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astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Designing an Inflation Galaxy Survey: how to measure using scale-dependent galaxy bias

Roland de Putter, Olivier Doré

The most promising method for measuring primordial non-Gaussianity in the post-Planck era is to detect large-scale, scale-dependent galaxy bias. Considering the information in the…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 20 cited

Mesh-free free-form lensing I: Methodology and application to mass reconstruction

Julian Merten

Many applications and algorithms in the field of gravitational lensing make use of meshes with a finite number of nodes to analyze and manipulate data. Specific examples in lensing…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 24 cited

Optical & Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations of a New Sample of Distant Rich Galaxy Clusters in the ROSAT All Sky Survey

A. Buddendiek, T. Schrabback, C. H. Greer +15

Finding a sample of the most massive clusters with redshifts can provide an interesting consistency check of the cold dark matter (CDM) model. Here we present result…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 167 cited

GREAT3 results I: systematic errors in shear estimation and the impact of real galaxy morphology

Rachel Mandelbaum, Barnaby Rowe, Robert Armstrong +40

We present first results from the third GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) challenge, the third in a sequence of challenges for testing methods of inferring weak gravi…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 4 cited

Monopole and dipole estimation for multi-frequency sky maps by linear regression

I. K. Wehus, U. Fuskeland, H. K. Eriksen +9

We describe a simple but efficient method for deriving a consistent set of monopole and dipole corrections for multi-frequency sky map data sets, allowing robust parametric compone…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 48 cited

On the intermediate-redshift central stellar mass-halo mass relation, and implications for the evolution of the most massive galaxies since z~1

Francesco Shankar, Hong Guo, Vincent Bouillot +20

The stellar mass-halo mass relation is a key constraint in all semi-analytic, numerical, and semi-empirical models of galaxy formation and evolution. However, its exact shape and r…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 127 cited

On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy

Michael Zemcov, Joseph Smidt, Toshiaki Arai +13

Extragalactic background light (EBL) anisotropy traces variations in the total production of photons over cosmic history, and may contain faint, extended components missed in galax…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 283 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Combined Strong and Weak Lensing Analysis of the CLASH Sample: Mass and Magnification Models and Systematic Uncertainties

Adi Zitrin, Agnese Fabris, Julian Merten +23

We present results from a comprehensive lensing analysis in HST data, of the complete CLASH cluster sample. We identify new multiple-images previously undiscovered allowing improve…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 4 cited

A CMB Gibbs sampler for localized secondary anisotropies

Philip Bull, Ingunn K. Wehus, Hans Kristian Eriksen +4

As well as primary fluctuations, CMB temperature maps contain a wealth of additional information in the form of secondary anisotropies. Secondary effects that can be identified wit…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 44 cited

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. III. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Masses of Galaxy Clusters at

M. Brodwin, C. H. Greer, E. M. Leitch +14

We present CARMA 30 GHz Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) observations of five high-redshift (), infrared-selected galaxy clusters discovered as part of the all-sky Massive and…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 20 cited

Optimization of spectroscopic surveys for testing non-Gaussianity

Alvise Raccanelli, Olivier Dore, Neal Dalal

We investigate optimization strategies to measure primordial non-Gaussianity with future spectroscopic surveys. We forecast measurements coming from the 3D galaxy power spectrum an…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 222 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +230

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 1…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 34 cited

CFHTLenS: A Weak Lensing Shear Analysis of the 3D-Matched-Filter Galaxy Clusters

Jes Ford, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Martha Milkeraitis +17

We present the cluster mass-richness scaling relation calibrated by a weak lensing analysis of >18000 galaxy cluster candidates in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 56 cited

Nonlinear evolution of dark matter subhalos and applications to warm dark matter

Anthony R. Pullen, Andrew J. Benson, Leonidas A. Moustakas

We describe the methodology to include nonlinear evolution, including tidal effects, in the computation of subhalo distribution properties in both cold (CDM) and warm (WDM) dark ma…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Measuring cluster masses with CMB lensing: a statistical approach

Jean-Baptiste Melin, James G. Bartlett

We present a method for measuring the masses of galaxy clusters using the imprint of their gravitational lensing signal on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotr…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 57 cited

Planck intermediate results. XXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck clusters with the RTT150 telescope

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +194

We present the results of approximately three years of observations of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources with the Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope (RTT150), as a part of the opt…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 59 cited

Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations between Bolocam Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Chandra X-ray Measurements

N. G. Czakon, J. Sayers, A. Mantz +11

We present scaling relations between the integrated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) signal, , its X-ray analogue, , and total mass…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 41 cited

Probing primordial non-Gaussianity via iSW measurements with SKA continuum surveys

Alvise Raccanelli, Olivier Doré, David J. Bacon +8

The Planck CMB experiment has delivered the best constraints so far on primordial non-Gaussianity, ruling out early-Universe models of inflation that generate large non-Gaussianity…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 113 cited

Accounting for baryonic effects in cosmic shear tomography: Determining a minimal set of nuisance parameters using PCA

Tim Eifler, Elisabeth Krause, Scott Dodelson +3

Systematic uncertainties that have been subdominant in past large-scale structure (LSS) surveys are likely to exceed statistical uncertainties of current and future LSS data sets,…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 117 cited

Scattering, Damping, and Acoustic Oscillations: Simulating the Structure of Dark Matter Halos with Relativistic Force Carriers

Matthew R. Buckley, Jesús Zavala, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine +2

We demonstrate that self-interacting dark matter models with interactions mediated by light particles can have significant deviations in the matter power-spectrum and detailed stru…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 130 cited

CLASH-X: A Comparison of Lensing and X-ray Techniques for Measuring the Mass Profiles of Galaxy Clusters

Megan Donahue, G. Mark Voit, Andisheh Mahdavi +35

We present profiles of temperature (Tx), gas mass, and hydrostatic mass estimated from new and archival X-ray observations of CLASH clusters. We compare measurements derived from X…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 150 cited

The MUSIC of CLASH: predictions on the concentration-mass relation

M. Meneghetti, E. Rasia, J. Vega +42

We present the results of a numerical study based on the analysis of the MUSIC-2 simulations, aimed at estimating the expected concentration-mass relation for the CLASH cluster sam…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 218 cited

CLASH: The Concentration-Mass Relation of Galaxy Clusters

J. Merten, M. Meneghetti, M. Postman +38

We present a new determination of the concentration-mass relation for galaxy clusters based on our comprehensive lensing analysis of 19 X-ray selected galaxy clusters from the Clus…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 69 cited

Spatial variations in the spectral index of polarized synchrotron emission in the 9 yr WMAP sky maps

U. Fuskeland, I. K. Wehus, H. K. Eriksen +1

We estimate the spectral index, beta, of polarized synchrotron emission as observed in the 9 yr WMAP sky maps using two methods, linear regression ("T-T plot") and maximum likeliho…