An Observational Determination of the Proton to Electron Mass Ratio in the Early Universe (2009)
Thompson, Rodger I., Bechtold, Jill, Black, John H., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Kennicutt, Robert C., ...
In an effort to resolve the discrepancy between two measurements of the fundamental constant mu, the proton to electron mass ratio, at early times in the universe we reanalyze the same data used in...
Hickox, Ryan C., Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Murray, Stephen S., Kochanek, Christopher S., Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
We explore the connection between different classes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the evolution of their host galaxies, by deriving host galaxy properties, clustering, and Eddington ratios of...
Bell, Eric, Davis, Marc, Dey, Arjun, Van Dokkum, Pieter, Ellis, Richard, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
Over the last decade optical spectroscopic surveys have characterized the low redshift galaxy population and uncovered populations of star-forming galaxies back to z ~ 7. This work has shown that the...
MARVELS: Revealing the Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Giant Planet Systems (2009)
Ge, Jian, Eisenstein, Daniel, Gaudi, B. Scott
MARVELS, the Multi-Object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey, is a 6-year program to characterize the distribution of gas giant planets with orbital periods ranging from several hours to...
Schlegel, David, White, Martin, Eisenstein, Daniel
BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is a 5-year program to measure the absolute cosmic distance scale and expansion rate with percent-level precision at redshifts z
SEGUE-2 and APOGEE: Revealing the History of the Milky Way (2009)
Rockosi, Constance, Beers, Timothy C., Majewski, Steven, Schiavon, Ricardo, Eisenstein, Daniel
The history of the Milky Way is encoded in the spatial distributions, kinematics, and chemical enrichment patterns of its resolved stellar populations. SEGUE-2 and APOGEE, two of the four surveys...
Hickox, Ryan C., Jones, Christine, Forman, William R., Murray, Stephen S., Kochanek, Christopher S., Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
We explore the connection between different classes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the evolution of their host galaxies, by deriving host galaxy properties, clustering, and Eddington ratios of...
Findings of the Joint Dark Energy Mission Figure of Merit Science Working Group (2009)
Albrecht, Andreas, Amendola, Luca, Bernstein, Gary, Clowe, Douglas, Eisenstein, Daniel, Guzzo, Luigi, ...
These are the findings of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) Figure of Merit (FoM) Science Working Group (SWG), the FoMSWG. JDEM is a space mission planned by NASA and the DOE for launch in the...
Extended Lyman Alpha Nebulae at z ~ 2.3: An Extremely Rare and Strongly Clustered Population? (2008)
Yang, Yujin, Zabludoff, Ann, Tremonti, Christy, Eisenstein, Daniel, Davé, Romeel
To obtain an unbiased sample of bright LyA blobs [L(LyA) > 10^43 ergs/s], we have undertaken a blind, wide-field, narrow-band imaging survey in the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Bootes field with the...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
NICMOS Measurements of the Near Infrared Background (2008)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Rieke, Marcia, Kennicutt, Robert
This paper addresses the nature of the near infrared background. We investigate whether there is an excess background at 1.4 microns, what is the source of the near infrared background and whether...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
Evidence for a Z < 8 Origin of the Source Subtracted Near Infrared Background (2007)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Rieke, Marcia, Kennicutt, Robert C.
This letter extends our previous fluctuation analysis of the near infrared background at 1.6 microns to the 1.1 micron (F110W) image of the Hubble Ultra Deep field. When all detectable sources are...
Sadler, Elaine M., Cannon, Russell D., Mauch, Tom, Hancock, Paul J., Wake, David A., Ross, Nic, ...
We have combined optical data from the 2dF-SDSS Luminous Red Galaxy and QSO (2SLAQ) redshift survey with radio measurements from the 1.4 GHz VLA FIRST and NVSS surveys to identify a volume-limited...
Constraints on the Cosmic Near Infrared Background Excess from NICMOS Deep Field Observations (2006)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Rieke, Marcia, Kennicutt, Robert C.
NICMOS observations of the resolved object fluxes in the Hubble Deep Field North and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are significantly below the fluxes attributed to a 1.4 - 1.8 microns Near InfraRed...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel, Strauss, Michael, Weinberg, David, Blanton, Michael, Frieman, Joshua, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608632 v2 Oct 30 2006
Riess, Adam G., Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Casertano, Stefano, Ferguson, Henry C., Mobasher, Bahram, Gold, Ben, ...
We have discovered 21 new Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and have used them to trace the history of cosmic expansion over the last 10 billion years. These objects,...
MegaZ-LRG: A photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell, Croom, Scott, Drinkwater, Michael, ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
McDonald, Patrick, Eisenstein, Daniel
We explore the requirements for a Lyman-alpha forest (LyaF) survey designed to measure the angular diameter distance and Hubble parameter at 2~
Star Formation History of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Comparison with the HDFN (2006)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Dickinson, Mark, Illingworth, Garth, Kennicutt, Robert C.
We use the NICMOS Treasury and ACS HUDF images to measure the extinction corrected star formation history for 4681 galaxies in the region common to both images utilizing the star formation rate...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)
Cannon, Russell, Drinkwater, Michael, Edge, Alastair, Eisenstein, Daniel, Nichol, Robert, Outram, Phillip, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)
Cannon, Russell, Drinkwater, Michael, Edge, Alastair, Eisenstein, Daniel, Nichol, Robert, Outram, Phillip, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
A MMT/Hectospec Redshift Survey of 24 Micron Sources in the Spitzer First Look Survey (2005)
Papovich, Casey, Cool, Richard, Eisenstein, Daniel, Floc'h, Emeric Le, Fan, Xiaohui, Kennicutt, Robert C., ...
We present a spectroscopic survey using the MMT/Hectospec fiber spectrograph of 24 micron sources selected with the Spitzer Space Telescope in the Spitzer First Look Survey. We report 1296 new...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: II. Constraints on the 4.0 (2005)
Richards, Gordon T., Haiman, Zoltan, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
We report on i-band snapshot observations of 157 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars at 4-4.63 obtained from the absence of lensing in four z>5.7 quasars. Such constraints are important for our...
Glazebrook, Karl, Eisenstein, Daniel, Dey, Arjun, Nichol, Bob
This white paper gives an overview of the proposed Gemini/Subaru Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrograph (WFMOS) and the proposed redshift surveys of 2.6 million galaxies with 0.5
Lyman Alpha Flux Power Spectrum and Its Covariance (2005)
Zhan, Hu, Dave, Romeel, Eisenstein, Daniel, Katz, Neal
We analyze the flux power spectrum and its covariance using simulated Lyman alpha forests. We find that pseudo-hydro techniques are good approximations of hydrodynamical simulations at high redshift....
The NICMOS Ultra Deep Field: Observations, Data Reduction, and Galaxy Photometry (2005)
Thompson, Rodger I., Illingworth, Garth, Bouwens, Rychard, Dickinson, Mark, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, ...
This paper describes the observations and data reduction techniques for the version 2.0 images and catalog of the NICMOS Ultra Deep Field Treasury program. All sources discussed in this paper are...
Covariance of the One-Dimensional Mass Power Spectrum (2004)
We analyse the covariance of the one-dimensional mass power spectrum along lines of sight. The covariance reveals the correlation between different modes of fluctuations in the cosmic density field...
Mid-Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies (2004)
Stern, Daniel, Eisenhardt, Peter, Gorjian, Varoujan, Kochanek, Christopher S., Caldwell, Nelson, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
Mid-infrared photometry provides a robust technique for identifying active galaxies. While the ultraviolet to mid-infrared continuum of normal galaxies is dominated by the composite stellar black...
A Helium White Dwarf of Extremely Low Mass (2004)
Liebert, James, Bergeron, P., Eisenstein, Daniel, Harris, H. C., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, ...
We analyze the spectrum of an unusually-low mass white dwarf, SDSSJ123410.37-022802.9 (0335-264-52000), found in our recent, white dwarf catalog from the SDSS DR1 data release. Two independent, model...
A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: I. The z>5.7 Sample (2003)
Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Pindor, Bartosz, Haiman, Zoltan, Fan, Xiaohui, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
Over the last few years, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has discovered several hundred quasars with redshift between 4.0 and 6.4. Including the effects of magnification bias, one expects a...
Inada, Naohisa, Becker, Robert H., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., Eisenstein, Daniel, Hall, Patrick B., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J092455.87+021924.9 (SDSS J0924+0219). This object was selected from among known SDSS quasars by...
Large-Scale Structure and Future Surveys (2003)
As the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey move toward completion, it is time to ask what the next generation of survey of large-scale structure should be. I discuss some of the...
Photometric Redshifts for the SDSS Early Data Release (2002)
Csabai, Istvan, Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Gyory, Zsuzsanna, Benitez, Narciso, ...
The Early Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky survey provides one of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently available to the astronomical community. In this paper we present the...
Estimating Fixed Frame Galaxy Magnitudes in the SDSS (2002)
Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, J., Csabai, Istvan, Doi, Mamoru, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fukugita, Masataka, ...
Broad-band measurements of flux for galaxies at different redshifts measure different regions of the rest-frame galaxy spectrum. Certain astronomical questions, such as the evolution of the...
Ivezic, Zeljko, Menou, Kristen, Knapp, Gillian R., Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We discuss the optical and radio properties of similar to30,000 FIRST (radio, 20 cm, sensitive to 1 mJy) sources positionally associated within 1."5 with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (optical,...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Annis, James, Gunn, James, Szalay, Alexander, Connolly, Andrew, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0108153 v1 9 Aug 2001
The Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Connolly, Andrew, Scranton, Ryan, Johnston, David, Dodelson, Scott, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Universe. In this Letter...
The Angular Power Spectrum of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Tegmark, Max, Dodelson, Scott, Eisenstein, Daniel, Narayanan, Vijay, Scoccimarro, Roman, ...
We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from 1.5 million galaxies in early SDSS data on large angular scales, l
Collaboration, SDSS, Szalay, Alexander S., Jain, Bhuvnesh, Matsubara, Takahiko, Scranton, Ryan, Vogeley, Michael S., ...
We present measurements of parameters of the 3-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering from 222 square degrees of early imaging data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The projected galaxy...
The 3D Power Spectrum from Angular Clustering of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data (2001)
Dodelson, Scott, Narayanan, Vijay K., Tegmark, Max, Scranton, Ryan, Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew, ...
Early photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) contain angular positions for 1.5 million galaxies. In companion papers, the angular correlation function $w(\theta)$ and 2D power...
Rodger I. Thompson, Garth Illingworth, Rychard Bouwens, Mark Dickinson, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, ...
This paper describes the observations and data reduction techniques for the version 2.0 images and catalog of the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Ultra Deep Field (NICMOS UDF)...
Degeneracy of the Peak Locations (1000)
Daniel Eisenstein, Max Tegmark, Matias Zaldarriaga, W. Hu
Measures dark energy smoothness Cosmic variance • CMB lensing Reconstruct large-scale potential Cross correlate with CMB Test dark energy particle properties