Outputs (10)

Scientific Synergy between LSST and Euclid (2017)
Journal Article
Rhodes, J., Nichol, R. C., Aubourg, É., Bean, R., Boutigny, D., Bremer, M. N., …Linden, A. V. D. (2017). Scientific Synergy between LSST and Euclid. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 233(2), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa96b0

Euclid and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) are poised to dramatically change the astronomy landscape early in the next decade. The combination of high-cadence, deep, wide-field optical photometry from LSST with high-resolution, wide-field... Read More about Scientific Synergy between LSST and Euclid.

Cluster mass calibration at high redshift: HST weak lensing analysis of 13 distant galaxy clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey (2017)
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Schrabback, T., Applegate, D., Dietrich, J., Hoekstra, H., Bocquet, S., Gonzalez, A., …Zenteno, A. (2018). Cluster mass calibration at high redshift: HST weak lensing analysis of 13 distant galaxy clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(2), 2635-2678. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2666

We present an HST/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) weak gravitational lensing analysis of 13 massive high-redshift (zmedian = 0.88) galaxy clusters discovered in the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev–Zel'dovich Survey. This study is part of a large... Read More about Cluster mass calibration at high redshift: HST weak lensing analysis of 13 distant galaxy clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey.

Equatorial locations of water on Mars: Improved resolution maps based on Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer data (2017)
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Wilson, J. T., Eke, V. R., Massey, R. J., Elphic, R. C., Feldman, W. C., Maurice, S., & Teodoro, L. F. (2018). Equatorial locations of water on Mars: Improved resolution maps based on Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer data. Icarus, 299, 148-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.07.028

We present a map of the near subsurface hydrogen distribution on Mars, based on epithermal neutron data from the Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer. The map’s spatial resolution is approximately improved two-fold via a new form of the pixon image reco... Read More about Equatorial locations of water on Mars: Improved resolution maps based on Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer data.

A test for skewed distributions of dark matter, and a possible detection in galaxy cluster Abell 3827 (2017)
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Taylor, P., Massey, R., Jauzac, M., Courbin, F., Harvey, D., Joseph, R., & Robertson, A. (2017). A test for skewed distributions of dark matter, and a possible detection in galaxy cluster Abell 3827. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(4), 5004-5013. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx855

Simulations of self-interacting dark matter predict that dark matter should lag behind galaxies during a collision. If the interaction is mediated by a high-mass force carrier, the distribution of dark matter can also develop asymmetric dark matter t... Read More about A test for skewed distributions of dark matter, and a possible detection in galaxy cluster Abell 3827.

Erratum: How well can charge transfer inefficiency be corrected? A parameter sensitivity study for iterative correction (2017)
Journal Article
Israel, H., Massey, R., Prod'homme, T., Cropper, M., Cordes, O., Gow, J., …Verhoeve, P. (2017). Erratum: How well can charge transfer inefficiency be corrected? A parameter sensitivity study for iterative correction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(4), 4218-4219. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx270

The article ‘How well can charge transfer inefficiency be corrected? A parameter sensitivity study for iterative correction’ was published in MNRAS 453, 561 (2015). We identified several incorrectly placed decimal points in Table 1 of that article th... Read More about Erratum: How well can charge transfer inefficiency be corrected? A parameter sensitivity study for iterative correction.

A gravitationally boosted MUSE survey for emission-line galaxies at z ≳ 5 behind the massive cluster RCS 0224 (2017)
Journal Article
Smit, R., Swinbank, A., Massey, R., Richard, J., Smail, I., & Kneib, J. (2017). A gravitationally boosted MUSE survey for emission-line galaxies at z ≳ 5 behind the massive cluster RCS 0224. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3), 3306-3323. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx245

We present a Very Large Telescope/Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) survey of lensed high-redshift galaxies behind the z = 0.77 cluster RCS 0224−0002. We study the detailed internal properties of a highly magnified (μ ∼ 29) z = 4.88 galaxy see... Read More about A gravitationally boosted MUSE survey for emission-line galaxies at z ≳ 5 behind the massive cluster RCS 0224.

Cosmic particle colliders: simulations of self-interacting dark matter with anisotropic scattering (2017)
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Robertson, A., Massey, R., & Eke, V. (2017). Cosmic particle colliders: simulations of self-interacting dark matter with anisotropic scattering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(4), 4719-4730. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx463

We investigate how self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) with anisotropic scattering affects the evolution of isolated dark matter haloes as well as systems with two colliding haloes. For isolated haloes, we find that the evolution can be adequately ca... Read More about Cosmic particle colliders: simulations of self-interacting dark matter with anisotropic scattering.

Abell 2744: too much substructure for ΛCDM? (2017)
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Schwinn, J., Jauzac, M., Baugh, C., Bartelmann, M., Eckert, D., Harvey, D., …Massey, R. (2017). Abell 2744: too much substructure for ΛCDM?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(3), 2913-2923. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx277

The massive substructures found in Abell 2744 by Jauzac et al. present a challenge to the cold dark matter paradigm due to their number and proximity to the cluster centre. We use one of the biggest N-body simulations, the Millennium XXL, to investig... Read More about Abell 2744: too much substructure for ΛCDM?.

Problems using ratios of galaxy shape moments in requirements for weak lensing surveys (2017)
Journal Article
Israel, H., Kitching, T., Massey, R., & Cropper, M. (2017). Problems using ratios of galaxy shape moments in requirements for weak lensing surveys. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 598, Article A46. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628394

Context. The shapes of galaxies are typically quantified by ratios of their quadrupole moments. Knowledge of these ratios (i.e. their measured standard deviation) is commonly used to assess the efficiency of weak gravitational lensing surveys. For fa... Read More about Problems using ratios of galaxy shape moments in requirements for weak lensing surveys.

Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System (2017)
Journal Article
Borden, M., Lewis, D., Ochoa, H., Jones-Wilson, L., Susca, S., Porter, M., …Netterfield, B. (2017). Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 129, Article 035001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/129/973/035001

The Subarcsecond Telescope And BaLloon Experiment, STABLE, is the fine stage of a guidance system for a high-altitude ballooning platform designed to demonstrate subarcsecond pointing stability over one minute using relatively dim guide stars in the... Read More about Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System.