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astro-ph.CO2015★ 32 cited

Foreground-Induced Biases in CMB Polarimeter Self-Calibration

M. H. Abitbol, J. C. Hill, B. R. Johnson

Precise polarisation measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require accurate knowledge of the instrument orientation relative to the sky frame used to define the cos…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 86 cited

Measurement of the dipole in the cross-correlation function of galaxies

Enrique Gaztanaga, Camille Bonvin, Lam Hui

It is usually assumed that in the linear regime the two-point correlation function of galaxies contains only a monopole, quadrupole and hexadecapole. Looking at cross-correlations…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 55 cited

Optimising the measurement of relativistic distortions in large-scale structure

Camille Bonvin, Lam Hui, Enrique Gaztanaga

It has been shown recently that relativistic distortions generate a dipolar modulation in the two-point correlation function of galaxies. To measure this relativistic dipole it is…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 8 cited

Cosmic Reionization and the First Nonlinear Structures in the Universe

Zoltán Haiman

In this introductory chapter, we outline expectations for when and how the hydrogen and helium atoms in the universe turned from neutral to ionized, focusing on the earliest, least…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 138 cited

Evidence for the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeľdovich effect with ACTPol and velocity reconstruction from BOSS

Emmanuel Schaan, Simone Ferraro, Mariana Vargas-Magaña +43

We use microwave temperature maps from two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACTPol) at 146 GHz, together with the Constant Mass CMASS galaxy sample from the Ba…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 53 cited

Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Equatorial Sunyaev-Zeldovich Cluster Sample with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey

N. Battaglia, A. Leauthaud, H. Miyatake +39

Mass calibration uncertainty is the largest systematic effect for using clusters of galaxies to constrain cosmological parameters. We present weak lensing mass measurements from th…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 13 cited

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT: Polarization Measurements of the Galactic Plane at 43 and 95 GHz

QUIET Collaboration, T. M. Ruud, U. Fuskeland +39

We present polarization observations of two Galactic plane fields centered on Galactic coordinates (l,b)=(0 deg,0 deg) and (329 deg, 0 deg) at Q- (43 GHz) and W-band (95 GHz), cove…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 125 cited

Neutral hydrogen structures trace dust polarization angle: Implications for cosmic microwave background foregrounds

S. E. Clark, J. Colin Hill, J. E. G. Peek +2

Using high-resolution data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey, we show that linear structure in Galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) correlates with the mag…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 87 cited

Large-scale mass distribution in the Illustris simulation

Markus Haider, Dominik Steinhauser, Mark Vogelsberger +4

Observations at low redshifts thus far fail to account for all of the baryons expected in the Universe according to cosmological constraints. A large fraction of the baryons presum…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 21 cited

Measuring the Largest Angular Scale CMB B-mode Polarization with Galactic Foregrounds on a Cut Sky

Duncan J. Watts, David Larson, Tobias A. Marriage +9

We consider the effectiveness of foreground cleaning in the recovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization sourced by gravitational waves for tensor-to-scalar ratios in…

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★ 61 cited

Phenomenology of dark energy: general features of large-scale perturbations

Louis Perenon, Federico Piazza, Christian Marinoni +1

We present a systematic exploration of dark energy and modified gravity models containing a single scalar field non-minimally coupled to the metric. Even though the parameter space…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

Dark matter line emission constraints from NuSTAR observations of the Bullet Cluster

S. Riemer-Sørensen, D. Wik, G. Madejski +10

Line emission from dark matter is well motivated for some candidates e.g. sterile neutrinos. We present the first search for dark matter line emission in the 3-80keV range in a poi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 96 cited

Taking the Universe's Temperature with Spectral Distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background

J. Colin Hill, Nick Battaglia, Jens Chluba +3

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) energy spectrum is a near-perfect blackbody. The standard model of cosmology predicts small spectral distortions to this form, but no such dis…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 62 cited

Limits on Population III star formation in minihaloes implied by Planck

Eli Visbal, Zoltan Haiman, Greg L. Bryan

Recently, Planck measured a value of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) optical depth due to electron scattering of . Here we show that this low value leaves…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 68 cited

Cross-correlation of Planck CMB Lensing and CFHTLenS Galaxy Weak Lensing Maps

Jia Liu, J. Colin Hill

We cross-correlate cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and galaxy weak lensing maps using the Planck 2013 and 2015 data and the 154 deg^2 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensi…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 519 cited

The Illustris Simulation: Public Data Release

Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Shy Genel +12

We present the full public release of all data from the Illustris simulation project. Illustris is a suite of large volume, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations run with the mov…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 10 cited

A Two-Parameter Matching Scheme for Massive Galaxies and Dark Matter Haloes

Andrea Kulier, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Halo Abundance Matching has been used to construct a one-parameter mapping between galaxies and dark matter haloes by assuming that halo mass and galaxy luminosity (or stellar mass…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 115 cited

Zooming in on accretion - I. The structure of halo gas

Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel, Annalisa Pillepich +3

We study the properties of gas in and around 10^12 solar mass halos at z=2 using a suite of high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic 'zoom' simulations. We quantify the thermal an…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 110 cited

Emulating the CFHTLenS Weak Lensing data: Cosmological Constraints from moments and Minkowski functionals

Andrea Petri, Jia Liu, Zoltan Haiman +3

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful cosmological probe, with non--Gaussian features potentially containing the majority of the information. We examine constraints on the param…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 60 cited

Hydrogen Reionization in the Illustris universe

Andreas Bauer, Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger +5

Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation such as the Illustris simulations have progressed to a state where they approximately reproduce the observed stellar mass function fr…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 39 cited

Looking for Population III stars with He II line intensity mapping

Eli Visbal, Zoltan Haiman, Greg L. Bryan

Constraining the properties of Population III (Pop III) stars will be very challenging because they reside in small galaxies at high redshift which will be difficult to directly de…