Publications (26)
NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY
Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…
Modelling and simulation of large-scale polarized dust emission over the southern Galactic cap using the GASS HI data
Tuhin Ghosh, Francois Boulanger, Peter G. Martin +8
The Planck survey has quantified polarized Galactic foregrounds and established that they are a main limiting factor in the quest for the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode s…
The roles of star formation and AGN activity of IRS sources in the HerMES fields
Anna Feltre, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Antonio Hernán-Caballero +16
In this work we explore the impact of the presence of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the mid- and far-infrared (IR) properties of galaxies as well as the effects of simultaneo…
Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors for millimeter-wave detection
Albert Wandui, Jamie Bock, Clifford Frez +7
Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors (TKIDs) combine the excellent noise performance of traditional bolometers with a radio frequency multiplexing architecture that enables the lar…
Probing Cosmic Reionization and Molecular Gas Growth with TIME
Guochao Sun, Tzu-Ching Chang, Bade D. Uzgil +23
Line intensity mapping (LIM) provides a unique and powerful means to probe cosmic structures by measuring the aggregate line emission from all galaxies across redshift. The method…
Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper
Asantha Cooray, Jamie Bock, Denis Burgarella +9
Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper is a "Probe Class" mission concept for reionization studies of the universe. It will be capable of spectroscopic imaging observations between 0.7 to 6-…
Intensity Mapping across Cosmic Times with the Lyman-Alpha Line
Anthony Pullen, Olivier Dore, Jamie Bock
We present a quantitative model of Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission throughout cosmic history and determine the prospects for intensity mapping of spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alp…
Cosmology with the SPHEREX All-Sky Spectral Survey
Olivier Doré, Jamie Bock, Matthew Ashby +30
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) ( http://spherex.caltech.edu ) is a proposed all-sky spectroscopic survey sat…
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins
Shaul Hanany, Marcelo Alvarez, Emmanuel Artis +79
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce f…
Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Astrophysics in the Final Frontier
Asantha Cooray, James Aguirre, Yacine Ali-Haimoud +71
The cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization mark the time period in the universe when stars, galaxies, and blackhole seeds first formed and the intergalactic medium changed from neut…
Observing the Evolution of the Universe
James Aguirre, Alexandre Amblard, Amjad Ashoorioon +172
How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the univers…
Optical Design of PICO, a Concept for a Space Mission to Probe Inflation and Cosmic Origins
Karl Young, Marcelo Alvarez, Nicholas Battaglia +28
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a probe-class mission concept currently under study by NASA. PICO will probe the physics of the Big Bang and the energy scale of…
An Empirical Approach to Cosmological Galaxy Survey Simulation: Application to SPHEREx Low-Resolution Spectroscopy
Nathaniel R. Stickley, Peter Capak, Daniel Masters +3
Highly accurate models of the galaxy population over cosmological volumes are necessary in order to predict the performance of upcoming cosmological missions. We present a data-dri…
A Population of Dust-Rich Quasars at z ~ 1.5
Y. Sophia Dai, Jacqueline Bergeron, Martin Elvis +19
We report Herschel SPIRE (250, 350, and 500 micron) detections of 32 quasars with redshifts 0.5 < z < 3.6 from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey. These sources are fro…
A Foreground Masking Strategy for [CII] Intensity Mapping Experiments Using Galaxies Selected by Stellar Mass and Redshift
Guochao Sun, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Marco P. Viero +11
Intensity mapping provides a unique means to probe the epoch of reionization (EoR), when the neutral intergalactic medium was ionized by the energetic photons emitted from the firs…
Science Impacts of the SPHEREx All-Sky Optical to Near-Infrared Spectral Survey: Report of a Community Workshop Examining Extragalactic, Galactic, Stellar and Planetary Science
Olivier Doré, Michael W. Werner, Matt Ashby +65
SPHEREx is a proposed SMEX mission selected for Phase A. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey and provide for every 6.2" pixel a spectra between 0.75 and 4.18 $…
Spectral response of SPHEREx
Howard Hui, Jamie Bock, Samuel Condon +31
The Spectro Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is conducting the first all-sky near infrared spectral survey spanning 0.…
Science Impacts of the SPHEREx All-Sky Optical to Near-Infrared Spectral Survey II: Report of a Community Workshop on the Scientific Synergies Between the SPHEREx Survey and Other Astronomy Observatories
Olivier Doré, Michael W. Werner, Matthew L. N. Ashby +60
SPHEREx is a proposed NASA MIDEX mission selected for Phase A study. SPHEREx would carry out the first all-sky spectral survey in the near infrared. At the end of its two-year miss…
Detailed modelling of a large sample of Herschel sources in the Lockman Hole: identification of cold dust and of lensing candidates through their anomalous SEDs
Michael Rowan-Robinson, Lingyu Wang, Julie Wardlow +12
We have studied in detail a sample of 967 SPIRE sources with 5-sigma detections at 350 and 500 micron and associations with Spitzer-SWIRE 24 micron galaxies in the HerMES-Lockman s…
Multi-Component Decomposition of Cosmic Infrared Background Fluctuations
Chang Feng, Asantha Cooray, Jamie Bock +5
The near-infrared background between 0.5 m to 2 m contains a wealth of information related to radiative processes in the universe. Infrared background anisotropies encode t…
Astrophysics and Cosmology with Line-Intensity Mapping
Ely D. Kovetz, Patrick C. Breysse, Adam Lidz +9
Line-Intensity Mapping is an emerging technique which promises new insights into the evolution of the Universe, from star formation at low redshifts to the epoch of reionization an…
Observations of Atmospheric Helium and Oxygen with SPHEREx
Howard Hui, Chi Nguyen, Ryan Wills +20
We present measurements of near-infrared (NIR) terrestrial airglow produced by helium and oxygen in the exosphere as observed by SPHEREx. Using eight months of survey data obtained…
Tomography of the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Eras with Multiple Tracers
Tzu-Ching Chang, Angus Beane, Olivier Dore +41
The Cosmic Dawn and Reionization epochs remain a fundamental but challenging frontier of astrophysics and cosmology. We advocate a large-scale, multi-tracer approach to develop a c…
A high signal to noise ratio map of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich increment at 1.1 mm wavelength in Abell 1835
Piers Horner, Philip Mauskopf, James Aguirre +7
We present an analysis of an 8 arcminute diameter map of the area around the galaxy cluster Abell 1835 from jiggle map observations at a wavelength of 1.1 mm using the Bolometric C…
The co-evolution of black hole growth and star formation from a cross-correlation analysis between quasars and the cosmic infrared background
Lingyu Wang, Marco Viero, Nicholas P. Ross +19
We present the first cross-correlation measurement between Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Type 1 quasars and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) measured by Herschel. The distrib…
PICO - the probe of inflation and cosmic origins
Brian Sutin, Marcelo Alvarez, Nicholas Battaglia +31
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a NASA-funded study of a Probe-class mission concept. The top-level science objectives are to probe the physics of the Big Bang…