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astro-ph.CO2014★ 10 cited

Type Ia Supernova Distance Modulus Bias and Dispersion From K-correction Errors: A Direct Measurement Using Lightcurve Fits to Observed Spectral Time Series

C. Saunders, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus +34

We estimate systematic errors due to K-corrections in standard photometric analyses of high redshift Type Ia supernovae. Errors due to K-correction occur when the spectral template…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 25 cited

Probing Neutrino Hierarchy and Chirality via Wakes

Hong-Ming Zhu, Ue-Li Pen, Xuelei Chen +1

The relic neutrinos are expected to acquire a bulk relative velocity with respect to the dark matter at low redshifts, and neutrino wakes are expected to develop downstream of the…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 743 cited

Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements

Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Julian E. Bautista +90

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave backgr…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 91 cited

Forecasts on the Dark Energy and Primordial Non-Gaussianity Observations with the Tianlai Cylinder Array

Yidong Xu, Xin Wang, Xuelei Chen

The Tianlai experiment is dedicated to the observation of large scale structures (LSS) by the 21 cm intensity mapping technique. In this paper we make forecasts on its capability a…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 126 cited

How well can cold-dark-matter substructures account for the observed radio flux-ratio anomalies?

Dandan Xu, Dominique Sluse, Liang Gao +5

Discrepancies between the observed and model-predicted radio flux ratios are seen in a number of quadruply-lensed quasars. The most favored interpretation of these anomalies is tha…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 21 cited

Distinguishing general relativity and gravity with the gravitational lensing Minkowski functionals

Chenxiaoji Ling, Qiao Wang, Ran Li +3

We explore the Minkowski functionals of weak lensing convergence map to distinguish between gravity and the general relativity (GR). The mock weak lensing convergence maps a…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 3 cited

Reducing the Tension Between the BICEP2 and the Planck Measurements: A Complete Exploration of the Parameter Space

Yi-Chao Li, Feng-Quan Wu, You-Jun Lu +1

A large inflationary tensor-to-scalar ratio is reported by the BICEP2 team based on their B-mode polarization detection, which is outside…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 3 cited

Measurement of differential magnification

Xinzhong Er

In gravitational lensing, the magnification effect changes the luminosity and size of a background galaxy. If the image sizes are not small compared to the scale over which the mag…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 18 cited

Probing reionization with the cross power spectrum of 21 cm and near-infrared radiation backgrounds

Xiao-Chun Mao

The cross-correlation between the 21 cm emission from the high-redshift intergalactic medium and the near-infrared (NIR) background light from the high-redshift galaxies promises t…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 19 cited

Constraints on the exponential model from latest Hubble parameter measurements

Yun Chen, Chao-Qiang Geng, Chung-Chi Lee +2

We investigate the viable exponential gravity in the metric formalism with . The latest sample of the Hubble parameter measurements with 23 data p…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 29 cited

Offsets between the X-ray and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-effect peaks in merging galaxy clusters and their cosmological implications

Congyao Zhang, Qingjuan Yu, Youjun Lu

Observations reveal that the peaks of the X-ray map and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect map of some galaxy clusters are offset from each other. In this paper, we perform a set o…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 7 cited

Constraining Photon Mass by Energy-Dependent Gravitational Light Bending

Lei Qian

In the standard model of particle physics, photons are mass-less particles with a particular dispersion relation. Tests of this claim at different scales are both interesting and i…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 36 cited

Redshift evolution of extragalactic rotation measures

J. Xu, J. L. Han

We obtained rotation measures of 2642 quasars by cross-identification of the most updated quasar catalog and rotation measure catalog. After discounting the foreground Galactic Far…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 5 cited

Constraints on Dark Energy from New Observations including Pan-STARRS

Wei Zheng, Si-Yu Li, Hong Li +3

In this paper, we set the new limits on the equation of state parameter (EoS) of dark energy with the observations of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) from Planck satell…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 22 cited

Pre-inflationary genesis with CMB B-mode polarization

Zhi-Guo Liu, Hong Li, Yun-Song Piao

Recent B-mode polarization observation seems to imply the tensor tilt at large angular scale, if the primordial signal is dominated. We show that for a primordial un…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 64 cited

Post- constraints on interacting vacuum energy

Yuting Wang, David Wands, Gong-Bo Zhao +1

We present improved constraints on an interacting vacuum model using updated astronomical observations including the first data release from Planck. We consider a model with one di…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 63 cited

The Vainshtein Mechanism in the Cosmic Web

Bridget Falck, Kazuya Koyama, Gong-bo Zhao +1

We investigate the dependence of the Vainshtein screening mechanism on the cosmic web morphology of both dark matter particles and halos as determined by ORIGAMI. Unlike chameleon…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 25 cited

The Properties of Hα Emission-Line Galaxies at z = 2.24

F. X. An, X. Z. Zheng, W. -H. Wang +9

Using deep narrow-band and -band imaging data obtained with CFHT/WIRCam, we identify a sample of 56 H emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at with the 5 dept…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 9 cited

Constraints on Cosmological Models from Hubble Parameters Measurements

Wei Zheng, Hong Li, Jun-Qing Xia +3

In this paper, we study the cosmological constraints from the measurements of Hubble parameters--- data. Here, we consider two kinds of data: the direct probe fr…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 49 cited

Evidence for bouncing evolution before inflation after BICEP2

Jun-Qing Xia, Yi-Fu Cai, Hong Li +1

The BICEP2 collaboration reports a detection of primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode with a tensor-scalar ratio (68% C.L.). However, this re…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 2 cited

Cosmological parameter fittings with the BICEP2 data

Fengquan Wu, Yichao Li, Youjun Lu +1

Combining the latest Planck, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data, we exploit the recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 78 cited

The brief era of direct collapse black hole formation

Bin Yue, Andrea Ferrara, Ruben Salvaterra +2

It has been proposed that the first, intermediate-mass () black holes might form through direct collapse of unpolluted gas in atomic-cooling halos exposed…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 17 cited

Microlensing of Sub-parsec Massive Binary Black Holes in Lensed QSOs: Light Curves and Size-Wavelength Relation

Chang-Shuo Yan, Youjun Lu, Qingjuan Yu +2

Sub-parsec binary massive black holes (BBHs) are long anticipated to exist in many QSOs but remain observationally elusive. In this paper, we propose a novel method to probe sub-pa…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 4 cited

Cyclic universe due to phantom and quintessence

Changjun Gao, Youjun Lu, You-Gen Shen

We explore a cyclic universe due to phantom and quintessence fields. We find that, in every cycle of the evolution of the universe, the phantom dominates the cosmic early history a…