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Dark energy versus modified gravity: Impacts on measuring neutrino mass
Ming-Ming Zhao, Rui-Yun Guo, Dong-Ze He +2
In this paper, we make a comparison for the impacts of smooth dynamical dark energy, modified gravity, and interacting dark energy on the cosmological constraints on the total mass…
Planet Formation Imager: Project Update
John D. Monnier, Michael J. Ireland, Stefan Kraus +2
The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) is a near- and mid-infrared interferometer project with the driving science goal of imaging directly the key stages of planet formation, including…
Measuring growth index in a universe with massive neutrinos: A revisit of the general relativity test with the latest observations
Ming-Ming Zhao, Jing-Fei Zhang, Xin Zhang
We make a consistency test for the general relativity (GR) through measuring the growth index in a universe with massive (sterile/active) neutrinos. We employ the redshift spac…
Search for sterile neutrinos in holographic dark energy cosmology: Reconciling Planck observation with the local measurement of the Hubble constant
Ming-Ming Zhao, Dong-Ze He, Jing-Fei Zhang +1
We search for sterile neutrinos in the holographic dark energy cosmology by using the latest observational data. To perform the analysis, we employ the current cosmological observa…
Planet Formation Imager (PFI): science vision and key requirements
Stefan Kraus, John D. Monnier, Michael J. Ireland +75
The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) project aims to provide a strong scientific vision for ground-based optical astronomy beyond the upcoming generation of Extremely Large Telescopes…
Constraining neutrino mass and extra relativistic degrees of freedom in dynamical dark energy models using Planck 2015 data in combination with low-redshift cosmological probes: basic extensions to CDM cosmology
Ming-Ming Zhao, Yun-He Li, Jing-Fei Zhang +1
We investigate how the properties of dark energy affect the cosmological measurements of neutrino mass and extra relativistic degrees of freedom. We limit ourselves to the most bas…
Neutrinos in the holographic dark energy model: constraints from latest measurements of expansion history and growth of structure
Jing-Fei Zhang, Ming-Ming Zhao, Yun-He Li +1
The model of holographic dark energy (HDE) with massive neutrinos and/or dark radiation is investigated in detail. The background and perturbation evolutions in the HDE model are c…
Revisiting the holographic dark energy in a non-flat universe: alternative model and cosmological parameter constraints
Jing-Fei Zhang, Ming-Ming Zhao, Jing-Lei Cui +1
We propose an alternative model for the holographic dark energy in a non-flat universe. This new model differs from the previous one in that the IR length cutoff is taken to be…
Warm Spitzer and Palomar Near-IR Secondary Eclipse Photometry of Two Hot Jupiters: WASP-48b and HAT-P-23b
Joseph G. O'Rourke, Heather A. Knutson, Ming Zhao +9
We report secondary eclipse photometry of two hot Jupiters, WASP-48b and HAT-P-23b, at 3.6 and 4.5 um taken with the InfraRed Array Camera aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope during…
The Stellar Obliquity and the Long-period planet in the HAT-P-17 Exoplanetary System
Benjamin J. Fulton, Andrew W. Howard, Joshua N. Winn +9
We present the measured projected obliquity -- the sky-projected angle between the stellar spin axis and orbital angular momentum -- of the inner planet of the HAT-P-17 multi-plane…
Establishing Alpha Oph as a Prototype Rotator: Improved Astrometric Orbit
Sasha Hinkley, John D. Monnier, Ben R. Oppenheimer +24
The nearby star Alpha Oph (Ras Alhague) is a rapidly rotating A5IV star spinning at ~89% of its breakup velocity. This system has been imaged extensively by interferometric techniq…
In the Shadow of the Transiting Disk: Imaging epsilon Aurigae in Eclipse
Brian Kloppenborg, Robert Stencel, John D. Monnier +14
Eclipses of the single-line spectroscopic binary star, epsilon Aurigae, provide an opportunity to study the poorly-defined companion. We used the MIRC beam combiner on the CHARA ar…
Quantifying Stellar Mass Loss with High Angular Resolution Imaging
Stephen Ridgway, Jason Aufdenberg, Michelle Creech-Eakman +7
Mass is constantly being recycled in the universe. One of the most powerful recycling paths is via stellar mass-loss. All stars exhibit mass loss with rates ranging from ~10(-14) t…