Spring Quarter 2012

August 16, 2012

    Due to the CCAPP seminar at 12:30, we postpone our meeting to 13:15.

• • Lietzen et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7070, "Environments of galaxies in groups within the supercluster-void network"

  • Rocha et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3025, "Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter I: Constant Density Cores and Substructure"

  • Peter et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3026, "Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter II: Halo Shapes vs. Observations"

  • Eric Suchyta's review of his candidacy exam slides

  • Takahashi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2701, "Revising the Halofit Model for the Nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum"

  • Wittman & Dawson, http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3000, "Constraining Source Redshift Distributions with Gravitational Lensing"

August 9, 2012

• • Sutter et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1058, "A first application of the Alcock-Paczynski test to stacked cosmic voids"

  • Yang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6106, "Theoretical Uncertainties due to AGN Subgrid Models in Predictions of Galaxy Cluster Observable Properties"

  • Ross et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1491, "The Clustering of Galaxies in SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Constraints on Primordial Non-Gaussianity"

  • SDSS-III DR9 press release and movie: http://www.sdss3.org/press/dr9.php

  • Linden et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0597, "Weighing the Giants I: Weak Lensing Masses for 51 Massive Galaxy Clusters - Project Overview, Data Analysis Methods, and Cluster Images"

  • Hoekstra et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0606, "The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project: weak lensing masses and SZ scaling relations"

August 2, 2012

• • Mandelbaum et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1120, "Cosmological parameter constraints from galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering with the SDSS DR7"

  • Masui et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0331, "Measurement of 21 cm brightness fluctuations at z~0.8 in cross-correlation"

  • Liesenborgs & Rijcke, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4692, "Lensing degeneracies and mass substructure"

July 26, 2012

• • Ruiz et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4781, "Principal components of dark energy with SNLS supernovae: the effects of systematic errors"

  • Planck collaboration, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4061, "Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect"

  • Xu et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6732, "Measuring D_A and H at z=0.35 from the SDSS DR7 LRGs using baryon acoustic oscillations"

  • QUIET collaboration, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5034, "Second Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of the CMB Polarization Power Spectrum at 95 GHz"

June 28, 2012

• • Samushia et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5309, "The clustering of galaxies in BOSS: Testing deviations from LCDM and GR using anisotropic clustering of galaxies"

  • Gluscevic et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5546, "First CMB Constraints on Direction-Dependent Cosmological Birefringence from WMAP-7"

  • Antonik et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5320, "The impact of camera optical alignments on weak lensing measures for the Dark Energy Survey"

  • Fadely et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4306, "Star-Galaxy Classification in Multi-Band Optical Imaging"

June 21, 2012

• • Chang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1378, "Spurious Shear in Weak Lensing with LSST"

  • Schlagenhaufer, Phleps, & Sanchez, http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2640, "A model of the anisotropic correlation function xi(rp,pi) in redshift space including redshift errors"

  • Messenger & Veitch, http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3461, "Avoiding selection bias : A unified treatment of thresholded data"

  • Brown, http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4437, "Prospects for weak lensing studies with new radio telescopes"

June 14, 2012

• • Gibelyou & Huterer, http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6476, "Dipoles in the Sky"

  • Ludlow et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1049, "The Dynamical State and Mass-Concentration Relation of Galaxy Clusters"

  • van Weeren et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2294, "Diffuse radio emission in MACS J1752.0+4440"

June 7, 2012

• • Redlich et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6906, "The strongest gravitational lenses: I. The statistical impact of cluster mergers"

  • Serra et al., http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011MNRAS.412..800S, "Measuring the escape velocity and mass profiles of galaxy clusters beyond their virial radius"

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

  • de Jong et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1254, "The Kilo-Degree Survey"

  • Amendola et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1225, "Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite"