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astro-ph.CO2014★ 37 cited

Deconstructing Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich - Gravitational Lensing Cross-Correlations: Implications for the Intracluster Medium

N. Battaglia, J. C. Hill, N. Murray

Recent first detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal in Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps with gravitational lens…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 163 cited

Cosmology Constraints from the Weak Lensing Peak Counts and the Power Spectrum in CFHTLenS

Jia Liu, Andrea Petri, Zoltan Haiman +3

Lensing peaks have been proposed as a useful statistic, containing cosmological information from non-Gaussianities that is inaccessible from traditional two-point statistics such a…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 85 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Lensing of CMB Temperature and Polarization Derived from Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation

Alexander van Engelen, Blake D. Sherwin, Neelima Sehgal +47

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields obtained by cross-correlating the reconstructed c…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 94 cited

Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos

Mathew Madhavacheril, Neelima Sehgal, Rupert Allison +40

We present evidence of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by solar mass dark matter halos. Lensing convergence maps from the Atacama Cosmology T…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 23 cited

The origin of spin in galaxies: clues from simulations of atomic cooling halos

Joaquin Prieto, Raul Jimenez, Zoltán Haiman +1

In order to elucidate the origin of spin in both dark matter and baryons in galaxies, we have performed hydrodynamical simulations from cosmological initial conditions. We study at…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 43 cited

Precision Tests of Parity Violation Over Cosmological Distances

Jonathan Kaufman, Brian Keating, Brad Johnson

Recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background -mode polarization power spectrum by the BICEP2 and POLARBEAR experiments have demonstrated new precision tools for probin…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 92 cited

The Stacked Thermal SZ Signal of Locally Brightest Galaxies in Planck Full Mission Data: Evidence for Galaxy Feedback?

Johnny P. Greco, J. Colin Hill, David N. Spergel +1

We use the Planck full mission temperature maps to examine the stacked thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal of 188042 "locally brightest galaxies'" (LBGs) selected from the Sloa…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 13 cited

The impact of spurious shear on cosmological parameter estimates from weak lensing observables

Andrea Petri, Morgan May, Zoltan Haiman +1

Residual errors in shear measurements, after corrections for instrument systematics and atmospheric effects, can impact cosmological parameters derived from weak lensing observatio…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 13 cited

Galaxy cluster scaling relations measured with APEX-SZ

A. N. Bender, J. Kennedy, P. A. R. Ade +30

We present thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) measurements for 42 galaxy clusters observed at 150 GHz with the APEX-SZ experiment. For each cluster, we model the pressure prof…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 146 cited

First Axion Results from the XENON100 Experiment

The XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini +87

We present the first results of searches for axions and axion-like-particles with the XENON100 experiment. The axion-electron coupling constant, , has been probed by exploi…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 392 cited

The Birth of a Galaxy - III. Propelling reionisation with the faintest galaxies

John H. Wise, Vasiliy G. Demchenko, Martin T. Halicek +4

Starlight from galaxies plays a pivotal role throughout the process of cosmic reionisation. We present the statistics of dwarf galaxy properties at z > 7 in haloes with masses up t…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 298 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +71

We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the POLARBEAR experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode polarization si…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 61 cited

A No-Go Theorem for Direct Collapse Black Holes Without a Strong Ultraviolet Background

Eli Visbal, Zoltan Haiman, Greg L. Bryan

Explaining the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) larger than at redshifts remains an open theoretical question. One possibility is that…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 157 cited

The impact of mechanical AGN feedback on the formation of massive early-type galaxies

Ena Choi, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Thorsten Naab +2

We employ cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the effects of AGN feedback on the formation of massive galaxies with present-day stellar masses of $M_{stel} = 8.8…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 201 cited

The observable signature of late heating of the Universe during cosmic reionization

Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, Eli Visbal

Models and simulations of the epoch of reionization predict that spectra of the 21-cm transition of atomic hydrogen will show a clear fluctuation peak, at a redshift and scale, res…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 139 cited

SPHGal: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with improved accuracy for Galaxy simulations

Chia-Yu Hu, Thorsten Naab, Stefanie Walch +2

We present the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics implementation SPHGal, which combines some recently proposed improvements in GADGET. This includes a pressure-entropy formulation wit…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 79 cited

High-Redshift Star Formation in a Time-Dependent Lyman-Werner Background

Eli Visbal, Zoltan Haiman, Bryan Terrazas +2

The first generation of stars produces a background of Lyman-Werner (LW) radiation which can photo-dissociate molecular hydrogen, increasing the mass of dark matter halos required…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 73 cited

H_2 Suppression with Shocking Inflows: Testing a Pathway for Supermassive Black Hole Formation

Ricardo Fernandez, Greg L. Bryan, Zoltan Haiman +1

The presence of quasars at redshifts z > 6 indicates the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as massive as a few times 10^9 Msun, challenging models for SMBH formation. O…

astro-ph.CO2014

The Right Side of Einstein's Equation

Edward A Spiegel

Recent developments in observational cosmology have led to attempts to make modifications on both sides of the Einstein equation to explain some of the puzzling new findings. What…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 81 cited

Evolution in the Escape Fraction of Ionizing Photons and the Decline in Strong Lya Emission from z>6 Galaxies

Mark Dijkstra, Stuart Wyithe, Zoltan Haiman +2

The rapid decline in the number of strong Lyman Alpha (Lya) emitting galaxies at z > 6 provides evidence for neutral hydrogen in the IGM, but is difficult to explain with plausible…