Spring Quarter 2011

June 23, 2011

• • Ma, Ostriker, & Zhao, http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3327, "Cosmic Mach Number as A Sensitive Test of the Growth of Structure"

  • Guzman & Lora-Clavijo, http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3521, "Collisional dark matter density profiles around supermassive black holes"

  • Takahashi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3823 , "Probability Distribution Functions of Cosmological Lensing: Convergence, Shear, and Magnification"

• Postman et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3328, "Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview"

June 17, 2011

• • Draper et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2185, "The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Signal of the maxBCG SDSS Galaxy Clusters in WMAP"

  • Filippini et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2158, "SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales" (also http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3087)

  • Bagchi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5551, "Discovery of the first giant double radio relic in a galaxy cluster found in the PLANCK Sunyaev-Zel'dovich cluster survey: PLCK G287.0+32.9"

  • Russell et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0435, "A merger mystery: no radio halo in the merging cluster Abell 2146"

  • Clifton et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2476, "Modified Gravity and Cosmology"

June 9, 2011

• • Jones-Smith & Ferrer, http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6085, "Detecting Chameleon Dark Energy via Electrostatic Analogy"

  • Jain & Vanderplas, http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0065, "Tests of Modified Gravity with Dwarf Galaxies"

  • Morandi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0202, "Triaxiality and non-thermal gas pressure in Abell 1689"

  • Arbey, http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1363, "AlterBBN: A program for calculating the BBN abundances of the elements in alternative cosmologies"

June 2, 2011

• • Can Vural, http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2793, "When Models Interact with their Subjects: The Dynamics of Model Aware Systems"

  • Hlozek et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4887, "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the primordial power spectrum"

May 19, 2011

• • Jee et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3186, "Scaling Relations and Overabundance of Massive Clusters at z>1 from Weak-Lensing Studies with HST"

  • Keisler et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3182, "A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope"

  • Blake et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2862, "The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: testing the cosmological model with baryon acoustic oscillations at z=0.6"

  • talks from non-Gaussianity workshop: http://www.umich.edu/~mctp/SciPrgPgs/events/2011/CosmoNongaussianity/prog.html

  • Suzuki et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3470, "The HST Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints Above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample"

May 12, 2011

• • Umetsu et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0444, "A Precise Cluster Mass Profile Averaged from the Highest-Quality Lensing Data"

  • Prokhorov et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2357, "Unveiling the 3D temperature structure of galaxy clusters by means of the thermal SZ effect"

May 5, 2011

• • Bernstein & Cai, http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3862, "Cosmology without cosmic variance"

  • Slosar et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5244, "The Lyman-alpha forest in three dimensions: measurements of large-scale flux correlations from BOSS 1st-year data"

  • shear peak statistics: Dietrich & Hartlap (http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3512); Marian, Smith, & Bernstein (http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1991)

April 28, 2011

• • Gruen et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2596, "Optimizing weak lensing mass estimates for cluster profile uncertainty"

  • Hou et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2333, "How Additional Massless Neutrinos Affect the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail"

  • Blake et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2948, "The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the growth rate of cosmic structure since redshift z=0.9"

April 14, 2011

• • SNLS 3-year results - cosmological constraints with type Ia SNe: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1443, http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1444

  • Gnedin, Kravtsov, & Rudd, http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1428, "Implementing the DC Mode in Cosmological Simulations with Supercomoving Variables"

  • van Daalen et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1174, "The effects of galaxy formation on the matter power spectrum"

April 7, 2011

• • Jain, http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0415, "Designing Surveys for Tests of Gravity"

• Calabrese et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4132, "Limits on Dark Radiation, Early Dark Energy, and Relativistic Degrees of Freedom"

  • Dietrich et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4607, "The origin of peak-offsets in weak-lensing maps"

  • Hildebrandt et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4407, "Lensing Magnification: A novel method to weigh high-redshift clusters and its application to SpARCs"