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HOLiCOW - IV. Lens mass model of HE 0435-1223 and blind measurement of its time-delay distance for cosmology

Frédéric Courbin, Vivien François Bonvin

Strong gravitational lenses with measured time delays between the multiple images allow a direct measurement of the time-delay distance to the lens, and thus a measure of cosmological parameters, particularly the Hubble constant, H-0. We present a blind le ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Strong-lensing analysis of MACSJ0717.5+3745 from Hubble Frontier Fields observations: How well can the mass distribution be constrained?

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Mathilde Jauzac, Hakim Atek, Markus Rexroth, Johan Richard

We present a strong-lensing analysis of MACSJ0717.5+3745 (hereafter MACS J0717), based on the full depth of the Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) observations, which brings the number of multiply imaged systems to 61, ten of which have been spectroscopically con ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Signatures of the Primordial Universe from Its Emptiness: Measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Minima of the Density Field

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Cheng Zhao, Yu Liang

Sound waves from the primordial fluctuations of the Universe imprinted in the large-scale structure, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), can be used as standard rulers to measure the scale of the Universe. These oscillations have already been detec ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope equatorial Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample with the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope stripe 82 survey

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Huanyuan Shan

Mass calibration uncertainty is the largest systematic effect for using clusters of galaxies to constrain cosmological parameters. We present weak lensing mass measurements from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Stripe 82 Survey for galaxy clusters select ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Clustering properties of g-selected galaxies at z similar to 0.8

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Johan Comparat, David Schlegel, Timothée Guy Olivier Delubac, Ginevra Favole

Current and future large redshift surveys, as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), will use emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to probe cosmological ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

The Sdss-Iv Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview And Early Data

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Zheng Zheng, Cheng Zhao, Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, David Schlegel, Timothée Guy Olivier Delubac, Yuting Wang, Pierre Laurent, Cheng Li, Yu Liang

In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. These observations will be conducted simultaneous ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey

Yi Zhang, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Eduardo Sanchez, Zhirui Xu, Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, David Schlegel, Timothée Guy Olivier Delubac

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) will observe 195 000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to measure the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) standard ruler at redshift 0.9. To test different ELG s ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

The Bullet cluster at its best: weighing stars, gas, and dark matter

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Danuta Janina Paraficz, Johan Richard

Aims. We present a new strong lensing mass reconstruction of the Bullet cluster (1E 0657-56) at z = 0 : 296, based on WFC3 and ACS HST imaging and VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy. The strong lensing constraints underwent substantial revision compared to previously ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lya forest of BOSS DR11 quasars

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, David Schlegel, Timothée Guy Olivier Delubac

We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the flux-correlation function of the Ly alpha forest of high-redshift quasars with a statistical significance of five standard deviations. The study uses 137 562 quasars in the redsh ...

EDP Sciences2015

Strong Lens Time Delay Challenge. Ii. Results Of Tdc1

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan, Malte Tewes, Vivien François Bonvin

We present the results of the first strong lens time delay challenge. The motivation, experimental design, and entry level challenge are described in a companion paper. This paper presents the main challenge, TDC1, which consisted of analyzing thousands of ...

American Astronomical Society2015

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