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most citedRed clump stars and Gaia: Calibration of the standard candle using a hierarchical probabilistic model

76 citations · 166 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.CO20205 cited

Data Analysis Recipes: Products of multivariate Gaussians in Bayesian inferences

David W. Hogg, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Boris Leistedt

A product of two Gaussians (or normal distributions) is another Gaussian. That's a valuable and useful fact! Here we use it to derive a refactoring of a common product of multivari…

astro-ph.IM2019

SPECULATOR: Emulating stellar population synthesis for fast and accurate galaxy spectra and photometry

Justin Alsing, Hiranya Peiris, Joel Leja +6

We present SPECULATOR - a fast, accurate, and flexible framework for emulating stellar population synthesis (SPS) models for predicting galaxy spectra and photometry. For emulating…

astro-ph.CO2019

Target Neutrino Mass Precision for Determining the Neutrino Hierarchy

Constance Mahony, Boris Leistedt, Hiranya V. Peiris +5

Recent works combining neutrino oscillation and cosmological data to determine the neutrino hierarchy found a range of odds in favour of the normal hierarchy. These results arise f…

astro-ph.CO2019

Stellar mass as a galaxy cluster mass proxy: application to the Dark Energy Survey redMaPPer clusters

A. Palmese, J. Annis, J. Burgad +82

We introduce a galaxy cluster mass observable, , based on the stellar masses of cluster members, and we present results for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 observation…

astro-ph.CO2018

Hierarchical modeling and statistical calibration for photometric redshifts

Boris Leistedt, David W. Hogg, Risa H. Wechsler +1

The cosmological exploitation of modern photometric galaxy surveys requires both accurate (unbiased) and precise (narrow) redshift probability distributions derived from broadband…

astro-ph.GA201776 cited

Red clump stars and Gaia: Calibration of the standard candle using a hierarchical probabilistic model

Keith Hawkins, Boris Leistedt, Jo Bovy +1

Distances to individual stars in our own Galaxy are critical in order to piece together the nature of its velocity and spatial structure. Core helium burning red clump (RC) stars h…