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astro-ph.CO2015★ 6 cited

Sharp Predictions from Eternal Inflation Patches in D-brane Inflation

Thomas Hertog, Oliver Janssen

We numerically generate the six-dimensional landscape of D3-brane inflation and identify patches of eternal inflation near sufficiently flat inflection points of the potential. We…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 107 cited

The large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies

Zachary Slepian, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Florian Beutler +15

We report a measurement of the large-scale 3-point correlation function of galaxies using the largest dataset for this purpose to date, 777, 202 Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 229 cited

Accurate Estimators of Correlation Functions in Fourier Space

Emiliano Sefusatti, Martin Crocce, Roman Scoccimarro +1

Efficient estimators of Fourier-space statistics for large number of objects rely on Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), which are affected by aliasing from unresolved small scale mode…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 110 cited

Deja Vu All Over Again: The Reappearance of Supernova Refsdal

P. L. Kelly, S. A. Rodney, T. Treu +21

In Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging taken on 10 November 2014, four images of supernova (SN) "Refsdal" (redshift z=1.49) appeared in an Einstein-cross--like configuration (imag…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 66 cited

Improving Cosmological Distance Measurements Using Twin Type Ia Supernovae

H. K. Fakhouri, K. Boone, G. Aldering +41

We introduce a method for identifying "twin" Type Ia supernovae, and using them to improve distance measurements. This novel approach to Type Ia supernova standardization is made p…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 69 cited

Signatures of the Primordial Universe from Its Emptiness: Measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Minima of the Density Field

Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Liang +14

Sound waves from the primordial fluctuations of the Universe imprinted in the large-scale structure, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), can be used as standard rulers to m…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 20 cited

Effective Window Function for Lagrangian Halos

Kwan Chuen Chan, Ravi K. Sheth, Roman Scoccimarro

The window function for protohalos in Lagrangian space is often assumed to be a tophat in real space. We measure this profile directly and find that it is more extended than a toph…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 3 cited

SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large scale structure catalogues

Beth Reid, Shirley Ho, Nikhil Padmanabhan +39

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to date,…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 19 cited

The imprint of the cosmic supermassive black hole growth history on the 21 cm background radiation

Takamitsu L. Tanaka, Ryan M. O'Leary, Rosalba Perna

The redshifted 21 cm transition line of hydrogen tracks the thermal evolution of the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) at "cosmic dawn," during the emergence of the first luminous…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 43 cited

Unbiased methods for removing systematics from galaxy clustering measurements

Franz Elsner, Boris Leistedt, Hiranya V. Peiris

Measuring the angular clustering of galaxies as a function of redshift is a powerful method for extracting information from the three-dimensional galaxy distribution. The precision…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 211 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Modeling the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS-CMASS galaxies in the Final Data Release

Sergio A. Rodríguez-Torres, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco Prada +21

We present a study of the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS CMASS galaxies in the redshift range 0.43 < z < 0.7 drawn from the Final SDSS-III Data Release. We com…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 324 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the BOSS Final Data Release

Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Sergio Rodriguez-Torres, Chia-Hsun Chuang +20

We reproduce the galaxy clustering catalogue from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Final Data Release (BOSS DR11&DR12) with high fidelity on all relevant scales…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 219 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: RSD measurement from the LOS-dependent power spectrum of DR12 BOSS galaxies

Héctor Gil-Marín, Will J. Percival, Joel R. Brownstein +13

We measure and analyse the clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) relative to the line-of-sight (LOS), for LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples drawn from the fi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 168 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO measurement from the LOS-dependent power spectrum of DR12 BOSS galaxies

Héctor Gil-Marín, Will J. Percival, Antonio J. Cuesta +15

[abridged] We present an anisotropic analysis of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale in the twelfth and final data release of the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Surve…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 172 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the correlation function of LOWZ and CMASS galaxies in Data Release 12

Antonio J. Cuesta, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Florian Beutler +20

We present distance scale measurements from the baryon acoustic oscillation signal in the CMASS and LOWZ samples from the Data Release 12 of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Su…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 109 cited

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability Selection and Quasar Luminosity Function

N. Palanque-Delabrouille, Ch. Magneville, Ch. Yèche +11

The SDSS-IV/eBOSS has an extensive quasar program that combines several selection methods. Among these, the photometric variability technique provides highly uniform samples, unaff…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 88 cited

Connecting massive galaxies to dark matter halos in BOSS - I. Is galaxy color a stochastic process in high-mass halos?

Shun Saito, Alexie Leauthaud, Andrew P. Hearin +9

We use subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) to model the stellar mass function (SMF) and clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) "CMASS" sample at .…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 114 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminous Red Galaxy Target Selection

Abhishek Prakash, Timothy C. Licquia, Jeffrey A. Newman +26

We describe the algorithm used to select the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (S…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 849 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival +143

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. Observations will…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 205 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection

Adam D. Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Abhishek Prakash +34

As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will improve measurements of the cosmological distance scale by applying the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 9 cited

Two Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift ~2 : Improved Classification and Redshift Determination with Medium-band Infrared Imaging

Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Daniel M. Scolnic +9

We present two supernovae (SNe) discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), an HST multi-cycle…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 212 cited

Fast Estimators for Redshift-Space Clustering

Roman Scoccimarro

Redshift-space distortions in galaxy surveys happen along the radial direction, breaking statistical translation invariance. We construct estimators for radial distortions that, us…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 89 cited

Illuminating a Dark Lens : A Type Ia Supernova Magnified by the Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744

Steven A. Rodney, Brandon Patel, Daniel Scolnic +27

SN HFF14Tom is a Type Ia Supernova (SN) discovered at z = 1.3457 +- 0.0001 behind the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z = 0.308). In a cosmology-independent analysis, we find that HFF14…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 166 cited

Matter power spectrum and the challenge of percent accuracy

Aurel Schneider, Romain Teyssier, Doug Potter +7

Future galaxy surveys require one percent precision in the theoretical knowledge of the power spectrum over a large range including very nonlinear scales. While this level of accur…