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astro-ph.CO2016★ 213 cited

Lensing is Low: Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, or New Physics?

Alexie Leauthaud, Shun Saito, Stefan Hilbert +19

We present high signal-to-noise galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements of the BOSS CMASS sample using 250 square degrees of weak lensing data from CFHTLenS and CS82. We compare this si…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 54 cited

Measuring the Properties of Dark Energy with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. I. Systematic Uncertainty from Core-Collapse Supernova Contamination

D. O. Jones, D. M. Scolnic, A. G. Riess +18

The Pan-STARRS (PS1) Medium Deep Survey discovered over 5,000 likely supernovae (SNe) but obtained spectral classifications for just 10% of its SN candidates. We measured spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 126 cited

Cluster Mass Calibration at High Redshift: HST Weak Lensing Analysis of 13 Distant Galaxy Clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey

T. Schrabback, D. Applegate, J. P. Dietrich +26

We present an HST/ACS weak gravitational lensing analysis of 13 massive high-redshift (z_median=0.88) galaxy clusters discovered in the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev-Zel'dovic…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 131 cited

Weak-lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

P. Melchior, D. Gruen, T. McClintock +78

We use weak-lensing shear measurements to determine the mean mass of optically selected galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. In a blinded analysis, we s…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 52 cited

SPT-GMOS: A Gemini/GMOS-South Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxy Clusters in the SPT-SZ Survey

M. B. Bayliss, J. Ruel, C. W. Stubbs +75

We present the results of SPT-GMOS, a spectroscopic survey with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South. The targets of SPT-GMOS are galaxy clusters identified…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 71 cited

The Type Ia Supernova Color-Magnitude Relation and Host Galaxy Dust: A Simple Hierarchical Bayesian Model

Kaisey S. Mandel, Daniel Scolnic, Hikmatali Shariff +2

Conventional Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) cosmology analyses currently use a simplistic linear regression of magnitude versus color and light curve shape, which does not model intrins…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 138 cited

The primordial deuterium abundance of the most metal-poor damped Lyman-alpha system

Ryan Cooke, Max Pettini, Kenneth M. Nollett +1

We report the discovery and analysis of the most metal-poor damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) system currently known, which also displays the Lyman series absorption lines of neutral deuter…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 35 cited

Synchrotron Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation: Predictions for Constraints from Non-detections of Galaxy Clusters with New Radio Surveys

Emma Storm, Tesla E. Jeltema, Megan Splettstoesser +1

The annihilation of dark matter particles is expected to yield a broad radiation spectrum via the production of Standard Model particles in astrophysical environments. In particula…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 33 cited

Lyman-Alpha Emitter Galaxies at z ~ 2.8 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South: I. Tracing the Large-Scale Structure via Lyman-Alpha Imaging

Zhen-Ya Zheng, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads +4

We present a narrowband survey with three adjacent filters for z=2.8--2.9 Lyman Alpha Emitter (LAE) galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS), along with spectrosco…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 39 cited

Precise limits on cosmological variability of the fine-structure constant with zinc and chromium quasar absorption lines

Michael T. Murphy, Adrian L. Malec, J. Xavier Prochaska

The strongest transitions of Zn and CrII are the most sensitive to relative variations in the fine-structure constant () among the transitions commonly observed in quasar abs…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 62 cited

The Stacked Lyman-Alpha Emission Profile from the Circum-Galactic Medium of z~2 Quasars

Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Joseph F. Hennawi, Sebastiano Cantalupo +1

In the context of the FLASHLIGHT survey, we obtained deep narrow band images of 15 quasars with GMOS on Gemini-South in an effort to measure Ly emission from circum- an…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 21 cited

On the connection between the metal-enriched intergalactic medium and galaxies: an OVI-galaxy cross-correlation study at

Charles W. Finn, Simon L. Morris, Nicolas Tejos +10

We present new results on the auto- and cross-correlation functions of galaxies and OVI absorbers in a comoving volume at . We use a sample of 51,29…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 17 cited

Constraining cosmological ultra-large scale structure using numerical relativity

Jonathan Braden, Matthew C. Johnson, Hiranya V. Peiris +1

Cosmic inflation, a period of accelerated expansion in the early universe, can give rise to large amplitude ultra-large scale inhomogeneities on distance scales comparable to or la…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 244 cited

Halo and Subhalo Demographics with Planck Cosmological Parameters: Bolshoi-Planck and MultiDark-Planck Simulations

Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Peter Behroozi, Joel Primack +3

We report and provide fitting functions for the abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos as a function of mass, circular velocity, and redshift from the new Bolshoi-Planck and M…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 348 cited

The redMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalog From DES Science Verification Data

E. S. Rykoff, E. Rozo, D. Hollowood +86

We describe updates to the \redmapper{} algorithm, a photometric red-sequence cluster finder specifically designed for large photometric surveys. The updated algorithm is applied t…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 1k cited

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +138

This overview article describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES…