12 papers
Large deviations for halos and voids: beyond perturbative non-gaussianities
Martin Teuscher, Ruth Durrer, Julien Grain +2
The excursion-set formalism provides a key connection between primordial density fluctuations and the abundance of cosmic structures such as dark matter halos and voids, traditiona…
The On-Sky Performance of the LSST Camera CCD Array
Sean Patrick MacBride, Aaron Roodman, Stuart Marshall +89
The focal plane of the LSST Camera contains 189 individual science CCDs, arranged into 21 raft tower modules, along with 4 wavefront and 8 guider CCDs located in 4 additional corne…
A universal scaling law for gravitational waves induced during inflation
Martin Teuscher, Ruth Durrer, Killian Martineau +1
We consider the stochastic gravitational wave background induced by arbitrary source fields that are amplified during cosmological inflation. The associated tensor spectral index i…
Gravitational Waves sourced by Gauge Fields during Inflation
Martin Teuscher, Ruth Durrer, Killian Martineau +1
We study the inflationary gravitational wave background induced by Abelian gauge fields generated by non-minimal kinetic and axial couplings to the inflaton. We show that, up to sl…
Can the diffeomorphism and Gauss constraints be holonomy corrected in the deformed algebra approach to modified gravity?
Jamy-Jayme Thézier, Aurélien Barrau, Killian Martineau +1
Deforming the algebra of constraint is a well-known approach to effective loop quantum cosmology. More generally, it is a consistent way to modify gravity from the Hamiltonian pers…
Black holes in a dense infinite medium: a toy-model regularizing the Schwarzschild metric
Aurélien Barrau, Killian Martineau, Hanane Zelgoum
We revisit the dynamics of a black hole accreting energy from a surrounding homogeneous and infinite space. We argue for a simple heuristic modification of the Schwarzschild approx…