Abigail Crites

Assistant Professor & Fred Young Faculty Fellow

Publications

Crites A. T., Bock J. J., Bradford C. M. et al 2014 Proc. SPIE 9153 91531W

Nils Deppe

Assistant Professor

Ira Wasserman

Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy, Professor of Physics

Publications

  • ''Toroidal magnetic fields in type II superconducting neutron stars,''T. Akgun and I. Wasserman, MNRAS, 383, 1551 (2008) 
  • "Cosmic Strings as the Source of Small-Scale Microwave Background Anisotropy'', L. Pogosian, S.-H. H. Tye, I. Wasserman and M. Wyman, JCAP, 02, 013 (2009)
  • "Spinning down newborn neutron stars: Nonlinear development of the r-mode instability'', R. Bondarescu, S. A. Teukolsky and I. Wasserman, Phys. Rev. D, 79, 104003 (2009)
  • "Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi cosmological models, smoothness, and positivity of the central deceleration parameter'', R. A. Vanderveld, E. E. Flanagan and I. Wasserman, arXiv:0904.4319 (2009)
  • "Modification to the luminosity distance redshift relation in modified gravity theories'', E. E. Flanagan, E. Rosenthal and I. Wasserman, Phys. Rev. D, 79, 044032 (2009)
  • "Luminosity distance in Swiss cheese cosmology with randomized voids. II. Magnifcation probability distributions", with E. E. Flanagan, N. Kumar, and R. A. Vanderveld, Physical Review D, 85, 023510 (2012).
  • "Guilt by Association: Finding Cosmic Ray Sources Using Hierarchical Bayesian Clustering", with K. Soiaporn, T. Loredo, D. Cherno  and D. Ruppert, (2012) [arXiv:1206.3540]
  •  "Luminosity distance in Swiss cheese" cosmology with randomized voids. III. e ects of small scale structure", with E. E. Flanagan and N. Kumar, submitted to Physical Review D, 2012 [arXiv:1207.3711]
  • "Hierarchical Bayesian Framework for Modeling the Production, Propagation and Detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays", with K. Soiaporn, T. Loredo, D. Chernoff and D. Ruppert, submitted to the Annals of Applied Statistics, 2012 [arXiv:1206.4569]

Saul Teukolsky

Professor, Graduate School and Hans A. Bethe Professor Emeritus of Physics

Publications

The SpECTRE Cauchy-Characteristic Evolution System for Rapid, Precise Waveform Extraction,  J. Moxon, M. A. Scheel, S. A. Teukolsky, N. Deppe, N. Fischer, F. Hebert, L. E. Kidder, and W. Throwe, Phys. Rev. D 107 064013 (2023).

A High-Order Shock Capturing Discontinuous Galerkin-Finite-Difference Hybrid Method for GRMHD, N. Deppe, F. Hebert, L. E. Kidder, and S. A. Teukolsky, Class. Quantum Grav. 39 195001 (2022).

Testing the Black-Hole Area Law with GW150914, M. Isi, W. M. Farr, M. Giesler, M. A. Scheel, and S. A. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 011103 (2021).

Computation of Displacement and Spin Memory in Numerical Relativity, K. Mitman et al, Phys. Rev. D 102 104007 (2020).

SpECTRE: A Task-based Discontinuous Galerkin Code for Relativistic Astrophysics, L. E. Kidder et al, J.Comput. Phys. 335 84 (2017).

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016).

Formulation of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Relativistic Astrophysics, S. A. Teukolsky, J. Comp. Phys. 312, 333 (2016).

Toroidal Horizons in Binary Black Hole Mergers, A. Bohn, L. E. Kidder and S. A. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. D 94, 064009 (2016).

Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling and B. P. Flannery, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, New York (2007).

Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects, S. L. Shapiro and S. A. Teukolsky, John Wiley, New York (1983). Russian Edition: MIR Publishers, Moscow (1986).

Michael Niemack

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Publications

Y. Li, E. Biermann, S. Naess, et al. ”The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of 3-Day Maps,” in review (2023). arXiv:2303.04767

CCAT-Prime Collaboration, et al. “CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope,” Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2023). DOI:10.3847/1538-4365/ac9838 

E. M. Vavagiakis, C. J. Duell, et al. “CCAT-prime: design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module,” Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 12190 (2022). DOI:10.1117/12.2630115 

Z. B. Huber, Y. Li, E. M. Vavagiakis, et al. "The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module," Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2022). DOI:10.1007/s10909-022-02875-w

E. M. Vavagiakis, P. A. Gallardo, V. Calafut, S. Amodeo, et al. "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of SDSS DR15 Galaxies with the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects," Phys. Rev. D 104, 043503 (2021). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043503

S. K. Choi, M. Hasselfield, S.-P. Ho, B. Koopman, M. Lungu, et al. "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz," Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 12:045 (2020). DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/045

S. K. Choi, et al. "Sensitivity of the Prime-Cam Instrument on the CCAT-prime Telescope," Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2020). DOI:10.1007/s10909-020-02428-z

S. C. Parshley, M. D. Niemack, R. Hills, et al. "The optical design of the six-meter CCAT-prime and Simons Observatory telescopes," Proc. SPIE 10700, 1070041 (2018). DOI:10.1117/12.2314073

M. D. Niemack, "Designs for a large-aperture telescope to map the CMB 10X faster," Applied Optics 55:7, 1688 (2016). DOI:10.1364/AO.55.001686

Eanna Flanagan

Edward L. Nichols Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy

Publications

1. E. E. Flanagan, An order-unity correction to Hawking radiation, submitted to Physical Review Letters, arXiv:2102.04930.

2. E. E. Flanagan, Infrared effects in the late stages of black hole evaporation, submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics, arXiv:2102.13629.

3. É. É. Flanagan, D.A. Nichols, Conserved charges of the extended Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra, Phys. Rev. D 95, 044002 (2017).

4. A.I. Harte, É. É. Flanagan, P.Taylor, Self-forces on static bodies in arbitrary dimensions, Phys. Rev. D 93, 124054 (2016).

5. T. Hinderer, É. É. Flanagan, Transient resonances in the inspirals of point particles into black holes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071102 (2012).

Rachel Bean

Senior Associate Dean for Math and Science, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Astronomy

Publications

* indicates paper first-authored by a graduate student in Professor Bean’s research group

  1. *C. Wilson and R. Bean, “Fisher's Mirage: Noise Tightening of Cosmological Constraints in Simulation-Based Inference”, Phys. Rev. D submitted, arXiv:2406.06067.

  2. *L. Wenzl, R. Bean and the ACT Collaboration, “The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing cross SDSS measurement and constraints on gravity with the EG statistic”, Phys. Rev. D submitted, arXiv:2405.12795.

  3. *Y. Gong and R. Bean, “kSZ pairwise velocity reconstruction with machine learning”, Phys. Rev. D 109, 123525 (2024), arXiv:2403.04664.

  4. *L. Wenzl, R. Bean et al., “Constraining gravity with a new precision EG estimator using Planck + SDSS BOSS.”, Phys. Rev. D submitted, arXiv: 2401.12971

  5. *Y. Gong, R. Bean, P. Gallardo, E. Vavagiakis, N. Battaglia, M. Niemack, “Pairwise kSZ signal extraction efficacy and optical depth estimation”, Phys. Rev. D. 109 (2024), 023513, arXiv: 2307.11894.
  6. *L. Wenzl, S. Chen and R. Bean, “Magnification Bias Estimators for Realistic Surveys: an Application to the BOSS Survey”, MNRAS 527 (2023) 2, 1760-1773, arXiv: 2308.05892.
  7. *C. Wilson and R. Bean, “Challenges in Constraining Gravity with Cosmic Voids”, Phys. Rev. D 107 (2022), 124008, arXiv: 2212:02569.
  8. *L. Wenzl, C. Doux, C. Heinrich, R. Bean, B. Jain, O. Doré, T. Eifler, X. Fang, “Cosmology with the Roman Space Telescope -- Synergies with CMB lensing”, MNRAS 512 (2022) 4, 5311, arXiv: 2112:07681.
  9. R. Liu, *G. Valogiannis, N. Battaglia and R. Bean, “Constraints on f(R) and nDGP Modified Gravity Model Parameters with Cluster Abundances and Galaxy Clustering”, PRD 104 (2021) 10, 103519, arXiv:2101.08728.
  10.  *V. Calafut, P. A. Gallardo, E. M. Vavagiakis, S. Amodeo, et al., “The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect with SDSS DR15 Galaxies”, Phys. Rev. D 104 (2021) 4, 043502, arXiv:2101.08374.

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