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The masses of satellites in GAMA galaxy groups from 100 square degrees of KiDS weak lensing data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 454:4 (2015) 3938-3951

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Cristóbal Sifón, Marcello Cacciato, Henk Hoekstra, Margot Brouwer, Edo van Uitert, Massimo Viola, Ivan Baldry, Sarah Brough, Michael JI Brown, Ami Choi, Simon P Driver, Thomas Erben, Aniello Grado, Catherine Heymans, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benjamin Joachimi, Jelte TA de Jong, Konrad Kuijken, John McFarland, Lance Miller, Reiko Nakajima, Nicola Napolitano, Peder Norberg, Aaron SG Robotham, Peter Schneider, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
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PLANET HUNTERS. VIII. CHARACTERIZATION OF 41 LONG-PERIOD EXOPLANET CANDIDATES FROM KEPLER ARCHIVAL DATA* * This publication has been made possible by the participation of more than 200,000 volunteers in the Planet Hunters project. Their contributions are individually acknowledged at http://www.planethunters.org/#/acknowledgements

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 815:2 (2015) 127

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Ji Wang, Debra A Fischer, Thomas Barclay, Alyssa Picard, Bo Ma, Brendan P Bowler, Joseph R Schmitt, Tabetha S Boyajian, Kian J Jek, Daryll LaCourse, Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M Law, Chris Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Dean Joseph Simister, Boscher Grégoire, Sean P Babin, Trevor Poile, Thomas Lee Jacobs, Tony Jebson, Mark R Omohundro, Hans Martin Schwengeler, Johann Sejpka, Ivan A Terentev, Robert Gagliano, Jari-Pekka Paakkonen, Hans Kristian Otnes Berge, Troy Winarski, Gerald R Green, Allan R Schmitt, Martti H Kristiansen, Abe Hoekstra
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Beyond six parameters: Extending ΛCDM

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 92:12 (2015) 121302

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Eleonora Di Valentino, Alessandro Melchiorri, Joseph Silk
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The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

(2015)

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M Pierre, F Pacaud, C Adami, S Alis, B Altieri, B Baran, C Benoist, M Birkinshaw, A Bongiorno, MN Bremer, M Brusa, A Butler, P Ciliegi, L Chiappetti, N Clerc, PS Corasaniti, J Coupon, C De Breuck, J Democles, S Desai, J Delhaize, J Devriendt, Y Dubois, D Eckert, A Elyiv, S Ettori, A Evrard, L Faccioli, A Farahi, C Ferrari, F Finet, S Fotopoulou, N Fourmanoit, P Gandhi, F Gastaldello, R Gastaud, I Georgantopoulos, P Giles, L Guennou, V Guglielmo, C Horellou, K Husband, M Huynh, A Iovino, M Kilbinger, E Koulouridis, S Lavoie, AMC Le Brun, JP Le Fevre, C Lidman, M Lieu, CA Lin, A Mantz, BJ Maughan, S Maurogordato, IG McCarthy, S McGee, JB Melin, O Melnyk, F Menanteau, M Novak, S Paltani, M Plionis, BM Poggianti, D Pomarede, E Pompei, TJ Ponman, ME Ramos-Ceja, P Ranalli, D Rapetti, S Raychaudury, TH Reiprich, H Rottgering, E Rozo, E Rykoff, T Sadibekova, J Santos, JL Sauvageot, C Schimd, M Sereno, GP Smith, V Smolčić, S Snowden, D Spergel, S Stanford, J Surdej, P Valageas, A Valotti, I Valtchanov, C Vignali, J Willis, F Ziparo
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RCSLenS: Cosmic Distances from Weak Lensing

ArXiv 1512.03627 (2015)

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TD Kitching, M Viola, H Hildebrandt, A Choi, T Erben, DG Gilbank, C Heymans, L Miller, R Nakajima, E van Uitert

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In this paper we present results of applying the shear-ratio method to the RCSLenS data. The method takes the ratio of the mean of the weak lensing tangential shear signal about galaxy clusters, averaged over all clusters of the same redshift, in multiple background redshift bins. In taking a ratio the mass-dependency of the shear signal is cancelled-out leaving a statistic that is dependent on the geometric part of the lensing kernel only. We apply this method to 535 clusters and measure a cosmology-independent distance-redshift relation to redshifts z~1. In combination with Planck data the method lifts the degeneracies in the CMB measurements, resulting in cosmological parameter constraints of OmegaM=0.31 +/- 0.10 and w0 = -1.02 +/- 0.37, for a flat wCDM cosmology.
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