CosmoJournalClub

The aim of the club is costantly being defined. What we will try this semester, is to use this space to teach/inform each other about topics of general interest. Such topics might originate simply out of curiosity from browsing the arXiv, or from actual needs we might have in our work. Blackboard presentations are encouraged.

The Darklight Journal Club meets every Thursday at 2:00pm in the narrow room (you know what I mean), for the time being.

UPCOMING

December 11, 2014

Melita

Any possible constraint on neutrino masses from cosmological observations

November 13, 2014

Jason

Everything you need to know (but never bother to ask) before submitting a job on our beloved little cluster

October 30, 2014

Adam, Jun & Faizan

A brief history of the Halo Occupation Distribution

PAST

12/03/2014

Faizan

• http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/431/4/3319.full.pdf

05/12/2013

Faizan

• http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/396/1/19.full.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.6858.pdf (redshift drift)

17/10/2013

Alida

• Discussion on abstracts:
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.3819.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.3828.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.3831.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.3880.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.4009v1.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2196.pdf

20/06/13

Adam

• Discussion of reconstruction http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0092

30/05/13

Ben

• Detection of assembly bias http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0350

23/05/13

Adam

• Redshift-space distortions from the cross-correlation of photometric populations Asorey et al

9/05/13

Matteo

3/05/13

Davide

• Peculiar Velocity Decomposition, Redshift Space Distortion and Velocity Reconstruction in Redshift Surveys Zhang et al

18/04/13

Faizan

11/04/13

Julien

• the <math>\eta</math> test

04/04/13

Jianhua

• modified gravity simulations

01/04/13

• Conspiratorial cosmology - the case against the Universe Jörg P. Rachen, Ute G. Gahlings
• Felinic principle and measurement of the Hubble parameter Yodovina Piškur, Bumbarija Medolin
• Pareidolic Dark Matter (PaDaM) N. Mirabal

28/03/13

Adam

• Planck 2013 results. XVII. Gravitational lensing by large-scale structure Planck Collaboration
• Planck 2013 results. XXVI. Background geometry and topology of the Universe Planck Collaboration

21/03/13

Stefano

• Impacts of satellite galaxies in measuring the redshift-space distortions Chiaki Hikage, Kazuhiro Yamamoto

<math>\pi-</math>day

Ben

• The large-scale Quasar-Lyman α Forest Cross-Correlation from BOSS Font-Ribera et al
• Cosmic variance and the measurement of the local Hubble parameter Marra et al

07/03/13

Matteo

• SUSY into Darkness: Heavy Scalars in the CMSSM Mayes

28/02/13

Davide

• [...]

21/02/13

Faizan

• The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function Contreras

14/02/13

Adam

• On using angular cross-correlations to determine source redshift distributions McQuinn and White

07/02/13

Gigi

• Highlights from VIPERS

01/02/13 (Friday)

Adam

• CFHTLenS: Testing the Laws of Gravity with Tomographic Weak Lensing and Redshift Space Distortions Simpson et al
• ISW stacking heats up: Cai et al,Ilic et al,Herndandez-Monteagudo & Smith

24/01/13

Matteo

• New Theories of Gravity Christian Boehmer, Nicola Tamanini

17/01/13

Matteo & Adam

• CFHTLenS: Testing the Laws of Gravity with Tomographic Weak Lensing and Redshift Space Distortions Fergus Simpson et al.
• Theoretical Models of Dark Energy Jaewon Yoo, Yuki Watanabe

06/12/12

Matteo

• Constraining Cosmic Expansion and Gravity with Galaxy Redshift Surveys Scott F. Daniel, Eric V. Linder
• An expanding universe without dark matter and dark energy Pierre Magain

29/11/12

Ben

A selection of papers from this week...

• Measuring the mass distribution of voids with stacked weak lensing Yuichi Higuchi, Masamune Oguri, Takashi Hamana
• A structure in the early universe at z ~ 1.3 that exceeds the homogeneity scale of the R-W concordance cosmology Clowes, Harris, et al
• Non-Gaussian Error Bars in Galaxy Surveys -- 2 Joachim Harnois-Deraps, Ue-Li Pen
• An optimized correlation function estimator for galaxy surveys Vargas-Magaña et al
• CMB Maximum Temperature Asymmetry Axis: Alignment with Other Cosmic Asymmetries Antonio Mariano, Leandros Perivolaropoulos
• The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Probing the Epoch of Radiation Domination using Large Scale Structure Poole et al
• A Robust Measure of Cosmic Structure beyond the Power-Spectrum: Cosmic Filaments and the Temperature of Dark Matter Danail Obreschkow, Chris Power, Martin Bruderer, Camille Bonvin

22/11/12

Adam & Davide

• Review of the week’s astroph
• Power Spectrum Precision for Redshift Space Distortions Eric V. Linder, Johan Samsing

15/11/12

Jianhua

• JianHua presented his work.

08/11/12

Adam

• Precise Measurement of the Radial Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scales in Galaxy Redshift Surveys E. Sanchez, D. Alonso, F. J. Sanchez, J. Garcia-Bellido, I. Sevilla
• Cosmology with the largest galaxy cluster surveys: Going beyond Fisher matrix forecasts Satej Khedekar, Subhabrata Majumdar