Winter Quarter 2011

March 31, 2011

• • discussion of topics to be covered in CCAPP Symposium workshop

  • Zitrin et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5618, "The Cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH): Strong Lensing Analysis of Abell 383 from 16-Band HST WFC3/ACS Imaging"

  • Bartelmann et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5923, "Calibration biases in measurements of weak lensing"

March 24, 2011

• • Oguri & Hamana, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0650, "Detailed cluster lensing profiles at large radii and the impact on cluster weak lensing studies"

  • Merten et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2772, "Creation of cosmic structure in the complex galaxy cluster merger Abell 2744"

  • Schneider et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2767, "Fast generation of ensembles of cosmological N-body simulations via mode-resampling"

  • Das et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2124, "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Power Spectrum of Gravitational Lensing"

  • Riess et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2976, "A 3% Solution: Determination of the Hubble Constant with the HST and WFC3"

March 10, 2011

• • Linder, http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0282, "Model Independent Tests of Cosmic Gravity"

  • Tarrant et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0694, "Coupled Quintessence and the Halo Mass Function"

  • Cain et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0551, "Measuring Gravitational Lensing Flexions in Abell 1689 Using an Analytic Image Model"

March 3, 2011

• • Borisov, Jain, & Zhang, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4839, "Spherical Collapse in f(R) Gravity"

  • Meneghetti et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0044, "Comparison of an X-ray selected sample of massive lensing clusters with the MareNostrum Universe LCDM simulation"

  • Davis et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5278, "Modified Gravity Makes Galaxies Brighter"

  • Boylan-Kolchin et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0007, "Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhalos"

February 24, 2011

• • Becker et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3614, "The Mean and Scatter of the Velocity Dispersion-Optical Richness Relation for maxBCG Galaxy Clusters"

  • Okumura et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3640, "Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies"

  • PaperRater.org: open review, collaborative reading of scientific papers

  • Schirmer et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4617 "Mass, Light and Colour of the Cosmic Web in the Supercluster SCL2243-0935 (z=0.447)"

February 17, 2011

• • Mroczkowski, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2176, "A new approach to obtaining cluster mass from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect observations"

  • Chuang & Wang, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2251, "Measurements of H(z) and D_A(z) from the 2D 2-pt Correlation Function of SDSS LRGs"

  • Korngut et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5494, "MUSTANG High Angular Resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging of Sub-Structure in Four Galaxy Clusters"

  • Ali-Haimoud, Hirata, & Kamionkowski, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0004, "Metals at the surface of last scatter"

  • Simionescu et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2429, "Baryons at the Edge of the X-ray Brightest Galaxy Cluster"

February 10, 2011

• • Horesh et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4653, "Lensed arc statistics: comparison of Millennium-simulation galaxy clusters to Hubble Space Telescope observations of an X-ray selected sample"

  • Ross et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0968, "Measuring Redshift-Space Distortions using Photometric Surveys"

  • Samushia, Percival, & Raccanelli, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1014, "Interpreting large-scale redshift-space distortion measurements"

  • Rozo et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3702, "Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS maxBCG Cluster Catalog"

February 3, 2011

• • Williamson et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1290, "An SZ-selected sample of the most massive galaxy cluster in the 2500-square-degree South Pole Telescope survey"

  • Greif et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5491 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5493, simulations of Pop. III star formation

  • March et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1521, "Robustness to systematics for future dark energy probes"

January 27, 2011

• • Feeney et al, "First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation": Part I, Part II

  • Kainulainen & Marra, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4143, "Weak Lensing Observables in the Halo Model"

  • Newman et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3553, "The Dark Matter Distribution in Abell 383: Evidence for a Shallow Density Cusp from Improved Lensing, Stellar Kinematic and X-ray Data"

January 20, 2011

• • http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3191, "First Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of CMB Polarization Power Spectra at 43 GHz in the Multipole Range 25<l<475"

  • Kilbinger et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0950, "CosmoPMC: Cosmology Population Monte Carlo"

  • Tereno, Semboloni, & Schrabback, http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5854, "COSMOS weak-lensing constraints on modified gravity"

  • Di Porto, Amendola, & Branchini, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2453, "Growth factor and galaxy bias from future redshift surveys: a study on parametrizations"

  • Planck early results, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2022

  • Medezinski et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1955, "A Weak Lensing Detection of the Cosmological Distance-Redshift Relation Behind Three Massive Clusters"

January 13, 2011

• • Eifler, http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2978, "Weak lensing statistics from the Coyote Universe"

  • Orban, Weinberg http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1523 "Self-Similar Bumps and Wiggles: Isolating the Evolution of the BAO Peak with Power-law Initial Conditions"