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1. The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses.

Author

Rojas, Karina, Collett, Thomas E, Ballard, Daniel, Magee, Mark R, Birrer, Simon, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Chan, James H H, Clément, Benjamin, Diego, José M, Gentile, Fabrizio, González, Jimena, Joseph, Rémy, Mastache, Jorge, Schuldt, Stefan, Tortora, Crescenzo, Verdugo, Tomás, Verma, Aprajita, Daylan, Tansu, Millon, Martin, and Jackson, Neal

Subjects
GRAVITATIONAL lenses, DARK energy, HUMAN beings, INSPECTION & review
Abstract

We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that completed more than 25 per cent of the project. During the classification task, we present to the participants 1489 images. The sample contains a variety of data including lens simulations, real lenses, non-lens examples, and unlabelled data. We find that experts are extremely good at finding bright, well-resolved Einstein rings, while arcs with g -band signal to noise less than ∼25 or Einstein radii less than ∼1.2 times the seeing are rarely recovered. Very few non-lenses are scored highly. There is substantial variation in the performance of individual classifiers, but they do not appear to depend on the classifier's experience, confidence or academic position. These variations can be mitigated with a team of 6 or more independent classifiers. Our results give confidence that humans are a reliable pruning step for lens candidates, providing pure and quantifiably complete samples for follow-up studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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2. The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

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Schlegel, David J., Kollmeier, Juna A., Aldering, Greg, Bailey, Stephen, Baltay, Charles, Bebek, Christopher, BenZvi, Segev, Besuner, Robert, Blanc, Guillermo, Bolton, Adam S., Bonaca, Ana, Bouri, Mohamed, Brooks, David, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Cai, Zheng, Crane, Jeffrey, Demina, Regina, DeRose, Joseph, Dey, Arjun, Doel, Peter, Fan, Xiaohui, Ferraro, Simone, Finkbeiner, Douglas, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Green, Daniel, Gutierrez, Gaston, Guy, Julien, Heetderks, Henry, Huterer, Dragan, Infante, Leopoldo, Jelinsky, Patrick, Karagiannis, Dionysios, Kent, Stephen M., Kim, Alex G., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kremin, Anthony, Kronig, Luzius, Konidaris, Nick, Lahav, Ofer, Lampton, Michael L., Landriau, Martin, Lang, Dustin, Leauthaud, Alexie, Levi, Michael E., Liguori, Michele, Linder, Eric V., Magneville, Christophe, Martini, Paul, Mateo, Mario, McDonald, Patrick, Miller, Christopher J., Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D., Mulchaey, John, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nugent, Peter E., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Piro, Antonella Palmese Anthony L., Poppett, Claire, Prochaska, Jason X., Pullen, Anthony R., Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Ramirez, Solange, Rix, Hans-Walter, Ross, Ashley J., Samushia, Lado, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schubnell, Michael, Seljak, Uros, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shectman, Stephen A., Schlafly, Edward F., Silber, Joseph, Simon, Joshua D., Slepian, Zachary, Slosar, Anže, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Tarlé, Greg, Thompson, Ian, Valluri, Monica, Wechsler, Risa H., White, Martin, Wilson, Michael J., Yèche, Christophe, Zaritsky, Dennis, Zhou, Rongpu, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), DESI, galaxy: redshift, target: density, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], inflation, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, dark energy, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts at $2, Comment: Contributed White Paper to Snowmass 2021. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1907.11171. text overlap with arXiv:2209.03585

Published
2022

3. Dark Energy and Modified Gravity

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Slosar, Anže, Abazajian, Kevork N., Ahmed, Zeeshan, Alonso, David, Amin, Mustafa A., Ansarinejad, Behzad, Armstrong, Robert, Asorey, Jacobo, Avelino, Arturo, Avila, Santiago, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Ballardini, Mario, Bandura, Kevin, Battaglia, Nicholas, Bender, Amy N., Bennett, Charles, Benson, Bradford, Beutler, Florian, Bianchini, F., Bilicki, Maciej, Bischoff, Colin, Biviano, Andrea, Blazek, Jonathan, Bleem, Lindsey, Bolton, Adam S., Bond, J. Richard, Borrill, Julian, Bose, Sownak, Boucaud, Alexandre, Bouchet, Francois R., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Bull, Philip, Cai, Zheng, Carlstrom, John E., Castander, Francisco J., Castorina, Emanuele, Challinor, Anthony, Chang, Tzu-Ching, Chaves-Montero, Jonas, Chisari, Nora Elisa, Clowe, Douglas, Comparat, Johan, Cooray, Asantha, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, D Amico, Guido, Davis, Tamara M., Dawson, Kyle, Demarteau, Marcel, Dey, Arjun, Dore, Olivier, Yutong, Duan, Dunkley, Joanna, Dvorkin, Cora, Eggemeier, Alexander, Eisenstein, Daniel, Ellison, John, Engelen, Alexander, Escoffier, Stephanie, Fabbian, Giulio, Ferraro, Simone, Ferreira, Pedro G., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foreman, Simon, Fosalba, Pablo, Friedrich, Oliver, Garcıa-Bellido, Juan, Gerbino, Martina, Gill, Mandeep S. S., Gluscevic, Vera, Gontcho A Gontcho, Satya, Gorski, Krzysztof M., Gruen, Daniel, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Gupta, Nikhel, Guy, Julien, Hanany, Shaul, Handley, Will, Hernández-Aguayo, César, Hill, J. Colin, Hirata, Christopher M., Hlozek, Renée, Holder, Gilbert, Huterer, Dragan, Ishak, Mustapha, Jeltema, Tesla, Jha, Saurabh W., Cohen-Tanugi, Johann, Johnson, Bradley, Kamionkowski, Marc, Karkare, Kirit S., E Keeley, Ryan, Khatri, Rishi, Kirkby, David, Kisner, Theodore, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knox, Lloyd, Koushiappas, Savvas M., Kovetz, Ely D., Koyama, Kazuya, Krause, Elisabeth, Benjamin L'Huillier, Lahav, Ofer, Lattanzi, Massimiliano, Leonard, Danielle, Levi, Michael, Liguori, Michele, Linden, Anja, Loverde, Marilena, Lukic, Zarija, La Macorra, Axel, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Plazas, Andres, Spurio Mancini, Alessio, Manera, Marc, Mantz, Adam, Martini, Paul, Masui, Kiyoshi, Mcmahon, Jeff, Meerburg, P. Daniel, Mertens, James, Meyers, Joel, More, Surhud, Motloch, Pavel, Mukherjee, Suvodip, Muñoz, Julian B., Myers, Adam D., Nagy, Johanna, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Newburgh, Laura, Newman, Jeffrey A., Niemack, Michael D., Niz, Gustavo, Nomerotski, Andrei, O Connor, Paul, Page, Lyman, Palmese, Antonella, Penna-Lima, Mariana, Percival, Will J., Piacentni, Francesco, Pieri, Matthew M., Pierpaoli, Elena, Pogosian, Levon, Prakash, Abhishek, Pryke, Clement, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Stompor, Radek, Raveri, Marco, Reichardt, Christian L., Rhodes, Jason, Rodney, Steven, Rose, Benjamin, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruhl, John, Saliwanchik, Benjamin, Samushia, Lado, Sanchez, Javier, Sasaki, Misao, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schlegel, David J., Schmittfull, Marcel, Schubnell, Michael, Scott, Douglas, Sehgal, Neelima, Senatore, Leonardo, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Sherwin, Blake D., Shi, Feng, Simon, Sara, Slosar, Anze, Staggs, Suzanne, Starkman, Glenn, Stebbins, Albert, Suzuki, Aritoki, Switzer, Eric R., Timbie, Peter, Tolley, Andrew J., Tristram, Matthieu, Trodden, Mark, Troxel, M. A., Uhlemann, Cora, Umilta, Caterina, Urenna-Lopez, L. Arturo, Di Valentino, Eleonora, Vargas-Magana, M., Vieregg, Abigail, Walter, Christopher W., Wang, Yi, Watson, Scott, White, Martin, Whitehorn, Nathan, Wu, W. L. K., Xu, Weishuang, Yasini, Siavash, Zaldarriaga, Matias, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhu, Hong-Ming, Zhu, Ningfeng, Zuntz, Joe, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), HEP, INSPIRE, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
cosmological model, Hubble constant, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), gravitation: model, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation, baryon: oscillation: acoustic, gravitation: lens, statistical analysis, supernova, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, astro-ph.CO, galaxy: cluster, expansion: acceleration, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], dark energy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Despite two decades of tremendous experimental and theoretical progress, the riddle of the accelerated expansion of the Universe remains to be solved. On the experimental side, our understanding of the possibilities and limitations of the major dark energy probes has evolved; here we summarize the major probes and their crucial challenges. On the theoretical side, the taxonomy of explanations for the accelerated expansion rate is better understood, providing clear guidance to the relevant observables. We argue that: i) improving statistical precision and systematic control by taking more data, supporting research efforts to address crucial challenges for each probe, using complementary methods, and relying on cross-correlations is well motivated; ii) blinding of analyses is difficult but ever more important; iii) studies of dark energy and modified gravity are related; and iv) it is crucial that R&D for a vibrant dark energy program in the 2030s be started now by supporting studies and technical R&D that will allow embryonic proposals to mature. Understanding dark energy, arguably the biggest unsolved mystery in both fundamental particle physics and cosmology, will remain one of the focal points of cosmology in the forthcoming decade., 5 pages + references; science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 decadal survey

Published
2019

4. Inflation and Dark Energy from Spectroscopy at $z > 2$

Author

Ferraro, Simone, Wilson, Michael J., Abidi, Muntazir, Alonso, David, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Armstrong, Robert, Asorey, Jacobo, Avelino, Arturo, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bandura, Kevin, Battaglia, Nicholas, Bavdhankar, Chetan, Bernal, Joséluis, Beutler, Florian, Matteo Biagetti, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blazek, Jonathan, Bolton, Adam S., Borrill, Julian, Frye, Brenda, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Bull, Philip, Burgess, Cliff, Byrnes, Christian T., Cai, Zheng, Castander, Francisco J., Castorina, Emanuele, Chang, Tzu-Ching, Chaves-Montero, Jonás, Chen, Shi-Fan, Chen, Xingang, Balland, Christophe, Yèche, Christophe, Cohn, J. D., Coulton, William, Courtois, Helene, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, D Amico, Guido, Dawson, Kyle, Delabrouille, Jacques, Dey, Arjun, Doré, Olivier, Douglass, Kelly A., Yutong, Duan, Dvorkin, Cora, Eggemeier, Alexander, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Ferreira, Pedro G., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foreman, Simon, García-Bellido, Juan, Gerbino, Martina, Gluscevic, Vera, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A., Green, Daniel, Guy, Julien, Hahn, Changhoon, Hanany, Shaul, Handley, Will, Hathi, Nimish, Hawken, Adam J., Hernández-Aguayo, César, Hložek, Renée, Huterer, Dragan, Ishak, Mustapha, Kamionkowski, Marc, Karagiannis, Dionysios, Keeley, Ryan E., Kehoe, Robert, Khatri, Rishi, Kim, Alex, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kovetz, Ely D., Krause, Elisabeth, Krolewski, Alex, L Huillier, Benjamin, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, Liguori, Michele, Linder, Eric, Lukić, Zarija, La Macorra, Axel, Plazas, Andrés A., Marshall, Jennifer L., Martini, Paul, Masui, Kiyoshi, Mcdonald, Patrick, Daniel Meerburg, P., Meyers, Joel, Mirbabayi, Mehrdad, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D., Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Newburgh, Laura, Newman, Jeffrey A., Niz, Gustavo, Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Palunas, Povilas, Percival, Will J., Piacentini, Francesco, Pieri, Matthew M., Piro, Anthony L., Prakash, Abhishek, Rhodes, Jason, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Rudie, Gwen C., Samushia, Lado, Sasaki, Misao, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schlegel, David J., Schmittfull, Marcel, Schubnell, Michael, Sehgal, Neelima, Senatore, Leonardo, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Simon, Joshua D., Simon, Sara, Slepian, Zachary, Slosar, Anže, Sridhar, Srivatsan, Stebbins, Albert, Escoffier, Stephanie, Switzer, Eric R., Tarlé, Gregory, Trodden, Mark, Uhlemann, Cora, Arturo Urenña-López, L., Di Valentino, Eleonora, Vargas-Magaña, M., Wang, Yi, Watson, Scott, White, Martin, Xu, Weishuang, Yu, Byeonghee, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhu, Hong-Ming, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), CEA- Saclay (CEA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
cosmological model, non-Gaussianity, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, galaxy, expansion: acceleration, inflation, dark energy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, boundary condition, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The expansion of the Universe is understood to have accelerated during two epochs: in its very first moments during a period of Inflation and much more recently, at $z < 1$, when Dark Energy is hypothesized to drive cosmic acceleration. The undiscovered mechanisms behind these two epochs represent some of the most important open problems in fundamental physics. The large cosmological volume at $2 < z < 5$, together with the ability to efficiently target high-$z$ galaxies with known techniques, enables large gains in the study of Inflation and Dark Energy. A future spectroscopic survey can test the Gaussianity of the initial conditions up to a factor of ~50 better than our current bounds, crossing the crucial theoretical threshold of $\sigma(f_{NL}^{\rm local})$ of order unity that separates single field and multi-field models. Simultaneously, it can measure the fraction of Dark Energy at the percent level up to $z = 5$, thus serving as an unprecedented test of the standard model and opening up a tremendous discovery space., Comment: Science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey

Published
2019

5. Astro2020 APC White Paper: The MegaMapper: a z > 2 Spectroscopic Instrument for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

Author

Schlegel, David J., Kollmeier, Juna A., Aldering, Greg, Bailey, Stephen, Baltay, Charles, Bebek, Christopher, Benzvi, Segev, Besuner, Robert, Blanc, Guillermo, Bolton, Adam S., Bouri, Mohamed, Brooks, David, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Cai, Zheng, Crane, Jeffrey, Dey, Arjun, Doel, Peter, Fan, Xiaohui, Ferraro, Simone, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Gutierrez, Gaston, Guy, Julien, Heetderks, Henry, Huterer, Dragan, Infante, Leopoldo, Jelinsky, Patrick, Johns, Matthew, Karagiannis, Dionysios, Kent, Stephen M., Kim, Alex G., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kronig, Luzius, Konidaris, Nick, Lahav, Ofer, Lampton, Michael L., Lang, Dustin, Leauthaud, Alexie, Liguori, Michele, Linder, Eric V., Magneville, Christophe, Martini, Paul, Mateo, Mario, McDonald, Patrick, Miller, Christopher J., Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D., Mulchaey, John, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nugent, Peter E., Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Piro, Anthony L., Poppett, Claire, Prochaska, Jason X., Pullen, Anthony R., Rabinowitz, David, Ramirez, Solange, Rix, Hans-Walter, Ross, Ashley J., Samushia, Lado, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schubnell, Michael, Seljak, Uros, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shectman, Stephen A., Silber, Joseph, Simon, Joshua D., Slepian, Zachary, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Tarlé, Greg, Thompson, Ian, Valluri, Monica, Wechsler, Risa H., White, Martin, Wilson, Michael J., Yèche, Christophe, Zaritsky, Dennis, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, [PHYS.HEXP] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], hep-ex, galaxy: redshift, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, observatory, DESI, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], inflation, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, dark energy, Particle Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

International audience; MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts at 2

Published
2019

6. Spectral variability of a sample of extreme variability quasars and implications for the Mg ii broad-line region.

Author

Yang, Qian, Shen, Yue, Chen, Yu-Ching, Liu, Xin, Annis, James, Avila, Santiago, Bertin, Emmanuel, Brooks, David, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Carnero Rosell, Aurelio, Carrasco Kind, Matias, Carretero, Jorge, da Costa, Luiz, Desai, Shantanu, Thomas Diehl, H, Doel, Peter, Frieman, Josh, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, and Gerdes, David

Subjects
QUASARS, DARK energy, OPTICAL spectroscopy, ASTRONOMICAL surveys, BLACK holes, STATISTICAL sampling
Abstract

We present new Gemini/GMOS optical spectroscopy of 16 extreme variability quasars (EVQs) that dimmed by more than 1.5 mag in the g band between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Dark Energy Survey epochs (separated by a few years in the quasar rest frame). These EVQs are selected from quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82 region, covering a redshift range of 0.5 < z < 2.1. Nearly half of these EVQs brightened significantly (by more than 0.5 mag in the g band) in a few years after reaching their previous faintest state, and some EVQs showed rapid (non-blazar) variations of greater than 1–2 mag on time-scales of only months. To increase sample statistics, we use a supplemental sample of 33 EVQs with multi-epoch spectra from SDSS that cover the broad Mg  ii  λ2798 line. Leveraging on the large dynamic range in continuum variability between the multi-epoch spectra, we explore the associated variations in the broad Mg  ii line, whose variability properties have not been well studied before. The broad Mg  ii flux varies in the same direction as the continuum flux, albeit with a smaller amplitude, which indicates at least some portion of Mg  ii is reverberating to continuum changes. However, the full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of Mg  ii does not vary accordingly as continuum changes for most objects in the sample, in contrast to the case of the broad Balmer lines. Using the width of broad Mg  ii to estimate the black hole mass with single epoch spectra therefore introduces a luminosity-dependent bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2020
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7. Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

Author

Bonnett, Christopher, Troxel, Michael, Hartley, William, Amara, Adam, Leistedt, Boris, Becker, Matthew R., Bernstein, Gary M., Bridle, Sarah Louise, Bruderer, Claudio, Busha, M. T., Carrasco Kind, Matías, Childress, Michael, Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier, Chang, Chihway, Crocce, Martin, Davis, Tamara M., Eifler, Tim, Frieman, Joshua A., Gangkofner, C., Gaztañaga, Enrique, Glazebrook, Karl, Gruen, Daniel, Kacprzak, Tomasz, King, Anthea L., Kwan, Juliana, Lahav, Ofer, Lewis, Geraint F., Lidman, Chris, Lin, H., MacCrann, Niall, Miquel, Ramon, O'Neill, C. R., Palmese, A., Peiris, Hiranya V., Refregier, Alexandre, Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli, Sadeh, Iftach, Sánchez Alonso, Carles, Sheldon, Erin, Uddin, Syed, Wechsler, Risa H., Zuntz, J., Abbott, Timothy M. C., Abdalla, Filipe B., Allam, Sahar S., Armstrong, Robert, Banerji, M., Bauer, Anne Hollister, Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien, Bertin, Emmanuel, Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Burke, David Lyle, Capozzi, Diego, Carnero Rosell, Aurelio, Carretero Palacios, Jorge, Cunha, Carlos Eduardo, D'Andrea, Christopher B., Costa, Luiz N. da, DePoy, Darren L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. Thomas, Dietrich, Jörg P., Doel, Peter, Fausti Neto, Angelo, Fernandez, Enrique, Flaugher, Brenna, Fosalba Vela, Pablo, Gerdes, David W., Gruendl, Robert A., Honscheid, K., Jain, Bhuvnesh, James, David J., Jarvis, Michael, Kim, A. G., Kuehn, Kyler, Kuropatkin, Nikolay P., Li, T. S., Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, March, Marisa Cristina, Marshall, Jennifer L., Martini, Paul, Melchior, Peter M., Miller, Christopher J., Neilsen, Eric H., Nichol, Robert C., Nord, Brian Dennis, Ogando, Ricardo L.C., Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro, Reil, Kevin, Romer, Anita K., Roodman, Aaron, Sako, Masao, Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Smith, Robert Christopher, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Sobreira, Flávia, Suchyta, Eric, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tarle, Gregory, Thaler, Jon J., Thomas, D., Vikram, Vinu, Walker, Alistair, and DES Collaboration

Subjects
Lentes gravitacionais, DATA RELEASE, SURVEY REQUIREMENTS, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, SHAPE MEASUREMENT, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Physics, Particles & Fields, PRECISION COSMOLOGY, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, PHOTO-Z PERFORMANCE, Deslocamento para o vermelho, Galáxias, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Weak gravitational lensing, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Photometric redshift, Physics, Science & Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Sigma, VLT DEEP SURVEY, Redshift survey, Galaxy, Redshift, Fotometria astronômica, Physical Sciences, astro-ph.CO, Dark energy, NEURAL-NETWORKS
Abstract

We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model-or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods-ANNZ2, BPZ calibrated against BCC-Ufig simulations, SKYNET, and TPZ-are analyzed. For training, calibration, and testing of these methods, we construct a catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed galaxies matched against DES SV data. The performance of the methods is evaluated against the matched spectroscopic catalogue, focusing on metrics relevant for weak lensing analyses, with additional validation against COSMOS photo-z's. From the galaxies in the DES SV shear catalogue, which have mean redshift 0.72 +/- 0.01 over the range 0.3 < z < 1.3, we construct three tomographic bins with means of z = {0.45;0.67;1.00}. These bins each have systematic uncertainties delta z

Published
2016

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