Joshua Frieman

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2008

Number

21

Co-Authors

Estimating the Redshift Distribution of Photometric Galaxy Samples II. Applications and Tests of a New Method (2008)

Cunha, Carlos E., Lima, Marcos, Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Frieman, Joshua, Lin, Huan

In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic...

Constraining the Scatter in the Mass-Richness Relation of maxBCG Clusters With Weak Lensing and X-ray Data (2008)

Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli S., Evrard, August, Becker, Matthew, McKay, Timothy, Wechsler, Risa H., ...

We measure the logarithmic scatter in mass at fixed richness for clusters in the maxBCG cluster catalog, an optically selected cluster sample drawn from SDSS imaging data. Our measurement is achieved...

Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe (2008)

Frieman, Joshua, Turner, Michael, Huterer, Dragan

The discovery ten years ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating put in place the last major building block of the present cosmological model, in which the Universe is composed of 4%...

Estimating the Redshift Distribution of Faint Galaxy Samples (2008)

Lima, Marcos, Cunha, Carlos E., Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Frieman, Joshua, Lin, Huan, Sheldon, Erin S.

We present an empirical method for estimating the underlying redshift distribution N(z) of galaxy photometric samples from photometric observables. The method does not rely on photometric redshift...

Photometric Redshift Error Estimators (2007)

Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Lima, Marcos, Cunha, Carlos E., Lin, Huan, Frieman, Joshua

Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of...

A Galaxy Photometric Redshift Catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 (2007)

Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Lima, Marcos, Cunha, Carlos E., Lin, Huan, Frieman, Joshua, Sheldon, Erin S.

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6 (DR6). We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to...

Modeling the three-point correlation function (2007)

Marin, Felipe, Wechsler, Risa, Frieman, Joshua, Nichol, Robert

We present new predictions for the galaxy three-point correlation function (3PCF) using high-resolution dissipationless cosmological simulations of a flat LCDM Universe which resolve galaxy-size...

Primordial non-Gaussianity and Dark Energy constraints from Cluster Surveys (2006)

Sefusatti, Emiliano, Vale, Chris, Kadota, Kenji, Frieman, Joshua

Galaxy cluster surveys will be a powerful probe of dark energy. At the same time, cluster abundance is sensitive to any non-Gaussianity of the primordial density field. It is therefore possible that...

Distributions of Galaxy Spectral Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)

Yip, Ching-Wa, Connolly, Andrew, Szalay, Alex, Budavari, Tamas, SubbaRao, Mark, Frieman, Joshua, ...

We perform an objective classification of 170,000 galaxy spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using the Karhunen-Lo\`eve (KL) transform. With about one-sixth of the total set of galaxy...

Eigenspectra of the SDSS DR1 quasars (2004)

Yip, Ching-Wa, Connolly, Andrew, Berk, Daniel Vanden, Ma, Zhaoming, Frieman, Joshua, SubbaRao, Mark, ...

We construct eigenspectra from the DR1 quasars in the SDSS using the Karhunen-Lo\`eve (KL) transform (or Principal Component Analysis, PCA) in different redshift and luminosity bins. We find that the...

Optical and radio properties of extragalactic sources observed by the first survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Menou, Kristen, Knapp, Gillian R., Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...

We discuss the optical and radio properties of similar to30,000 FIRST (radio, 20 cm, sensitive to 1 mJy) sources positionally associated within 1."5 with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (optical,...

Loop Corrections in Non-Linear Cosmological Perturbation Theory (1995)

Scoccimarro, Roman, Frieman, Joshua

Using a diagrammatic approach to Eulerian perturbation theory, we analytically calculate the variance and skewness of the density and velocity divergence induced by gravitational evolution from...

Natural Inflation: Particle Physics Models, Power Law Spectra for Large Scale Structure, and Constraints from COBE (1992)

Adams, Fred, Bond, J. R., Freese, Katherine, Frieman, Joshua, Olinto, Angela

A pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, with a potential of the form $V(\phi) = \Lambda^4[1 \pm \cos(\phi/f)], naturally gives rise to inflation if $f \sim M_{Pl}$ and $\Lambda \sim M_{GUT}$. We show how...