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astro-ph.CO2022★ 4 cited

Propagating Uncertainties in the SALT3 Model Training Process to Cosmological Constraints

M. Dai, D. O. Jones, W. D. Kenworthy +5

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are standardizable candles that must be modeled empirically to yield cosmological constraints. To understand the robustness of this modeling to variatio…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 139 cited

UV Luminosity Density Results at z>8 from the First JWST/NIRCam Fields: Limitations of Early Data Sets and the Need for Spectroscopy

Rychard Bouwens, Garth Illingworth, Pascal Oesch +4

We have derived luminosity functions, and set constraints on the UV luminosity and SFR density from z~17 to z~8, using the three most-studied JWST/NIRCam data sets, the SMACS0723,…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 57 cited

Astrophysical Constraints from the SARAS3 non-detection of the Cosmic Dawn Sky-Averaged 21-cm Signal

H. T. J. Bevins, A. Fialkov, E. de Lera Acedo +4

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm line of atomic hydrogen have resulted in several upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum and a tentative detection of the sky-averaged signal…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 43 cited

SALT3-NIR: Taking the Open-Source Type Ia Supernova Model to Longer Wavelengths for Next-Generation Cosmological Measurements

J. D. R. Pierel, D. O. Jones, W. D. Kenworthy +32

A large fraction of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations over the next decade will be in the near-infrared (NIR), at wavelengths beyond the reach of the current standard light-cu…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 94 cited

New Constraints on Warm Dark Matter from the Lyman- Forest Power Spectrum

Bruno Villasenor, Brant Robertson, Piero Madau +1

The forest of Lyman- absorption lines detected in the spectra of distant quasars encodes information on the nature and properties of dark matter and the thermodynamics of diffus…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 10 cited

A Spectroscopic Model of the Type Ia Supernova--Host Galaxy Mass Correlation from SALT3

D. O. Jones, W. D. Kenworthy, M. Dai +4

The unknown cause of the correlation between Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) Hubble residuals and their host-galaxy masses (the "mass step") may bias cosmological parameter measurements.…

astro-ph.CO2022

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies

Ting-Wen Lan, R. Tojeiro, E. Armengaud +79

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To as…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

Modeling Cosmic Reionization

Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Piero Madau

The transformation of cold neutral intergalactic hydrogen into a highly ionized warm plasma marks the end of the cosmic dark ages and the beginning of the age of galaxies. The deta…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

A data compression and optimal galaxy weights scheme for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and weak lensing datasets

Rossana Ruggeri, Chris Blake, Joseph DeRose +23

Combining different observational probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, is a promising technique for unveiling the physics of the Universe with upcoming dark energy e…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 124 cited

A measurement of Hubble's Constant using Fast Radio Bursts

C. W. James, E. M. Ghosh, J. X. Prochaska +12

We constrain the Hubble constant H using Fast Radio Burst (FRB) observations from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murriyang (Parkes) radio telescop…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 13 cited

Forecasting cosmic acceleration measurements using the Lyman- forest

Chenxing Dong, Anthony Gonzalez, Stephen Eikenberry +5

We present results from end-to-end simulations of observations designed to constrain the rate of change in the expansion history of the Universe using the redshift drift of the Lym…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

LIMFAST. II. Line Intensity Mapping as a Probe of High-Redshift Galaxy Formation

Guochao Sun, Lluís Mas-Ribas, Tzu-Ching Chang +5

The epoch of reionization (EoR) offers a unique window into the dawn of galaxy formation, through which high-redshift galaxies can be studied by observations of both themselves and…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 22 cited

LIMFAST. I. A Semi-Numerical Tool for Line Intensity Mapping

Lluís Mas-Ribas, Guochao Sun, Tzu-Ching Chang +2

We present LIMFAST, a semi-numerical code for simulating high-redshift galaxy formation and cosmic reionization as revealed by multi-tracer line intensity mapping (LIM) signals. LI…

astro-ph.CO2022

Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars

Heinrich Steigerwald, Valerio Marra, Stefano Profumo

The runaway collapse phase of a small dark matter cluster inside a white dwarf star encompasses a reversible stage, where heat can be transferred back and forth between nuclear and…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 34 cited

Measurements of the Hubble Constant with a Two Rung Distance Ladder: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

W. D'Arcy Kenworthy, Adam G. Riess, Daniel Scolnic +7

The three rung distance ladder, which calibrates Type Ia supernovae through stellar distances linked to geometric measurements, provides the highest precision direct measurement of…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 17 cited

Monte Carlo Physarum Machine: Characteristics of Pattern Formation in Continuous Stochastic Transport Networks

Oskar Elek, Joseph N. Burchett, J. Xavier Prochaska +1

We present Monte Carlo Physarum Machine: a computational model suitable for reconstructing continuous transport networks from sparse 2D and 3D data. MCPM is a probabilistic general…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

A Synthetic Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey: Supernovae in the Deep Field

Kevin X. Wang, Dan Scolnic, M. A. Troxel +14

NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) in the second half of this decade, which will allow for a generation-defining measurement of dark energy through mult…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

The XMM Cluster Survey analysis of the SDSS DR8 redMaPPer Catalogue: Implications for scatter, selection bias, and isotropy in cluster scaling relations

P. A. Giles, A. K. Romer, R. Wilkinson +21

In this paper we present the X-ray analysis of SDSS DR8 redMaPPer (SDSSRM) clusters using data products from the Cluster Survey (XCS). In total, 1189 SDSSRM clusters fall wit…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1.4k cited

The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints

Dillon Brout, Dan Scolnic, Brodie Popovic +43

We present constraints on cosmological parameters from the Pantheon+ analysis of 1701 light curves of 1550 distinct Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) ranging in redshift from t…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 45 cited

Impact of the Primordial Stellar Initial Mass Function on the 21-cm Signal

T. Gessey-Jones, N. S. Sartorio, A. Fialkov +6

Properties of the first generation of stars (Pop III), such as their initial mass function (IMF), are poorly constrained by observations and have yet to converge between simulation…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

Galaxy Correlation Function and Local Density from Photometric Redshifts Using the Stochastic Order Redshift Technique (SORT)

James Kakos, Joel R. Primack, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla +3

The stochastic order redshift technique (SORT) is a simple, efficient, and robust method to improve cosmological redshift measurements. The method relies upon having a small ($\sim…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 57 cited

Cosmological Results from the RAISIN Survey: Using Type Ia Supernovae in the Near Infrared as a Novel Path to Measure the Dark Energy Equation of State

D. O. Jones, K. S. Mandel, R. P. Kirshner +26

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are more precise standardizable candles when measured in the near-infrared (NIR) than in the optical. With this motivation, from 2012-2017 we embarked o…