Fall Quarter 2011

December 15, 2011

• • summary of DES Data Validation/QA workshop

  • Crittenden et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1693, "Fables of reconstruction: controlling bias in the dark energy equation of state"

  • Lin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6622, "The SDSS Coadd: Cosmic Shear Measurement"

  • Croft & Dailey, http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3108, "On the measurement of cosmological parameters"

December 8, 2011

• • Huff et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6958, "Seeing in the dark -- I. Multi-epoch alchemy"; http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3143, "Seeing in the dark -- II. Cosmic shear in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"

  • Dodelson, http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1320, "The Real Problem with MOND"

  • Book, Kamionkowski, & Schmidt, http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0567, "Lensing of 21-cm Fluctuations by Primordial Gravitational Waves"

  • Valageas, Sato, & Nishimichi, http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7156, "Modeling of weak lensing statistics. I. Power spectrum and bispectrum"

December 1, 2011

• • Sutter & Ricker, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2786, "A first estimate of radio halo statistics from large-scale cosmological simulation"

  • Zahn et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6386, "Cosmic microwave background constraints on the duration and timing of reionization from the South Pole Telescope"

November 17, 2011

• • Vallinotto, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5339, "Using CMB lensing to constrain the multiplicative bias of cosmic shear"

  • Prada et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2889, "Measuring equality horizon with the zero-crossing of the galaxy correlation function"

  • Taylor et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3370, "Measuring the Geometry of the Universe from Weak Gravitational Lensing behind Galaxy Groups in the HST COSMOS survey"

November 10, 2011

• • Reichardt et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5328, "New limits on Early Dark Energy from the South Pole Telescope"

  • Reichardt et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0932, "A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with two years of South Pole Telescope observations"

  • Harrison & Coles, http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1184, "Testing Cosmology with Extreme Galaxy Clusters"

  • Pace et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1556, "Structure formation in cosmologies with oscillating dark energy"

  • Verdugo et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0644, "The Cosmic Web and galaxy evolution around the most luminous X-ray cluster: RXJ1347.5-1145"

  • Huff & Graves, http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1070, "Magnificent Magnification: Exploiting the Other Half of the Lensing Signal"

  • Hearin, Zentner, & Ma, http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0052, "General Requirements on Matter Power Spectrum Predictions for Cosmology with Weak Lensing Tomography"

October 27, 2011

• • Bird et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4416, "Massive Neutrinos and the Non-Linear Matter Power Spectrum"

  • Sutter et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4640, "Bayesian power spectrum analysis of interferometric data"

  • Lavaux & Wandelt, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0345, "Precision cosmography with stacked voids"

  • Host, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5331, "Galaxy cluster strong lensing: image deflections from density fluctuations along the line of sight"

  • Dawson et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4391,"Discovery of a Dissociative Galaxy Cluster Merger with Large Physical Separation"

October 6, 2011

• • Urena-Lopez, http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4712, "Unified description of the dynamics of quintessential scalar fields"

  • ESA selection of Euclid mission: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMOZ59U7TG_index_0.html

  • 2011 Nobel Physics Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/press.html

  • SN cosmology c. 1998 (SCP: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/517/2/565/pdf/39148.web.pdf, High-z: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/116/3/1009/pdf/980111.web.pdf) and today (http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/716/1/712/pdf/apj_716_1_712.pdf)

  • Wojtak, Hansen, & Hjorth, http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6571, "Gravitational redshift of galaxies in clusters as predicted by general relativity"