Year 2012-2013

August 8, 2013

• • Rigopoulos et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0057, "On the accuracy of N-body simulations at very large scales"

  • Kovetz et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1404, "Cosmic Bandits: Exploration versus Exploitation in CMB B-Mode Experiments"

  • Leonard et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1353, "GLIMPSE: Accurate 3D weak lensing reconstructions using sparsity"

August 1, 2013

• • Allen et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8152, "Measuring cosmic distances with galaxy clusters"

  • Takada et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0737, "Extragalactic Science, Cosmology and Galactic Archaeology with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)"

  • Levshakov et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8266, "Limits on the space-time variations of fundamental constants"

  • Tamburro et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8394, "Cosmic ray Spectrum, Composition, and Anisotropy Measured with IceCube"

July 25, 2013

• • Martizzi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6002, "The biasing of baryons on the cluster mass function and cosmological parameter estimation"

  • Hanson el al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5830, "Detection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope"

  • Ceccarelli et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5798, "Clues on void evolution I: Large scale galaxy distributions around voids"

July 18, 2013

• • Xu et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4220, "How well can cold-dark-matter substructures account for the observed lensing flux-ratio anomalies?"

• Mahmoudian & Wucknitz, http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4177, "Direct model fitting to combine dithered ACS images"

July 11, 2013

• • Hamaus et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2571, "Cosmology with Void-Galaxy Correlations"

  • Smith et. al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2566, "The Effect of Weak Lensing on Distance Estimates from Supernovae"

  • Molnar et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0982, "Tangential Velocity of the Dark Matter in the Bullet Cluster from Precise Lensed Image Redshifts"

June 13, 2013

• • Xu, http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2683, "Growth Index after Planck"

  • Samushia et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5309, "The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Testing Deviations from Lambda and General Relativity using anisotropic clustering of galaxies"

  • McDonald et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2915, "The Growth of Cool Cores and Evolution of Cooling Properties in a Sample of 83 Galaxy Clusters at 0.3 < z < 1.2 Selected from the SPT-SZ Survey"

  • Davies et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2634, "Detecting Massive Galaxies at High Redshift using the Dark Energy Survey"

May 30, 2013

• • Shimwell et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6654, "SZ observations with AMI of the hottest galaxy clusters detected in the XMM-Newton Cluster Survey"

  • Evan & Bridle, http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2723, "A Detection of Dark Matter Halo Ellipticity using Galaxy Cluster Lensing in SDSS"

May 16, 2013

• • Brown, http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2345, "Generation of Arbitrarily Non-Gaussian Fields with a Set Correlation Structure"

  • Durrer et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3192, "Comment on 'Origin of cosmic magnetic fields'"

May 9, 2013

• • Monoco et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1505, "An accurate tool for the fast generation of dark matter halo catalogs"

  • Utsumi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4656, "Reducing Systematic Error in Cluster Scale Weak Lensing"

• Molaro et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1884, "The UVES Large Program for Testing Fundamental Physics: I Bounds on a change in alpha towards quasar HE 2217-2818"

• Zhang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6696v1, "Studying Inter-Cluster Galaxy Filaments Through Stacking GMBCG Galaxy Cluster Pairs"

May 2, 2013

• • Beckouche et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3573, "Astronomical Image Denoising Using Dictionary Learning"

  • Utsumi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4656, "Reducing Systematic Error in Cluster Scale Weak Lensing"

  • Jennings et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6087, "The abundance of voids and the excursion set formalism"

April 25, 2013

• • Bernstein & Armstrong, http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1843, "Bayesian Lensing Shear Measurement"

• Konrad et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5443, "Joint Reconstruction of Galaxy Clusters from Gravitational Lensing and Thermal Gas I. Outline of a non-parameteric Method"

April 4, 2013

• • Zitrin et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0455, "A highly elongated prominent lens at z=0.87: first strong lensing analysis of El Gordo"

  • Planck Collaboration, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5083, "Planck 2013 results. XXIII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB"

March 28, 2013

• • Akimichi Taketa talk

March 21, 2013

• Planck results papers

March 14, 2013

• • Mangilli et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1722, "Optimal bispectrum estimator and simulations of the the CMB Lensing-ISW non-Gaussian signal"

  • Heymans et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1808, "CFHTLenS tomographic weak lensing cosmological parameter constraints: Mitigating the impact of intrinsic galaxy alignments" (a.k.a. burying the lede)

  • van Waerbeke et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1806, "CFHTLenS: Mapping the Large Scale Structure with Gravitational Lensing"

  • S. P. C. Peters et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2463, "The Shape of Dark Matter Halos in Edge-on Galaxies: I. Overview of HI observations"

March 7, 2013

• • Schmidt et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0292, "Recovering Redshift Distributions with Cross-Correlations: Pushing the Boundaries"

  • Hartley et. al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0816, "Studying the emergence of the red sequence through galaxy clustering: host halo masses at z > 2"

  • Wu et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0835, "Impact of systematic uncertainties in N-body simulations on the precision cosmology from galaxy clustering"

February 28, 2013

• • Newman et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1392, "The Density Profiles of Massive, Relaxed Galaxy Clusters. II. Separating Luminous and Dark Matter in Cluster Cores"

  • Contreras et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5178, "The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function"

February 21, 2013

• • Linder, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4754, "Testing Dark Matter Clustering with Redshift Space Distortions"

  • Heavens et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1584, "Combining Size and Shape in Weak Lensing"

February 14, 2013

• • Kim & Im, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3003, "Optical-Near Infrared Color Gradients and Merging History of Elliptical Galaxies"

  • Eifler et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2401, "Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure"

  • HST Frontier Fields: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/campaigns/frontier-fields

Feburary 7, 2013

• • Gorecki et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3010, "A new method to improve photometric redshift reconstruction. Applications to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope"

  • Applegate et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0605, "Weighing the Giants III: Methods and Measurements of Accurate Galaxy Cluster Weak-Lensing Masses"

  • McQuinn & White, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0857, "On using angular cross-correlations to determine source redshift distributions."

  • Umetsu, http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0514, "Model-Free Multi-Probe Lensing Reconstruction of Cluster Mass Profiles"

• VOStat.org

January 31, 2013

• • Valentino et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7343, "Tickling the CMB damping tail: scrutinizing the tension between the ACT and SPT experiments"

  • Sobacchi & Mesinger, http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6781, "How does radiative feedback from a UV background impact reionization?"

  • Bundy et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3164, "SYNMAG Photometry: A fast tool for catalog-level matched colors of extended sources"

January 17, 2013

• • de Hoon et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3506, "Distant galaxy clusters in a deep XMM-Newton field within the CFTHLS D4"

  • Garrison-Kimmel et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3137, "Can Feedback Solve the Too Big to Fail Problem?"

January 10, 2013

• • Krause et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2446, "The Weight of Emptiness: The Gravitational Lensing Signal of Stacked Voids"

  • Moresco et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3609, "Improved constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe up to z~1.1 from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers"

December 20, 2012

• • Galli, http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1075, "Clusters of galaxies and variation of the fine structure constant"

November 29, 2012

• • Fattahi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6434, "Precision cosmology in muddy waters: Cosmological constraints and N-body codes"

  • Farooq et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4253, "Hubble parameter measurement constraints on dark energy"

November 15, 2012

• • Bouwens et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2230, "A Census of Star-Forming Galaxies in the z~9-10 Universe based on HST+Spitzer Observations Over 19 CLASH clusters: Three Candidate z~9-10 Galaxies and Improved Constraints on the Star Formation Rate Density at z~9.2"

  • Busca et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2616, "Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Ly-α forest of BOSS quasars"

  • Fattahi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3161, "Galaxy Pairs in the Local Group"

November 8, 2012

• • Huterer et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1015,"Calibration errors unleashed: effects on cosmological parameters and requirements for large-scale structure surveys"

  • Erben et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8156, "CFHTLenS: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey - Imaging Data and Catalogue Products"

  • Rowe at al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0966, "Flexion measurement in simulations of Hubble Space Telescope data"

  • Benitez-Llambay et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0536v1, "Dwarf galaxies and the cosmic web"

October 24, 2012

shifted to Wednesday 12:45 for visit and 15 minutes talk by Vera Gluscevic

• • Mirabel et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5450, "A dispersion-driven method for grant and proposal allocation"

  • Moster et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5522, "Numerical hydrodynamic simulations based on semi-analytic galaxy merger trees: method and Milky-Way like galaxies"

October 18, 2012

• • Hezaveh et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4562, "Dark Matter Substructure Detection Using Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Lensed Dusty Galaxies"

October 11, 2012

• • Tavasoli et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2432, "The challenge of large and empty voids in SDSS DR7 redshift survey"

  • Kwan et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1576, "Cosmic Emulation: The Concentration-Mass Relation for wCDM Universes"

  • Gentile et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2696, "Interpolating point spread function anisotropy"

October 4, 2012

• • Heymans et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0032, "CFHTLenS: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey"

• Ferrari et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1034, "First LOFAR results on galaxy clusters"

• Cassano et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1020, "Radio Halos in future surveys in the radio continuum"

• Yang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0608, "Baryon impact on weak lensing peaks and power spectrum: low-bias statistics and self-calibration in future surveys"

September 27, 2012

• • Gaspari et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3305, "Solving the Cooling Flow Problem through Mechanical AGN Feedback"

  • Treister et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5393, "Major Galaxy Mergers Only Trigger the Most Luminous AGN"

• Weinberg, http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5113, "The Center is Everywhere"

• Er & Bartelmann, http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3072, "Estimation of halo ellipticity using spin-3 flexion"

• Shao et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5563, "The phase space density of fermionic dark matter haloes"

September 20, 2012

• Bolejko et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3142, "Anti-lensing: the bright side of voids"

• Prieto et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4086, "Evolutionary paths among different red galaxy types at 0.3 < z < 1.5 and the late buildup of massive E-S0's through major mergers"

• Behroozi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3013, "On the Lack of Evolution in Galaxy Star Formation Efficiency"

September 13, 2012

• • Clowe et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2143, "On Dark Peaks and Missing Mass: A Weak Lensing Mass Reconstruction of the Merging Cluster System Abell 520"

  • Scoccoola et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1394, "The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: constraints on the time variation of fundamental constants from the large-scale two-point correlation function"

• van Weeren et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2196, "The 'toothbrush-relic': evidence for a coherent linear 2-Mpc scale shock wave in a massive merging galaxy cluster?"

September 6, 2012

• • Semler et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3368, "High-Redshift Cool-Core Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the South Pole Telescope Survey"

  • Planck Collaboration, http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5911, "Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters."

  • Brunetti et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3025, "Probing the origin of giant radio halos through radio and gamma-ray data : the case of the Coma cluster"

August 30, 2012

• • Oogi and Habe, http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5039, "Dry minor mergers and size evolution of high-z compact massive early-type galaxies"

• Zitrin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1766 , "Miscentring in Galaxy Clusters: Dark Matter to Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets in 10,000 SDSS Clusters"

• Caruana et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5987, "No Evidence for Lyman-alpha Emission in Spectroscopy of z > 7 Candidate Galaxies"

• A. Tamm et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5712, "Stellar mass map and dark matter distribution in M31"

August 23, 2012

• • Jauzac et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4323, "A Weak-Lensing Mass Reconstruction of the Large-Scale Filament Feeding the Massive Galaxy Cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745"

  • Foex et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4026, "The dark matter distribution in z~0.5 clusters of galaxies. I. Determining scaling relations with weak lensing masses."

  • Antolini et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3960, "Measuring primordial gravitational waves from CMB B-modes in cosmologies with general expansion histories"

  • Zitrin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1766 , "Miscentring in Galaxy Clusters: Dark Matter to Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets in 10,000 SDSS Clusters"