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Cosmic slowing down of acceleration for several dark energy parametrizations: We further investigate slowing down of acceleration of the universe scenario for five parametrizations of the equation of state of dark energy using four sets of supernovae data. In a maximal probability analysis we also use the baryon acou...
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How large is the contribution of cosmic web to $Ω_Λ$ ? A preliminary study on a novel inhomogenous model: The distribution of matter in the universe shows a complex pattern, formed by cluster of galaxies, voids and filaments denoted as cosmic web. Different approaches have been proposed to model such structure in the...
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The Reionization of Carbon: Observations suggest that CII was more abundant than CIV in the intergalactic medium towards the end of the hydrogen reionization epoch. This transition provides a unique opportunity to study the enrichment history of intergalactic gas and the growth of the ionizing background (UVB) at early...
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Needlet thresholding methods in component separation: Foreground components in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are sparse in a needlet representation, due to their specific morphological features (anisotropy, non-Gaussianity). This leads to the possibility of applying needlet thresholding procedures as a componen...
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Extended Fast Action Minimisation method: application to SDSS-DR12 Combined Sample: We present the first application of the extended Fast Action Minimization method (eFAM) to a real dataset, the SDSS-DR12 Combined Sample, to reconstruct galaxies orbits back-in-time, their two-point correlation function (2PCF) in real...
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Suppressing hot gas accretion to supermassive black holes by stellar winds: We argue that one of the basic assumptions of the Bondi accretion process, that the accreting object has zero pressure, might not hold in many galaxies because of the pressure exerted by stellar winds of star orbiting the central super massiv...
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Constraining thawing and freezing models with cluster number counts: Measurements of the cluster abundance as a function of mass and redshift provide an important cosmological test that probe not only the expansion rate but also the growth of perturbations. In this paper we adopt a scalar field scenario which admits bo...
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A new stochastic approach to cumulative weak lensing: We study the weak gravitational lensing effects caused by a stochastic distribution of dark matter halos. We develop a simple approach to calculate the magnification probability distribution function which allows us to easily compute the magnitude bias and dispersio...
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Observations favor the redshift-evolutionary $L_X$-$L_{UV}$ relation of quasars from copula: We compare, with data from the quasars, the Hubble parameter measurements, and the Pantheon+ type Ia supernova, three different relations between X-ray luminosity ($L_X$) and ultraviolet luminosity ($L_{UV}$) of quasars. Thes...
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Understanding WIMP-baryon interactions with direct detection: A Roadmap: We study prospects of dark-matter direct-detection searches for probing non-relativistic effective theory for WIMP-baryon scattering. We simulate a large set of noisy recoil-energy spectra for different scattering scenarios (beyond the standard mo...
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Dwarf spheroidals in the M81 Group - Metallicity distribution functions and population gradients: We study the dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the nearby M81 group in order to construct their photometric metallicity distributions and to investigate the potential presence of population gradients. We select all the dwarf ...
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Latest data constraint of some parameterized dark energy models: Using various latest cosmological datasets including Type-Ia supernovae, cosmic microwave background radiation, baryon acoustic oscillations, and estimations of the Hubble parameter, we test some dark energy models with parameterized equations of state an...
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Deep radio observations of the radio halo of the bullet cluster 1E 0657-55.8: We present deep 1.1-3.1 GHz Australia Telescope Compact Array observations of the radio halo of the bullet cluster, 1E 0657-55.8. In comparison to existing images of this radio halo the detection in our images is at higher significance. The...
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Kernel Selection for Gaussian Process in Cosmology: with Approximate Bayesian Computation Rejection and Nested Sampling: Gaussian Process (GP) has gained much attention in cosmology due to its ability to reconstruct cosmological data in a model-independent manner. In this study, we compare two methods for GP kernel s...
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Assessing the viability of successful reconstruction of the dynamics of dark energy using varying fundamental couplings: We assess the viability of successful reconstruction of the evolution of the dark energy equation of state using varying fundamental couplings, such as the fine structure constant or the proton-to-...
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The Doppler effect on indirect detection of dark matter using dark matter only simulations: Indirect detection of dark matter is a major avenue for discovery. However, baryonic backgrounds are diverse enough to mimic many possible signatures of dark matter. In this work, we study the newly proposed technique of dark ...
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Constraints on the End of Reionization from the Density Fields Surrounding Two Highly Opaque Quasar Sightlines: The observed large-scale scatter in Lyman $\alpha$ opacity of the intergalactic medium at $z<6$ implies large fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen fraction that are unexpected long after reionization has en...
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Enhanced curvature perturbations from spherical domain walls nucleated during inflation: We investigate spherical domain walls~(DWs) nucleated via quantum tunneling in multifield inflationary models and curvature perturbations induced by the inhomogeneous distribution of those DWs. We consider the case that the Eucli...
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The Quijote simulations: The Quijote simulations are a set of 44,100 full N-body simulations spanning more than 7,000 cosmological models in the $\{\Omega_{\rm m}, \Omega_{\rm b}, h, n_s, \sigma_8, M_\nu, w \}$ hyperplane. At a single redshift the simulations contain more than 8.5 trillions of particles over a combined...
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Scale-dependent CMB power asymmetry from primordial speed of sound and a generalized $δ$N formalism: We explore a plausible mechanism that the hemispherical power asymmetry in the CMB is produced by the spatial variation of the primordial sound speed parameter. We suggest that in a generalized approach of the $\delta...
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Retrieving the three-dimensional matter power spectrum and galaxy biasing parameters from lensing tomography: With the availability of galaxy distance indicators in weak lensing surveys, lensing tomography can be harnessed to constrain the three-dimensional (3D) matter power spectrum over a range of redshift and phys...
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The integrated angular bispectrum: We study the position-dependent power spectrum and the integrated bispectrum statistic for 2D cosmological fields on the sphere (integrated angular bispectrum). First, we derive a useful, $m$-independent, formula for the full-sky integrated angular bispectrum, based on the constructio...
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A Halo Model of Local IRAS Galaxies Selected at 60 Micron Using Conditional Luminosity Functions: Using conditional luminosity functions (CLFs) which encode the luminosity distribution of galaxies as a function of halo mass, we construct a halo model of IRAS galaxies selected at 60 micron. An abundance matching techn...
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A Full Treatment of Peculiar Velocities on the Reionization Light Cone: Accurate simulations of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization require the generation of maps at specific frequencies given the values of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. The peculiar velocities of the hydrogen atoms producing th...
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Magnetic fields in a hot dense neutrino plasma and the Gravitational Waves: In the present work, we have studied the spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves due to magnetic instability in the presence of neutrino asymmetry. The magnetic instability generates a helical magnetic field on a large scale. The aniso...
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Planck 2015 results. IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps: We present foreground-reduced CMB maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, the total data volume is larger by a factor of 3.2 for frequencies between 3...
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Circular Polarization of the CMB: A probe of the First stars: While it is revealed that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is linearly polarized at 10 % level, it is predicted that there exists no significant intrinsic source for circular polarization (CP) in the standard cosmology. However, during the propagation t...
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Cosmological dependence of the measurements of luminosity function, projected clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing signal: Observables such as the luminosity function of galaxies, \Phi(M), the projected clustering of galaxies, w_p(r_p), and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal, \Delta\Sigma, are often measured from galax...
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Rapid onset of the 21-cm signal suggests a preferred mass range for dark matter particle: We are approaching a new era to probe the 21-cm neutral hydrogen signal from the period of cosmic dawn. This signal offers a unique window to the virgin Universe, e.g., to study dark matter models with different small-scale beha...
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Observational constraints on the unified dark matter and dark energy model based on the quark bag model: In this work we investigate if a small fraction of quarks and gluons, which escaped hadronization and survived as a uniformly spread perfect fluid, can play the role of both dark matter and dark energy. This fluid...
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A candidate tidal disruption event in the Galaxy cluster Abell 3571: Tidal disruption events are possible sources of temporary nuclear activity in galactic nuclei and can be considered as good indicators of the existence of super massive black holes in the centers of galaxies. A new X-ray source has been serendipitousl...
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Reionization of the Intergalactic Medium: After recombination the cosmic gas was left in a cold and neutral state. However, as the first stars and black holes formed within early galactic systems, their UV and X-ray radiation induced a gradual phase transition of the intergalactic gas into the warm and ionized state we...
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Phase-space structure of protohalos: Vlasov versus Particle-Mesh: The phase-space structure of primordial dark matter halos is revisited using cosmological simulations with three sine waves and Cold Dark Matter (CDM) initial conditions. The simulations are performed with the tessellation based Vlasov solver ColDICE and...
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Addressing the Hubble tension in Yukawa cosmology?: In Yukawa cosmology, a recent discovery revealed a relationship between baryonic matter and the dark sector. The relation is described by the parameter $\alpha$ and the long-range interaction parameter $\lambda$ - an intrinsic property of the graviton. Applying the un...
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Probing the evolution of galaxy clusters with the SZ Effect: In galaxy clusters the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from the hot intracluster medium (ICM) provides a direct, self-contained measure of the pressure integrated over crossing lines of sight, that is intrinsically independent of redshift and well suit...
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Obtaining non-linear galaxy bias constraints from galaxy-lensing phase differences: We demonstrate the utility and constraining power of a new statistic for investigating galaxy bias: the galaxy-lensing phase difference. The statistic consists in taking the differences of the phases of the harmonic wave-modes between...
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The QSO HE0450-2958: Scantily dressed or heavily robed? A normal quasar as part of an unusual ULIRG: (Abridged) The luminous z=0.286 quasar HE0450-2958 is interacting with a companion galaxy at 6.5 kpc distance and the whole system is a ULIRG. A so far undetected host galaxy triggered the hypothesis of a mostly "nake...
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X-ray Point Sources and Radio Galaxies in Clusters of Galaxies: Using Chandra imaging spectroscopy and VLA L-band maps, we have identified radio galaxies at P(1.4 GHz) >= 3x10^{23} W Hz^{-1} and X-ray point sources (XPSs) at L(0.3-8 keV) >= 10^{42} ergs s^{-1} in 11 moderate redshift (0.2<z<0.4) clusters of galaxies. E...
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The impact of baryons on the matter power spectrum from the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation: Accurate cosmology from upcoming weak lensing surveys relies on knowledge of the total matter power spectrum at percent level at scales $k < 10$ $h$/Mpc, for which modelling the impact of baryonic physics i...
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A simple model linking galaxy and dark matter evolution: We construct a simple phenomenological model for the evolving galaxy population by incorporating pre-defined baryonic prescriptions into a dark matter hierarchical merger tree. Specifically the model is based on the simple gas-regulator model introduced by Lilly ...
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Lensing constraints on ultradense dark matter halos: Cosmological observations precisely measure primordial variations in the density of the Universe at megaparsec and larger scales, but much smaller scales remain poorly constrained. However, sufficiently large initial perturbations at small scales can lead to an abund...
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An updated Gamma Ray Bursts Hubble diagram: Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have recently attracted much attention as a possible way to extend the Hubble diagram to very high redshift. To this aim, the luminosity (or isotropic emitted energy) of a GRB at redshift z must be evaluated from a correlation with a distance independe...
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Explaining Excess Dipole in NVSS Data Using Superhorizon Perturbation: Many observations in recent times have shown evidence against the standard assumption of isotropy in the Big Bang model. Introducing a superhorizon scalar metric perturbation has been able to explain some of these anomalies. In this work, we probe t...
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Direct detection of galaxy stellar halos : NGC 3957 as a test case: We present a direct detection of the stellar halo of the edge-on S0 galaxy NGC 3957, using ultra-deep VLT/VIMOS V and R images. This is achieved with a sky subtraction strategy based on infrared techniques. These observations allow us to reach unpreced...
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Mass of the universe in a black hole: If spacetime torsion couples to the intrinsic spin of matter according to the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity, then the resulting gravitational repulsion at supranuclear densities prevents the formation of singularities in black holes. Consequently, the interior of ...
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C-GOALS: Chandra observations of a complete sample of luminous infrared galaxies from the IRAS Revised Bright Galaxy Survey: We present X-ray data for a complete sample of 44 luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. These are the X-ray observations of the high luminosity portio...
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Improving the Estimation of Star formation Rates and Stellar Population Ages of High-redshift Galaxies from Broadband Photometry: We explore methods to improve the estimates of star formation rates and mean stellar population ages from broadband photometry of high redshift star-forming galaxies. We use synthetic spec...
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MOND effects in the inner solar system: I pinpoint a previously unrecognized MOND effect that may act in the inner solar system, and is due to the galactic acceleration, g_g=eta*a0: a byproduct of the MOND external-field effect. Predictions of the effect are not generic to the MOND paradigm, but depend on the particula...
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The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe: In the redshift range 100<(1+z)<137, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273-373K (0-100 degrees Celsius), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from...
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Turbocharging constraints on dark matter substructure through a synthesis of strong lensing flux ratios and extended lensed arcs: Strong gravitational lensing provides a purely gravitational means to infer properties of dark matter halos and thereby constrain the particle nature of dark matter. Strong lenses sometime...
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FAST-PT II: an algorithm to calculate convolution integrals of general tensor quantities in cosmological perturbation theory: Cosmological perturbation theory is a powerful tool to predict the statistics of large-scale structure in the weakly non-linear regime, but even at 1-loop order it results in computationally e...
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Cosmological neutrino entropy changes due to flavor statistical mixing: Entropy changes due to delocalization and decoherence effects should modify the predictions for the cosmological neutrino background (C$\nu$B) temperature when one treats neutrino flavors in the framework of composite quantum systems. Assuming that...
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GRB Probes of the High-z Universe with EXIST: The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) mission concept is optimized for study of high-z GRBs as probes of the early Universe. With a High Energy Telescope (HET) incorporating a 4.5m^2 5-600keV (CZT; 0.6mm pixels) detector plane for coded aperture imaging a 90d...
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HSC Year 1 cosmology results with the minimal bias method: HSC$\times$BOSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and BOSS galaxy clustering: We present cosmological parameter constraints from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, $\Delta\!\Sigma(R)$, and projected correlation function, $w_\mathrm{p}(R)$, measu...
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Phenomenology of fermion production during axion inflation: We study the production of fermions through a derivative coupling with a pseudoscalar inflaton and the effects of the produced fermions on the scalar primordial perturbations. We present analytic results for the modification of the scalar power spectrum due to...
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Snowmass2021 CMB-HD White Paper: CMB-HD is a proposed millimeter-wave survey over half the sky that would be ultra-deep (0.5 uK-arcmin) and have unprecedented resolution (15 arcseconds at 150 GHz). Such a survey would answer many outstanding questions about the fundamental physics of the Universe. Major advances would ...
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Primordial magnetic fields in the $f^{2}FF$ model in large field inflation under de Sitter and power law expansion: We use the $f^{2}FF$ model to study the generation of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) in the context of large field inflation (LFI), described by the potential, $V \sim M \phi^{p}$. We compute the magn...
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Revealing modified gravity signal in matter and halo hierarchical clustering: We use a set of N-body simulations employing a modified gravity (MG) model with Vainshtein screening to study matter and halo hierarchical clustering. As test-case scenarios we consider two normal branch Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) gravi...
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New insight on galaxy structure from GALPHAT I. Motivation, methodology, and benchmarks for Sersic models: We introduce a new galaxy image decomposition tool, GALPHAT (GALaxy PHotometric ATtributes), to provide full posterior probability distributions and reliable confidence intervals for all model parameters. GALPHA...
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Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Limits from BBN and the CMB Independently and Combined: We present new Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) limits on the cosmic expansion rate or relativistic energy density, quantified via the number $N_\nu$ of equivalent neutrino species. We use the latest light element observa...
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Discovering a new well: Decaying dark matter with profile likelihoods: A large number of studies, all using Bayesian parameter inference from Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, have constrained the presence of a decaying dark matter component. All such studies find a strong preference for either very long-lived or very ...
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relensing: Reconstructing the mass profile of galaxy clusters from gravitational lensing: In this work we present relensing, a package written in python whose goal is to model galaxy clusters from gravitational lensing. With relensing we extend the amount of software available, which provides the scientific community...
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Lensed Type Ia Supernovae as Probes of Cluster Mass Models: Using three magnified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) detected behind CLASH clusters, we perform a first pilot study to see whether standardizable candles can be used to calibrate cluster mass maps created from strong lensing observations. Such calibrations will b...
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An ALMA survey of Sub-millimetre Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Detection of [C II] at z=4.4: We present ALMA 870-um (345GHz) observations of two sub-millimetre galaxies (SMGs) drawn from an ALMA study of the 126 sub-millimeter sources from the LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field South Survey (LESS...
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A Very Large ($θ_{E}\gtrsim40$") Strong Gravitational Lens Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect: PLCK G287.0+32.9 ($z$ = 0.38): Since galaxy clusters sit at the high-end of the mass function, the number of galaxy clusters both massive and concentrated enough to yield particularly large Einstein radii poses use...
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Cosmic Filaments from Cosmic Strings: Cosmic strings are generically predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. We propose a new avenue for detecting cosmic strings through their effect on the filamentary structure in the cosmic web. Using cosmological simulations of the density wake from a...
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LoCuSS: The Mass Density Profile of Massive Galaxy Clusters at z=0.2: We present a stacked weak-lensing analysis of an approximately mass-selected sample of 50 galaxy clusters at 0.15<z<0.3, based on observations with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. We develop a new method for selecting lensed background galaxies ...
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$Λ_{\rm s}$CDM cosmology from a type-II minimally modified gravity: We have successfully integrated $\Lambda_{\rm s}$CDM, a promising model for alleviating cosmological tensions, into a theoretical framework by endowing it with a specific Lagrangian from the VCDM model, a type-II minimally modified gravity. In this the...
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Mg II Absorption Characteristics of a Volume-Limited Sample of Galaxies at z ~ 0.1: We present an initial survey of Mg II absorption characteristics in the halos of a carefully constructed, volume-limited subsample of galaxies embedded in the spectroscopic part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We observed quasars nea...
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Convergence properties of fine structure constant measurements using quasar absorption systems: Searches for spacetime variations of fundamental constants have entered an era of unprecedented precision. New, high quality quasar spectra require increasingly refined analytic methods. In this article, a continuation in ...
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Rastall gravity extension of the standard $Λ$CDM model: theoretical features and observational constraints: We present a detailed investigation of the Rastall gravity extension of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. We review the model for two simultaneous modifications of different nature in the Friedmann equation due ...
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Improving Dark Energy Constraints with High Redshift Type Ia Supernovae from CANDELS and CLASH: Aims. We investigate the degree of improvement in dark energy constraints that can be achieved by extending Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) samples to redshifts z > 1.5 with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), particularly in the ...
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Tomography-based observational measurements of the halo mass function via the submillimeter magnification bias: Aims. The main goal of this paper is to derive observational constraints on the halo mass fuction (HMF) by performing a tomographic analysis of the magnification bias signal on a sample of background submil...
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Constraints on active and sterile neutrinos in an interacting dark energy cosmology: We investigate the impacts of dark energy on constraining massive (active/sterile) neutrinos in interacting dark energy (IDE) models by using the current observations. We employ two typical IDE models, the interacting $w$ cold dark m...
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The impact of sloshing on the intra-group medium and old radio lobe of NGC 5044: We present temperature and abundance maps of the central 125 kpc of the NGC 5044 galaxy group, based an a deep XMM-Newton observation. The abundance map reveals an asymmetrical abundance structure, with the centroid of the highest abunda...
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Precision cosmology with a combination of wide and deep Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster surveys: We show the advantages of a wedding cake design for Sunyaev-Zel'dovich cluster surveys. We show that by dividing up a cluster survey into a wide and a deep survey, one can essentially recover the cosmological information that w...
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Multipole vectors of completely random microwave skies for $l \leq 50$: The statistical cosmological principle states that observables on the celestial sphere are sampled from a rotationally invariant distribution. Previously certain large scale anomalies which violate this principle have been found, for example an ali...
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Active and Sterile Neutrino Emission and SN1987A Pulsar Velocity: Recently estimates have been made of the velocities of pulsars produced by the emission of sterile neutrinos during the first 10 seconds and by active neutrinos during the second 10 seconds after a supernova event reaches thermal equilibrium. Neutrinos p...
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Ionized nitrogen at high redshift: We present secure [NII[ detections in two mm-bright, strongly lensed objects at high redshift, APM08279+5255 (z=3.911) and MM18423+5938 (z=3.930), using the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer. Due to its ionization energy [NII] is a good tracer of the ionized gas phase in the interst...
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Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context: The Need for Early Stellar Feedback: We introduce the Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context (MaGICC) program of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. We describe a parameter study of galaxy formation simulations of an L* galaxy that uses early stellar feedba...
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SkyMapper Southern Survey: Data Release 4: We present the fourth data release (DR4) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS), the last major step in our hemispheric survey with six optical filters: u, v, g, r, i, z. SMSS DR4 covers 26,000 sq.deg from over 400,000 images acquired by the 1.3m SkyMapper telescope between 2...
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Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: JHK_S photometry is presented for a 35 arcmin square field centred on the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. With the aid of published kinematic data definite galaxy members are identified and the width in J-K of the colour-magnitude diagram is shown...
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Optical Spectra of SNR Candidates in NGC 300: We present moderate-resolution (<5A) long-slit optical spectra of 51 nebular objects in the nearby Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 300 obtained with the 2.3 meter Advanced Technology Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. Adopting the criterion of [SII]/Ha>=0.4 to con...
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N-body simulation of the Stephan's Quintet: The evolution of compact groups of galaxies may represent one of the few places in the nearby universe in which massive galaxies are being forged through a complex set of processes involving tidal interaction, ram-pressure stripping, and perhaps finally "dry-mergers" of galax...
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Radiation and energy release in a background field of axion-like dark matter: We find that a fuzzy dark matter background and the mG scale magnetic field in the galactic center can give rise to a radiation with a very large energy release. The frequency of the radiation field is the same as the frequency of the oscil...
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Fast shimming algorithm based on Bayesian optimization for magnetic resonance based dark matter search: The sensitivity and accessible mass range of magnetic resonance searches for axionlike dark matter depends on the homogeneity of applied magnetic fields. Optimizing homogeneity through shimming requires exploring a...
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Moving mesh cosmology: tracing cosmological gas accretion: We investigate the nature of gas accretion onto haloes and galaxies at z=2 using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run with the moving mesh code AREPO. Implementing a Monte Carlo tracer particle scheme to determine the origin and thermodynamic history of ac...
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On the Correlations between Galaxy Properties and Supermassive Black Hole Mass: We use a large sample of upper limits and accurate estimates of supermassive black holes masses coupled with libraries of host galaxy velocity dispersions, rotational velocities and photometric parameters extracted from Sloan Digital Sky ...
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$f(R)$ gravity modifications: from the action to the data: It is a very well established matter nowadays that many modified gravity models can offer a sound alternative to General Relativity for the description of the accelerated expansion of the universe. But it is also equally well known that no clear and sharp discr...
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Gravitational Waves Notes, Issue #3 : "Stellar cusps in galactic nuclei - How stars distribute around a massive black hole": GW Notes was born from the need for a journal where the distinct communities involved in gravitation wave research might gather. While these three communities - Astrophysics, General Relativity...
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Solar-system tests of the inflation model with a Weyl term: Recently, there has been an interest in inflation and modified gravity with a Weyl term added to the general-relativistic action (N. Derulle, M. Sasaki, Y. Sendouda and A. Youssef, JCAP, 3, 040 (2011)). In this paper we study empirical constraint on this modif...
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Understanding the neutrino mass constraints achievable by combining CMB lensing and spectroscopic galaxy surveys: We perform a thorough examination of the neutrino mass ($M_\nu$) constraints achievable by combining future spectroscopic galaxy surveys with cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, focusing on the...
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Probing cluster formation under extreme conditions: massive star clusters in blue compact galaxies: The numerous and massive young star clusters in blue compact galaxies (BCGs) are used to investigate the properties of their hosts. We test whether BCGs follow claimed relations between cluster populations and their ho...
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Constraining dark sector perturbations II: ISW and CMB lensing tomography: Any Dark Energy (DE) or Modified Gravity (MG) model that deviates from a cosmological constant requires a consistent treatment of its perturbations, which can be described in terms of an effective entropy perturbation and an anisotropic stress...
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First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields: We introduce the IllustrisTNG project, a new suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations performed with the moving-mesh code AREPO employing an updated Illustris galaxy formation model. Here we focus on the general properti...
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Submillimetre Cosmology at High Angular Resolution: Over the last decade observations at submillimetre (submm) and millimetre (mm) wavelengths, with their unique ability to trace molecular gas and dust, have attained a central role in our exploration of galaxies at all redshifts. Due to the limited sensitivities and an...
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An interacting model for the cosmological dark sector: We discuss a new interacting model for the cosmological dark sector in which the attenuated dilution of cold dark matter scales as $a^{-3}f(a)$, where f(a) is an arbitrary function of the cosmic scale factor $a$. From thermodynamic arguments, we show that f(a) is p...
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Influence of early dark matter halos on the primordial black holes merger rate: Primordial black hole (PBH) binaries forming in the early Universe may contribute to the merger events observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations. Moreover, the inferred merger rate constraints the fraction of PBH with masses $m \sim...
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Constraints on the velocity of gravitational waves from NANOGrav 15-year data set: General relativity predicts that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light. Although ground-based gravitational-wave detectors have successfully constrained the velocity of gravitational waves in the high-frequency range, ext...
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Planck Early Results XXVI: Detection with Planck and confirmation by XMM-Newton of PLCK G266.6-27.3, an exceptionally X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster at z~1: We present first results on PLCK G266.6-27.3, a galaxy cluster candidate detected at a signal-to-noise ratio of 5 in the Planck All Sky survey. An X...
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