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most citedIndication of anisotropy in arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through comparison to the flux pattern of extragalactic gamma-ray sources

258 citations · 1.1k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Deep inference of simulated strong lenses in ground-based surveys

Jason Poh, Ashwin Samudre, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović +3

The large number of strong lenses discoverable in future astronomical surveys will likely enhance the value of strong gravitational lensing as a cosmic probe of dark energy and dar…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 18 cited

TDCOSMO. XVI. Measurement of the Hubble Constant from the Lensed Quasar WGD20384008

Kenneth C. Wong, Frédéric Dux, Anowar J. Shajib +17

Time-delay cosmography is a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, particularly the Hubble constant (). The TDCOSMO collaboration is performing an ongoing…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

DIGS: Deep Inference of Galaxy Spectra with Neural Posterior Estimation

Gourav Khullar, Brian Nord, Aleksandra Ciprijanovic +2

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quanti…

astro-ph.IM2022

Strong Lensing Parameter Estimation on Ground-Based Imaging Data Using Simulation-Based Inference

Jason Poh, Ashwin Samudre, Aleksandra Ćiprijanović +4

Current ground-based cosmological surveys, such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES), are predicted to discover thousands of galaxy-scale strong lenses, while future surveys, such as th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Identification of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lens Candidates in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Using Machine Learning

E. A. Zaborowski, A. Drlica-Wagner, F. Ashmead +88

We perform a search for galaxy-galaxy strong lens systems using a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to imaging data from the first public data release of the DECam Local V…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

Estimating Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Cluster Abundance using Simulation-Based Inference

Moonzarin Reza, Yuanyuan Zhang, Brian Nord +3

Inferring the values and uncertainties of cosmological parameters in a cosmology model is of paramount importance for modern cosmic observations. In this paper, we use the simulati…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 45 cited

TDCOSMO. IX. Systematic comparison between lens modelling software programs: time delay prediction for WGD 2038-4008

A. J. Shajib, K. C. Wong, S. Birrer +15

The importance of alternative methods for measuring the Hubble constant, such as time-delay cosmography, is highlighted by the recent Hubble tension. It is paramount to thoroughly…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

deeplenstronomy: A dataset simulation package for strong gravitational lensing

Robert Morgan, Brian Nord, Simon Birrer +2

Automated searches for strong gravitational lensing in optical imaging survey datasets often employ machine learning and deep learning approaches. These techniques require more exa…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

STRIDES: Spectroscopic and photometric characterization of the environment and effects of mass along the line of sight to the gravitational lenses DES J0408-5354 and WGD 2038-4008

E. J. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin, C. Rusu +65

In time-delay cosmography, three of the key ingredients are 1) determining the velocity dispersion of the lensing galaxy, 2) identifying galaxies and groups along the line of sight…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

Deep Learning in Wide-field Surveys: Fast Analysis of Strong Lenses in Ground-based Cosmic Experiments

Clecio Bom, Jason Poh, Brian Nord +2

Searches and analyses of strong gravitational lenses are challenging due to the rarity and image complexity of these astronomical objects. Next-generation surveys (both ground- and…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 240 cited

STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408-5354

A. J. Shajib, S. Birrer, T. Treu +88

We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J04085354. This system is extraordinary for the presence of two sets of multiple images at different…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 46 cited

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019)

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +383

Contributions of the Pierre Auger Collaboration to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), 24 July - 1 August 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

astro-ph.HE2019★ 108 cited

Probing the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with neutrinos in the EeV energy range using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +389

Neutrinos with energies above eV are detectable with the Surface Detector Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The identification is efficiently performed for neutrinos…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 54 cited

Limits on point-like sources of ultra-high-energy neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +389

With the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory we can detect neutrinos with energy between eV and eV from point-like sources across the…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 25 cited

Measurement of the average shape of longitudinal profiles of cosmic-ray air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +385

The profile of the longitudinal development of showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays carries information related to the interaction properties of the primary particles…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 133 cited

Large-scale cosmic-ray anisotropies above 4 EeV measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +374

We present a detailed study of the large-scale anisotropies of cosmic rays with energies above 4 EeV measured using the Pierre Auger Observatory. For the energy bins [4,8] EeV and…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 65 cited

Observation of inclined EeV air showers with the radio detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +392

With the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we have observed the radio emission from 561 extensive air showers with zenith angles between 60$^\ci…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 258 cited

Indication of anisotropy in arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through comparison to the flux pattern of extragalactic gamma-ray sources

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +390

A new analysis of the dataset from the Pierre Auger Observatory provides evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays on an intermediate angul…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 26 cited

Line-of-Sight Extrapolation Noise in Dust Polarization

Jason Poh, Scott Dodelson

The B-modes of polarization at frequencies ranging from 50-1000 GHz are produced by Galactic dust, lensing of primordial E-modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by interve…