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The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses (2015)
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Han, J., Wang, W., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. S. (2016). The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 1017-1029. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2522

Using realistic cosmological simulations of Milky Way sized haloes, we study their dynamical state and the accuracy of inferring their mass profiles with steady-state models of dynamical tracers. We use a new method that describes the phase-space dis... Read More about The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses.

The orbital PDF: general inference of the gravitational potential from steady-state tracers (2015)
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Han, J., Wang, W., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. S. (2016). The orbital PDF: general inference of the gravitational potential from steady-state tracers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 1003-1016. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2707

We develop two general methods to infer the gravitational potential of a system using steady-state tracers, i.e. tracers with a time-independent phase-space distribution. Combined with the phase-space continuity equation, the time independence implie... Read More about The orbital PDF: general inference of the gravitational potential from steady-state tracers.

Erratum: Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers (2015)
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Wang, W., Han, J., Cooper, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C., & Lowing, B. (2016). Erratum: Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2535

Our paper ‘Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers’ published in MNRAS, 2015, 453, 377 contained typographic errors in equations (12) and (6) as detailed below. Our code used the correct expressions in both cases... Read More about Erratum: Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers.

Planes of satellite galaxies: when exceptions are the rule (2015)
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Cautun, M., Bose, S., Frenk, C. S., Guo, Q., Han, J., Hellwing, W. A., Sawala, T., & Wang, W. (2015). Planes of satellite galaxies: when exceptions are the rule. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3838-3852. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1557

The detection of planar structures within the satellite systems of both the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) has been reported as being in stark contradiction to the predictions of the standard cosmological model (Λ cold dark matter – ΛCDM). Given... Read More about Planes of satellite galaxies: when exceptions are the rule.

Exploring the liminality: properties of haloes and subhaloes in borderline f(R) gravity (2015)
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Shi, D., Li, B., Han, J., Gao, L., & Hellwing, W. (2015). Exploring the liminality: properties of haloes and subhaloes in borderline f(R) gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(3), 3179-3191. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1549

We investigate the properties of dark matter haloes and subhaloes in an f(R) gravity model with |fR0| = 10−6, using a very-high-resolution N-body simulation. The model is a borderline between being cosmologically interesting and yet still consistent... Read More about Exploring the liminality: properties of haloes and subhaloes in borderline f(R) gravity.

Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers (2015)
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Wang, W., Han, J., Cooper, A. P., Cole, S., Frenk, C., & Lowing, B. (2015). Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(1), 377-400. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1647

The mass of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way can be estimated by fitting analytical models to the phase-space distribution of dynamical tracers. We test this approach using realistic mock stellar haloes constructed from the Aquarius N-body simul... Read More about Estimating the dark matter halo mass of our Milky Way using dynamical tracers.

Co-evolution of black hole growth and star formation from a cross-correlation analysis between quasars and the cosmic infrared background (2015)
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Wang, L., Viero, M., Ross, N., Asboth, V., Béthermin, M., Bock, J., …Zemcov, M. (2015). Co-evolution of black hole growth and star formation from a cross-correlation analysis between quasars and the cosmic infrared background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(4), 4476-4493. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv559

We present the first cross-correlation measurement between Sloan Digital Sky Survey type 1 quasars and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) measured by Herschel. The quasars cover the redshift range 0.15 < z < 3.5 where most of the CIB originates. We... Read More about Co-evolution of black hole growth and star formation from a cross-correlation analysis between quasars and the cosmic infrared background.