3 papers
astro-ph1999
WOMBAT & FORECAST: Making Realistic Maps of the Microwave Sky
Andrew H. Jaffe, Eric Gawiser, Douglas Finkbeiner +11
The Wavelength-Oriented Microwave Background Analysis Team (WOMBAT) is constructing microwave maps which will be more realistic than previous simulations. Our foreground models rep…
astro-ph1998
The WOMBAT Challenge: A "Hounds and Hares" Exercise for Cosmology
Eric Gawiser, Douglas Finkbeiner, Andrew Jaffe +10
The Wavelength-Oriented Microwave Background Analysis Team (WOMBAT) is constructing microwave skymaps which will be more realistic than previous simulations. Our foreground models…
astro-ph1998
A Simultaneous Constraint on the Amplitude and Gaussianity of Mass Fluctuations in the Universe
James Robinson, Eric Gawiser, Joseph Silk
We consider constraints on the amplitude of mass fluctuations in the universe, sigma_8, derived from two simple observations: the present number density of clusters and the amplitu…