Winter Quarter 2012

March 15, 2012

• • Effects of massive neutrinos on the CMB (Mike O.)

  • Cacciato et al, "On Combining Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing to Unveil Galaxy Biasing via the Halo Model"  http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2616

March 8, 2012

• • Shoji & Lee, http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0869, "Voids in Redshift Space"

  • Li, Xin, & Cui, http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0571, "Fast Shape Estimation for Weak Lensing Analysis"

  • Jullo et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6491, "COSMOS: Stochastic bias from measurements of weak lensing and galaxy clustering"

  • Jee et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6368, "A Study of the Dark Core in A520 with Hubble Space Telescope: The Mystery Deepens"

March 1, 2012

• • Lam et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4501, "Testing Gravity with the Stacked Phase Space around Galaxy Clusters"

  • Gaspari, Brighenti, & Temi, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6054, "Mechanical AGN Feedback: Controlling the Thermodynamic Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies"

February 24, 2012

Special date, time, and room (combined meeting with Astro Lunch): 11:30 am, Friday, PRB M2015

• • Kuhlen, Lisanti, & Spergel, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0007, "Direct Detection of Dark Matter Debris Flows"

  • Berenji et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2460, "Limits on Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with the Fermi-LAT"

February 17, 2012

Special date, time, and room (combined meeting with Astro Lunch): 11:30 am, Friday, PRB M2015

• • discussion of recent cosmological constraints from SPT: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0932, http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5435, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0546

February 9, 2012

• • Zemcov et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0029, "High Spectral Resolution Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Null with Z-Spec"

  • Hikage, Takada, & Spergel, http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1640, "Using galaxy-galaxy weak lensing measurements to correct the Finger-of-God"

  • Van Engelen et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0546, "A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data"

  • Pan et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4156, "Cosmic Voids in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7"

February 2, 2012

• • Krause, Schneider, & Eifler, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4752, "A new third-order cosmic shear statistics: Separating E/B-mode correlations on a finite interval"

  • Joudaki, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0005, "Constraints on Neutrino Mass and Light Degrees of Freedom in Extended Cosmological Parameter Spaces"

  • Desai et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5736, "Optical followup of galaxy clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope"

January 26, 2012

• • Weinberg et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2434, "Observational Probes of Cosmic Acceleration"

  • Deriaz, Starck, & Pires, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5214, "Wavelet Helmholtz decomposition for weak lensing mass map reconstruction"

January 19, 2012

• • Orban, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2082, "Keeping It Real: Revisiting a Real-Space Approach to Running Ensembles of Cosmological N-Body Simulations"

  • Hung & Ebeling, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2727, "Galaxy Alignments in Very X-ray Luminous Clusters at z>0.5"

January 12, 2012

• • Simet et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6621, "The SDSS Coadd: Cross-Correlation Weak Lensing and Tomography of Galaxy Clusters"

  • Ho et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2137 , "Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Photometric Luminous Galaxies: The Measurement, Systematics and Cosmological Implications"

  • Coe et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1616, "CLASH: Precise New Constraints on the Mass Profile of Abell 2261"

  • Molnar et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1533, "Merging Galaxy Clusters: Offset Between the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and X-ray Peaks"