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The cosmological impact of intrinsic alignment model choice for cosmic shear by Kirk, Donnacha, Rassat, Anais, Host, Ole, Bridle, Sarah

“…Abstract We consider the effect of galaxy intrinsic alignments (IAs) on dark energy constraints from weak gravitational lensing. We summarize the latest…”
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The impact of intrinsic alignments: cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear and galaxy survey data by Kirk, Donnacha, Bridle, Sarah, Schneider, Michael

“…Constraints on cosmology from recent cosmic shear observations are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their treatment of potential systematic effects. Here…”
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Results of the GREAT08 Challenge: an image analysis competition for cosmological lensing by Bridle, Sarah, Balan, Sreekumar T., Bethge, Matthias, Gentile, Marc, Harmeling, Stefan, Heymans, Catherine, Hirsch, Michael, Hosseini, Reshad, Jarvis, Mike, Kirk, Donnacha, Kitching, Thomas, Kuijken, Konrad, Lewis, Antony, Paulin-Henriksson, Stephane, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Velander, Malin, Voigt, Lisa, Witherick, Dugan, Amara, Adam, Bernstein, Gary, Courbin, Frédéric, Gill, Mandeep, Heavens, Alan, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Massey, Richard, Moghaddam, Baback, Rassat, Anais, Réfrégier, Alexandre, Rhodes, Jason, Schrabback, Tim, Shawe-Taylor, John, Shmakova, Marina, van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Wittman, David

“…We present the results of the Gravitational LEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) Challenge, a blind analysis challenge to infer weak gravitational lensing…”
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Handbook for the GREAT08 Challenge: An Image Analysis Competition for Cosmological Lensing by Bridle, Sarah, Shawe-Taylor, John, Amara, Adam, Applegate, Douglas, Balan, Sreekumar T., Berge, Joel, Bernstein, Gary, Dahle, Hakon, Erben, Thomas, Gill, Mandeep, Heavens, Alan, Heymans, Catherine, High, F. William, Hoekstra, Henk, Jarvis, Mike, Kirk, Donnacha, Kitching, Thomas, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kuijken, Konrad, Lagatutta, David, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Massey, Richard, Mellier, Yannick, Moghaddam, Baback, Moudden, Yassir, Nakajima, Reiko, Paulin-Henriksson, Stephane, Pires, Sandrine, Rassat, Anais, Refregier, Alexandre, Rhodes, Jason, Schrabback, Tim, Semboloni, Elisabetta, Shmakova, Marina, van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Witherick, Dugan, Voigt, Lisa, Wittman, David

“…The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) Challenge focuses on a problem that is of crucial importance for future observations in cosmology…”
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GRAVITATIONAL LENSING ACCURACY TESTING 2010 (GREAT10) CHALLENGE HANDBOOK by Kitching, Thomas, Amara, Adam, Gill, Mandeep, Harmeling, Stefan, Heymans, Catherine, Massey, Richard, Rowe, Barnaby, Schrabback, Tim, Voigt, Lisa, Balan, Sreekumar, Bernstein, Gary, Bethge, Matthias, Bridle, Sarah, Courbin, Frederic, Gentile, Marc, Heavens, Alan, Hirsch, Michael, Hosseini, Reshad, Kiessling, Alina, Kirk, Donnacha, Kuijken, Konrad, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Moghaddam, Baback, Nurbaeva, Guldariya, Paulin-Henriksson, Stephane, Rassat, Anais, Rhodes, Jason, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Shawe-Taylor, John, Shmakova, Marina, Taylor, Andy, Velander, Malin, van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Witherick, Dugan, Wittman, David

“…GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10) is a public image analysis challenge aimed at the development of algorithms to analyze astronomical…”
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Galaxy Alignments: An Overview by Joachimi, Benjamin, Cacciato, Marcello, Kitching, Thomas D., Leonard, Adrienne, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Schäfer, Björn Malte, Sifón, Cristóbal, Hoekstra, Henk, Kiessling, Alina, Kirk, Donnacha, Rassat, Anais

“…The alignments between galaxies, their underlying matter structures, and the cosmic web constitute vital ingredients for a comprehensive understanding of…”
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Galaxy Alignments: Observations and Impact on Cosmology by Kirk, Donnacha, Brown, Michael L., Hoekstra, Henk, Joachimi, Benjamin, Kitching, Thomas D., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Sifón, Cristóbal, Cacciato, Marcello, Choi, Ami, Kiessling, Alina, Leonard, Adrienne, Rassat, Anais, Schäfer, Björn Malte

“…Galaxy shapes are not randomly oriented, rather they are statistically aligned in a way that can depend on formation environment, history and galaxy type…”
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Galaxy Alignments: Theory, Modelling & Simulations by Kiessling, Alina, Cacciato, Marcello, Joachimi, Benjamin, Kirk, Donnacha, Kitching, Thomas D., Leonard, Adrienne, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Schäfer, Björn Malte, Sifón, Cristóbal, Brown, Michael L., Rassat, Anais

“…The shapes of galaxies are not randomly oriented on the sky. During the galaxy formation and evolution process, environment has a strong influence, as tidal…”
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Weak lensing with sizes, magnitudes and shapes by Alsing, Justin, Kirk, Donnacha, Heavens, Alan, Jaffe, Andrew H.

“…Weak lensing can be observed through a number of effects on the images of distant galaxies; their shapes are sheared, sizes and fluxes (magnitudes) are…”
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Expansionism, Extremism, and Exceptionalism in Life: Boltzmann Brains as a Transdisciplinary Methodology by Walford, Antonia, Kirk, Donnacha

“…This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and…”
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Expansionism, Extremism, and Exceptionalism in Life by Walford, Antonia, Kirk, Donnacha

“…Abstract This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink…”
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Disentangling dark energy and cosmic tests of gravity from weak lensing systematics by Laszlo, Istvan, Bean, Rachel, Kirk, Donnacha, Bridle, Sarah

“…We consider the impact of key astrophysical and measurement systematics on constraints on dark energy and modifications to gravity on cosmic scales. We focus…”
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Optimizing cosmic shear surveys to measure modifications to gravity on cosmic scales by Kirk, Donnacha, Laszlo, Istvan, Bridle, Sarah, Bean, Rachel

“…We consider how upcoming photometric large-scale structure surveys can be optimized to measure the properties of dark energy (DE) and possible cosmic-scale…”
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Optimizing spectroscopic and photometric galaxy surveys: same-sky benefits for dark energy and modified gravity by Kirk, Donnacha, Lahav, Ofer, Bridle, Sarah, Jouvel, Stephanie, Abdalla, Filipe B., Frieman, Joshua A.

“…The combination of multiple cosmological probes can produce measurements of cosmological parameters much more stringent than those possible with any individual…”
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The impact of intrinsic alignments: cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear and galaxy survey data by Kirk, Donnacha, Bridle, Sarah, Schneider, Michael

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The impact of intrinsic alignments: cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear and galaxy survey data: The impact of intrinsic alignments by Kirk, Donnacha, Bridle, Sarah, Schneider, Michael

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The cosmological impact of intrinsic alignment model choice for cosmic shear: Impact of intrinsic alignment model choice by Kirk, Donnacha, Rassat, Anais, Host, Ole, Bridle, Sarah

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Disentangling dark energy and cosmic tests of gravity from weak lensing systematics: Weak lensing and cosmic tests of gravity by Laszlo, Istvan, Bean, Rachel, Kirk, Donnacha, Bridle, Sarah

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Erratum to: Galaxy Alignments: Theory, Modelling & Simulations by Kiessling, Alina, Cacciato, Marcello, Joachimi, Benjamin, Kirk, Donnacha, Kitching, Thomas D., Leonard, Adrienne, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Schäfer, Björn Malte, Sifón, Cristóbal, Brown, Michael L., Rassat, Anais

“…Issue Title: Galaxy Alignments…”
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Results of the GREAT08 Challenge: an image analysis competition for cosmological lensing by Bridle, Sarah, Balan, Sreekumar T., Bethge, Matthias, Gentile, Marc, Harmeling, Stefan, Heymans, Catherine, Hirsch, Michael, Hosseini, Reshad, Jarvis, Mike, Kirk, Donnacha, Kitching, Thomas, Kuijken, Konrad, Lewis, Antony, Paulin-Henriksson, Stephane, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Velander, Malin, Voigt, Lisa, Witherick, Dugan, Amara, Adam, Bernstein, Gary, Courbin, Frédéric, Gill, Mandeep, Heavens, Alan, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Massey, Richard, Moghaddam, Baback, Rassat, Anais, Réfrégier, Alexandre, Rhodes, Jason, Schrabback, Tim, Shawe-Taylor, John, Shmakova, Marina, van Waerbeke, Ludovic, Wittman, David

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