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AstroPh:0211068 - Phoenix Deep Survery - 2000 sources @1.4GHz to 60µJy in 4.56 sq.deg - estimated 0<z<1
<a class="interwikiLink" href="https://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301457" title="'0301457' on astro-ph preprint archive">AstroPh:0301457 - UCDs - ultra-compact-dwarfs - the result of a dwarf elliptical being stripped of 99% of its luminosity by tidal stripping inside of a cluster (Fornax cluster) - Gregg, Drinkwater et al.
AstroPh:0310661 - population evolution of K-band hyperluminous galaxies (HLIRGs) similar to most luminous radiogalaxies?
AstroPh:0301427 - FIRBACK observations of 0.4<z<0.9 ultraluminous galaxies which contribute to the [CIB]
AstroPh:0401032 - Some Current Issues in Galaxy Formation (June 2003) excellent short review - Joe Silk
AstroPh:0211074 - HST observations of BCGs and inferences for density profiles
AstroPh:0307362 - in CDM models cannot destroy satellite galaxies sufficiently to match observations of UltraCompactDwarfs - S. Kazantzidis, B. Moore, L. Mayer
AstroPh:0310660 - The origin and tidal evolution of cuspy triaxial haloes - Ben Moore, Stelios Kazantzidis, Juerg Diemand, Joachim Stadel
AstroPh:0311155 - lack of small-scale power leads to artificially cuspy haloes? Discreteness effects in cosmological N-body simulations - Binney
AstroPh:0310593 - WMAP => reionisation at z=20 => need early star formation => either "extreme assumptions" or a component of isocurvature fluctuations - Naoshi Sugiyama, Saleem Zaroubi, Joseph Silk
AstroPh:0307539 - models (simulations) fail to match observed (z < 0.13) evolution in cluster eccentricities - Stephen Floor, Adrian Melott, Patrick Motl
AstroPh:0405514 - cooling flows from SMBH heating? Yutaka Fujita (NAOJ), Thomas H. Reiprich (UVa)
missing baryons
ArXiv:1102.0201 - Have the missing cosmic baryons been found? Ehud Behar, Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, Ari Laor
AstroPh:0211095 - use of CMB polarisation towards clusters to detect the WikiPedia:Integrated_sachs_wolfe Effect as a function of redshift, and hence some DE constraints
AstroPh:0211100 - SNeIa seen in the near-infrared H band may be better standard candles
AstroPh:0211084 - geometrical diagnostic for DE - Sahni et al.
reverberation mapping - AstroPh:0211385 - using BELR of quasars as physical coordinate standard ruler, idea implemented since about 5 years ago in dedicated telescope by 吉井 (Yoshii)'s MagnumProject in Japan
AstroPh:0311622 N=194 SNe rule out flat Universe at 90% significance - Tirth + Paddy, AstroPh:0311622 similar results, include 14 HST SNe with 1 < z < 1.5
AstroPh:0312424 X-ray clusters/SZ seem to favour wQ < -1 Alcaniz
AstroPh:0405282 DAMA/NaI 7 year results look good for having detected CDM - only problem is deciding which particle - Bernabei et al Gran Sasso
AstroPh:0501412 new comparison with other direct detection experiments, DAMA/LIBRA new experiment running since March 2003
AstroPh:0404205 Have Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes Observed Dark Matter? - Dan Hooper, Ignacio de la Calle Perez, Joseph Silk, Francesc Ferrer, Subir Sarkar
AstroPh:0211067 - evidence for mirror matter from Eros??? - Foot, R. Mitra
AstroPh:0403043 - claim that mirror matter H' or He' halo with some O' better fits DAMA/NaI energy spectrum than WIMPs - Foot
HepPh:0402267 - Ωb to Ωm from mirror matter implies ~1eV scale suggests relation to neutrino oscillations - Foot, Volkas
AstroPh:0507153 - Evolutionary and structural properties of mirror star MACHOs - Zurab Berezhiani, Santi Cassisi, Paolo Ciarcelluti, Adriano Pietrinferni
DE candidate: casimir energy
GrQc:0406056 casimir energy from scalar field frozen in at Planck time gives ΩΛ today - Unnikrishnan
inhomogeneous (e.g. LTB etc.) calculations
ArXiv:0905.3342 On the relation between positive averaged acceleration and physical observables in LTB spaces - Antonio Enea Romano, Misao Sasaki
ArXiv:1003.1043 Marco Regis, Chris Clarkson (Cape Town) Do primordial Lithium abundances imply there's no Dark Energy? - Lithium-7 and eta=baryon/photon ratio problem accounted for in toy inhomogeneous model - Li7 is observed on our past world line, while extragalactic observations are observed on our past time cone, giving a method of estimating inhomogeneity effects
ArXiv:1005.2165review Inhomogeneity and the foundations of concordance cosmology, Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens
ArXiv:1104.2590 The growth of structure in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models and the matter-dominated era, Mustapha Ishak, Austin Peel
ArXiv:1106.1693 What is dust? - Physical foundations of the averaging problem in cosmology, CQG review paper, David L. Wiltshire
ArXiv:1103.1146 Global gravitational instability of FLRW backgrounds --- interpreting the dark sectors - Xavier Roy, Thomas Buchert, Sante Carloni, Nathaniel Obadia
AstroPh:0311247 - Partial rip scenario - a cosmology with a growing cosmological term - Hrvoje Stefancic
AstroPh:0405200 - time and the radial components of the energy momentum tensor for a Schwarzschild metric are equal - applying the same property to cosmology gives a cosmo constant - Yukio Tomozawa
HepTh:0406060 - Vacuum Fluctuations of Energy Density can lead to the observed Cosmological Constant - Thanu Padmanabhan
GrQc:0407070 - Searching for a solution to the cosmological constant problem - a toy model - Wojciech P. Tarkowski (St Paul Research Lab, Warszawa)
AstroPh:0409073 - Dynamics of the Universe with global rotation - Wlodzimierz Godlowski, Marek Szydlowski (Krakow)
AstroPh:0412010 - Undulant Universe - Gabriela Barenboim, Olga Mena, Chris Quigg
AstroPh:0505202 - Equation of state for Universe from the first principles - Marek Szydlowski, Wlodzimierz Godlowski, Radoslaw Wojtak
DE, acceleration vs deceleration, the Big Crunch
AstroPh:0302357 - a decelerating universe is consistent with SNeIa and CMB (including WMAP) data - Vishwakarma
AstroPh:0301087 - Does DE become negative in the future for supergravity and many other M-theory models? - Kallosh, Linde
DE and curvature with WMAP - negative curvature still possible - Aurich, Steiner
neutrinos
AstroPh:0211106 - detecting neutrinos via observational cosmology??? - Hannestad
ArXiv:0905.2508 - Direct Detection of the Primordial Inflationary Gravitational Waves + OmegaGW from cosmic strings, string cosmology, Wei-Tou Ni , GRF2009 essay
low-medium z
ArXiv:1011.6292 Colin et al. - Probing the anisotropic local universe and beyond with SNe Ia data
power spectrum of density perturbations
AstroPh:0211090 - calibration of σ8 from better simulations applied to observations - Viana et al.
AstroPh:0301641 - inverse approach for an N-body simulation - reconstructing the initial density perturbations from "present-day" observational data - Nice group + Matarrese
AstroPh:0306206 - high blazar contribution to l=500 (20-50%) up to l=800 (50-100%) of WMAP, Boomerang
AstroPh:0312174 - P(k) from WMAP has infrared cutoff and is lumpy - Shafieloo, Souradeep
power spectrum method
AstroPh:0307515 - unbiased hybrid estimator that combines a maximum likelihood estimator at low multipoles and pseudo-Cl estimates at high multipoles - G. Efstathiou
ArXiv:1009.4937 Effects of a Cut, Lorentz-Boosted sky on the Angular Power Spectrum - Authors: Thiago S. Pereira, Amanda Yoho, Maik Stuke, Glenn D. Starkman
CMB measurements
ArXiv:0807.0773 - a better all-sky CMB map than Tegmark et al. and ILC etc. - Jacques Delabrouille et al.
ArXiv:1106.5383 - A needlet ILC analysis of WMAP 7-year data: estimation of CMB temperature map and power spectrum - Authors: Soumen Basak, Jacques Delabrouille
AstroPh:0305248 - non-Gaussianity tests - Raeth, P. Schuecker
AstroPh:0405519 - WMAP 1yr bispectrum against Gaussianity (frequentist test), inconsistency with other tests - Kate Land, Joao Magueijo
AstroPh:0310273 - Detection of non-Gaussianity in the WMAP 1-year data using spherical wavelets - P. Vielva, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, R. B. Barreiro, J. L. Sanz, L. Cayon
AstroPh:0402602 - Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity - Pia Mukherjee, Yun Wang
AstroPh:0409397 - Foreground contributions (correlated with cosmic ray distributions) to the Cosmic Microwave Background - Tadeusz Wibig, Arnold W. Wolfendale
AstroPh:0310511 - multipole vector analysis of WMAP data in favour of non-Gaussianity and cross-correlations of fluctuations on scales
AstroPh:0310542, AstroPh:0310601 - low multipoles in WMAP ILC (internal linear combination) map are non-poissonian and contain foreground residues - P.D. Naselsky, A.G. Doroshkevich, O.V. Verkhodanov
HepTh:0311059 Influence of Super-Horizon Scales on Cosmological Observables Generated during Inflation - Matarrese, Musso, Riotto
AstroPh:0405544 low multipoles natural (no fudging) from stochastic inflation - M. Liguori, S. Matarrese (Univ. of Padova and INFN), M. Musso (Univ. of Pavia and INFN), A. Riotto
AstroPh:0403597 hyperbolic models with long "horns" do not create flat spots; Picard model (hyperbolic) matches WMAP data - Aurich et al.
AstroPh:0412407 hyperbolic Picard model matches WMAP 1st year data - R. Aurich, S. Lustig, F. Steiner, H. Then
AstroPh:0501189 shape of space post-WMAP review talk, Luminet
AstroPh:0511726 Holger Then - Are the existing CMB maps sufficiently accurate for the matched circle test?
AstroPh:0601445 Rakic, Rasanen, Schwarz - Microwave sky and the local Rees-Sciama effect - low multiples probably not from Rees-Sciama effect
AstroPh:0606266 Campanelli, L.; Cea, P.; Tedesco, L. - Ellipsoidal Universe Can Solve The CMB Quadrupole Problem
2011
ArXiv:1103.1466 An improved cosmic crystallography method to detect holonomies in flat spaces - Hirokazu Fujii, Yuzuru Yoshii
ArXiv:1104.0015 The Topology and Size of the Universe from the Cosmic Microwave Background (T^3, T^2, T^1, R^3 models) - Grigor Aslanyan, Aneesh V. Manohar
The Missing Fluctuations Problem
AstroPh:0403353 low multipoles from Oort cloud (outer solar system)? - Dominik J. Schwarz (CERN), Glenn D. Starkman (CERN, Case Western Reserve University), Dragan Huterer (CWRU), Craig J. Copi
AstroPh:0508047 C. J. Copi, D. Huterer, D. J. Schwarz, G. D. Starkman - On the large-angle anomalies of the microwave sky
AstroPh:0905.3324 Too few spots in the Cosmic Microwave Background - Youness Ayaita, Maik Weber, Christof Wetterich
ArXiv:1310.2822 - Two-point Correlation Function of WMAP 9 year data - A.Gruppuso - confirms zero correlation on large scales in WMAP9 data, calculated indirectly (starting from 's)
ArXiv:1310.3831 - Lack of large-angle TT correlations persists in WMAP and Planck - Craig J. Copi, Dragan Huterer, Dominik J. Schwarz, Glenn D. Starkman
curvature constraints
predictions: How flat can you get? Vardanyan, Trotta, Silk ArXiv:0901.3354
cosmic topology theory (or what might be the start of a theory)
GrQc:0310002 Peaks in the Hartle-Hawking Wave Function from Sums over Topologies (some 3-manifolds are much more likely than others) - Anderson, Carlip, Ratcliffe, Surya, Tschantz
HepTh:0408164 - Creation of a Compact Topologically Nontrivial Inflationary Universe- Linde
ArXiv:1106.0727 Standard model with compactified spatial dimensions - Bartosz Fornal, Mark B. Wise = particle physics approach
ArXiv:1107.2557 Topological Casimir effect in compactified cosmic string spacetime Authors: E.R. Bezerra de Mello, A.A. Saharian
cosmic strings - possible detections
AstroPh:0410073 - Kibble discusses new interest in cosmic strings, and the two following observational hints. The first one seems quite serious, at first glance:
AstroPh:0502412 metric-affine gravity (MAG) Complementary constraints on non-standard cosmological models from CMB and BBN - Adam Krawiec, Marek Szydlowski, Wlodzimierz Godlowski
AstroPh:0306523 inflationary parameters and primordial perturbation spectra - nice intro by David Wands
ArXiv:0906.0134 - Geometrical order-of-magnitude estimates for spatial curvature in realistic models of the Universe - Buchert, Ellis, van Elst - Newtonian gravity is inaccurate for open clusters in our Galaxy, and for galaxies in a galaxy cluster
LQC: Loop Quantum Cosmology
arXiv:1108.0893 Loop Quantum Cosmology: A Status Report, Authors: Abhay Ashtekar, Parampreet Singh
other
AstroPh:0310764 - observational constraints (OH, HCO+, HI) on evolution of fundamental constants #α, the proton g-factor gp and y=me/mp - Jayaram Chengalur, Nissim Kanekar
AstroPh:0211402 - observational constraints on quantisation of time (Planck time, around t=10-43s)
GrQc:0301070 - observational constraints on theology via gravitational lensing by CTCs (wormholes)
AstroPh:0302131 - Meta-Theory of Everything - Max Tegmark - this is fun stuff, but not careful like GFR Ellis et al's analysis AstroPh:0305292
GrQc:0307112, GrQc:0211082 - a singularity-free inflationary universe the Emergent Universe - George F.R. Ellis, Jeff Murugan, Christos G. Tsagas, Roy Maartens
AstroPh:0305292 - Multiverses and physical cosmology - G.F.R. Ellis, U. Kirchner, W.R. Stoeger - very clear discussion
GrQc:0605049 George FR Ellis - Physics in the Real Universe: Time and Spacetime - spacetime viewpoint vs "evolving" (with time) viewpoint
ArXiv:0806.0397 J. Ambjorn, J. Jurkiewicz, R. Loll - The Self-Organized de Sitter Universe