Testing adiabatic contraction with SDSS elliptical galaxies (2009)
Schulz, A. E., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Padmanabhan, Nikhil
We study the profiles of 75 086 elliptical galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at both large (50-500 kpc/h) and small (~3 kpc/h) scales. Weak lensing observations in the outskirts of...
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters. I. Measurements (2009)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, Koester, Benjamin P., McKay, Timothy A., Oyaizu, Hiroaki, ...
This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes...
Results of the GREAT08 Challenge: An image analysis competition for cosmological lensing (2009)
Bridle, Sarah, Balan, Sreekumar T., Bethge, Matthias, Gentile, Marc, Harmeling, Stefan, Heymans, Catherine, ...
We present the results of the GREAT08 Challenge, a blind analysis challenge to infer weak gravitational lensing shear distortions from images. The primary goal was to stimulate new ideas by...
The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes...
Exploring Dark Energy with Next-Generation Photometric Redshift Surveys (2009)
Zhan, Hu, Albrecht, Andreas, Cooray, Asantha, Habib, Salman, Heavens, Alan, Heitmann, Katrin, ...
The coming decade will be an exciting period for dark energy research, during which astronomers will address the question of what drives the accelerated cosmic expansion as first revealed by type Ia...
The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
Van De Ven, Glenn, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Keeton, Charles R.
Studies of strong gravitational lensing in current and upcoming wide and deep photometric surveys, and of stellar kinematics from (integral-field) spectroscopy at increasing redshifts, promise to...
Galaxy density profiles and shapes -- II. selection biases in strong lensing surveys (2008)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Van De Ven, Glenn, Keeton, Charles R.
[Abridged] Many current and future astronomical surveys will rely on samples of strong gravitational lens systems to draw conclusions about galaxy mass distributions. We use a new strong lensing...
A halo mass—concentration relation from weak lensing (2008)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uroš, Hirata, Christopher M.
We perform a statistical weak lensing analysis of dark matter profiles around tracers of halo mass from galaxy-size to cluster-size halos. In this analysis we use 170 640 isolated ∼L∗ galaxies...
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Li, Cheng, Kauffmann, Guinevere, White, Simon D. M.
We compute two-point correlation functions and measure the shear signal due to galaxy-galaxy lensing for 80,000 optically identified and 5,700 radio-loud AGN from Data Release 4 (DR4) of the Sloan...
Halo mass - concentration relation from weak lensing (2008)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros, Hirata, Christopher M.
We perform a statistical weak lensing analysis of dark matter profiles around tracers of halo mass from galactic- to cluster-size halos. In this analysis we use 170,640 isolated ~L* galaxies split...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
Improved optical mass tracer for galaxy clusters calibrated using weak lensing measurements (2008)
Reyes, Reinabelle, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Hirata, Christopher M., Bahcall, Neta, Seljak, Uros
We develop an improved mass tracer for clusters of galaxies from optically observed parameters, and calibrate the mass relation using weak gravitational lensing measurements. We employ a sample of ~...
Handbook for the GREAT08 Challenge: An image analysis competition for cosmological lensing (2008)
Bridle, Sarah, Shawe-Taylor, John, Amara, Adam, Applegate, Douglas, Balan, Sreekumar T., Berge, Joel, ...
The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) Challenge focuses on a problem that is of crucial importance for future observations in cosmology. The shapes of distant galaxies can be used...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters I: Measurements (2007)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, Koester, Ben P., McKay, Timothy A., Oyaizu, Hiroaki, ...
This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes...
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros
Cluster abundance measurements are among the most sensitive probes of the amplitude of matter fluctuations in the universe, which in turn can help constrain other cosmological parameters, like the...
Hirata, Christopher M., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Ishak, Mustapha, Seljak, Uros, Nichol, Robert, Pimbblet, Kevin A., ...
Correlations between intrinsic shear and the density field on large scales, a potentially important contaminant for cosmic shear surveys, have been robustly detected at low redshifts with bright...
The fifth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
The Shear TEsting Programme 2: Factors affecting high precision weak lensing analyses (2006)
Massey, Richard, Heymans, Catherine, Berge, Joel, Bernstein, Gary, Bridle, Sarah, Clowe, Douglas, ...
The Shear TEsting Programme (STEP) is a collaborative project to improve the accuracy and reliability of weak lensing measurement, in preparation for the next generation of wide-field surveys. We...
Density profiles of galaxy groups and clusters from SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing (2006)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros, Cool, Richard J., Blanton, Michael, Hirata, Christopher M., Brinkmann, Jonathan
We present results of a measurement of the shape of the density profile of galaxy groups and clusters traced by 43 335 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) with spectroscopic redshifts from the Sloan Digital...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros, Kauffmann, Guinevere, Hirata, Christopher M., Brinkmann, Jonathan
The relationship between galaxies and dark matter can be characterized by the halo mass of the central galaxy and the fraction of galaxies that are satellites. Here we present observational...
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Hirata, Christopher M., Ishak, Mustapha, Seljak, Uros, Brinkmann, Jonathan
The power spectrum of weak lensing shear caused by large-scale structure is an emerging tool for precision cosmology, in particular for measuring the effects of dark energy on the growth of structure...
Ellipticity of dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy weak lensing (2005)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Hirata, Christopher M., Broderick, Tamara, Seljak, Uros, Brinkmann, Jonathan
We present the results of attempts to detect the ellipticity of dark matter halos using galaxy-galaxy weak lensing with SDSS data. We use 2,020,256 galaxies brighter than r=19 with photometric...
Systematic errors in weak lensing: application to SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing (2005)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Hirata, Christopher M., Seljak, Uros, Guzik, Jacek, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Blake, Cullen, ...
Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these...
Galaxy-galaxy Lensing: Dissipationless Simulations Versus the Halo Model (2004)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Tasitsiomi, Argyro, Seljak, Uros, Kravtsov, Andrey V., Wechsler, Risa H.
Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a powerful probe of the relation between galaxies and dark matter halos, but its theoretical interpretation requires a careful modeling of various contributions, such as the...
Galaxy-galaxy weak lensing in SDSS: intrinsic alignments and shear calibration errors (2004)
Hirata, Christopher M., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros, Guzik, Jacek, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Blake, Cullen, ...
Galaxy-galaxy lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the dark matter halos of galaxies, but is subject to contamination if intrinsically aligned satellites of the lens galaxy are used as part of...
Constraining the dark energy with Ly-alpha forest (2002)
Seljak, Uros, Mandelbaum, Rachel, McDonald, Patrick
Statistical properties of gas absorption in high redshift quasars such as power spectrum and bispectrum allow one to determine the evolution of structure over the redshift range 22. In combination...