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Bulge Growth and Quenching since z = 2.5 in CANDELS/3D-HST
Bell, Eric F.; Ferguson, Henry C.; Grogin, Norman A. +20 more
Exploiting the deep high-resolution imaging of all five CANDELS fields, and accurate redshift information provided by 3D-HST, we investigate the relation between structure and stellar populations for a mass-selected sample of 6764 galaxies above 1010 M ⊙, spanning the redshift range 0.5 < z < 2.5. For the first time, we…
DESI and other Dark Energy experiments in the era of neutrino mass measurements
Font-Ribera, Andreu; Seo, Hee-Jong; Slosar, Anže +3 more
We present Fisher matrix projections for future cosmological parameter measurements, including neutrino masses, Dark Energy, curvature, modified gravity, the inflationary perturbation spectrum, non-Gaussianity, and dark radiation. We focus on DESI and generally redshift surveys (BOSS, HETDEX, eBOSS, Euclid, and WFIRST), but also include CMB (Planc…
The Spectrum and Morphology of the Fermi Bubbles
Troja, E.; Caraveo, P. A.; Orlando, E. +132 more
The Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to 55° above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above 10° in Galactic latitude to derive the spectrum and morphology of the Fermi bubbles. We thoroughly explore the systematic uncertainties that …
Revised CRISM spectral parameters and summary products based on the currently detected mineral diversity on Mars
Viviano-Beck, Christina E.; Seelos, Frank P.; Murchie, Scott L. +8 more
The investigation of hyperspectral data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) and the Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, L'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activitié (OMEGA) on Mars Express has revealed an increasingly diverse suite of minerals present on the Martian surface. A revised set of 60 spect…
Planck 2013 results. XII. Diffuse component separation
Kneissl, R.; Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Boulanger, F. +258 more
Planck has produced detailed all-sky observations over nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz. These observations allow robust reconstruction of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations over nearly the full sky, as well as new constraints on Galactic foregrounds, including thermal dust and line emission from m…
Constraining dark matter-baryon scattering with linear cosmology
Dvorkin, Cora; Blum, Kfir; Kamionkowski, Marc
We derive constraints on elastic scattering between baryons and dark matter using the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the Planck satellite and the Lyman-α forest data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Elastic scattering allows baryons and dark matter to exchange momentum, affecting the dynamics of linear density perturbations in the e…
On the age of the β Pictoris moving group
Mamajek, Eric E.; Bell, Cameron P. M.
Binks & Jeffries and Malo et al. have recently reported Li depletion boundary (LDB) ages for the β Pictoris moving group (BPMG) which are twice as old as the oft-cited kinematic age of ∼12 Myr. In this study, we present (1) a new evaluation of the internal kinematics of the BPMG using the revised Hipparcos astrometry and best available publish…
Astrometric Exoplanet Detection with Gaia
Bakos, Gáspár Á.; Lindegren, Lennart; Hartman, Joel +1 more
We provide a revised assessment of the number of exoplanets that should be discovered by Gaia astrometry, extending previous studies to a broader range of spectral types, distances, and magnitudes. Our assessment is based on a large representative sample of host stars from the TRILEGAL Galaxy population synthesis model, recent estimates of the exo…
A featureless transmission spectrum for the Neptune-mass exoplanet GJ436b
Deming, Drake; Knutson, Heather A.; Benneke, Björn +1 more
GJ436b is a warm--approximately 800 kelvin--exoplanet that periodically eclipses its low-mass (half the mass of the Sun) host star, and is one of the few Neptune-mass planets that is amenable to detailed characterization. Previous observations have indicated that its atmosphere has a ratio of methane to carbon monoxide that is 105 times…
Evidence for Ubiquitous High-equivalent-width Nebular Emission in z ~ 7 Galaxies: Toward a Clean Measurement of the Specific Star-formation Rate Using a Sample of Bright, Magnified Galaxies
Kelson, D. D.; Infante, L.; Zheng, W. +30 more
Growing observational evidence indicates that nebular line emission has a significant impact on the rest-frame optical fluxes of z ~ 5-7 galaxies. This line emission makes z ~ 5-7 galaxies appear more massive, with lower specific star-formation rates (sSFRs). However, corrections for this line emission have been difficult to perform reliably becau…