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astro-ph.CO2016★ 30 cited

Constraints on the Mass, Concentration, and Nonthermal Pressure Support of Six CLASH Clusters from a Joint Analysis of X-ray, SZ, and Lensing Data

Seth R. Siegel, Jack Sayers, Andisheh Mahdavi +17

We present a joint analysis of Chandra X-ray observations, Bolocam thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect observations, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) strong lensing data, and HST an…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 29 cited

The next non-Gaussianity frontier: what can a measurement with tell us about multifield inflation?

Roland de Putter, Jérôme Gleyzes, Olivier Doré

Future galaxy surveys promise to probe local primordial non-Gaussianity at unprecedented precision, . We study the implications for multifield inflation b…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 40 cited

Biasing and the search for primordial non-Gaussianity beyond the local type

Jérôme Gleyzes, Roland de Putter, Daniel Green +1

Primordial non-Gaussianity encodes valuable information about the physics of inflation, including the spectrum of particles and interactions. Significant improvements in our unders…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 12 cited

Optimizing future experiments of cosmic far-infrared background: a principal component approach

Hao-Yi Wu, Olivier Doré

The anisotropies of cosmic far-infrared background (CFIRB) probe the star formation rate (SFR) of dusty star-forming galaxies as a function of dark matter halo mass and redshift. W…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 53 cited

Imprint of DES super-structures on the Cosmic Microwave Background

A. Kovács, C. Sánchez, J. García-Bellido +58

Small temperature anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background can be sourced by density perturbations via the late-time integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect. Large voids and superclus…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 45 cited

Cosmological constraints from the convergence 1-point probability distribution

Kenneth Patton, Jonathan Blazek, Klaus Honscheid +4

We examine the cosmological information available from the 1-point probability distribution (PDF) of the weak-lensing convergence field, utilizing fast L-PICOLA simulations and a F…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 33 cited

Weak lensing magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

M. Garcia-Fernandez, E. Sánchez, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +68

In this paper the effect of weak lensing magnification on galaxy number counts is studied by cross-correlating the positions of two galaxy samples, separated by redshift, using dat…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 49 cited

Testing gravity on large scales by combining weak lensing with galaxy clustering using CFHTLenS and BOSS CMASS

Shadab Alam, Hironao Miyatake, Surhud More +2

We measure a combination of gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and redshift-space distortions called . The quantity probes both parts of metric potential and is i…

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★ 37 cited

Dipolar modulation in the size of galaxies: The effect of Doppler magnification

Camille Bonvin, Sambatra Andrianomena, David Bacon +4

Objects falling into an overdensity appear larger on its near side and smaller on its far side than other objects at the same redshift. This produces a dipolar pattern of magnifica…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 16 cited

Galaxy bias from galaxy-galaxy lensing in the DES Science Verification Data

J. Prat, C. Sánchez, R. Miquel +68

We present a measurement of galaxy-galaxy lensing around a magnitude-limited () sample of galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES-SV) data. We…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 24 cited

Inference from the small scales of cosmic shear with current and future Dark Energy Survey data

N. MacCrann, J. Aleksić, A. Amara +61

Cosmic shear is sensitive to fluctuations in the cosmological matter density field, including on small physical scales, where matter clustering is affected by baryonic physics in g…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 60 cited

Calibrating the Planck Cluster Mass Scale with CLASH

M. Penna-Lima, J. G. Bartlett, E. Rozo +5

We determine the mass scale of Planck galaxy clusters using gravitational lensing mass measurements from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). We have compa…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 178 cited

Planck intermediate results. LI. Features in the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum and shifts in cosmological parameters

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +150

The six parameters of the standard CDM model have best-fit values derived from the Planck temperature power spectrum that are shifted somewhat from the best-fit values derived f…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 16 cited

Simultaneous Constraints on Cosmology and Photometric Redshift Bias from Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering

S Samuroff, MA Troxel, SL Bridle +5

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a syst…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 15 cited

Variations of cosmic large-scale structure covariance matrices across parameter space

Robert Reischke, Alina Kiessling, Björn Malte Schäfer

The likelihood function for cosmological parameters, given by e.g. weak lensing shear measurements, depends on contributions to the covariance induced by the nonlinear evolution of…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 84 cited

Looking through the same lens: shear calibration for LSST, Euclid & WFIRST with stage 4 CMB lensing

Emmanuel Schaan, Elisabeth Krause, Tim Eifler +4

The next generation weak lensing surveys (i.e., LSST, Euclid and WFIRST) will require exquisite control over systematic effects. In this paper, we address shear calibration and pre…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 51 cited

Robust covariance estimation of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing: validation and limitation of jackknife covariance

Masato Shirasaki, Masahiro Takada, Hironao Miyatake +4

We develop a method to simulate galaxy-galaxy weak lensing by utilizing all-sky, light-cone simulations and their inherent halo catalogs. Using the mock catalog to study the error…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 12 cited

Interpreting the cosmic far-infrared background anisotropies using a gas regulator model

Hao-Yi Wu, Olivier Doré, Romain Teyssier +1

Cosmic far-infrared background (CFIRB) is a powerful probe of the history of star formation rate (SFR) and the connection between baryons and dark matter across cosmic time. In thi…

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★ 121 cited

Bayesian constraints on the global 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn

G. Bernardi, J. T. L. Zwart, D. Price +7

The birth of the first luminous sources and the ensuing epoch of reionization are best studied via the redshifted 21-cm emission line, the signature of the first two imprinting the…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 104 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array VIII: Measurement of gravitational lensing from large-scale B-mode polarization

The Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +63

We present measurements of polarization lensing using the 150 GHz maps which include all data taken by the BICEP2 & Keck Array CMB polarization experiments up to and including the…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 86 cited

Mapping the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect toward MACS J0717.5+3745 with NIKA

R. Adam, I. Bartalucci, G. W. Pratt +47

Measurement of the gas velocity distribution in galaxy clusters provides insight into the physics of mergers, through which large scale structures form in the Universe. Velocity es…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 22 cited

Optical-SZE Scaling Relations for DES Optically Selected Clusters within the SPT-SZ Survey

A. Saro, S. Bocquet, J. Mohr +68

We study the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) signature in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data for an ensemble of 719 optically identified galaxy clusters selected from 124.6 deg of…