Robaina, Aday R., Bell, Eric F., Skelton, Rosalind E., McIntosh, Daniel H., Somerville, Rachel S., Zheng, Xianzhong, ...
Both observations and simulations show that major tidal interactions or mergers between gas-rich galaxies can lead to intense bursts of starformation. Yet, the average enhancement in star formation...
Unfolding the matter distribution using 3-D weak gravitational lensing (2009)
Simon, Patrick, Taylor, Andy, Hartlap, Jan
Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the...
Wolf, Christian, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Balogh, Michael, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Gray, Meghan E., ...
Galaxies migrate from the blue cloud to the red sequence when their star formation is quenched. Here, we report on galaxies quenched by environmental effects and not by mergers or strong AGN as often...
Hybrid Quintessential Inflation (2009)
Bastero-Gil, Mar, Berera, Arjun, Jackson, Brendan M., Taylor, Andy
A model is presented in which a single scalar field is responsible for both primordial inflation at early times and then dark energy at late times. This field is coupled to a second scalar field...
On the large-scale instability in interacting dark energy and dark matter fluids (2009)
Jackson, Brendan M, Taylor, Andy, Berera, Arjun
Recently, Valiviita et al. (2008) have reported a large-scale early-time instability in coupled dark energy and dark matter models. We take the same form of energy-momentum exchange and specialise to...
Simulation for Inclusion… True User-Centred Design? (2008)
Ergonomics continues to offer useful contributions to the inclusive arena; anthropometry data, guidelines for designers and usability research. One particular tool, the ‘Third Age Suit’,...
Wolf, Christian, Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Balogh, Michael, Barden, Marco, Bell, Eric F., Gray, Meghan E., ...
We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR data and HST...
STAGES: the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (2008)
Gray, M. E., Wolf, Christian, Barden, Marco, Peng, Chien Y., Haeussler, Boris, Bell, Eric F., ...
We present an overview of the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). STAGES is a multiwavelength project designed to probe physical drivers of galaxy evolution across a wide range...
Parental Alcohol Misuse in Complex Families: The Implications for Engagement (2008)
Taylor, Andy, Toner, Paul, Templeton, Lorna, Velleman, Richard
The impact of chronic parental alcohol misuse on both parenting and child welfare is being increasingly recognized, with such problems featuring in a significant proportion of families in which there...
Cosmological Parameter Estimation from the CMB (2007)
Andy Taylor, Bill Ballinger, Max Tegmark
this paper. The modes are optimised for fi, and only the best 320 modes are used. We see that the conditional error in the fi direction is not much worse than the full set, but the likelihood...
Is Gravitational Lensing by Intercluster Filaments Always Negligible? (2007)
Feix, Martin, Xu, Dong, Shan, HuanYuan, Famaey, Benoit, Limousin, Marceau, Zhao, HongSheng, ...
Intercluster filaments negligibly contribute to the weak lensing signal in general relativity (GR), $\gamma_{N}\sim 10^{-4}-10^{-3}$. In the context of relativistic modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND)...
Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding (2007)
Massey, Richard, Rhodes, Jason, Ellis, Richard, Scoville, Nick, Leauthaud, Alexie, Finoguenov, Alexis, ...
Ordinary baryonic particles (such as protons and neutrons) account for only one-sixth of the total matter in the Universe. The remainder is a mysterious "dark matter" component, which does not...
Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding (2007)
Massey, Richard, Rhodes, Jason, Ellis, Richard, Scoville, Nick, Leauthaud, Alexie, Finoguenov, Alexis, ...
Ordinary baryonic particles (such as protons and neutrons) account for only one-sixth of the total matter in the Universe. The remainder is a mysterious "dark matter" component, which does not...
Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding (2007)
Massey, Richard, Rhodes, Jason, Ellis, Richard, Scoville, Nick, Leauthaud, Alexie, Finoguenov, Alexis, ...
Cosmological weak lensing with the HST GEMS survey (2005)
Heymans, Catherine, Brown, Michael L., Barden, Marco, Caldwell, John A. R., Jahnke, Knud, Peng, Chien Y., ...
We present our cosmic shear analysis of GEMS, one of the largest wide-field surveys ever undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), GEMS spans 795...
Cosmological weak lensing with the HST GEMS survey (2004)
Heymans, Catherine, Brown, Michael L., Barden, Marco, Caldwell, John A. R., Jahnke, Knud, Peng, Chien Y., ...
We present our cosmic shear analysis of GEMS, one of the largest wide-field surveys ever undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), GEMS spans 795...
Percival, Will J., Burkey, Daniel, Heavens, Alan, Taylor, Andy, Cole, Shaun, Peacock, John A., ...
We present the result of a decomposition of the 2dFGRS galaxy overdensity field into an orthonormal basis of spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions. Galaxies are expected to directly...
Weak lensing with COMBO-17: Estimation and removal of intrinsic alignments (2004)
Heymans, Catherine, Brown, Michael, Heavens, Alan, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Taylor, Andy, Wolf, Christian
We estimate and remove the contamination of weak gravitational lensing measurements by the intrinsic alignment of close pairs of galaxies. We do this by investigating both the aperture mass B mode...
Prospects for galaxy-mass relations from the 6dF Galaxy Survey (2003)
We develop new methods to study the properties of galaxy redshift surveys and radial peculiar velocity surveys, both individually and combined. We derive the Fisher information matrix for redshift...
Weak lensing with COMBO-17: estimation and removal of intrinsic alignments (2003)
Heymans, Catherine, Brown, Michael, Heavens, Alan, Meisenheimer, Klaus, Taylor, Andy, Wolf, Christian
We estimate and remove the contamination of weak gravitational lensing measurements by the intrinsic alignment of close pairs of galaxies. We do this by investigating both the aperture mass B mode...
The consistency relation in braneworld inflation (2003)
The braneworld cosmology, in which our universe is imbedded as a hypersurface in a higher dimensional bulk, has the peculiar property that the inflationary consistency relation derived in a...
New Dimensions in Cosmic Lensing (2003)
I review the current status of combing weak gravitational lensing with depth information from redshifts as a direct probe of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. In particular I highlight:...
Cross-correlation Tomography: Measuring Dark Energy Evolution with Weak Lensing (2003)
A cross-correlation technique of lensing tomography is presented to measure the evolution of dark energy in the universe. The variation of the weak lensing shear with redshift around massive...
Weak Lensing from Space II: Dark Matter Mapping (2003)
Massey, Richard, Rhodes, Jason, Refregier, Alexandre, Albert, Justin, Bacon, David, Bernstein, Gary, ...
We study the accuracy with which weak lensing measurements could be made from a future space-based survey, predicting the subsequent precisions of 3-dimensional dark matter maps, projected...
Parameter information from nonlinear cosmological fields (2000)
We develop a general formalism for analysing parameter information from non-Gaussian cosmic fields. The method can be adapted to include the nonlinear effects in galaxy redshift surveys, weak lensing...
Reconstructing PSCz with a Generalised PIZA (2000)
Valentine, Helen, Saunders, Will, Taylor, Andy
We present a generalized version of the Path Interchange Zel'dovich Approximation (PIZA), for use with realistic galaxy redshift surveys. PIZA is a linear particle-based Lagrangian method which uses...
Density and Velocity Fields from the PSCz Survey (1999)
Saunders, Will, Branchini, Enzo, Teodoro, Luis, Heavens, Alan, Taylor, Andy, Valentine, Helen, ...
We present the results for the predicted density and peculiar velocity fields and the dipole from the PSCz survey of 15,000 IRAS galaxies over 84% of the sky. We find a significant component to the...
Reconstructing PSCz with a Generalized PIZA (1999)
Valentine, Helen E. M., Saunders, Will, Taylor, Andy
We present a generalized version of the Path Interchange Zel'dovich Approximation (PIZA; Croft and Gaztanaga 1997; hereafter CG97), which may be used to reconstruct density and velocity fields from...
The Inverse Redshift-Space Operator: Reconstructing Cosmological Density and Velocity Fields (1999)
Taylor, Andy, Valentine, Helen
We present the linear inverse redshift space operator which maps the galaxy density field derived from redshift surveys from redshift space to real space. Expressions are presented for observers in...
Cosmological Parameter Estimation from the CMB (1997)
Taylor, Andy, Heavens, Alan, Ballinger, Bill, Tegmark, Max
We discuss the problems of applying Maximum Likelihood methods to the CMB and how one can make it both efficient and optimal. The solution is a generalised eigenvalue problem that allows virtually no...
First results from the PSC-z survey (1997)
Saunders, Will, Taylor, Andy, Ballinger, Bill, Heavens, Alan, Oliver, Seb, Keeble, Oliver, ...
Karhunen-Loeve eigenvalue problems in cosmology: how should we tackle large data sets? (1996)
Tegmark, Max, Taylor, Andy, Heavens, Alan
Since cosmology is no longer "the data-starved science", the problem of how to best analyze large data sets has recently received considerable attention, and Karhunen-Loeve eigenvalue methods have...
The clustering of warm and cool IRAS galaxies (1995)
Mann, Bob, Saunders, Will, Taylor, Andy
We use a series of statistical techniques to compare the clustering of samples of IRAS galaxies selected on the basis of their far-infrared emission temperature, to see whether a...
Chen, Guoping, Hackett, Rachel, Walker, David, Taylor, Andy, Lin, Zhefeng, Grierson, Donald
There are at least five lipoxygenases (TomloxA, TomloxB, TomloxC, TomloxD, and TomloxE) present in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruit, but their role in generation of fruit flavor volatiles...
Chen, Guoping, Hackett, Rachel, Walker, David, Taylor, Andy, Lin, Zhefeng, Grierson, Donald
There are at least five lipoxygenases (TomloxA, TomloxB, TomloxC, TomloxD, and TomloxE) present in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruit, but their role in generation of fruit flavor volatiles...