Tracing the sound horizon scale with photometric redshift surveys

Proceedings of the 9th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society - Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, SEA 2010 (2010) 703-708

Authors:

A Carnero-Rosell, E Sánchez, J García-Bellido, E Gaztañaga, F de Simoni, M Crocce, A Cabré, P Fosalba, D Alonso

Abstract:

We propose a novel method for the extraction of the baryonic acoustic oscillation scale in galaxy photometric surveys. The evolution of this scale can be used as a standard ruler in order to constrain cosmological parameters. The method consists in parametrize the angular correlation function ω(θ), with a simple analitical expresion, in order to extract the sound horizon scale. The method has been tested in the MICE simulation, one of the largest N-body simulation to date. We have considered projection effects, non-linearities and observational effects in our analysis, obtaining errors in cosmological parameters in agreement with what is expected in new generation surveys.

An excess of star-forming galaxies in the fields of high-redshift QSOs

\mnras 405 (2010) 2623-2638-2623-2638

Authors:

JA Stevens, MJ Jarvis, KEK Coppin, MJ Page, TR Greve, FJ Carrera, RJ Ivison

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Cambridge University Press (CUP) 6:S272 (2010) 296-297

Authors:

Daniel J Lennon, Christopher J Evans, Nate Bastian, Yuri Beletsky, Ines Brott, Matteo Cantiello, Giovanni Carraro, J Simon Clark, Paul A Crowther, Alex de Koter, Selma E de Mink, Philip L Dufton, Paul Dunstall, Mark Gieles, Goetz Gräfener, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Artemio Herrero, Ian D Howarth, Norbert Langer, Jesus Maíz Apellániz, Nevena Markova, F Paco Najarro, Joachim Puls, Hugues Sana, Sergio Simón-Díaz, Stephen J Smartt, Vanessa E Stroud, William D Taylor, Jacco T van Loon, Jorick S Vink, Nolan R Walborn

Search for pair production of supersymmetric top quarks in dilepton events from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV.

Phys Rev Lett 104:25 (2010) 251801

Authors:

T Aaltonen, J Adelman, T Akimoto, B Alvarez González, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, A Apresyan, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, V Bartsch, G Bauer, P-H Beauchemin, F Bedeschi, D Beecher, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, J Beringer, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, I Bizjak, RE Blair, C Blocker, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, V Boisvert, G Bolla, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, B Brau, A Bridgeman, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, S Budd, S Burke, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, A Buzatu, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, C Calancha, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, S Carron, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Cerri, L Cerrito, SH Chang, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, G Choudalakis, SH Chuang, K Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, T Chwalek, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, A Clark, D Clark, G Compostella, ME Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, CA Cox, DJ Cox, F Crescioli, C Cuenca Almenar, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, JC Cully, D Dagenhart, M Datta, T Davies, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, A Deisher, G De Lorenzo, M Dell'orso, C Deluca, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, PF Derwent, A Di Canto, GP di Giovanni, C Dionisi, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, M D'Onofrio, S Donati, P Dong, J Donini, T Dorigo, S Dube, J Efron, A Elagin, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, HC Fang, S Farrington, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferrazza, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, MJ Frank, M Franklin, JC Freeman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, J Galyardt, F Garberson, JE Garcia, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, K Genser, H Gerberich, D Gerdes, A Gessler, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, P Giannetti, K Gibson, JL Gimmell, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, M Giordani, P Giromini, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, A Gresele, S Grinstein, C Grosso-Pilcher, RC Group, U Grundler, J Guimaraes da Costa, Z Gunay-Unalan, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, B-Y Han, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, D Hare, M Hare, S Harper, RF Harr, RM Harris, M Hartz, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, M Heck, A Heijboer, J Heinrich, C Henderson, M Herndon, J Heuser, S Hewamanage, D Hidas, CS Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, S Hou, M Houlden, S-C Hsu, BT Huffman, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, MK Jha, S Jindariani, W Johnson, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, JE Jung, TR Junk, T Kamon, D Kar, PE Karchin, Y Kato, R Kephart, W Ketchum, J Keung, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, HW Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, A Korytov, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, D Krop, N Krumnack, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, T Kubo, T Kuhr, NP Kulkarni, M Kurata, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, M Lancaster, RL Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, I Lazzizzera, T Lecompte, E Lee, HS Lee, SW Lee, S Leone, JD Lewis, C-S Lin, J Linacre, M Lindgren, E Lipeles, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, C Liu, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, L Lovas, D Lucchesi, C Luci, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D Macqueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, K Makhoul, T Maki, P Maksimovic, S Malde, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, F Margaroli, C Marino, CP Marino, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, R Martínez-Ballarín, T Maruyama, P Mastrandrea, T Masubuchi, M Mathis, ME Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, T Miao, N Miladinovic, R Miller, C Mills, M Milnik, A Mitra, G Mitselmakher, H Miyake, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, J Morlock, P Movilla Fernandez, J Mülmenstädt, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, R Mumford, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, A Nagano, J Naganoma, K Nakamura, I Nakano, A Napier, V Necula, J Nett, C Neu, MS Neubauer, S Neubauer, J Nielsen, L Nodulman, M Norman, O Norniella, E Nurse, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, I Oksuzian, T Okusawa, R Orava, K Osterberg, S Pagan Griso, E Palencia, V Papadimitriou, A Papaikonomou, AA Paramonov, B Parks, S Pashapour, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, T Peiffer, DE Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, L Pinera, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, O Poukhov, N Pounder, F Prakoshyn, A Pronko, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, E Pueschel, G Punzi, J Pursley, J Rademacker, A Rahaman, V Ramakrishnan, N Ranjan, I Redondo, P Renton, M Renz, M Rescigno, S Richter, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodrigo, T Rodriguez, E Rogers, S Rolli, R Roser, M Rossi, R Rossin, P Roy, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, B Rutherford, H Saarikko, A Safonov, WK Sakumoto, O Saltó, L Santi, S Sarkar, L Sartori, K Sato, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, A Schmidt, EE Schmidt, MA Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, L Sexton-Kennedy, F Sforza, A Sfyrla, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, S Shiraishi, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, AJ Slaughter, J Slaunwhite, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, S Somalwar, V Sorin, T Spreitzer, P Squillacioti, M Stanitzki, R St Denis, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, D Stentz, J Strologas, GL Strycker, JS Suh, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, R Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, J Thom, AS Thompson, GA Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, P Ttito-Guzmán, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, S Tourneur, M Trovato, S-Y Tsai, Y Tu, N Turini, F Ukegawa, S Vallecorsa, N van Remortel, A Varganov, E Vataga, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, M Vidal, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, T Vine, M Vogel, I Volobouev, G Volpi, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, J Wagner-Kuhr, T Wakisaka, R Wallny, SM Wang, A Warburton, D Waters, M Weinberger, J Weinelt, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, S Wilbur, G Williams, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, S Xie, A Yagil, K Yamamoto, J Yamaoka, UK Yang, YC Yang, WM Yao, GP Yeh, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, SS Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, X Zhang, Y Zheng, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration

Abstract:

We present the results of a search for pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (the top squark t{1}) decaying to a b quark and a chargino χ{1}{±} with a subsequent χ{1}{±} decay into a neutralino χ{1}{0}, lepton ℓ, and neutrino ν. Using a data sample corresponding to 2.7  fb{-1} of integrated luminosity of pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV collected by the CDF II detector, we reconstruct the mass of top squark candidate events and fit the observed mass spectrum to a combination of standard model processes and t{1}t{1} signal. We find no evidence for t{1}t{1} production and set 95% C.L. limits on the masses of the top squark and the neutralino for several values of the chargino mass and the branching ratio B(χ{1}{±}→χ{1}{0}ℓ{±}ν).

Measuring the low mass end of the Mbh - sigma relation

AIP Conference Proceedings AIP Publishing 1240 (2010) 215

Authors:

D Krajnovic, Rm McDermid, Michele Cappellari, Roger Davies

Abstract:

We show that high quality laser guide star (LGS) adaptive optics (AO) observations of nearby early-type galaxies are possible when the tip-tilt correction is done by guiding on nuclei while the focus compensation due to the changing distance to the sodium layer is made 'open loop'. We achieve corrections such that 40% of flux comes from R<0.2 arcsec. To measure a black hole mass (Mbh) one needs integral field observations of both high spatial resolution and large field of view. With these data it is possible to determine the lower limit to Mbh even if the spatial resolution of the observations are up to a few times larger than the sphere of influence of the black hole.