Winter quarter 2010
Cosmology lunch #12
Thursday, January 7
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Lueker et al., arXiv:0912.4317, new CMB measurements from SPT (MJM)
Angulo & White, arXiv:0912.4277, rescaling N-body simulations to fit different cosmologies (MJM)
Cosmology lunch #13
Thursday, January 14
12:30 pm
***PRB M2005***
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
arXiv:1001.1656 -- "Reconstructing the triaxiality of the galaxy cluster Abell 1689: solving the X-ray and strong lensing mass discrepancy", Andrea Morandi, Kristian Pedersen, Marceau Limousin [MSSG]
arXiv:1001.1696 -- "On the over-concentration problem of strong lensing clusters", M. Sereno, Ph. Jetzer, M. Lubini [MSSG]
Song et al, arXiv:1001.1154, "Statistical Determination of Bulk Flow Motions" (MJM)
Del Popolo et al, arXiv:1001.1443, "Improvements in the X-ray luminosity function and constraints on cosmological parameters..." (MJM)
Cosmology lunch #14
Thursday, January 21
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Xu et al, arXiv:1001.2324, "A New Statistic for Analyzing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations"
Hayden et al, arXiv:1001.3428, "The Rise and Fall of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves in the SDSS-II Supernova Survey"
Courtin et al, arXiv:1001.3425, "Imprints of dark energy on cosmic structure formation" (and arXiv:0903.5490)
Tinker et al, arXiv:1001.3162, "The Large Scale Bias of Dark Matter Halos: Numerical Calibration and Model Test"
Cosmology lunch #15
Thursday, January 28
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Kirk, Bridle, & Schneider, arXiv:1001.3787, "The Impact of Intrinsic Alignments: Cosmological Constraints from a Joint Analysis of Cosmic Shear and Galaxy Survey Data"
WMAP 7-year data release - papers here
Bernstein, arXiv:1001.2333, "Shape measurement biases from underfitting and ellipticity gradients" (MSSG)
Cosmology lunch #16
Thursday, February 4
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
"Coyote Universe" simulation papers - Paper I, Paper II, Paper III
Masui, McDonald, & Pen, arXiv:1001.4811, "Near term measurements with 21 cm intensity mapping: neutral hydrogen fraction and BAO at z<2"
Dodelson, arXiv:1001.5012, "Cross-Correlating Probes of Primordial Gravitational Waves"
Cosmology lunch #17
Thursday, February 11
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Schneider, Eifler, & Krause, arXiv:1002.2136 - "COSEBIs: Extracting the full E-/B-mode information from cosmic shear correlation functions"
continued from last week: "Coyote Universe" simulation papers - Paper II, Paper III (related: Schneider et al, arXiv:1002.1752)
Kronborg et al, arXiv:1002.1249, "Gravitational lensing in the Supernova Legacy Survey" - also Jonsson et al, arXiv:1002.1374
de Putter et al, arXiv:1002.1311, "Measuring the Speed of Dark: Detecting Dark Energy Perturbations"
Cosmology lunch #18
Thursday, February 18
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
de Putter et al, arXiv:1002.1311, "Measuring the Speed of Dark: Detecting Dark Energy Perturbations"
Daniel et al, arXiv:1002.1962, "Testing General Relativity with Current Cosmological Data"
Knebe et al, arXiv:1002.2853, "The impact of baryonic physics on the shape and radial alignment of substructure in cosmological dark matter haloes"
Cosmology lunch #19
Thursday, March 4
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Knebe et al, arXiv:1002.2853, "The impact of baryonic physics on the shape and radial alignment of substructure in cosmological dark matter haloes"
Bianchi & Rovelli, arXiv:1002.3966, "Why all these prejudices against a [cosmological] constant?"
A trio of similar papers on using cosmological data sets to test general relativity: Daniel et al, arXiv:1002.1962; Bean & Tangmatitham, arXiv:1002.4197; Zhao et al, arXiv:1003.0001
Romano et al. arXiv:1002.0727, "Abell 611: I. weak lensing analysis with LBC" -- MSSG
Jennings et al, arXiv:1002.3255, "How BAO measurements can fail to detect quintessence" (Chris)
Cosmology lunch #20
Thursday, March 11
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Using cosmological data sets to test general relativity: Daniel et al, arXiv:1002.1962; Bean & Tangmatitham, arXiv:1002.4197; Zhao et al, arXiv:1003.0001; Reyes et al, arXiv:1003.2185
Cosmological Numerical Simulations: 1) R.E. Angulo & S.D.M. White, "One simulation to fit them all - changing the background parameters of a cosmological N-body simulation", 2009arXiv0912.4277A 2) The Coyote Universe III: Simulation Suite and Precision Emulator for the Nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum 2009arXiv0912.4490L
HALO: High Altitude Lensing Observatory -- see this talk by Ali Vanderveld for a very brief description: http://postdocs.jpl.nasa.gov/files/ura/postdoc_seminar.pdf
Cosmology lunch #21
Thursday, March 18
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Cosmological Numerical Simulations: 1) R.E. Angulo & S.D.M. White, "One simulation to fit them all - changing the background parameters of a cosmological N-body simulation", 2009arXiv0912.4277A 2) The Coyote Universe III: Simulation Suite and Precision Emulator for the Nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum 2009arXiv0912.4490L
Abel, arXiv:1003.0937, "rpSPH: a much improved Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics algorithm"
Meneghetti, 2009arXiv0912.1343M, "Weighing simulated galaxy clusters using lensing and X-ray"
Cosmology lunch #22
Thursday, March 25
12:30 pm
PRB M2035
Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:
Joachimi & Schneider, arXiv:1003.4211, "GI boosting: Direct measurement of intrinsic alignments in cosmic shear data"
Dietrich et al, arXiv:0903.3599, "Weak lensing observations of potentially X-ray underluminous galaxy clusters"
Mesinger, Furlanetto, & Cen, arXiv:1003.3878, "21cmFAST: A Fast, Semi-Numerical Simulation of the High-Redshift 21-cm Signal"; comparison with slower, more accurate codes: Zahn et al, arXiv:1003.3455