Search Results - "Granett, Benjamin R"

An Imprint of Superstructures on the Microwave Background due to the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect by Granett, Benjamin R, Neyrinck, Mark C, Szapudi, István

“…We measure hot and cold spots on the microwave background associated with supercluster and supervoid structures identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…”
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A Map of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Signal from Luminous Red Galaxies by Granett, Benjamin R, Neyrinck, Mark C, Szapudi, István

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Galaxy Counts on the Cosmic Microwave Background Cold Spot by Granett, Benjamin R, Szapudi, István, Neyrinck, Mark C

“…The cold spot on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) could arise due to a supervoid at low redshift through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect. We imaged the…”
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Toward More Precise Survey Photometry for PanSTARRS and LSST: Measuring Directly the Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Atmosphere by Stubbs, Christopher W., High, F. William, George, Matthew R., DeRose, Kimberly L., Blondin, Stéphane, Tonry, John L., Chambers, Kenneth C., Granett, Benjamin R., Burke, David L., Smith, R. Chris

“…Motivated by the recognition that variation in the optical transmission of the atmosphere is probably the main limitation to the precision of ground‐based CCD…”
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Cold imprint of supervoids in the cosmic microwave background re-considered with Planck and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR10 by Kovács, András, Granett, Benjamin R.

“…We analyse publicly available void catalogues of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 10 (DR10) at redshifts 0.4 < z < 0.7. The first goal…”
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muscle-ups: improved approximations of the matter field with the extended Press–Schechter formalism and Lagrangian perturbation theory by Tosone, Federico, Neyrinck, Mark C, Granett, Benjamin R, Guzzo, Luigi, Vittorio, Nicola

“…ABSTRACT Lagrangian algorithms to simulate the evolution of cold dark matter (CDM) are invaluable tools to generate large suites of mock halo catalogues. In…”
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Does jackknife scale really matter for accurate large-scale structure covariances? by Favole, Ginevra, Granett, Benjamin R, Silva Lafaurie, Javier, Sapone, Domenico

“…ABSTRACT The jackknife method gives an internal covariance estimate for large-scale structure surveys and allows model-independent errors on cosmological…”
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Beyond the lognormal approximation: a general simulation scheme by Tosone, Federico, Neyrinck, Mark C, Granett, Benjamin R, Guzzo, Luigi, Vittorio, Nicola

“…ABSTRACT We present a public code to generate random fields with an arbitrary probability distribution function (PDF) and an arbitrary correlation function…”
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Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background by Szapudi, István, Kovács, András, Granett, Benjamin R., Frei, Zsolt, Silk, Joseph, Burgett, Will, Cole, Shaun, Draper, Peter W., Farrow, Daniel J., Kaiser, Nicholas, Magnier, Eugene A., Metcalfe, Nigel, Morgan, Jeffrey S., Price, Paul, Tonry, John, Wainscoat, Richard

“…We use the WISE-2MASS infrared galaxy catalogue matched with Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) galaxies to search for a supervoid in the direction of the cosmic microwave…”
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The Multi-Tracer Optimal Estimator applied to VIPERS by Montero-Dorta, Antonio D, Abramo, L Raul, Granett, Benjamin R, de la Torre, Sylvain, Guzzo, Luigi

“…ABSTRACT We use mock galaxy data from the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to test the performance of the Multi-Tracer Optimal Estimator…”
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Measuring the growth of structure by matching dark matter haloes to galaxies with VIPERS and SDSS by Granett, Benjamin R, Favole, Ginevra, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D, Branchini, Enzo, Guzzo, Luigi, de la Torre, Sylvain

“…ABSTRACT We test the history of structure formation from redshift 1 to today by matching galaxies from the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS)…”
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A joint 2- and 3-point clustering analysis of the VIPERS PDR2 catalogue at z ∼ 1: breaking the degeneracy of cosmological parameters by Veropalumbo, Alfonso, Sáez Casares, Iñigo, Branchini, Enzo, Granett, Benjamin R, Guzzo, Luigi, Marulli, Federico, Moresco, Michele, Moscardini, Lauro, Pezzotta, Andrea, de la Torre, Sylvain

“…ABSTRACT We measure the galaxy two- and three-point correlation functions at z = [0.5, 0.7] and z = [0.7, 0.9], from the Public Data Release 2 (PDR2) of the…”
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Cross‐correlation of WISE galaxies with the cosmic microwave background by Goto, Tomotsugu, Szapudi, István, Granett, Benjamin R.

“…ABSTRACT We estimated the cross‐power spectra of a galaxy sample from the Wide‐field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) survey with the 7‐year Wilkinson Microwave…”
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Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Imprint of Superstructures on Linear Scales by Pápai, Péter, Szapudi, István, Granett, Benjamin R

“…We build a model for the density and integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) profile of supervoid and supercluster structures. Our model assumes that fluctuations evolve…”
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Revisiting the screening mechanism in f ( R ) gravity by He, Jian-hua, Li, Baojiu, Hawken, Adam J., Granett, Benjamin R.

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Cross-correlation of WMAP7 and the WISE full data release by Kovács, András, Szapudi, István, Granett, Benjamin R., Frei, Zsolt

“…We measured the cross-correlation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 7-year temperature map and the full sky data release of the Wide-field…”
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A MAP OF THE INTEGRATED SACHS-WOLFE SIGNAL FROM LUMINOUS RED GALAXIES by Granett, Benjamin R., Neyrinck, Mark C., Szapudi, Istvan

“…We construct a map of the time derivative of the gravitational potential traced by Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The potential decays…”
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Probing the sparse tails of redshift distributions with Voronoi tessellations by Granett, Benjamin R

“…We introduce an algorithm to estimate the redshift distribution of a sample of galaxies selected photometrically given a subsample with measured spectroscopic…”
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Does jackknife scale really matter for accurate large-scale structure covariances? by Favole, Ginevra, Granett, Benjamin R, Lafaurie, Javier Silva, Sapone, Domenico

“…The jackknife method gives an internal covariance estimate for large-scale structure surveys and allows model-independent errors on cosmological parameters…”
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MUSCLE-UPS: Improved Approximations of the Matter Field with the Extended Press-Schechter Formalism and Lagrangian Perturbation Theory by Tosone, Federico, Neyrinck, Mark C, Granett, Benjamin R, Guzzo, Luigi, Vittorio, Nicola

“…Lagrangian algorithms to simulate the evolution of cold dark matter (CDM) are invaluable tools to generate large suites of mock halo catalogues. In this paper,…”
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