INPA CANDi

Academic Year 07-08

8/6/08

• Testing cosmological structure formation using redshift-space distortions
  
• Calibrating Dark Energy
  

7/30/08

• Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies IV: Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Line-of-Sight Direction and a Direct Measurement of H(z)  (be sure to view version 3) 
• Stringent null constraint on cosmological evolution of the proton-to-electron mass ratio 
  

7/16/08

• Experimental constraints on a dark matter origin for the DAMA annual modulation effect
• Looking Beyond Lambda with the Union Supernova Compilation

7/9/08

• Relativistic Spin Precession in the Double Pulsar
• Color, 3D simulated images with shapelets 

7/02/08

• Spectral luminosity indicators in SNe Ia - Understanding the R(SiII) line strength ratio and beyond
  

6/25/08

• The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
• GALEX Spectroscopy of SN 2005ay suggests a UV spectral uniformity among type II-P supernovae 

6/18/08

• Panglossian Prospects for Detecting Neutralino Dark Matter in Light of Natural Priors
  
• Resolving Super Massive Black Holes with LISA
  

6/11/08

• Probing Reionization with the 21 cm-Galaxy Cross Power Spectrum
  
• Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies: Directly Connecting Age and Metallicity with Type Ia Luminosity

6/4/08

• A Flat Photoionization Rate at 2<z<4.2: Evidence for a Stellar-Dominated UV Background and Against a Decline of Cosmic Star Formation Beyond z~3
  
• The Dark Matter Annihilation Signal from Galactic Substructure: Predictions for GLAST

5/28/08

• Clustering of supernova Ia host galaxies
  
• Earthshine observation of vegetation and implication for life detection on other planets - A review of 2001 - 2006 work
  

5/21/08

• Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?
  
• The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Environment of Poststarburst Galaxies at z~0.1 and z~0.8
  

5/14/08

• Cosmic velocity--gravity relation in redshift space

4/30/08

• Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets
• Gravitational-radiation losses from the pulsar-white-dwarf binary PSR J1141-6545

4/23/08

• The Void Phenomenon Explained
• Big bang nucleosynthesis constrains the total annihilation cross section of neutralino dark matter

4/16/08

• The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph
• Nonlinear corrections to the cosmological matter power spectrum and scale-dependent galaxy bias: implications for parameter estimation

4/9/08

• What is the best way to measure baryonic acoustic oscillations?

4/2/08

• Weak Lensing of the Primary CMB Bispectrum
  
• Relativity Revisited

3/26/08

• Review of recent conferences, by recent conference participants includes Cosmology from Moriond, Neutrino Mass from IPMU, etc.

3/19/08

• The Flux Auto- and Cross-Correlation of the Lyman-alpha Forest. I. Spectroscopy of QSO Pairs with Arcminute Separations and Similar Redshifts
• Cosmic Microwave Weak lensing data as a test for the dark universe
  

3/12/08

• Properties of the ultraviolet flux of type Ia supernovae: an analysis with synthetic spectra of SN 2001ep and SN 2001eh
• Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe

3/5/08

• The WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) CMB satellite released its 5 year data papers today, at http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov
  We will have a quick discussion of the main results.

2/27/08

• A Search for WIMPs with the First Five-Tower Data from CDMS
  
• An Introduction to Unparticles
  Jesse Thaler, UCB/LBL (in person)

2/20/08

• How accurately can 21 cm tomography constrain cosmology?
• Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on (and see http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2097)

2/13/08

• New Measurements of Fine-Scale CMB Polarization Power Spectra from CAPMAP at Both 40 and 90 GHz
• Also - a discussion of the recent Aspen workshop on the CMB.

2/6/08

• A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions
  
• A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift $z\approx$ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
  

1/30/08

• The case for OH suppression at near-infrared wavelengths
  
• Observation of Non-Exponential Orbital Electron Capture Decays of Hydrogen-Like $^{140}$Pr and $^{142}$Pm Ions

1/23/08

• A blind test of photometric redshifts on ground-based data
  
• The Palomar-Quest Digital Synoptic Sky Survey
  

1/16/08

• High resolution CMB power spectrum from the complete ACBAR data set
• The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VI: Discovery and analysis of a double Einstein ring

1/9/08

• Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: II. Weak lensing
• Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: I. ISW Tomography and Cosmological Implications

12/19/07

• Identification of Spinning Dust in Halpha-Correlated Microwave Emission

12/12/07

• Detection of primordial non-Gaussianity (fNL) in the WMAP 3-year data at above 99.5% confidence
• Precision of Hubble constant derived using black hole binary absolute distances and statistical redshift information

11/28/07

• A Test of the Copernican Principle
• Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

11/21/07

• Correlation of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects
  (accessible through LBL sites)
• How Simulated Spectra of the Lya forest Change with the Size of the Box of Numerical Simulations
  

11/14/07

• Detecting z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae
• Cosmic Covariance and the Low Quadrupole Anisotropy of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data

11/7/07:

• An Evolving Entropy Floor in the Intracluster Gas?
  
• The imprints of primordial non-gaussianities on large-scale structure: scale dependent bias and abundance of virialized objects
  

10/31/07:

• The Impact of Halo Properties, Energy Feedback and Projection Effects on the Mass-SZ Flux Relation
  
• A New Independent Limit on the Cosmological Constant/Dark Energy from the Relativistic Bending of Light by Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
  

10/24/07:

• A Comparison of Weak Lensing Measurements From Ground- and Space-Based Facilities
  
• Verifying the Cosmological Utility of Type Ia Supernovae: Implications of a Dispersion in the Ultraviolet Spectra
  

10/17/07:

• Constraining Cosmic Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae
  
• Detectability of CMB tensor B modes via delensing with weak lensing galaxy surveys
  

10/10/07:

• Precision of diffuse 21-cm lensing
  
• Geometrical tests of cosmological models. I. Probing dark energy using the kinematics of high-redshift galaxies
  

10/3/07:

• New constraints on dark energy from the observed growth of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters
  
• Determining the Type, Redshift, and Age of a Supernova Spectrum
  

9/26/07:

• Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Intensity Mapping of Dark Energy
  
• A photometric search for transients in galaxy clusters

9/19/07:

• The Luminous and Carbon-Rich Supernova 2006gz: A Double Degenerate Merger?
  
• Observational Tests of Modified Gravity
  

9/12/07:

• Effect of Primordial Black Holes on the Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmological Parameter Estimates
  
• Signals of the QCD Phase Transition in the Heavens

Academic Year 06-07

6/20/07:

• An anomaly detector with immediate feedback to hunt for planets of Earth mass and below by microlensing
  
• Probing the Relation Between X-ray-Derived and Weak-Lensing-Derived Masses for Shear-Selected Galaxy Clusters: I. A781

6/13/07:

• Anisotropic Magnification Distortion of the 3D Galaxy Correlation: I. Real Space
  
• Geochemistry of U and Th and its Influence on the Origin and Evolution of the Crust of Earth and the Biological Evolution
  

6/06/07:

• LISA: Mars and the limits of life
  
• The Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem
  
  This was a tough week, several other interesting articles were posted to astro-ph as well. If you have the time and curiosity, you may want to check out the following two papers:
• Constraints on the merging timescale of Luminous Red Galaxies, Or, Where do all the halos go?
• Galaxy merging in MOND

5/30/07:

• Evidence Of Dark Matter Annihilations In The WMAP Haze
  
• Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background

5/23/07:

• Discussion on age-redshift relation for cosmology, e.g. paper

5/16/07:

• No Way Back: Maximizing survival time below the Schwarzschild event horizon
  

5/9/07:

• Is there Evidence for a Hubble bubble? The Nature of SN Ia Colors and Dust in External Galaxies
  
• Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution
  

5/2/07:

• Considering the Case for Biodiversity Cycles: Reexamining the Evidence for Periodicity in the Fossil Record
  (also see the original Rohde-Muller paper)
  
• Variation of the Amati Relation with the Cosmological Redshift: a Selection Effect or an Evolution Effect?
  

4/25/07:

• What it takes to measure a fundamental difference between dark matter and baryons: the halo velocity anisotropy
  
• Discovery of a Companion to the Lowest Mass White Dwarf
  

4/18/07:

• SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey - a resource for the southern sky
  
• Peculiar Velocities of Local Type Ia Supernovae and their Impact on Cosmology
  

4/11/07:

• Extragalactic Radio Sources and the WMAP Cold Spot
  
• Testing String Theory with CMB
  

4/4/07:

• Cosmological Constraints From the 100 Square Degree Weak Lensing Survey
  
• Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology
  

3/21/07:

• The Cosmic Coincidence as a Temporal Selection Effect Produced by the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe
  
• An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
  

3/14/07:

• Are the Models for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Consistent with the Properties of Supernova Remnants?
  
• MIMAC : A Micro-TPC Matrix of Chambers for direct detection of Wimps
  

3/7/07:

• Neutrino mass from future high redshift galaxy surveys: sensitivity and detection threshold
  
• A new measure of Delta alpha/alpha at redshift z = 1.84
  

2/28/07:

• Exciting Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL/SPI 511 keV signal
  
• Dark matter burners
  

2/21/07:

• A Common Explosion Mechanism for Type Ia Supernovae
  
• Early Gas Stripping as the Origin of the Darkest Galaxies in the Universe

2/14/07:

• Angular Signatures of Dark Matter in the Diffuse Gamma Ray Spectrum
  
• Production and Detection of Axion-Like Particles in a HERA Dipole Magnet - Letter-of-Intent for the ALPS experiment

2/7/07:

• High Performance Direct Gravitational N-body Simulations on Graphics Processing Unit
• Primordial helium recombination III: Thomson scattering, isotope shifts, and cumulative results test

1/31/07:

• SALT2: using distant supernovae to improve the use of Type 1a supernovae as distance indicators
• The Red-Sequence Cluster Surveys

1/24/07:

• Detecting neutrino-transients with optical follow-up observations

1/17/07:

• Universe's Skeleton Sketched
• Spectral Signature of Photosynthesis I: Review of Earth Organisms

1/3/07:

• Neutrino Flux from Cosmic Ray Accelerators in the Cygnus Spiral Arm of the Galaxy
  
• The Angstrom Project Alert System: real-time detection of extragalactic microlensing
  
• Validity of Cosmic String Pattern Search with Cosmic Microwave Background
  
  

12/13/06:

• Velocity Field of the Local Universe from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae
• Neutrino Mixing and Neutrino Telescopes
• Detonating Failed Deflagration Model of Thermonuclear Supernovae II. Comparison to Observations
• Rotation at 1122 Hz and the neutron star structure

12/6/06:

• Spectropolarimetric diagnostics of thermonuclear supernova explosions
• Studying High p_T Muons in Cosmic-Ray Air Showers
• Evolution of Galaxy Dust Properties for 1 < z < 2.5
• Dark Energy with a Fine-toothed Comb

11/29/06:

• Gravitational lensing by cosmic strings: what we learn from the CSL-1 case
• Constraining the Variation of G by Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
• Detonating Failed Deflagration Model of Thermonuclear Supernovae I. Explosion Dynamics

11/22/06:

• Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2006D: On Sporadic Carbon Signatures in Early Type Ia Supernova Spectra
• Determining Neutrino and Supernova Parameters with a Galactic Supernova
• Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project
• Wide Field Astronomy at Dome C: two IR surveys complementary to SNAP

11/15/06:

• Improved Measurements of the CMB Power Spectrum with ACBAR
• Radiowave Neutrino Detection
• Application of Medical Imaging Software to 3D Visualization of Astronomical Data
• Interplay Between Collider Searches For Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons and Direct Dark Matter Experiments