1ES 1927+654: An AGN Caught Changing Look on a Timescale of Months

(2019)

Authors:

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Iair Arcavi, Chelsea L MacLeod, Claudio Ricci, Erin Kara, Melissa L Graham, Daniel Stern, Fiona A Harrison, Jamison Burke, Daichi Hiramatsu, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, D Andrew Howell, Stephen J Smartt, Armin Rest, Jose L Prieto, Benjamin J Shappee, Thomas W-S Holoien, David Bersier, Alexei V Filippenko, Thomas G Brink, WeiKang Zheng, Ruancun Li, Ronald A Remillard, Michael Loewenstein

Single-object Imaging and Spectroscopy to Enhance Dark Energy Science from LSST

ArXiv 1903.09324 (2019)

Authors:

Renée A Hložek, Thomas Collett, Lluís Galbany, Daniel A Goldstein, Saurabh W Jha, Alex G Kim, Rachel Mandelbaum, Jeffrey A Newman, Saul Perlmutter, Daniel J Perrefort, Mark Sullivan, Aprajita Verma

The effect on cosmological parameter estimation of a parameter dependent covariance matrix

The Open Journal of Astrophysics The Open Journal 2:1 (2019)

Authors:

Darsh Kodwani, David ALONSO, Pedro Ferreira

Bayesian comparison of interacting scenarios

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics IOP Publishing 2019 (2019) 030

Authors:

Antonella Cid, Beethoven Santos, Cassio Pigozzo, Tassia Ferreira, Jailson Alcaniz

Abstract:

We perform a Bayesian model selection analysis for different classes of phenomenological coupled scenarios of dark matter and dark energy with linear and non-linear interacting terms. We use a combination of some of the latest cosmological data such as type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), cosmic chronometers (CC), cosmic microwave background (CMB) and two sets of baryon acoustic oscillations measurements, namely, 2-dimensional angular measurements (BAO2) and 3-dimensional angle-averaged measurements (BAO3). We find weak and moderate evidence against two-thirds of the interacting scenarios considered with respect to ΛCDM when the full joint analysis is considered. About one-third of the models provide a description to the data as good as the one provided by the standard model. Our results also indicate that either SNe Ia, CC or BAO2 data by themselves are not able to distinguish among interacting models or ΛCDM but the standard BAO3 measurements and the combination with the CMB data are indeed able to discriminate among them. We find that evidence disfavoring interacting models is weaker when we use BAO2 (data claimed to be almost model-independent) instead of the standard BAO3 measurements. These results help select classes of viable and non-viable interacting models in light of current data.

Sheer shear: weak lensing with one mode

(2019)

Authors:

Emilio Bellini, David Alonso, Shahab Joudaki, Ludovic van Waerbeke