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astro-ph.CO2009★ 182 cited

Measurements of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope

M. Lueker, C. L. Reichardt, K. K. Schaffer +40

We report cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum measurements from the first 100 sq. deg. field observed by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) at 150 and 220 GHz. On angular…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 148 cited

Angular Power Spectra of the Millimeter Wavelength Background Light from Dusty Star-forming Galaxies with the South Pole Telescope

N. R. Hall, L. Knox, C. L. Reichardt +41

We use data from the first 100 square-degree field observed by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) in 2008 to measure the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies contributed…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 332 cited

Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-degree field

J. D. Vieira, T. M. Crawford, E. R. Switzer +52

We report the results of an 87 square-degree point-source survey centered at R.A. 5h30m, decl. -55 deg. taken with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) at 1.4 and 2.0 mm wavelengths with…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 47 cited

Non-parametric modeling of the intra-cluster gas using APEX-SZ bolometer imaging data

K. Basu, Y. -Y. Zhang, M. W. Sommer +23

We demonstrate the usability of mm-wavelength imaging data obtained from the APEX-SZ bolometer array to derive the radial temperature profile of the hot intra-cluster gas out to ra…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 271 cited

Bayesian coherent analysis of in-spiral gravitational wave signals with a detector network

John Veitch, Alberto Vecchio

The present operation of the ground-based network of gravitational-wave laser interferometers in "enhanced" configuration brings the search for gravitational waves into a regime wh…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 146 cited

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Profiles Measured with the South Pole Telescope

T. Plagge, B. A. Benson, P. A. R. Ade +42

We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements of 15 massive X-ray selected galaxy clusters obtained with the South Pole Telescope. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster signals are meas…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 376 cited

An Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmologica…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 22 cited

HI Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: The Colors of Gas-Rich Galaxies

Andrew A. West, Diego A. Garcia-Appadoo, Julianne J. Dalcanton +3

We utilize color information for an HI-selected sample of 195 galaxies to explore the star formation histories and physical conditions that produce the observed colors. We show tha…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 40 cited

HI Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Optical Data

Andrew A. West, Diego A. Garcia-Appadoo, Julianne J. Dalcanton +5

We present the optical data for 195 HI-selected galaxies that fall within both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Parkes Equatorial Survey (ES). The photometric quantities…

astro-ph.CO2009

Reconstructing the evolution of dark energy with variations of fundamental parameters

N. J. Nunes, T. Dent, C. J. A. P. Martins +1

Under the assumption that the variations of parameters of nature and the current acceleration of the universe are related and governed by the evolution of a single scalar field, we…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 153 cited

BLAST: the far-infrared/radio correlation in distant galaxies

R. J. Ivison, David M. Alexander, Andy D. Biggs +32

We investigate the correlation between far-infrared (FIR) and radio luminosities in distant galaxies, a lynchpin of modern astronomy. We use data from the Balloon-borne Large Apert…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 596 cited

The Herschel ATLAS

S. Eales, L. Dunne, D. Clements +94

The Herschel ATLAS is the largest open-time key project that will be carried out on the Herschel Space Observatory. It will survey 510 square degrees of the extragalactic sky, four…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 172 cited

High mass star formation in normal late-type galaxies: observational constraints to the IMF

A. Boselli, S. Boissier, L. Cortese +3

We use Halpha and FUV GALEX data for a large sample of nearby objects to study the high mass star formation activity of normal late-type galaxies. The data are corrected for dust a…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 48 cited

New Optimised Estimators for the Primordial Trispectrum

Dipak Munshi, Alan Heavens, Asantha Cooray +3

Cosmic microwave background studies of non-Gaussianity involving higher-order multispectra can distinguish between early universe theories that predict nearly identical power spect…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 3 cited

Quantum Yang-Mills Condensate Dark Energy Models

W. Zhao, Y. Zhang, M. L. Tong

We review the quantum Yang-Mills condensate (YMC) dark energy models. As the effective Yang-Mills Lagrangian is completely determined by the quantum field theory, there is no adjus…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 21 cited

An AzTEC 1.1-mm Survey for ULIRGs in the field of the Galaxy Cluster MS 0451.6-0305

J. L. Wardlow, Ian Smail, G. W. Wilson +17

We have undertaken a deep (sigma~1.1 mJy) 1.1-mm survey of the z=0.54 cluster MS 0451.6-0305 using the AzTEC camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We detect 36 sources with…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 130 cited

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The input catalogue and star-galaxy separation

I. K. Baldry, A. S. G. Robotham, D. T. Hill +24

We describe the spectroscopic target selection for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The input catalogue is drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infra…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 21 cited

The BLAST 250-micron selected galaxy population in GOODS-South

J. S. Dunlop, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +33

We identify and investigate the nature of the 20 brightest 250-micron sources detected by the BLAST within the central 150 sq. arcmin of the GOODS-South field. Aided by the availab…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 2 cited

On the nature of the first galaxies selected at 350 microns

Sophia A. Khan, Pierre F. Chanial, S. P. Willner +18

[abridged] We present constraints on the nature of the first galaxies selected at 350 microns. The sample includes galaxies discovered in the deepest blank-field survey at 350 micr…

astro-ph.CO2009

Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys in the Far-IR

L. Spinoglio, M. Magliocchetti, S. Tommasin +8

We show the feasibility of spectroscopic cosmological surveys with the SAFARI instrument onboard of SPICA. The work is done through simulations that make use of both empirical meth…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 107 cited

Evolutionary paths to and from the red sequence: Star formation and HI properties of transition galaxies at z~0

L. Cortese, T. M. Hughes

(Abridged) We investigate the properties of galaxies between the blue and the red sequence (i.e., the transition region) by combining UV and NIR imaging to HI line observations for…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 20 cited

Non-Gaussianity in WMAP Data Due to the Correlation of CMB Lensing Potential with Secondary Anisotropies

Erminia Calabrese, Joseph Smidt, Alexandre Amblard +5

We measure the skewness power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies optimized for a detection of the secondary bispectrum generated by the correlation of t…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 19 cited

Parameter Estimation from Improved Measurements of the CMB from QUaD

QUaD collaboration, S. Gupta, P. Ade +29

We evaluate the contribution of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization spectra to cosmological parameter constraints. We produce cosmological parameters using high-quality…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 72 cited

Observing gravitational wave bursts in pulsar timing measurements

M. S. Pshirkov, D. Baskaran, K. A. Postnov

We propose a novel method for observing the gravitational wave signature of super-massive black hole (SMBH) mergers. This method is based on detection of a specific type of gravita…