dwarf Early‐Type Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Anatomy of Galaxies

scholarly article

The Black Hole Mass of NGC 4151: Comparison of Reverberation Mapping and Stellar Dynamical Measurements

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Discovery of Cepheids and a Distance to NGC 5128

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Effect of Metallicity on Cepheid‐based Distances

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Environment of M85 Optical Transient 2006‐1: Constraints on the Progenitor Age and Mass

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. V. Photometry of the Brightest Stars in M100 and the Calibration of WFPC2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. VIII. The Discovery of Cepheids and a New Distance to NGC 3621 Using theHubbleSpaceTelescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. XVI. Cepheid Variables in an Inner Field of M101

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS)

The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS)

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The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS) III. The ultraviolet source catalogs

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The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS) VI. The UV luminosity function of the Virgo cluster and its surrounding regions

scholarly article

The Hubble Space Telescope Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. IX. The Discovery of Cepheids in NGC 2090

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. VII. The Discovery of Cepheids in the Leo I Group Galaxy NGC 3351

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. X. The Cepheid Distance to NGC 7331

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XI. The Cepheids in NGC 4414

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XII. The Discovery of Cepheids and a New Distance to NGC 2541

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XIII. The Metallicity Dependence of the Cepheid Distance Scale

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XVII. The Cepheid Distance to NGC 4725

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XX. The Discovery of Cepheids in the Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4548

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVII. A Derivation of the Hubble Constant Using the Fundamental Plane and Dn-σ Relations in Leo I, Virgo, and Fornax

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVIII. Combining the Constraints on the Hubble Constant

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble space telescope key project on the extragalactic distance scale. XIX. The discovery of cepheids in and a new distance to NGC 3198

The Hubble space telescope key project on the extragalactic distance scale. XXII. The discovery of cepheids in NGC 1326A

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The JWST Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS)

The JWST tunable filter imager (TFI)

The JWST tunable filter imager (TFI)

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

scientific article published in June 2023

The Low End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function: Constraining the Mass of a Nuclear Black Hole in NGC 205 via Stellar Kinematics

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2005)

The Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Globular Cluster Connection in the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey

The Low‐Mass X‐Ray Binary and Globular Cluster Connection in Virgo Cluster Early‐Type Galaxies: Optical Properties

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope. I. Instrument Overview and In-flight Performance

scientific article published in September 2023

The Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS). II. The Central Dwarf Galaxy Population

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS). III. Revealing the Spatial Substructure of the Dwarf Galaxy Population Inside Half of Fornax's Virial Radius

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS). IV. Mass and Age Bimodality of Nuclear Clusters in the Fornax Core Region

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XVIII. Measurement and Calibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for Bright Galaxies in Virgo (and Beyond)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXIV. The Red Sequence to ∼10⁶ L⊙ and Comparisons with Galaxy Formation Models

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVI. The Issues of Photometric Age and Metallicity Estimates for Globular Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXI. The Kinematics of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Core of the Virgo Cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXII. A Search for Globular Cluster Substructures in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster Core

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XX. RedGOLD background galaxy cluster detections

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the survey

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The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS). XIII. The luminosity and mass function of galaxies in the core of the Virgo cluster and the contribution from disrupted satellites

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey. X. Properties of ultra-compact dwarfs in the M87, M49, and M60 regions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Spectroscopy and H-band Imaging of Virgo Cluster Galaxies (SHIVir) Survey: Scaling Relations and the Stellar-to-total Mass Relation

scientific article

The advanced camera for surveys Fornax cluster survey. VII. Half-light radii of globular clusters in early-type galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The black hole mass of NGC 4151. II. Stellar dynamical measurement from near-infrared integral field spectroscopy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The color-magnitude relation for metal-poor globular clusters in M87: confirmation from deep HST/ACS imaging

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The complex nature of the nuclear star cluster in FCC 277

scholarly article

The high-mass end of the black hole mass function: mass estimates in brightest cluster galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The most massive ultra-compact dwarf galaxy in the Virgo cluster

The nature of UCDs: Internal dynamics from an expanded sample and homogeneous database

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The next generation Virgo cluster survey (NGVS). XXV. Fiducial panchromatic colors of Virgo core globular clusters and their comparison to model predictions

The next generation Virgo cluster survey-infrared (NGVS-IR). I. A new near-ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared globular cluster selection tool

article published in 2013

The next generation Virgo cluster survey. V. Modeling the dynamics of M87 with the made-to-measure method

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The next generation Virgo cluster survey. VI. The kinematics of ultra-compact dwarfs and globular clusters in M87

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The next generation Virgo cluster survey. VII. The intrinsic shapes of low-luminosity galaxies in the core of the Virgo cluster, and a comparison with the local group

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The next generation Virgo cluster survey. VIII. The spatial distribution of globular clusters in the Virgo cluster

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The next generation Virgo cluster survey. XII. Stellar populations and kinematics of compact, low-mass early-type galaxies from Gemini GMOS-IFU spectroscopy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The next generation Virgo cluster survey. XV. The photometric redshift estimation for background sources

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The properties of the Malin 1 galaxy giant disk. A panchromatic view from the NGVS and GUViCS surveys

scientific article published in January 2016

The rich globular cluster system of Abell 1689 and the radial dependence of the globular cluster formation efficiency

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The sensitivity of harassment to orbit: mass loss from early-type dwarfs in galaxy clusters

scientific article

TheM•‐σ Relation for Supermassive Black Holes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Tightening weak lensing constraints on the ellipticity of galaxy-scale dark matter haloes

scientific article published in February 2021

Trends in the Globular Cluster Luminosity Function of Early-Type Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Unveiling a rich system of faint dwarf galaxies in the Next Generation Fornax Survey

Virgo Redux: The Masses and Stellar Content of Nuclei in Early-type Galaxies from Multiband Photometry and Spectroscopy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal