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LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison +245
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade.…
The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts
S. Ahlen, N. Afshordi, J. B. R. Battat +109
We present the case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity. This document was developed at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and conta…
The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze
Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Ilias Cholis +2
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals a diffuse inverse Compton signal in the inner Galaxy with a similar spatial morphology to the microwave haze observed by WMAP, supportin…
A statistical test of emission from unresolved point sources
Tracy R. Slatyer, Douglas P. Finkbeiner
We describe a simple test of the spatial uniformity of an ensemble of discrete events. Given an estimate for the point source luminosity function and an instrumental point spread f…
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: III. Stellar Kinematics
N. A. Bond, Z. Ivezic, B. Sesar +2
We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r<20 and proper-motion measurements derived from SDSS and POSS astrometry, including ~170,000…
The Fermi gamma-ray spectrum of the inner galaxy: Implications for annihilating dark matter
Ilias Cholis, Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner +3
Recently, a preliminary spectrum from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been presented for the inner galaxy (-30 < l < 30, -5 < b < 5), as well as the galactic center (-1 < l…
CMB Constraints on WIMP Annihilation: Energy Absorption During the Recombination Epoch
Tracy R. Slatyer, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Douglas P. Finkbeiner
We compute in detail the rate at which energy injected by dark matter annihilation heats and ionizes the photon-baryon plasma at z ~ 1000, and provide accurate fitting functions ov…
Inelastic Dark Matter and DAMA/LIBRA: An Experimentum Crucis
Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Tongyan Lin, Neal Weiner
The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has detected an annual modulation of the recoil rate in NaI crystals with the phase expected for WIMP scattering events. This signal is dramatically in…
The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
S. Dodelson, R. Easther, S. Hanany +61
Modern cosmology has sharpened questions posed for millennia about the origin of our cosmic habitat. The age-old questions have been transformed into two pressing issues primed for…
Strong gravitational lensing probes of the particle nature of dark matter
Leonidas A. Moustakas, Kevork Abazajian, Andrew Benson +44
There is a vast menagerie of plausible candidates for the constituents of dark matter, both within and beyond extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. Each of these ca…
Discovery of a Wide Binary Brown Dwarf Born in Isolation
K. L. Luhman, E. E. Mamajek, P. R. Allen +2
During a survey for stars with disks in the Taurus star-forming region using the Spitzer Space Telescope, we have discovered a pair of young brown dwarfs, FU Tau A and B, in the Ba…