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The 3D-HST Survey: Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 Grism Spectra, Redshifts, and Emission Line Measurements for ~ 100,000 Galaxies
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/27 Bibcode: 2016ApJS..225...27M

Maseda, Michael V.; van Dokkum, Pieter G.; Franx, Marijn +27 more

We present reduced data and data products from the 3D-HST survey, a 248-orbit HST Treasury program. The survey obtained WFC3 G141 grism spectroscopy in four of the five CANDELS fields: AEGIS, COSMOS, GOODS-S, and UDS, along with WFC3 H 140 imaging, parallel ACS G800L spectroscopy, and parallel I 814 imaging. In a previous pap…

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
eHST 671
Gaia Data Release 1. Astrometry: one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628714 Bibcode: 2016A&A...595A...4L

Mora, A.; Jordan, S.; Figueras, F. +80 more

Context. Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) contains astrometric results for more than 1 billion stars brighter than magnitude 20.7 based on observations collected by the Gaia satellite during the first 14 months of its operational phase.
Aims: We give a brief overview of the astrometric content of the data release and of the model assumptions, data p…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Gaia eHST 651
Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.031302 Bibcode: 2016PhRvL.116c1302B

Ade, P. A. R.; Bock, J. J.; Crill, B. P. +59 more

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2 and Keck Array cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments up to and including the 2014 observing season. This includes the first Keck Array observations at 95 GHz. The maps reach a depth of 50 nK deg in Stokes Q and U in the 150 GHz band and 127 nK deg in the 95 GH…

2016 Physical Review Letters
Planck 633
The trouble with H0
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/019 Bibcode: 2016JCAP...10..019B

Riess, Adam G.; Verde, Licia; Bernal, José Luis

We perform a comprehensive cosmological study of the H0 tension between the direct local measurement and the model-dependent value inferred from the Cosmic Microwave Background. With the recent measurement of H0 this tension has raised to more than 3 σ. We consider changes in the early time physics without modifying the late …

2016 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Planck 629
Planck 2015 results. X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525967 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..10P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F. +237 more

Planck has mapped the microwave sky in temperature over nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz and in polarization over seven frequency bands between 30 and 353 GHz in polarization. In this paper we consider the problem of diffuse astrophysical component separation, and process these maps within a Bayesian framework to derive an internally co…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 549
Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525941 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..15P

Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F. +227 more

We present the most significant measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential to date (at a level of 40σ), using temperature and polarization data from the Planck 2015 full-mission release. Using a polarization-only estimator, we detect lensing at a significance of 5σ. We cross-check the accuracy of our measurement using t…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 515
Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628897 Bibcode: 2016A&A...596A.108P

Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F.; Bernard, J. -P. +165 more

We investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. We combine the Planck CMB anisotropy data in temperature with the low-multipole polarization data to fit ΛCDM models with various parameterizations of the reionization history. We obtain a Thomson optical depth τ = 0.058 ± 0.012 for …

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 483
Sub-Femto-g Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.231101 Bibcode: 2016PhRvL.116w1101A

Mendes, L.; Madden, S.; Russano, G. +116 more

We report the first results of the LISA Pathfinder in-flight experiment. The results demonstrate that two free-falling reference test masses, such as those needed for a space-based gravitational wave observatory like LISA, can be put in free fall with a relative acceleration noise with a square root of the power spectral density of 5.2 ±0.1 fm s

2016 Physical Review Letters
LISAPathfinder 472
Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526681 Bibcode: 2016A&A...594A..16P

Kim, J.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F. +242 more

We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck satellite. Our results are based mainly on the full Planck mission for temperature, but also include some polarization measurements. In particular, we consider the CMB anisotropy maps derived from the multi-f…

2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planck 463
Indirect dark matter signatures in the cosmic dark ages. I. Generalizing the bound on s -wave dark matter annihilation from Planck results
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.023527 Bibcode: 2016PhRvD..93b3527S

Slatyer, Tracy R.

Recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies by Planck provide a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation during the cosmic dark ages, and specifically constrain the annihilation parameter feff⟨σ v ⟩/mχ. Using new results (paper II) for the ionization produced by particles injected at arbitrary…

2016 Physical Review D
Planck 448