The Cosmology Journal Club is a series of weekly informal
discussions by faculty, postdocs and graduate students of recent
papers published or posted on the arXiv. The scope is meant
to be very broad but the papers should somehow be related to
cosmology. We are hoping theorists, experimentalists and
observers from both the Physics and the Astronomy Departments will
drop by.
Each volunteer should present a paper very briefly (~5 min), and
then the rest can weigh in with comments, questions and complaints
(~5 min). The goal is to keep the entire process very
informal. Our plan is to post on this web page the papers to
be discussed a few days beforehand so participants can read through
them if they want. Last-minute suggestions are welcome.
The Journal Club is held every Friday (unless otherwise noted) from
12:00 - 1:00. Please feel free to bring along your
lunch. It takes place in 5242 Chamberlin Hall. All Faculty,
postdocs, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students with an
interest in Cosmology and Astrophysics are welcome to listen,
suggest and present!
If you have questions or comments about this Journal Club, would
like to propose a topic or volunteer to introduce a paper, please email Le Zhang (lzhang263@wisc.edu).
Upcoming Papers
2012
May.11
A closer look at CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter, arXiv:1201.3939
Influence of synchrotron self-absorption on the 21cm experiments, arXiv:1205.1113
Do we have a Theory of Early Universe Cosmology?, arXiv:1204.6108
Previous Papers
2012
May.04
GAMMA-RAY LINES IN THE FERMI DATA: IS IT A BUBBLE?, arXiv:1204.6047
CMB polarization anisotropies from cosmological reionization: extension to B-modes, arXiv:1205.0463
Apr.27
No evidence of dark matter in the solar neighborhood, arXiv:1204.3919
Galileons on Trial, arXiv:1204.4314
An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts, Nature (19 April 2012)
Apr.20
An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts, Nature (19 April 2012)
Optical Intensity Interferometry with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
, arXiv:1204.3624
Apr.13
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the large-scale two-point correlation function, arXiv:1203.6616
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample, arXiv:1203.6594
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Analysis of potential systematics, arXiv:1203.6499
A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation
at the Fermi Large Area Telescope, arXiv:1204.2797
Mar.30
Detection of Galaxy Cluster Motions with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect, arXiv:1203.4219
The Optimal Cosmic Epoch for Precision Cosmology, arXiv:1203.2622
Quantum Gravity Constraints on Inflation, arXiv:1203.5476
Mar.23
The Missing Massive Satellites of the Milky Way, arXiv:1203.4097
Spatial Curvature Falsifies Eternal Inflation, arXiv:1202.5037
Mar.16
This week's meeting cancelled!!!
Mar.9
Relic gravitational waves from light primordial black holes, arXiv:1105.2303
Cosmological Constant: A Lesson from Bose-Einstein Condensates, PRL
Mar.2
Cosmology without cosmic variance, arXiv:1104.3862
A new probe of the small-scale primordial power spectrum: astrometric microlensing by ultracompact minihalos, arXiv:1202.1284
Feb.24
A closer look at CMB constraints on WIMP dark matter, arXiv:1201.3939
Axion Dark Matter and Cosmological Parameters,PRL.
Feb.17
Dark Matter Detection with Polarized Detectors, arXiv:1202.1807
Generating zeta with non-Abelian Vector Fields, arXiv:1202.3133
Feb.10
Observational Probes of Cosmic Acceleration, arXiv:1201.2434
Bayesian power spectrum analysis of interferometric data, arXiv:1109.4640
Feb.03
Gravitational detection of a low-mass dark satellite at cosmological distance, arXiv:1201.3643
Observational Consequences of Dark Energy Decay, arXiv:1202.0107
CMB at 2x2 order: The dissipation of primordial acoustic waves and the observable part of the associated energy release, arXiv:1202.0057
A New Window on Primordial non-Gaussianity, arXiv:1201.5375
Jan. 27
The Empirical Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter, arXiv:1201.1303
Cosmological CPT Violation and CMB Polarization Measurements, arXiv:1201.4457
2011
Dec. 2
Non-Thermal Dark Matter Mimicing An Additional Neutrino Species In The Early Universe, arXiv:1111.6599
Searching for hidden mirror symmetries in CMB fluctuations from WMAP 7 year maps, arXiv:1111.5362
The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: mapping the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations, arXiv:1108.2635
2011
Nov. 18
Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang, sciencexpress
MIMAC: A micro-tpc matrix project for directional detection of dark matter, arXiv:1111.1566
Reconstruction of Gravitational Lensing Using WMAP 7-Year Data, arXiv:1111.2371
Calibrating the BAO scale using the CMB: Lifting the degeneracy between geometric and dynamic distortions using the sound horizon from the CMB, arXiv:1111.2544
Nov. 11
MIMAC: A micro-tpc matrix project for directional detection of dark matter, arXiv:1111.1566
Neutrino mass in cosmology: status and prospects, arXiv:1111.1436
Effect of Population III Multiplicity on Dark Star Formation, arXiv:1111.1527
Nov. 4
The Directional Dark Matter Detector, arXiv:1110.3401v1
A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with two years of South Pole Telescope observations, arXiv:1111.0932
Bayesian Cluster Finder: Clusters in the CFHTLS Archive Research Survey, arXiv:1111.0013
Re-ionizing the Universe without Stars, arXiv:1106.5546v2
Oct. 28
The Directional Dark Matter Detector, arXiv:1110.3401v1
Analysis of WMAP 7-year Temperature Data: Astrophysics of the Galactic Haze, arXiv:1110.5418
Toward A Consistent Picture For CRESST, CoGeNT and DAMA, arXiv:1110.5338
Oct. 21
(Mis-)Interpreting supernovae observations in a lumpy universe, arXiv:1109.2484
Systematics in lensing reconstruction: Dark matter rings in the sky? arXiv:1110.3979
Prospects for determination of thermal history after inflation with future gravitational wave detectors,arXiv:1110.4169
Oct. 14
Cosmological Measurements with Forthcoming Radio Continuum Surveys, arXiv:1108.0930v1
The TIANSHAN Radio Experiment for Neutrino Detection, arXiv:1007.4359v3
Oct. 07
Precision cosmography with stacked voids, arXiv:1110.0345
Dark Matter implications of the Fermi-LAT measurement of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background: status report, arXiv:1110.0324
Does Bose-Einstein condensation of CMB photons cancel #distortions created by dissipation of sound waves in the early Universe?, arXiv:1110.0475
Sep. 30
- Microlensing of Kepler Stars as a Method of Detecting Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter, arXiv:1109.4975
- Possible detection of the M31 rotation in WMAP data, arXiv:1109.6290
- Superluminal Neutrinos without Revolution, arXiv:1109.6520
Sep. 23
- Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam, arXiv:1109.4897
- Evidence for dark energy from the cosmic microwave background alone using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope lensing measurements, arXiv:1105.0419
- Detection of the Power Spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, arXiv:1103.2124
Sep. 16
- Results from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search, arXiv:1109.0702
- Intensity Mapping with Carbon Monoxide Emission Lines and the Redshifted 21 cm Line, arXiv:1104.4800
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