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astro-ph.CO2016★ 49 cited

Cosmological constraints with weak lensing peak counts and second-order statistics in a large-field survey

Austin Peel, Chieh-An Lin, Francois Lanusse +3

Peak statistics in weak lensing maps access the non-Gaussian information contained in the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. They are therefore a promising complem…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 45 cited

Resolving galaxy cluster gas properties at z~1 with XMM-Newton and Chandra

I. Bartalucci, M. Arnaud, G. W. Pratt +3

We present a pilot X-ray study of the five most massive (), distant (z~1), galaxy clusters detected via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. We optimal…

astro-ph.CO2016

Nonstandard cosmologies from physics beyond the Standard model

M. Yu. Khlopov

The modern cosmology is based on inflationary models with baryosynthesis and dark matter/energy.It implies extension of particle symmetry beyond the Standard model. Studies of phys…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 54 cited

Forecasting performance of CMB experiments in the presence of complex foreground contaminations

Radek Stompor, Josquin Errard, Davide Poletti

We present a new, semi-analytic framework for estimating the level of residuals present in CMB maps derived from multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and forecast…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 440 cited

Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: Probing inflation with gravitational waves

Nicola Bartolo, Chiara Caprini, Valerie Domcke +11

We investigate the potential for the LISA space-based interferometer to detect the stochastic gravitational wave background produced from different mechanisms during inflation. Foc…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 56 cited

Metastable Dark Energy with Radioactive-like Decay

Arman Shafieloo, Dhiraj Kumar Hazra, Varun Sahni +1

We propose a new class of metastable dark energy (DE) phenomenological models in which the DE decay rate does not depend on external parameters such as the scale factor or the curv…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 81 cited

The effect of matter structure on the gravitational waveform

Camille Bonvin, Chiara Caprini, Riccardo Sturani +1

Third generation ground-based interferometers as well as the planned space-based interferometer LISA are expected to detect a plethora of gravitational wave signals from coalescing…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 17 cited

Are we living near the center of a local void?

Giulia Cusin, Cyril Pitrou, Jean-Philippe Uzan

The properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarisation anisotropies measured by a static, off-centered observer located in a local spherically symmetr…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 68 cited

The lensing and temperature imprints of voids on the Cosmic Microwave Background

Yan-Chuan Cai, Mark Neyrinck, Qingqing Mao +3

We have searched for the signature of cosmic voids in the CMB, in both the Planck temperature and lensing-convergence maps; voids should give decrements in both. We use zobov voids…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 42 cited

Non-parametric deprojection of NIKA SZ observations: Pressure distribution in the Planck-discovered cluster PSZ1 G045.85+57.71

F. Ruppin, R. Adam, B. Comis +38

The determination of the thermodynamic properties of clusters of galaxies at intermediate and high redshift can bring new insights into the formation of large-scale structures. It…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 170 cited

Search for low-mass WIMPs in a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou +35

We present results of a dark matter search performed with a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. We measure the energy spectrum of ioni…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 21 cited

First Detection of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing and Lyman-α Forest Bispectrum

Cyrille Doux, Emmanuel Schaan, Eric Aubourg +4

We present the first detection of a correlation between the Lyman- forest and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. For each Lyman- forest in SDSS-III/BOSS DR12, we corr…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 65 cited

Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence for spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB -mode analysis

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +156

The characterization of the Galactic foregrounds has been shown to be the main obstacle in the challenging quest to detect primordial B-modes in the polarized microwave sky. We mak…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 19 cited

II. Apples to apples : cluster selection functions for next-generation surveys

Begoña Ascaso, Simona Mei, Jim G. Bartlett +1

We present the cluster selection function for three of the largest next-generation stage-IV surveys in the optical and infrared: Euclid-Optimistic, Euclid-Pessimistic and the Large…

astro-ph.CO2016

High-resolution tSZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with NIKA at the IRAM 30-m telescope

F. Mayet, R. Adam, A. Adane +41

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (tSZ) is a powerful probe to study clusters of galaxies and is complementary with respect to X-ray, lensing or optical observations. Previous a…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 21 cited

An Accurate Cluster Selection Function for the J-PAS Narrow-Band wide-field survey

Begoña Ascaso, Narciso Benítez, Renato Dupke +19

The impending Javalambre Physics of the accelerating universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) will be the first wide-field survey of 8500 deg to reach the `stage IV' cat…