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astro-ph2008★ 359 cited
Measuring primordial non-gaussianity without cosmic variance
Uros Seljak
Non-gaussianity in the initial conditions of the universe is one of the most powerful mechanisms to discriminate among the competing theories of the early universe. Measurements us…
astro-ph2007★ 290 cited
Intrinsic galaxy alignments from the 2SLAQ and SDSS surveys: luminosity and redshift scalings and implications for weak lensing surveys
Christopher M. Hirata, Rachel Mandelbaum, Mustapha Ishak +5
Correlations between intrinsic shear and the density field on large scales, a potentially important contaminant for cosmic shear surveys, have been robustly detected at low redshif…