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astro-ph.CO2012★ 61 cited

Efficient Wiener filtering without preconditioning

Franz Elsner, Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present a new approach to calculate the Wiener filter solution of general data sets. It is trivial to implement, flexible, numerically absolutely stable, and guaranteed to conve…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 18 cited

Evolution of isolated overdensities as a control on cosmological N body simulations

Michael Joyce, Francesco Sylos Labini

Beyond convergence studies and comparison of different codes, there are essentially no controls on the accuracy in the non-linear regime of cosmological N body simulations, even in…

astro-ph.CO2012

Robust, data-driven inference in non-linear cosmostatistics

Benjamin D. Wandelt, Jens Jasche, Guilhem Lavaux

We discuss two projects in non-linear cosmostatistics applicable to very large surveys of galaxies. The first is a Bayesian reconstruction of galaxy redshifts and their number dens…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 3 cited

The expansion of the universe observed with supernovae

Pierre Astier

Over the last 20 years, supernovae have become a key tool to constrain the expansion history of the Universe through the construction of Hubble diagrams, using luminosity distances…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 630 cited

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Ly-α forest of BOSS quasars

Nicolás G. Busca, Timothée Delubac, James Rich +59

We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the \Lya forest of high-red…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 26 cited

Will Nonlinear Peculiar Velocity and Inhomogeneous Reionization Spoil 21cm Cosmology from the Epoch of Reionization?

Paul R. Shapiro, Yi Mao, Ilian T. Iliev +4

The 21cm background from the epoch of reionization is a promising cosmological probe: line-of-sight velocity fluctuations distort redshift, so brightness fluctuations in Fourier sp…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 251 cited

CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. II. First public data release

CALIFA collaboration, B. Husemann, K. Jahnke +74

We present the first public data release of the CALIFA survey. It consists of science-grade optical datacubes for the first 100 of eventually 600 nearby (0.005<z<0.03) galaxies, ob…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 104 cited

Luminosity Function from dedicated SDSS-III and MMT data of quasars in 0.7<z<4.0 selected with a new approach

N. Palanque-Delabrouille, Ch. Magneville, Ch. Yeche +25

We present a measurement of the quasar luminosity function in the range 0.68<z<4 down to extinction corrected magnitude g_dered=22.5, using a simple and well understood target sele…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 9 cited

Bayesian Inference of Polarized CMB Power Spectra from Interferometric Data

Ata Karakci, P. M. Sutter, Le Zhang +5

Detection of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is one of the frontiers of observational cosmology. Because they are an order of magnitude faint…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Planck intermediate results. VI: The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +200

The survey of galaxy clusters performed by Planck through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect has already discovered many interesting objects, thanks to the whole coverage of the sky. One…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 54 cited

Compact Groups of Galaxies selected by stellar mass: The 2MASS Compact Group Catalogue

E. Diaz-Gimenez, G. A. Mamon, M. Pacheco +2

We present a photometric catalogue of compact groups of galaxies (p2MCGs) automatically extracted from the 2MASS extended source catalogue. A total of 262 p2MCGs are identified, fo…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 119 cited

Redshifts, Sample Purity, and BCG Positions for the Galaxy Cluster Catalog from the first 720 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey

J. Song, A. Zenteno, B. Stalder +74

We present the results of the ground- and space-based optical and near-infrared (NIR) follow-up of 224 galaxy cluster candidates detected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 203 cited

Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +214

Taking advantage of the all-sky coverage and broad frequency range of the Planck satellite, we study the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) and pressure profiles of 62 nearby massive clusters…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 278 cited

The Current Status of Galaxy Formation

Joe Silk, Gary A. Mamon

Understanding galaxy formation is one of the most pressing issues in cosmology. We review the current status of galaxy formation from both an observational and a theoretical perspe…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 96 cited

Physical properties underlying observed kinematics of satellite galaxies

Radoslaw Wojtak, Gary A. Mamon

We study the kinematics of satellites around isolated galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic catalog. Using a model of the phase-space density pre…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 56 cited

Optical/near-infrared selection of red QSOs: Evidence for steep extinction curves towards galactic centers?

J. P. U. Fynbo, J. -K. Krogager, B. Venemans +5

We present the results of a search for red QSOs using a selection based on optical imaging from SDSS and near-infrared imaging from UKIDSS. For a sample of 58 candidates 46 (79%) a…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 71 cited

Supernovae and their host galaxies. I. The SDSS DR8 database and statistics

A. A. Hakobyan, V. Zh. Adibekyan, L. S. Aramyan +5

(Abridged) In this first paper of a series, we report the creation of large and well-defined database that combines extensive new measurements and a literature search of 3876 super…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 24 cited

Late time anisotropy as an imprint of cosmological backreaction

Giovanni Marozzi, Jean-Philippe Uzan

Backreaction effects of the large scale structure on the background dynamics have been claimed to lead to a renormalization of the background dynamics that may account for the late…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 14 cited

Likelihood, Fisher information, and systematics of cosmic microwave background experiments

Franz Elsner, Benjamin D. Wandelt

Every experiment is affected by systematic effects that hamper the data analysis and have the potential to ultimately degrade its performance. In the case of probes of the cosmic m…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 65 cited

Non-Gaussian structure of the lensed CMB power spectra covariance matrix

Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Kendrick M. Smith, Wayne Hu

Gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) encodes cosmological information in the observed anisotropies of temperature and polarization. Accurate extraction of…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 829 cited

UltraVISTA: a new ultra-deep near-infrared survey in COSMOS

H. J. McCracken, B. Milvang-Jensen, J. Dunlop +18

In this paper we describe the first data release of the UltraVISTA near-infrared imaging survey of the COSMOS field. We summarise the key goals and design of the survey and provide…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 241 cited

The Blanco Cosmology Survey: Data Acquisition, Processing, Calibration, Quality Diagnostics and Data Release

S. Desai, R. Armstrong, J. J. Mohr +17

The Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) is a 60 night imaging survey of 80 deg of the southern sky located in two fields: (,)= (5 hr, ) and (23 hr, $-55^{\ci…