CosmoJournalClub

The aim of the club is to informally review and discuss recent publications that are of interest to the specific research of the group or to cosmology in general. You should post the Arxiv numbers of papers that interest you on this page. Everybody is encouraged to contribute as often as possible.

The Darklight Journal Club meets every Thursday at 11:30am in '"sala 550"' (next to the tea room).

This term we are experimenting with new formats, reviews, didactic talks, black board presentations etc.

Rotor

17/10/13 - Alida

24/10/13 - Matteo

31/10/13 - Emiliano

07/11/13 - Stefano

14/11/13 - Faizan

21/11/13 - Ben

28/11/13 - Jianhua

05/12/13 - Adam

12/12/13 - Davide

05/12/2013

Faizan

• http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/396/1/19.full.pdf

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

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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 and 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