INPA CANDi

4/30/08

• Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets
• Gravitational-radiation losses from the pulsar-white-dwarf binary PSR J1141-6545

4/23/08

• The Void Phenomenon Explained
• Big bang nucleosynthesis constrains the total annihilation cross section of neutralino dark matter

4/16/08

• The Importance of Being First: Position Dependent Citation Rates on arXiv:astro-ph
• Nonlinear corrections to the cosmological matter power spectrum and scale-dependent galaxy bias: implications for parameter estimation

4/9/08

• What is the best way to measure baryonic acoustic oscillations?

4/2/08

• Weak Lensing of the Primary CMB Bispectrum
  
• Relativity Revisited

3/26/08

• Review of recent conferences, by recent conference participants includes Cosmology from Moriond, Neutrino Mass from IPMU, etc.

3/19/08

• The Flux Auto- and Cross-Correlation of the Lyman-alpha Forest. I. Spectroscopy of QSO Pairs with Arcminute Separations and Similar Redshifts
• Cosmic Microwave Weak lensing data as a test for the dark universe
  

3/12/08

• Properties of the ultraviolet flux of type Ia supernovae: an analysis with synthetic spectra of SN 2001ep and SN 2001eh
• Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe

3/5/08

• The WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) CMB satellite released its 5 year data papers today, at http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov
  We will have a quick discussion of the main results.

2/27/08

• A Search for WIMPs with the First Five-Tower Data from CDMS
  
• An Introduction to Unparticles
  Jesse Thaler, UCB/LBL (in person)

2/20/08

• How accurately can 21 cm tomography constrain cosmology?
• Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on (and see http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2097)

2/13/08

• New Measurements of Fine-Scale CMB Polarization Power Spectra from CAPMAP at Both 40 and 90 GHz
• Also - a discussion of the recent Aspen workshop on the CMB.

2/6/08

• A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions
  
• A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift $z\approx$ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
  

1/30/08

• The case for OH suppression at near-infrared wavelengths
  
• Observation of Non-Exponential Orbital Electron Capture Decays of Hydrogen-Like $^{140}$Pr and $^{142}$Pm Ions

1/23/08

• A blind test of photometric redshifts on ground-based data
  
• The Palomar-Quest Digital Synoptic Sky Survey
  

1/16/08

• High resolution CMB power spectrum from the complete ACBAR data set
• The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VI: Discovery and analysis of a double Einstein ring

1/9/08

• Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: II. Weak lensing
• Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: I. ISW Tomography and Cosmological Implications

12/19/07

• Identification of Spinning Dust in Halpha-Correlated Microwave Emission

12/12/07

• Detection of primordial non-Gaussianity (fNL) in the WMAP 3-year data at above 99.5% confidence
• Precision of Hubble constant derived using black hole binary absolute distances and statistical redshift information

11/28/07

• A Test of the Copernican Principle
• Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

11/21/07

• Correlation of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects
  (accessible through LBL sites)
• How Simulated Spectra of the Lya forest Change with the Size of the Box of Numerical Simulations
  

11/14/07

• Detecting z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae
• Cosmic Covariance and the Low Quadrupole Anisotropy of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data

11/7/07:

• An Evolving Entropy Floor in the Intracluster Gas?
  
• The imprints of primordial non-gaussianities on large-scale structure: scale dependent bias and abundance of virialized objects
  

10/31/07:

• The Impact of Halo Properties, Energy Feedback and Projection Effects on the Mass-SZ Flux Relation
  
• A New Independent Limit on the Cosmological Constant/Dark Energy from the Relativistic Bending of Light by Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
  

10/24/07:

• A Comparison of Weak Lensing Measurements From Ground- and Space-Based Facilities
  
• Verifying the Cosmological Utility of Type Ia Supernovae: Implications of a Dispersion in the Ultraviolet Spectra
  

10/17/07:

• Constraining Cosmic Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae
  
• Detectability of CMB tensor B modes via delensing with weak lensing galaxy surveys
  

10/10/07:

• Precision of diffuse 21-cm lensing
  
• Geometrical tests of cosmological models. I. Probing dark energy using the kinematics of high-redshift galaxies
  

10/3/07:

• New constraints on dark energy from the observed growth of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters
  
• Determining the Type, Redshift, and Age of a Supernova Spectrum
  

9/26/07:

• Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Intensity Mapping of Dark Energy
  
• A photometric search for transients in galaxy clusters

9/19/07:

• The Luminous and Carbon-Rich Supernova 2006gz: A Double Degenerate Merger?
  
• Observational Tests of Modified Gravity
  

9/12/07:

• Effect of Primordial Black Holes on the Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmological Parameter Estimates
  
• Signals of the QCD Phase Transition in the Heavens

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