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astro-ph.CO2013★ 50 cited

Measuring the X-ray luminosities of SDSS DR7 clusters from RASS

Lei Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Shiyin Shen +8

We use ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) broadband X-ray images and the optical clusters identified from SDSS DR7 to estimate the X-ray luminosities around candidate cluste…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 14 cited

An analytical model of the large neutral regions during the late stage of reionization

Yidong Xu, Bin Yue, Meng Su +2

In this paper we investigate the nature and distribution of large neutral regions during the late epoch of reionization. In the "bubble model" of reionization, the mass distributio…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 42 cited

First Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Measurement of Satellite Halo Mass in the CFHT Stripe-82 Survey

Ran Li, Huanyuan Shan, HouJun Mo +7

We select satellite galaxies from the galaxy group catalog constructed with the SDSS spectroscopic galaxies and measure the tangential shear around these galaxies with source catal…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 271 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS): measuring growth rate and geometry with anisotropic clustering

Lado Samushia, Beth A. Reid, Martin White +27

We use the observed anisotropic clustering of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 CMASS sample to measure the linear growth rate of struc…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 154 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: single-probe measurements from CMASS anisotropic galaxy clustering

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco Prada, Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez +23

With the largest spectroscopic galaxy survey volume drawn from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we can extract cosmological constraints from the measure…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1.9k cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 10 and 11 galaxy samples

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey +62

We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 24 cited

Constraints on a decomposed dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed by jointing the geometry test and growth rate after Planck data

Weiqiang Yang, Lixin Xu, Yuting Wang +1

In this paper, a unified dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed is decomposed into cold dark matter interacting with vacuum energy. Based on Markov chain Monte Carlo method…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 36 cited

Constraints on a CDM model from strong gravitational lensing and updated Hubble parameter measurements

Yun Chen, Chao-Qiang Geng, Shuo Cao +2

We constrain the scalar field dark energy model with an inverse power-law potential, i.e., (), from a set of recent cosmological observations by compiling…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 61 cited

Modeling the nonlinear clustering in modified gravity models I: A fitting formula for matter power spectrum of f(R) gravity

Gong-Bo Zhao

Based on a suite of N-body simulations of the Hu-Sawicki model of f(R) gravity with different sets of model and cosmological parameters, we develop a new fitting formula with a num…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 14 cited

Using pulsar timing arrays and the quantum normalization condition to constrain relic gravitational waves

Ming-Lei Tong, Yang Zhang, Wen Zhao +3

In the non-standard model of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) generated in the early universe, the theoretical spectrum of is mainly described by an amplitude and a spectral in…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 44 cited

An estimation of local bulk flow with the maximum-likelihood method

Yin-Zhe Ma, Jun Pan

A maximum-likelihood method, tested as an unbiased estimator from numerical simulations, is used to estimate cosmic bulk flow from peculiar velocity surveys. The likelihood functio…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 238 cited

Supermassive black holes with high accretion rates in active galactic nuclei: I. First results from a new reverberation mapping campaign

P. Du, C. Hu, K. -X. Lu +7

We report first results from a large project to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Such objects may be different from other AGNs in…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 105 cited

Effects of plasma on gravitational lensing

Xinzhong Er, Shude Mao

We study gravitational lensing when plasma surrounds the lens. An extra deflection angle is induced by the plasma in addition to the deflection generated by gravity. An inhomogeneo…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 32 cited

Measurement of Neutrino Masses from Relative Velocities

Hong-Ming Zhu, Ue-Li Pen, Xuelei Chen +2

We present a new technique to measure neutrino masses using their flow field relative to dark matter. Present day streaming motions of neutrinos relative to dark matter and baryons…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1 cited

Discovery of eight lensing clusters of galaxies

S. M. Liang, Z. L. Wen, J. L. Han +1

Clusters of galaxies have a huge mass which can act as gravitational lenses. Galaxies behind clusters can be distorted to form arcs in images by the lenses. Herein a search was don…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 34 cited

Radiative Efficiency of Disk Accretion in Individual SDSS QSOs

Shumei Wu, Youjun Lu, Fupeng Zhang +1

We estimate the radiative efficiency (epsilon) of individual type 1 SDSS QSOs by using their bolometric luminosities (L_{bol}) and accretion rates (\dot{M}_{\bullet,acc}), which ma…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 103 cited

Measuring cosmic bulk flows with Type Ia Supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory

U. Feindt, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski +33

Context. Our Local Group of galaxies appears to be moving relative to the cosmic microwave background with the source of the peculiar motion still uncertain. While in the past this…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 102 cited

A Bayesian Approach to Estimate the Size and Structure of the Broad-line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei Using Reverberation Mapping Data

Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, Luis C. Ho +2

This is the first paper in a series devoted to systematic study of the size and structure of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using reverberation mappin…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 145 cited

Growth of Cosmic Structure: Probing Dark Energy Beyond Expansion

Dragan Huterer, David Kirkby, Rachel Bean +18

The quantity and quality of cosmic structure observations have greatly accelerated in recent years. Further leaps forward will be facilitated by imminent projects, which will enabl…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 48 cited

Mid- to far infrared properties of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei

G. E. Magdis, D. Rigopoulou, G. Helou +19

We study the mid- to far-IR properties of a 24um-selected flux-limited sample (S24 > 5mJy) of 154 intermediate redshift (<z>~0.15), infrared luminous galaxies, drawn from the 5MUSE…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 17 cited

Evolution of oxygen and nitrogen abundances and nitrogen production mechanism in massive star-forming galaxies

Yu-Zhong Wu, Shuang-Nan Zhang

Utilizing the observational data of 55,318 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from the catalog of MPA-JHU emission-line measurements for the SDSS DR8, we investigate the galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 5 cited

Testing Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati Gravity with Planck

Hong Li, Jun-Qing Xia

Recently, the Planck collaboration has released the first cosmological papers providing the highest resolution, full sky, maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 64 cited

Dark Energy Constraints after Planck

Jun-Qing Xia, Hong Li, Xinmin Zhang

The Planck collaboration has recently published maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation with the highest precision. In the standard flat CDM framework, Planck data sho…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 1 cited

Reconstructing primordial power spectrum using Planck and SDSS-III measurements

Xin Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao

We develop an accurate and efficient Bayesian method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum in a model-independent way, and apply it to the latest cosmic microwave background…