5 papers
HST imaging, pipeline modeling, and time-delay predictions of 2 triply-imaged and 15 quadruply-imaged lensed quasars
William Sheu, Tommaso Treu, Adriano Agnello +10
The Hubble-Lema\^ıtre tension remains a significant challenge in modern cosmology, exhibiting a discrepancy between early-Universe cosmic microwave background measurements and loca…
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): Mission Design and Science Goals
Alan Kogut, Eric Switzer, Dale Fixsen +14
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the energy spectrum and linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A si…
Systematic error mitigation for the PIXIE Fourier transform spectrometer
A. Kogut, Dale Fixsen, Nabila Aghanim +11
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the spectrum and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Cosmological signals are…
Deriving Stellar Properties, Distances, and Reddenings using Photometry and Astrometry with BRUTUS
Joshua S. Speagle, Catherine Zucker, Angus Beane +18
We present brutus, an open source Python package for quickly deriving stellar properties, distances, and reddenings to stars based on grids of stellar models constrained by photome…
Mapping the Milky Way in 5-D with 170 Million Stars
Joshua S. Speagle, Catherine Zucker, Ana Bonaca +18
We present "augustus", a catalog of distance, extinction, and stellar parameter estimates to 170 million stars from and with dr…