Preheating After Modular Inflation (2009)
Barnaby, Neil, Bond, J. Richard, Huang, Zhiqi, Kofman, Lev
We study (p)reheating in modular (closed string) inflationary scenarios, with a special emphasis on Kahler moduli/Roulette models. It is usually assumed that reheating in such models occurs through...
Non-Gaussian Spikes from Chaotic Billiards in Inflation Preheating (2009)
Bond, J. Richard, Frolov, Andrei V., Huang, Zhiqi, Kofman, Lev
A new class of non-Gaussian curvature fluctuations \zeta_{pr} (\bx) \equiv \delta N(\chi_i) arises from the post-inflation preheating behaviour of a non-inflaton field \chi_i. Its billiard-like...
Halo Assembly Bias in Hierarchical Structure Formation (2008)
Dalal, Neal, White, Martin, Bond, J. Richard, Shirokov, Alexander
We investigate the origin of halo assembly bias, the dependence of halo clustering on assembly history. We relate halo assembly to peak properties measured in the Lagrangian space of the initial...
The Lyman Alpha Forest Within The Cosmic Web (2007)
J. Richard Bond, James W. Wadsley
Abstract. Observations indicate galaxies are distributed in a filamentdominated web-like structure; classic examples are the Coma and PerseusPisces superclusters. Numerical experiments at high and...
TESTING INFLATION WITH THE COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION (2007)
In inflation cosmologies, cosmic structure develops through the gravitational instability of the inevitable quantum noise in primordial scalar fields. I show how the acceleration of the universe...
Lyman Alpha Absorption in The Cosmic Web (2007)
J. Richard Bond, James W. Wadsley
Abstract. We describe large scale structure at high redshift in terms of the Cosmic Web picture for fS; ; O; HgCDM models: how galactic-scale "peak-patches", filaments and membranes...
SPH P 3 MG Simulations of the Lyman-ff Forest (2007)
J. W. Wadsley, J. Richard Bond
Abstract. Our understanding of the Lyman-ff forest has received a great boost with the advent of the Keck Telescope and large 3D hydrodynamical simulations. We present new simulations using the SPH...
Cosmic Consequences from the CMB, Circa Summer 96 (2007)
A long-standing goal of theorists has been to constrain cosmological parameters that define the structure formation theory from CMB anisotropy experiments and large scale structure observations. The...
Simulating Reionization: Character and Observability (2007)
Iliev, Ilian T., Shapiro, Paul R., Mellema, Garrelt, Pen, Ue-Li, McDonald, Patrick, Bond, J. Richard
In recent years there has been considerable progress in our understanding of the nature and properties of the reionization process. In particular, the numerical simulations of this epoch have made a...
Current models of the observable consequences of cosmic reionization and their detectability (2007)
Iliev, Ilian T., Mellema, Garrelt, Pen, Ue-Li, Bond, J. Richard, Shapiro, Paul R.
A number of large current experiments aim to detect the signatures of the Cosmic Reionization at redshifts z>6. Their success depends crucially on understanding the character of the reionization...
Iliev, Ilian T., Pen, Ue-Li, Bond, J. Richard, Mellema, Garrelt, Shapiro, Paul R.
We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneous reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfer simulations of...
The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from Patchy Reionization: the View from the Simulations (2006)
Iliev, Ilian T., Pen, Ue-Li, Bond, J. Richard, Mellema, Garrelt, Shapiro, Paul R.
We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneus reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfer simulations of...
Rajguru, N., Myers, S. T., Battye, R. A., Bond, J. Richard, Cleary, K., Contaldi, C. R., ...
We present coincident observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the Very Small Array (VSA) and Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) telescopes. The consistency of the full datasets is...
Probing SZ Source Detection with Gasdynamical Simulations (2001)
Bond, J. Richard, Ruetalo, Marcelo I., Wadsley, James W., Gladders, Michael D.
The huge worldwide investment in CMB experiments should make the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect a key probe of the cosmic web in the near future. For the promise to be realized, substantial...
From Current CMBology to its Polarization and SZ Frontiers circa TAW8 (2001)
I highlight the remarkable advances in the past few years in CMB research on total primary anisotropies, in determining the power spectrum, deriving cosmological parameters from it, and more...
Bond, J. Richard, Crittenden, Robert G.
We describe the subject of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) analysis - its past, present and future. The theory of Gaussian primary anisotropies, those arising from linear physics operating in the...
Fast CMB Analyses via Correlation Functions (2000)
Szapudi, Istvan, Prunet, Simon, Pogosyan, Dmitry, Szalay, Alexander S., Bond, J. Richard
We propose and implement a fast, universally applicable method for extracting the angular power spectrum C_l from CMB temperature maps by first estimating the correlation function \xi(\theta). Our...
CMB Anisotropy in Compact Hyperbolic Universes I: Computing Correlation Functions (1999)
Bond, J. Richard, Pogosyan, Dmitry, Souradeep, Tarun
CMB anisotropy measurements have brought the issue of global topology of the universe from the realm of theoretical possibility to within the grasp of observations. The global topology of the...
CMB Anisotropy in Compact Hyperbolic Universes II: COBE Maps and Limits (1999)
Bond, J. Richard, Pogosyan, Dmitry, Souradeep, Tarun
We calculate the CMB anisotropy in compact hyperbolic universe models using the regularized method of images described in paper-I, including the 'line-of-sight `integrated Sachs-Wolfe' effect, as...
Computing challenges of the Cosmic Microwave Background (1999)
Bond, J. Richard, Crittenden, Robert G., Jaffe, Andrew H., Knox, Lloyd
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) encodes information on the origin and evolution of the universe, buried in a fractional anisotropy of one part in 100,000 on angular scales from arcminutes to...
Lilly, Simon J., Eales, Stephen A., Gear, Walter K. P., Hammer, Francois, Fevre, Olivier Le, Crampton, David, ...
Identifications are sought for 12 sub-mm sources detected by Eales et al (1998). Six are securely identified, two have probable identifications and four remain unidentified with I_AB > 25....
Constraining Large Scale Structure Theories with the Cosmic Background Radiation (1998)
Bond, J. Richard, Jaffe, Andrew H.
We review the relevant 10+ parameters associated with inflation and matter content; the relation between LSS and primary and secondary CMB anisotropy probes; COBE constraints on energy injection;...
Eales, Stephen, Lilly, Simon, Gear, Walter, Dunne, Loretta, Bond, J. Richard, Hammer, Francois, ...
We present the first results of a deep unbiased submillimetre survey carried out at 450 and 850 microns. We detected 12 sources at 850 microns, giving a surface density of sources with 850-micron...
Computing CMB Anisotropy in Compact Hyperbolic Spaces (1998)
Bond, J. Richard, Pogosyan, Dmitri, Souradeep, Tarun
The measurements of CMB anisotropy have opened up a window for probing the global topology of the universe on length scales comparable to and beyond the Hubble radius. For compact topologies, the two...
Probing Cosmic topology using CMB anisotropy (1998)
Souradeep, Tarun, Pogosyan, Dmitry, Bond, J. Richard
The measurements of CMB anisotropy have opened up a window for probing the global topology of the universe on length scales comparable to and beyond the Hubble radius. We have developed a new method...
Prospects for measuring Inflation parameters with the CMB (1998)
Souradeep, Tarun, Bond, J. Richard, Knox, Lloyd, Efstathiou, George, Turner, Michael S.
We present the status of our study into the feasibility of estimating the parameters of inflation from planned satellite observations of the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).We...
Cosmic microwave background overview Class (1998)
Abstract. The goal of CMB and large scale structure (LSS) research is to determine the cosmological parameters that define how structure arose in the universe. These include: early universe...
Lyman Alpha Absorption in The Cosmic Web (1997)
Bond, J. Richard, Wadsley, James W.
We describe large scale structure at high redshift in terms of the Cosmic Web picture for {S,Lambda,O,H}CDM models: how galactic-scale ``peak-patches'', filaments and membranes create an...
The Lyman Alpha Forest within The Cosmic Web (1997)
Bond, J. Richard, Wadsley, James W.
Observations indicate galaxies are distributed in a filament-dominated web-like structure; classic examples are the Coma and Perseus-Pisces superclusters. Numerical experiments at high and low...
Constraints on Compact Hyperbolic Spaces from COBE (1997)
Bond, J. Richard, Pogosyan, Dmitry, Souradeep, Tarun
The (large angle) COBE DMR data can be used to probe the global topology of our universe on scales comparable to and just beyond the present ``horizon''. For compact topologies, the two main effects...
CMB Power Spectrum Estimation (1997)
Knox, Lloyd, Bond, J. Richard, Jaffe, Andrew H.
We explore power spectrum estimation in the context of a Gaussian approximation to the likelihood function. Using the Saskatoon data, we estimate the power averaged through a set of ten filters...
Forecasting Cosmic Parameter Errors from Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiments (1997)
Bond, J. Richard, Efstathiou, George, Tegmark, Max
Accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies with an angular resolution of a few arcminutes can be used to determine fundamental cosmological parameters such as the...
SPH P3MG Simulations of the Lyman-alpha Forest (1996)
Wadsley, J. W., Bond, J. Richard
Our understanding of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest has received a great boost with the advent of the Keck Telescope and large 3D hydrodynamical simulations. We present new simulations using the SPH...
The Theoretical Agenda in CMB Research (1996)
The terrain that theorists cover in this CMB golden age is described. We ponder early universe physics in quest of the fluctuation generator. We extoll the virtues of inflation and defects. We...
Cosmic Parameter Estimation Combining Sub-Degree CMB Experiments with COBE (1996)
Bond, J. Richard, Jaffe, Andrew H.
We describe the Bayesian-based signal-to-noise eigenmode method for cosmological parameter estimation, show how it can be used to optimally compress large CMB anisotropy data sets to manageable...
Cosmological Parameter Estimation Combining sub-degree CMB experiments with COBE (1996)
J. Richard Bond, Andrew H. Jaffe
We describe the Bayesian-based signal-to-noise eigenmode method for cosmological parameter estimation, show how it can be used to optimally compress large CMB anisotropy data sets to manageable...
Implications of the Background Radiation for Cosmic Structure Formation (1995)
The CMB is a remarkably distortionless blackbody, and this strongly constrains the amount of energy that can have been injected at high redshift, thereby limiting the role that hydrodynamical...
How Filaments are Woven into the Cosmic Web (1995)
Bond, J. Richard, Kofman, Lev, Pogosyan, Dmitri
Observations indicate galaxies are distributed in a filament-dominated web-like structure. Numerical experiments at high and low redshift of viable structure formation theories also show...
Signal-to-Noise Eigenmode Analysis of the Two-Year COBE Maps (1994)
To test a theory of cosmic microwave background fluctuations, it is natural to expand an anisotropy map in an uncorrelated basis of linear combinations of pixel amplitudes ---...
Testing Inflation with the Cosmic Background Radiation (1994)
In inflation cosmologies, cosmic structure develops through the gravitational instability of the inevitable quantum noise in primordial scalar fields. I show how the acceleration of the universe...
How Well Can Cosmological Parameters Be Estimated from CMB Observations? (1994)
Bond, J. Richard, Davis, Richard L., Steinhardt, Paul J.
The CMB anisotropy depends sensitively upon the slope and amplitude of primordial density and gravitational wave fluctuations, the baryon density, the Hubble constant, the cosmological constant, the...
CMB Broad-Band Power Spectrum Estimation (1994)
The natural outcome of theoretical calculations of microwave background anisotropy is the angular power spectrum ${\cal C}_\ell$ as a function of multipole number $\ell$. Experimental ${\cal...
Cosmic microwave background theory
A long-standing goal of theorists has been to constrain cosmological parameters that define the structure formation theory from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy experiments and...
Cosmic microwave background theory
A long-standing goal of theorists has been to constrain cosmological parameters that define the structure formation theory from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy experiments and...