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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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Recovering the Tidal Field in the Projected Galaxy Distribution

(2015)

Authors:

David Alonso, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Michael A Strauss
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An accurate halo model for fitting non-linear cosmological power spectra and baryonic feedback models

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 454:2 (2015) 1958-1975

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AJ Mead, JA Peacock, C Heymans, S Joudaki, AF Heavens
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