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astro-ph.CO2009★ 90 cited

Measurement of the Crab nebula polarization at 90 GHz as a calibrator for CMB experiments

J. Aumont, L. Conversi, C. Thum +10

CMB experiments aiming at a precise measurement of the CMB polarization, such as the Planck satellite, need a strong polarized absolute calibrator on the sky to accurately set the…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 98 cited

Powerful H Line-cooling in Stephan's Quintet : I - Mapping the Significant Cooling Pathways in Group-wide Shocks

M. E. Cluver, P. N. Appleton, F. Boulanger +10

We present results from the mid-infrared spectral mapping of Stephan's Quintet using the Spitzer Space Telescope. A 1000 km/s collision has produced a group-wide shock and for the…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 127 cited

Searching for Evidence of Energetic Feedback in Distant Galaxies: A Galaxy Wide Outflow in a z~2 Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy

D. M. Alexander, A. M. Swinbank, I. Smail +2

Leading models of galaxy formation require large-scale energetic outflows to regulate the growth of distant galaxies and their central black holes. However, current observational s…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 58 cited

Detecting Bispectral Acoustic Oscillations from Inflation Using a New Flexible Estimator

Martin Bucher, Bartjan Van Tent, Carla Sofia Carvalho

We present a new flexible estimator for comparing theoretical templates for the predicted bispectrum of the CMB anisotropy to observations. This estimator, based on binning in harm…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 32 cited

Photometric redshifts for supernovae Ia in the Supernova Legacy Survey

N. Palanque-Delabrouille, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, S. Pascal +17

We present a method using the SALT2 light curve fitter to determine the redshift of Type Ia supernovae in the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) based on their photometry in g', r', i'…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 376 cited

An Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmologica…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 596 cited

The Herschel ATLAS

S. Eales, L. Dunne, D. Clements +94

The Herschel ATLAS is the largest open-time key project that will be carried out on the Herschel Space Observatory. It will survey 510 square degrees of the extragalactic sky, four…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 5 cited

A Spitzer Unbiased Ultradeep Spectroscopic Survey

B. Bertincourt, G. Helou, P. Appleton +9

We carried out an unbiased, spectroscopic survey using the low-resolution module of the infrared spectrograph (IRS) on board Spitzer targeting two 2.6 square arcminute regions in t…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 959 cited

Analysis of galaxy SEDs from far-UV to far-IR with CIGALE: Studying a SINGS test sample

S. Noll, D. Burgarella, E. Giovannoli +3

Photometric data of galaxies covering the rest-frame wavelength range from far-UV to far-IR make it possible to derive galaxy properties with a high reliability by fitting the atte…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 57 cited

The ESO/VLT 3rd year Type Ia supernova data set from the Supernova Legacy Survey

C. Balland, S. Baumont, S. Basa +24

We present 139 spectra of 124 Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) that were observed at the ESO/VLT during the first three years of the Canada-France-Hawai Telescope (CFHT) Supernova Legacy…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 3 cited

A numerical study of primordial magnetic field amplification by inflation-produced gravitational waves

Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Tashiro, Naoshi Sugiyama

We numerically study the interaction of inflation-produced magnetic fields with gravitational waves, both of which originate from quantum fluctuations during inflation. The resonan…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 6 cited

Light on Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing

S. Pires, J. -L. Starck, A. Refregier

This paper reviews statistical methods recently developed to reconstruct and analyze dark matter mass maps from weak lensing observations. The field of weak lensing is motivated by…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 15 cited

Detectability of the 21 cm-CMB cross-correlation from the EoR

Hiroyuki Tashiro, Nabila Aghanim, Mathieu Langer +3

The 21-cm line fluctuations and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are powerful probes of the epoch of reionisation of the universe. We study the potential of the cross-correlat…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 17 cited

S-Z power spectrum produced by primordial magnetic fields

Hiroyuki Tashiro, Naoshi Sugiyama

Primordial magnetic fields generated in the very early universe are one of the candidates for the origin of magnetic fields observed in galaxy clusters. After recombination, the Lo…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 29 cited

Cross-correlation Study between the Cosmological 21-cm Signal and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Vibor Jelic, Saleem Zaroubi, Nabila Aghanim +6

The Universe's Epoch of Reionization (EoR) can be studied using a number of observational probes that provide complementary or corroborating information. Each of these probes suffe…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 32 cited

Impact of calibration errors on CMB component separation using FastICA and ILC

Jason Dick, Mathieu Remazeilles, Jacques Delabrouille

The separation of emissions from different astrophysical processes is an important step towards the understanding of observational data. This topic of component separation is of pa…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 6 cited

Simulating the impact of dust cooling on the statistical properties of the intracluster medium

E. Pointecouteau, A. Da Silva, A. Catalano +4

From the first stages of star and galaxy formation, non-gravitational processes such as ram pressure stripping, SNs, galactic winds, AGNs, galaxy-galaxy mergers, etc... lead to the…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 79 cited

Characterization of the BICEP Telescope for High-Precision Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry

Y. D. Takahashi, P. A. R. Ade, D. Barkats +23

The BICEP experiment was designed specifically to search for the signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Using a…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 192 cited

Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data

H. C. Chiang, P. A. R. Ade, D. Barkats +25

Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave backgro…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 13 cited

HI line observations of 2MASS galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance

W. van Driel, S. E. Schneider, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg +1

A pilot survey has been made to obtain 21cm HI emission line profiles for 197 objects in the Zone of Avoidance (ZoA) that were classified as galaxies in the 2MASS all-sky near-infr…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 135 cited

H2 formation and excitation in the Stephan's Quintet galaxy-wide collision

P. Guillard, F. Boulanger, G. Pineau des Forets +1

Context. The Spitzer Space Telescope has detected a powerful (L(H2)~10^41 erg s-1) mid-infrared H2 emission towards the galaxy-wide collision in the Stephan's Quintet (SQ) galaxy g…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 23 cited

Peculiar velocities into the next generation: cosmological parameters from the SFI++ survey

Alexandra Abate, Pirin Erdogdu

We present cosmological parameter constraints from the SFI++ galaxy peculiar velocity survey, the largest galaxy peculiar velocity sample to date. The analysis is performed by usin…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 31 cited

Spitzer Observations of Cold Dust Galaxies

C. N. A. Willmer, G. H. Rieke, Emeric Le Floc'h +4

We combine new Spitzer Space Telescope observations in the mid- and far-infrared with SCUBA 850 micron observations to improve the measurement of dust temperatures, masses and lumi…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 142 cited

The Core-collapse rate from the Supernova Legacy Survey

G. Bazin, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, J. Rich +27

We use three years of data from the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) to study the general properties of core-collapse and type Ia supernovae. This is the first such study using the "…