Publications (47)
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: stochastic relative biasing between galaxy populations
Vivienne Wild, John A. Peacock, Ofer Lahav +26
It is well known that the clustering of galaxies depends on galaxy type.Such relative bias complicates the inference of cosmological parameters from galaxy redshift surveys, and is…
Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) Flight Baseline Concept
Marie Levine, D. Lisman, S. Shaklan +52
The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPF-C) mission presented here is an existence proof for a flagship-class internal coronagraph space mission capable of detecting and char…
A new upper limit on the total neutrino mass from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
O. Elgaroy, O. Lahav, W. J. Percival +27
We constrain f_nu = Omega_nu / Omega_m, the fractional contribution of neutrinos to the total mass density in the Universe, by comparing the power spectrum of fluctuations derived…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: higher order galaxy correlation functions
D. J. Croton, E. Gaztanaga, C. M. Baugh +26
We measure moments of the galaxy count probability distribution function in the two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). The survey is divided into volume limited subsampl…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The b_J-band galaxy luminosity function and survey selection function
P. Norberg, S. Cole, C. Baugh +25
We use more than 110500 galaxies from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) to estimate the b_J-band galaxy luminosity function at redshift z=0, taking account of evolution, the…
Energetic, spatial and momentum character of a buried interface: the two-dimensional electron gas between two metal oxides
S. Nemšák, G. Conti, A. X. Gray +32
The interfaces between two condensed phases often exhibit emergent physical properties that can lead to new physics and novel device applications, and are the subject of intense st…
Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA Final Report
D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, J. Breckinridge +43
The Astro2010 Decadal Survey recommended a Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as its top priority for a new large space mission. As conceived by the decadal survey, WFIR…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: luminosity functions by density environment and galaxy type
Darren J. Croton, Glennys R. Farrar, Peder Norberg +26
We use the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to measure the dependence of the bJ-band galaxy luminosity function on large-scale environment, defined by density contrast in spheres of radi…
The Dark Energy Camera
B. Flaugher, H. T. Diehl, K. Honscheid +115
The Dark Energy Camera is a new imager with a 2.2-degree diameter field of view mounted at the prime focus of the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo near La Serena,…
The Optical Design and Characterization of the Microwave Anisotropy Probe
L. Page, C. Jackson, C. Barnes +12
The primary goal of the MAP satellite, now in orbit, is to make high fidelity polarization sensitive maps of the full sky in five frequency bands between 20 and 100 GHz. From these…
Associated Higgs production with top quarks at the Large Hadron Collider: NLO QCD corrections
S. Dawson, C. Jackson, L. H. Orr +2
We present in detail the calculation of the O(alpha_s^3) inclusive total cross section for the process pp -> t-tbar-h, in the Standard Model, at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF
WFIRST-2.4: What Every Astronomer Should Know
D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, J. Breckinridge +43
The Astro2010 Decadal Survey recommended a Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as its top priority for a new large space mission. The report of the WFIRST-AFTA Science De…
The visual lightcurve of comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) from 1995-1999
M. Womack, O. Curtis, D. A. Rabson +22
The long-term brightness evolution of the great comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) presented a remarkable opportunity to study the behavior of its coma over four years. We used approximat…
Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 2. Differential Distributions
LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group, S. Dittmaier, C. Mariotti +118
This Report summarises the results of the second year's activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group. The main goal of the working group was to present the state of the…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and spectral type
P. Norberg, C. M. Baugh, E. Hawkins +25
We investigate the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and spectral type using the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). Spectral types are assigned using the principal co…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the luminosity function of cluster galaxies
Roberto De Propris, M. Colless, S. Driver +27
We have determined the composite luminosity function (LF) for galaxies in 60 clusters from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The LF spans the range , and is…
Science with ASKAP - the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
S. Johnston, R. Taylor, M. Bailes +47
[ABRIDGED VERSION] The future of cm and m-wave astronomy lies with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a telescope under development by a consortium of 17 countries. The SKA will be…
Discovery of HI gas in a young radio galaxy at using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
J. R. Allison, E. M. Sadler, V. A. Moss +100
We report the discovery of a new 21-cm HI absorption system using commissioning data from the Boolardy Engineering Test Array of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (A…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Galaxy luminosity functions per spectral type
D. S. Madgwick, O. Lahav, I. K. Baldry +24
We calculate the optical bj luminosity function of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) for different subsets defined by their spectral properties. These spectrally selected sub…
Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
D. Spergel, N. Gehrels, C. Baltay +52
This report describes the 2014 study by the Science Definition Team (SDT) of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. It is a space observatory that will address…
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) Mission
C. L. Bennett, M. Bay, M. Halpern +12
The purpose of the MAP mission is to determine the geometry, content, and evolution of the universe via a 13 arcmin full-width-half-max (FWHM) resolution full sky map of the temper…
Hypernuclear Spectroscopy using the (e,e'K+) Reaction
L. Yuan, M. Sarsour, T. Miyoshi +63
A pioneering experiment in Lambda hypernuclear spectroscopy, undertaken at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jlab), was recently reported. The experiment used the…
The Higgs Working Group: Summary Report 2003
K. A. Assamagan, M. Narain, A. Nikitenko +81
Theoretical progress in Higgs boson production and background processes is discussed with particular emphasis on QCD corrections at and beyond next-to-leading order as well as next…
Galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS: the group-finding algorithm and the 2PIGG catalogue
V. R. Eke, C. M. Baugh, S. Cole +25
The construction of a catalogue of galaxy groups from the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) is described. Groups are identified by means of a friends-of-friends percol…
Higgs Boson Production in Association with Bottom Quarks
J. Campbell, S. Dawson, S. Dittmaier +7
In the Standard Model, the coupling of the Higgs boson to b quarks is weak, leading to small cross sections for producing a Higgs boson in association with b quarks. However, Higgs…
EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe
Ray P. Norris, A. M. Hopkins, J. Afonso +54
EMU is a wide-field radio continuum survey planned for the new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The primary goal of EMU is to make a deep (rms ~ 10 m…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: galaxy clustering per spectral type
D. S. Madgwick, E. Hawkins, O. Lahav +25
We have calculated the two-point correlation functions in redshift space, xi(sigma,pi), for galaxies of different spectral types in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. Using these corr…
Observation by resonant angle-resolved photoemission of a critical thickness for 2-dimensional electron gas formation in SrTiO embedded in GdTiO
S. Nemšák, G. Conti, G. K. Pálsson +15
For certain conditions of layer thickness, the interface between GdTiO (GTO) and SrTiO (STO) in multilayer samples has been found to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2D…
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder: System Architecture and Specifications of the Boolardy Engineering Test Array
A. W. Hotan, J. D. Bunton, L. Harvey-Smith +98
This paper describes the system architecture of a newly constructed radio telescope - the Boolardy Engineering Test Array, which is a prototype of the Australian Square Kilometre A…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum
I. K. Baldry, K. Glazebrook, C. M. Baugh +25
We present the first results on the history of star formation in the Universe based on the `cosmic spectrum', in particular, the volume-averaged, luminosity-weighted, stellar absor…
Snowmass Instrumentation Frontier IF08 Topical Group Report: Noble Element Detectors
Carl Eric Dahl, Roxanne Guenette, Jennifer L. Raaf +39
Particle detectors making use of noble elements in gaseous, liquid, or solid phases are prevalent in neutrino and dark matter experiments and are also used to a lesser extent in co…
A measurement of the cosmological mass density from clustering in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
J. A. Peacock, S. Cole, P. Norberg +25
The large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies is thought to arise from the gravitational instability of small fluctuations in the initial density field of the universe.…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF
DUNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +796
The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release
T. W. Shimwell, C. Tasse, M. J. Hardcastle +104
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168MHz survey of the entire northern sky for which observations are now 20% complete. We present…
Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Final Report
J. Green, P. Schechter, C. Baltay +51
In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest pr…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: voids and hierarchical scaling models
D. J. Croton, M. Colless, E. Gaztanaga +26
We measure the redshift space reduced void probability function (VPF) for 2dFGRS volume limited galaxy samples covering the absolute magnitude range M_bJ-5logh=-18 to -22. Theoreti…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Hierarchical galaxy clustering
C. M. Baugh, D. J. Croton, E. Gaztanaga +26
We use the two-degree field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) to test the hierarchical scaling hypothesis: namely, that the -point galaxy correlation functions can be written in t…
The nature of the relative bias between galaxies of different spectral type in 2dFGRS
E. Conway, S. Maddox, V. Wild +29
We present an analysis of the relative bias between early- and late-type galaxies in the Two-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). Our analysis examines the joint counts in…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The clustering of galaxy groups
Nelson D. Padilla, C. M. Baugh, V. R. Eke +27
We measure the clustering of galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue. The 2PIGG sample has 29,000 groups with at least two members. The clus…
Galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS: the luminous content of the groups
V. R. Eke, C. S. Frenk, C. M. Baugh +25
The 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue of ~29000 objects is used to study the luminous content of galaxy systems of various sizes. Mock galaxy catalogues co…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Luminosity dependence of galaxy clustering
P. Norberg, C. M. Baugh, E. Hawkins +23
We investigate the dependence of the strength of galaxy clustering on intrinsic luminosity using the Anglo-Australian two degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). The 2dFGRS i…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Power-spectrum analysis of the final dataset and cosmological implications
S. Cole, W. J. Percival, J. A. Peacock +28
We present a power spectrum analysis of the final 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, employing a direct Fourier method. The sample used comprises 221,414 galaxies with measured redshifts.…
Cross sections and Rosenbluth separations in 1H(e, e'K+)Lambda up to Q2=2.35 GeV2
M. Coman, P. Markowitz, K. A. Aniol +83
The kaon electroproduction reaction 1H(e,e'K+)Lambda was studied as a function of the virtual-photon four-momentum, Q2, total energy, W, and momentum transfer, t, for different val…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The bias of galaxies and the density of the Universe
Licia Verde, Alan F. Heavens, Will J. Percival +27
We compute the bispectrum of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and use it to measure the bias parameter of the galaxies. This parameter quantifies the strength of clustering…
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation functions, peculiar velocities and the matter density of the Universe
E. Hawkins, S. Maddox, S. Cole +27
We present a detailed analysis of the two-point correlation function, from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). We estimate the redshift-space correlation function, xi(s), from…