The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam Profiles and First SZ Cluster Maps (2009)
Hincks, A. D., Acquaviva, V., Ade, P., Aguirre, P., Amiri, M., Appel, J. W., ...
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is currently observing the cosmic microwave background with arcminute resolution at 148 GHz, 218 GHz, and 277 GHz. In this paper, we present ACT's first results....
Probing the Galactic Potential with Next-Generation Observations of Disk Stars (2009)
Sumi, T., Johnston, K. V., Tremaine, S., Spergel, D. N., Majewski, S. R.
Near-future surveys promise a dramatic improvement in the number and precision of astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic measurements of stars in the Milky Way's disk. We examine the impact of...
Dunkley, J., Spergel, D. N., Komatsu, E., Hinshaw, G., Larson, D., Nolta, M. R., ...
We describe a sampling method to estimate the polarized CMB signal from observed maps of the sky. We use a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm to estimate the polarized CMB map, containing Q and U...
Hill, R. S., Weiland, J. L., Odegard, N., Wollack, E., Hinshaw, G., Larson, D., ...
Cosmology and other scientific results from the WMAP mission require an accurate knowledge of the beam patterns in flight. While the degree of beam knowledge for the WMAP one-year and three-year...
Dunkley, J., Komatsu, E., Nolta, M. R., Spergel, D. N., Larson, D., Hinshaw, G., ...
This paper focuses on cosmological constraints derived from analysis of WMAP data alone. A simple LCDM cosmological model fits the five-year WMAP temperature and polarization data. The basic...
Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Angular Power Spectra (2008)
Nolta, M. R., Dunkley, J., Hill, R. S., Hinshaw, G., Komatsu, E., Larson, D., ...
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) derived from the first 5 years of WMAP data. The 5-year temperature (TT) spectrum is cosmic...
Gold, B., Bennett, C. L., Hill, R. S., Hinshaw, G., Odegard, N., Page, L., ...
We present a new estimate of foreground emission in the WMAP data, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. The new technique delivers maps of each foreground component for a variety of...
Hinshaw, G., Weiland, J. L., Hill, R. S., Odegard, N., Larson, D., Bennett, C. L., ...
We present new full-sky temperature and polarization maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on data from the first five years of the WMAP sky survey. The five-year maps incorporate...
Komatsu, E., Dunkley, J., Nolta, M. R., Bennett, C. L., Gold, B., Hinshaw, G., ...
(Abridged) The WMAP 5-year data strongly limit deviations from the minimal LCDM model. We constrain the physics of inflation via Gaussianity, adiabaticity, the power spectrum shape, gravitational...
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Source Catalog (2008)
Wright, E. L., Chen, X., Odegard, N., Bennett, C. L., Hill, R. S., Hinshaw, G., ...
We present the list of point sources found in the WMAP 5-year maps. The technique used in the first-year and three-year analysis now finds 390 point sources, and the five-year source catalog is...
N. Jarosik, C. L. Bennett, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, A. Kogut, M. Limon, ...
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite, launched June 30, 2001, will produce full sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 5 frequency bands spanning 20- 106 GHz. MAP contains...
Preprint typeset using L A T E X style emulateapj v. 11/12/01 (2008)
Design Implementation And, N. Jarosik, C. L. Bennett, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, A. Kogut, ...
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite, launched June 30, 2001, will produce full sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 5 frequency bands spanning 20 - 106 GHz. MAP...
The Astrophysical Journal, In Press (2008)
Preprint Typeset Using, M. Limon, S. S. Meyer, L. Page, D. N. Spergel, G. S. Tucker, ...
The purpose of the MAP mission is to determine the geometry, content, and evolution of the universe via a 13 arc-min full-width-half-max (FWHM) resolution full sky map of the temperature anisotropy...
The Astrophysical Journal, In Press (2008)
Preprint Typeset Using, L. Page, C. Jackson, C. Barnes, C. Bennett, M. Halpern, ...
The primary goal of the MAP satellite, now in orbit, is to make high fidelity polarization sensitive maps of the full sky in five frequency bands between 20 and 100 GHz. From these maps we will...
An Optical/UV Space Coronagraph Concept for the (2007)
Terrestrial Planet Finder, N. J. Kasdin, R. A. Brown, C. J. Burrows, S. Kilston, M. Kuchner, ...
NASA's current strategic plan calls for the launching of a space observatory, The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), by the middle of the next decade; it will search for terrestrial planets in the...
Evidence for short-lived SN Ia progenitors (2007)
Aubourg, E., Tojeiro, R., Jimenez, R., Heavens, A. F., Strauss, M. A., Spergel, D. N.
The standardization of SNIa as standard candles is still largely empirical and may be affected by as-yet unexplored effects evolving with redshift. A systematic effect of 1-2% in the peak luminosity...
Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Foreground Polarization (2007)
Kogut, A., Dunkley, J., Bennett, C. L., Doré, O., Gold, B., Halpern, M., ...
We present a full-sky model of polarized Galactic microwave emission based on three years of observations by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) at frequencies from 23 to 94 GHz. The...
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Three Year Results: Implications for Cosmology (2006)
Spergel, D. N., Bean, R., Doré, O., Nolta, M. R., Bennett, C. L., Dunkley, J., ...
A simple cosmological model with only six parameters (matter density, Omega_m h^2, baryon density, Omega_b h^2, Hubble Constant, H_0, amplitude of fluctuations, sigma_8, optical depth, tau, and a...
Three Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Polarization Analysis (2006)
Page, L., Hinshaw, G., Komatsu, E., Nolta, M. R., Spergel, D. N., Bennett, C. L., ...
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP has mapped the entire sky in five frequency bands between 23 and 94 GHz with polarization sensitive radiometers. We present three-year full-sky maps of...
Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Temperature Analysis (2006)
Hinshaw, G., Nolta, M. R., Bennett, C. L., Bean, R., Doré, O., Greason, M. R., ...
We present new full-sky temperature maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on the first three years of the WMAP sky survey. The new maps, which are consistent with the first-year maps...
Jarosik, N., Barnes, C., Greason, M. R., Hill, R. S., Nolta, M. R., Odegard, N., ...
The WMAP satellite has completed 3 years of observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The 3-year data products include several sets of full sky maps of the Stokes I, Q and U...
Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Verde, L., Jimenez, Raul, Spergel, D. N.
In the context of a cosmological study of the bulk flows in the Universe, we present a detailed study of the statistical properties of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We first compute...
Constraining the Topology of the Universe (2003)
Cornish, N J, Spergel, D N, Starkman, G D, Komatsu, E
The first year data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe are used to place stringent constraints on the topology of the Universe. We search for pairs of circles on the sky with similar...
Terrestrial Planet Finding with a Visible Light Coronagraph (2003)
Kuchner, M. J., Spergel, D. N.
Directly imaging extrasolar planets using a monolithic optical telescope avoids many pitfalls of space interferometry and opens up the prospect of visible light studies of extrasolar planetary...
Nolta, M. R., Wright, E. L., Page, L., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., ...
The first-year WMAP data, in combination with any one of a number of other cosmic probes, show that we live in a flat \Lambda-dominated CDM universe with \Omega_m ~ 0.27 and \Omega_\Lambda ~ 0.73. In...
Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., Jarosik, N., Kogut, A., Limon, M., ...
We present full sky microwave maps in five bands (23 to 94 GHz) from the WMAP first year sky survey. Calibration errors are
First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Foreground Emission (2003)
Bennett, C., Hill, R. S., Hinshaw, G., Nolta, M. R., Odegard, N., Page, L., ...
Full sky maps are made in five microwave frequency bands to separate the temperature anisotropy of the CMB from foreground emission. We define masks that excise regions of high foreground emission....
Spergel, D. N., Verde, L., Peiris, H. V., Komatsu, E., Nolta, M. R., Bennett, C. L., ...
WMAP precision data enables accurate testing of cosmological models. We find that the emerging standard model of cosmology, a flat Lambda-dominated universe seeded by nearly scale-invariant adiabatic...
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) First Year Observations: TE Polarization (2003)
Kogut, A., Spergel, D. N., Barnes, C., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., ...
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has mapped the full sky in Stokes I, Q, and U parameters at frequencies 23, 33, 41, 61, and 94 GHz. We detect correlations between the temperature and...
Page, L., Barnes, C., Hinshaw, G., Spergel, D. N., Weiland, J. L., Wollack, E., ...
Knowledge of the beam profiles is of critical importance for interpreting data from cosmic microwave background experiments. In this paper, we present the characterization of the in-flight optical...
First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Angular Power Spectrum (2003)
Hinshaw, G., Spergel, D. N., Verde, L., Hill, R. S., Meyer, S. S., Barnes, C., ...
We present the angular power spectrum derived from the first-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) sky maps. We study a variety of power spectrum estimation methods and data combinations...
Verde, L., Peiris, H. V., Spergel, D. N., Nolta, M., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., ...
We describe our methodology for comparing the WMAP measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and other complementary data sets to theoretical models. The unprecedented quality of the WMAP...
Page, L., Nolta, M. R., Barnes, C., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., ...
The CMB has distinct peaks in both its temperature angular power spectrum (TT) and temperature-polarization cross-power spectrum (TE). From the WMAP data we find the first peak in the temperature...
Hinshaw, G., Barnes, C., Bennett, C. L., Greason, M., Halpern, M., Hill, R. S., ...
We describe the calibration and data processing methods used to generate full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first year of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)...
First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Tests of Gaussianity (2003)
Komatsu, E., Kogut, A., Nolta, M., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., ...
We present limits to the amplitude of non-Gaussian primordial fluctuations in the WMAP 1-year cosmic microwave background sky maps. A non-linear coupling parameter, f_NL, characterizes the amplitude...
Jarosik, N., Barnes, C., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., Kogut, A., ...
The WMAP satellite has completed one year of measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation using 20 differential high-electron-mobility-transistor (HEMT) based radiometers. All the...
Peiris, H. V., Komatsu, E., Verde, L., Spergel, D. N., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., ...
We confront predictions of inflationary scenarios with the WMAP data, in combination with complementary small-scale CMB measurements and large-scale structure data. The WMAP detection of a...
Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: The Power Spectrum and Evaporation of Early Structures (2003)
Afshordi, N., McDonald, P., Spergel, D. N.
We consider the possibility that massive primordial black holes are the dominant form of dark matter. Black hole formation generates entropy fluctuations that adds a Poisson noise to the matter power...
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) Mission (2003)
Bennett, C. L., Bay, M., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., Jackson, C., Jarosik, N., ...
The purpose of the MAP mission is to determine the geometry, content, and evolution of the universe via a 13 arcmin full-width-half-max (FWHM) resolution full sky map of the temperature anisotropy of...
The Optical Design and Characterization of the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (2003)
Page, L., Jackson, C., Barnes, C., Bennett, C., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., ...
The primary goal of the MAP satellite, now in orbit, is to make high fidelity polarization sensitive maps of the full sky in five frequency bands between 20 and 100 GHz. From these maps we will...
Design, Implementation and Testing of the MAP Radiometers (2003)
Jarosik, N., Bennett, C. L., Halpern, M., Hinshaw, G., Kogut, A., Limon, M., ...
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite, launched June 30, 2001, will produce full sky maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 5 frequency bands spanning 20 - 106 GHz. MAP...
Draft: March 17, 2006 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Three Year (2003)
Results Implications For, D. N. Spergel, R. Bean, O. Doré, M. R. Nolta, C. L. Bennett, ...
A simple cosmological model with only six parameters (matter density, , baryon , Hubble Constant, H 0 , amplitude of fluctua1 Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, Princeton University,...
March 16, 2006 Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) (2003)
Observations Beam Profiles, N. Jarosik, C. Barnes, M. R. Greason, R. S. Hill, M. R. Nolta, ...
The WMAP satellite has now completed 3 years of observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The 3-year data products include several sets of full sky maps of the Stokes I, Q and U...
H. V. Peiris, E. Komatsu, L. Verde, D. N. Spergel, C. L. Bennett, M. Halpern, ...
We confront predictions of inflationary scenarios with the WMAP data, in combination with complementary small-scale CMB measurements and large-scale structure data. The WMAP detection of a...
The Wmap, C. L. Bennett, M. Greason, M. Halpern, R. S. Hill, G. Hinshaw, ...
This document is a concise description of the delivered data sets for the first 12 months of operation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). It is intended as an overview of the...
N. Jarosik, C. Barnes, M. R. Greason, R. S. Hill, M. R. Nolta, N. Odegard, ...
The WMAP satellite has now completed 3 years of observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The 3-year data products include several sets of full sky maps of the Stokes I, Q and U...
N. Jarosik, C. Barnes, C. L. Bennett, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, A. Kogut, ...
The WMAP satellite has completed one year of measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation using 20 differential high-electron-mobility-transistor (HEMT) based radiometers. All the...
LSST: a Complementary Probe of Dark Energy (2002)
Tyson, J. A., Wittman, D. M., Hennawi, J. F., Spergel, D. N.
The number of mass clusters and their distribution in redshift are very sensitive to the density of matter Omega_m and the equation of state of dark energy w. Using weak lens gravitational tomography...
Measurement of the cosmic microwave background bispectrum on the COBE DMR sky maps (2002)
Komatsu, E., Wandelt, B. D., Spergel, D. N., Banday, A. J., Gorski, K. M.
We measure the angular bispectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation anisotropy from the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) 4 yr sky maps. The angular bispectrum is the...
Three Dimensional Structure of the Milky Way Disk (2001)
We present a three dimensional model for the Milky Way fit to the far-infrared (FIR) and near-infrared (NIR) data from the COBE/DIRBE instrument for Galactic latitudes |b| < 30 degrees and to within...
The Coalescence Rate of Double Neutron Star Systems (2000)
Kalogera, V., Narayan, R., Spergel, D. N., Taylor, J. H.
We estimate the coalescence rate of close binaries with two neutron stars (NS) and discuss the prospects for the detection of NS-NS inspiral events by ground-based gravitational-wave observatories,...
Wyithe, J. S. B., Turner, E. L., Spergel, D. N.
Strong lensing is a powerful probe of the distribution of matter in the cores of clusters of galaxies. Recent studies suggest that the cold dark matter model predicts cores that are denser than those...
The Power Spectrum of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (1999)
Refregier, A., Komatsu, E., Spergel, D. N.
(Abridged) The hot gas in the IGM produces anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The SZ effect is a powerful probe of large-scale...
Using Perturbative Least Action to Run N Body Simulations Back in Time (1999)
Goldberg, D. M., Spergel, D. N.
In this report, we present a new method for reconstructing N body initial conditions from a proscribed final density field. This method, Perturbative Least Action (PLA) is similar to traditional...
Cosmic Microwave Background Observations in the Post-Planck Era (1999)
Peterson, J. B., Carlstrom, J. E., Cheng, E. S., Kamionkowski, M., Lange, A. E., Seiffert, M., ...
The Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Planck missions will provide low noise maps of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These maps will allow measurement of the power spectrum of...
Extragalactic Foregrounds of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Prospects for the MAP Mission (1998)
Refregier, A., Spergel, D. N., Herbig, T.
(Abridged) While the major contribution to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies are the sought-after primordial fluctuations produced at the surface of last scattering, other effects...
The Number Density of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with 23 (1997)
Dalcanton, J. J., Spergel, D. N., Gunn, J. E., Schmidt, M., Schneider, D. P.
We present results of a large area CCD survey for low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) that reaches central surface brightnesses of mu_0=25 mag/sqr-" in V. We have analyzed 17.5 degrees of transit...
The Formation of Disk Galaxies (1996)
Dalcanton, J. J., Spergel, D. N., Summers, F J
We present a scenario for the formation of disks which explains not only the properties of normal galaxies, but the properties of the population of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) as well. We...
The Formation of the Local Group and the High Velocity Clouds (1996)
Spergel, D.N., Blitz, L., Teuben, P.J., Hartmann, D., Burton, B.
High Velocity Clouds: Remnants of Local Group Formation (1996)
Blitz, L., Spergel, D.N., Teuben, P.J., Hartmann, D., Burton, W.B.
The Formation of the Local Group and the High Velocity Clouds (1996)
Spergel, D.N., Blitz, L., Teuben, P.J., Hartmann, D., Burton, B.
A Consistent Microlensing Model for the Galactic Bar (1995)
Zhao, HongSheng, Rich, R. M., Spergel, D. N.
We compute a microlensing map for the Galactic bar. The predicted event rate and event duration distribution are consistent with the $55$ events recently reported by the MACHO and OGLE...
THE FORMATION OF LSB GALAXIES (1995)
Dalcanton, J. J., Spergel, D. N., Summers, F J
The formation of low surface brightness galaxies is an unavoidable prediction of any hierarchical clustering scenario. In these models, low surface brightness galaxies form at late times from small...
Signatures of Bulge Triaxiality from Kinematics in Baade's Window/ (1994)
Zhao, HongSheng, Spergel, D. N., Rich, R. M.
We study a sample of 62 Baade's Window (1,-4) K giants that have published proper motions, radial velocity and metallicity. We construct the velocity ellipsoids for the metal rich stars and metal...