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most citedObservation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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astro-ph.CO2015★ 10 cited

Forecasts on neutrino mass constraints from the redshift-space two-point correlation function

Fernanda Petracca, Federico Marulli, Lauro Moscardini +3

We provide constraints on the accuracy with which the neutrino mass fraction, , can be estimated when exploiting measurements of redshift-space distortions, describing in part…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 23 cited

The XXL survey XIV. AAOmega redshifts for the southern XXL field

C. Lidman, F. Ardila, M. Owers +15

We present a catalogue containing the redshifts of 3,660 X-ray selected targets in the XXL southern field. The redshifts were obtained with the AAOmega spectrograph and 2dF fibre p…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 29 cited

KAT-7 observations of a mass-selected sample of galaxy clusters

G. Bernardi, T. Venturi, R. Cassano +7

The presence of megaparsec-scale radio halos in galaxy clusters has already been established by many observations over the last two decades. The emerging explanation for the format…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 36 cited

The Galaxy Cluster Concentration-Mass Scaling Relation

Austen M. Groener, David M. Goldberg, Mauro Sereno

Scaling relations of clusters have made them particularly important cosmological probes of structure formation. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of the relation betwe…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 43 cited

The Imprint of f(R) Gravity on Non-Linear Structure Formation

Ixandra Achitouv, Marco Baldi, Ewald Puchwein +1

We test the imprint of f(R) modified gravity on the halo mass function, using N-body simulations and a theoretical model developed in (Kopp et al. 2013). We find a very good agreem…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 180 cited

Resolving the Extragalactic -ray Background above 50 GeV with Fermi-LAT

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 34 cited

MultiDarkLens Simulations: weak lensing light-cones and data base presentation

Carlo Giocoli, Eric Jullo, R. Benton Metcalf +10

In this paper we present a large database of weak lensing light cones constructed using different snapshots from the Big MultiDark simulation (BigMDPL). The ray-tracing through dif…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 6 cited

Zoomed high-resolution simulations of Multi-coupled Dark Energy: cored galaxy density profiles at high redshift

E. Garaldi, M. Baldi, L. Moscardini

We perform for the first time high-resolution zoom-in re-simulations of individual halos in the context of the Multi-coupled Dark Energy (McDE) scenario, which is characterised by…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 79 cited

CosmoBolognaLib: C++ libraries for cosmological calculations

Federico Marulli, Alfonso Veropalumbo, Michele Moresco

We present the CosmoBolognaLib, a large set of Open Source C++ numerical libraries for cosmological calculations. CosmoBolognaLib is a living project aimed at defining a common num…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 36 cited

Measuring the distance-redshift relation with the baryon acoustic oscillations of galaxy clusters

Alfonso Veropalumbo, Federico Marulli, Lauro Moscardini +2

We analyse the largest spectroscopic samples of galaxy clusters to date, and provide observational constraints on the distance-redshift relation from baryon acoustic oscillations.…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 11 cited

The effect of interacting dark energy on local measurements of the Hubble constant

Io Odderskov, Marco Baldi, Luca Amendola

In the current state of cosmology, where cosmological parameters are being measured to percent accuracy, it is essential to understand all sources of error to high precision. In th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 4 cited

The Low Redshift survey at Calar Alto (LoRCA)

J. Comparat, C. -H. Chuang, S. Rodriguez-Torres +13

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all avail…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 42 cited

Do radio mini-halos and gas heating in cool-core clusters have a common origin?

Luca Bravi, Myriam Gitti, Gianfranco Brunetti

In this letter we present a study of the central regions of cool-core clusters hosting radio mini-halos, which are diffuse synchrotron sources extended on cluster-scales surroundin…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 39 cited

Prospects for clustering and lensing measurements with forthcoming intensity mapping and optical surveys

Alkistis Pourtsidou, David Bacon, Robert Crittenden +1

We explore the potential of using intensity mapping surveys (MeerKAT, SKA) and optical galaxy surveys (DES, LSST) to detect HI clustering and weak gravitational lensing of 21cm emi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 5 cited

A conservative assessment of the current constraints on dark matter annihilation from Cosmic Rays and CMB observations

Nicolò Masi, Mario Ballardini

In view of the current interest in combining different observations to constraint annihilating WIMP dark matter, we examine the relation between the Sommerfeld effect at the recomb…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 43 cited

Missing baryons traced by the galaxy luminosity density in the large-scale WHIM filaments

J. Nevalainen, E. Tempel, L. J. Liivamägi +9

We propose a new approach to the missing baryons problem. Building on the common assumption that the missing baryons are in the form of the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), we…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 22 cited

Fitting and forecasting non-linear coupled dark energy

Santiago Casas, Luca Amendola, Marco Baldi +2

We consider cosmological models in which dark matter feels a fifth force mediated by the dark energy scalar field, also known as coupled dark energy. Our interest resides in estima…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 22 cited

Weak lensing of large scale structure in the presence of screening

Nicolas Tessore, Hans A. Winther, R. Benton Metcalf +2

A number of alternatives to general relativity exhibit gravitational screening in the non-linear regime of structure formation. We describe a set of algorithms that can produce wea…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 50 cited

Search for Event Rate Modulation in XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +99

We have searched for periodic variations of the electronic recoil event rate in the (2-6) keV energy range recorded between February 2011 and March 2012 with the XENON100 detector,…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 3 cited

Searching for galaxy clusters in the VST-KiDS Survey

Mario Radovich, Emanuella Puddu, Fabio Bellagamba +4

We present the methods and first results of the search for galaxy clusters in the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). The adopted algorithm and the criterium for selecting the member galaxi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 71 cited

CMB and BAO constraints for an induced gravity dark energy model with a quartic potential

Caterina Umiltà, Mario Ballardini, Fabio Finelli +1

We study the predictions for structure formation in an induced gravity dark energy model with a quartic potential. By developing a dedicated Einstein-Boltzmann code, we study self-…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 17 cited

Cosmological evolution of thermal relic particles in gravity

S. Capozziello, V. Galluzzi, G. Lambiase +1

By considering gravity models, the cosmic evolution is modified with respect to the standard CDM scenario. In particular, the thermal history of particles results modifie…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 267 cited

The universality of the virial halo mass function and models for non-universality of other halo definitions

Giulia Despali, Carlo Giocoli, Raul E. Angulo +4

The abundance of galaxy clusters can constrain both the geometry and growth of structure in our Universe. However, this probe could be significantly complicated by recent claims of…