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Alex Merson
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 43
Citations - 4824
Alex Merson is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Redshift. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 43 publications receiving 4450 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex Merson include Durham University & Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Euclid Definition Study Report
René J. Laureijs,Jérôme Amiaux,S. Arduini,J.-L. Auguères,Jarle Brinchmann,R. Cole,Mark Cropper,Christophe Dabin,Ludovic Duvet,Anne Ealet,Bianca Garilli,Philippe Gondoin,Luigi Guzzo,J. Hoar,Henk Hoekstra,Rory Holmes,Thomas D. Kitching,T. Maciaszek,Yannick Mellier,F. Pasian,Will J. Percival,Jason Rhodes,G. Saavedra Criado,Marc Sauvage,Roberto Scaramella,Luca Valenziano,Stephen J. Warren,Ralf Bender,Francisco J. Castander,Alessandro Cimatti,O. Le Fèvre,Hannu Kurki-Suonio,Michael Levi,P. B. Lilje,Georges Meylan,Robert C. Nichol,Kristian Pedersen,V. Popa,R. Rebolo Lopez,Hans-Walter Rix,H. J. A. Röttgering,Werner W. Zeilinger,Frank Grupp,P. Hudelot,Richard Massey,Massimo Meneghetti,Lance Miller,Stéphane Paltani,Stephane Paulin-Henriksson,Sandrine Pires,Curtis J. Saxton,Tim Schrabback,Gregor Seidel,Jeremy R. Walsh,Nabila Aghanim,Luca Amendola,James G. Bartlett,Carlo Baccigalupi,J.-P. Beaulieu,K. Benabed,Jean-Gabriel Cuby,David Elbaz,Pablo Fosalba,Giuseppe Gavazzi,Amina Helmi,I. M. Hook,Michael G. Irwin,Jean-Paul Kneib,Martin Kunz,Filippo Mannucci,Lauro Moscardini,Charling Tao,Romain Teyssier,Jochen Weller,G. Zamorani,M. R. Zapatero Osorio,Olivier Boulade,J. J. Foumond,A. Di Giorgio,P. Guttridge,A. James,A. James,M. Kemp,J. Martignac,A. P. Spencer,D. Walton,T. Blümchen,Carlotta Bonoli,Favio Bortoletto,C. Cerna,Leonardo Corcione,Christophe Fabron,Knud Jahnke,Sebastiano Ligori,F. Madrid,Laurent Martin,Gianluca Morgante,Tony Pamplona,Eric Prieto,Marco Riva,R. Toledo,M. Trifoglio,Filippo Maria Zerbi,F. B. Abdalla,Marian Douspis,C. Grenet,Stefano Borgani,R. J. Bouwens,Frederic Courbin,J.-M. Delouis,Pierre Dubath,Adriano Fontana,M. Frailis,Andrea Grazian,J. Koppenhöfer,O. Mansutti,M. Melchior,M. Mignoli,Joseph J. Mohr,C. Neissner,K. Noddle,M. Poncet,Marco Scodeggio,Santiago Serrano,Neville Shane,Jean-Luc Starck,Christian Surace,Andy Taylor,G. Verdoes-Kleijn,Claudio Vuerli,O. R. Williams,Andrea Zacchei,Bruno Altieri,I. Escudero Sanz,R. Kohley,T. Oosterbroek,Pierre Astier,D. J. Bacon,S. Bardelli,Carlton M. Baugh,F. Bellagamba,C. Benoist,Davide Bianchi,Andrea Biviano,E. Branchini,Carmelita Carbone,Vincenzo F. Cardone,Dylan N. Clements,Stephane Colombi,Christopher J. Conselice,Giovanni Cresci,Niall R. Deacon,James Dunlop,Cosimo Fedeli,F. Fontanot,P. Franzetti,Carlo Giocoli,Juan Garcia-Bellido,Jason Gow,Alan Heavens,P. Hewett,Catherine Heymans,Andrew D. Holland,Zhuoyi Huang,Olivier Ilbert,Benjamin Joachimi,E. Jennins,Eamonn Kerins,Alina Kiessling,Donnacha Kirk,Rubina Kotak,Oliver Krause,Ofer Lahav,F. van Leeuwen,Julien Lesgourgues,Marco Lombardi,Manuela Magliocchetti,Kate Maguire,Elisabetta Majerotto,R. Maoli,Federico Marulli,Sophie Maurogordato,H. J. McCracken,Ross J. McLure,Alessandro Melchiorri,Alex Merson,Michele Moresco,Mario Nonino,Peder Norberg,John A. Peacock,R. Pello,Matthew T. Penny,Valeria Pettorino,C. Di Porto,Lucia Pozzetti,Claudia Quercellini,Mario Radovich,Anais Rassat,Nicolas J.-H. Roche,Samuel Ronayette,Emanuel Rossetti,Barbara Sartoris,Barbara Sartoris,Peter Schneider,Elisabetta Semboloni,Stephen Serjeant,Fergus Simpson,Constantinos Skordis,G. Smadja,Stephen J. Smartt,P. Spano,S. Spiro,Mark Sullivan,Andre Tilquin,Roberto Trotta,Licia Verde,Y. Wang,G. Williger,G. Zhao,Julien Zoubian,E. Zucca +220 more
TL;DR: Euclid as mentioned in this paper is a space-based survey mission from the European Space Agency designed to understand the origin of the universe's accelerating expansion, using cosmological probes to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by tracking their observational signatures.
Euclid Definition Study Report
René J. Laureijs,Jérôme Amiaux,S. Arduini,J.-L. Auguères,Jarle Brinchmann,R. Cole,Mark Cropper,Christophe Dabin,Ludovic Duvet,Anne Ealet,Bianca Garilli,Philippe Gondoin,Luigi Guzzo,J. Hoar,Henk Hoekstra,Rory Holmes,Thomas D. Kitching,T. Maciaszek,Yannick Mellier,F. Pasian,Will J. Percival,Jason Rhodes,G. Saavedra Criado,Marc Sauvage,Roberto Scaramella,Luca Valenziano,Stephen J. Warren,Ralf Bender,Francisco J. Castander,Alessandro Cimatti,O. Le Fèvre,Hannu Kurki-Suonio,Michael Levi,P. B. Lilje,Georges Meylan,Robert C. Nichol,Kristian Pedersen,V. Popa,R. Rebolo Lopez,Hans-Walter Rix,H. J. A. Röttgering,Werner W. Zeilinger,Frank Grupp,P. Hudelot,Richard Massey,Massimo Meneghetti,Lance Miller,Stéphane Paltani,Stephane Paulin-Henriksson,Sandrine Pires,Curtis J. Saxton,Tim Schrabback,Gregor Seidel,Jeremy R. Walsh,Nabila Aghanim,Luca Amendola,James G. Bartlett,Carlo Baccigalupi,J.-P. Beaulieu,K. Benabed,Jean-Gabriel Cuby,David Elbaz,Pablo Fosalba,Giuseppe Gavazzi,Amina Helmi,I. M. Hook,Michael G. Irwin,Jean-Paul Kneib,Martin Kunz,Filippo Mannucci,Lauro Moscardini,Charling Tao,Romain Teyssier,Jochen Weller,G. Zamorani,M. R. Zapatero Osorio,Olivier Boulade,J. J. Foumond,A. Di Giorgio,P. Guttridge,A. James,A. James,M. Kemp,J. Martignac,A. P. Spencer,D. Walton,T. Blümchen,Carlotta Bonoli,Favio Bortoletto,C. Cerna,Leonardo Corcione,Christophe Fabron,Knud Jahnke,Sebastiano Ligori,F. Madrid,Laurent Martin,Gianluca Morgante,Tony Pamplona,Eric Prieto,Marco Riva,R. Toledo,M. Trifoglio,Filippo Maria Zerbi,F. B. Abdalla,Marian Douspis,C. Grenet,Stefano Borgani,R. J. Bouwens,Frederic Courbin,J.-M. Delouis,Pierre Dubath,Adriano Fontana,M. Frailis,Andrea Grazian,J. Koppenhöfer,O. Mansutti,M. Melchior,M. Mignoli,Joseph J. Mohr,C. Neissner,K. Noddle,M. Poncet,Marco Scodeggio,Santiago Serrano,Neville Shane,Jean-Luc Starck,Christian Surace,Andy Taylor,G. Verdoes-Kleijn,Claudio Vuerli,O. R. Williams,Andrea Zacchei,Bruno Altieri,I. Escudero Sanz,R. Kohley,T. Oosterbroek,Pierre Astier,D. J. Bacon,S. Bardelli,Carlton M. Baugh,F. Bellagamba,C. Benoist,Davide Bianchi,Andrea Biviano,E. Branchini,Carmelita Carbone,Vincenzo F. Cardone,Dylan N. Clements,Stephane Colombi,Christopher J. Conselice,Giovanni Cresci,Niall R. Deacon,James Dunlop,Cosimo Fedeli,F. Fontanot,P. Franzetti,Carlo Giocoli,Juan Garcia-Bellido,Jason Gow,Alan Heavens,P. Hewett,Catherine Heymans,Andrew D. Holland,Zhuoyi Huang,Olivier Ilbert,Benjamin Joachimi,E. Jennins,Eamonn Kerins,Alina Kiessling,Donnacha Kirk,Rubina Kotak,Oliver Krause,Ofer Lahav,F. van Leeuwen,Julien Lesgourgues,Marco Lombardi,Manuela Magliocchetti,Kate Maguire,Elisabetta Majerotto,R. Maoli,Federico Marulli,Sophie Maurogordato,H. J. McCracken,Ross J. McLure,Alessandro Melchiorri,Alex Merson,Michele Moresco,Mario Nonino,Peder Norberg,John A. Peacock,R. Pello,Matthew T. Penny,Valeria Pettorino,C. Di Porto,Lucia Pozzetti,Claudia Quercellini,Mario Radovich,Anais Rassat,Nicolas J.-H. Roche,Samuel Ronayette,Emanuel Rossetti,Barbara Sartoris,Barbara Sartoris,Peter Schneider,Elisabetta Semboloni,Stephen Serjeant,Fergus Simpson,Constantinos Skordis,G. Smadja,Stephen J. Smartt,P. Spano,S. Spiro,Mark Sullivan,Andre Tilquin,Roberto Trotta,Licia Verde,Y. Wang,G. Williger,G. Zhao,Julien Zoubian,E. Zucca +220 more
TL;DR: Euclid as discussed by the authors is a space-based survey mission from the European Space Agency designed to understand the origin of the universe's accelerating expansion, using cosmological probes to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by tracking their observational signatures.
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The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview
T. M. C. Abbott,F. B. Abdalla,Jelena Aleksić,S. Allam,Adam Amara,David Bacon,Eduardo Balbinot,Manda Banerji,Keith Bechtol,A. Benoit-Lévy,A. Benoit-Lévy,Gary Bernstein,E. Bertin,Jonathan Blazek,C. Bonnett,Sarah Bridle,David Brooks,Robert J. Brunner,Robert J. Brunner,E. Buckley-Geer,D. L. Burke,D. L. Burke,G. B. Caminha,Diego Capozzi,J. Carlsen,A. Carnero-Rosell,Marcella Carollo,M. Carrasco-Kind,M. Carrasco-Kind,J. Carretero,J. Carretero,Francisco J. Castander,L. Clerkin,Thomas E. Collett,Christopher J. Conselice,Martin Crocce,Carlos E. Cunha,C. B. D'Andrea,L. N. da Costa,Tamara M. Davis,Shantanu Desai,H. T. Diehl,J. P. Dietrich,Scott Dodelson,Scott Dodelson,Peter Doel,Alex Drlica-Wagner,Juan Estrada,J. Etherington,August E. Evrard,J. Fabbri,D. A. Finley,B. Flaugher,Ryan J. Foley,Pablo Fosalba,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Juan Garcia-Bellido,Enrique Gaztanaga,D. W. Gerdes,Tommaso Giannantonio,Daniel A. Goldstein,Daniel A. Goldstein,Daniel Gruen,Daniel Gruen,Robert A. Gruendl,Robert A. Gruendl,P. Guarnieri,G. Gutierrez,William G. Hartley,K. Honscheid,Bhuvnesh Jain,David J. James,Tesla E. Jeltema,Stephanie Jouvel,Richard Kessler,A. L. King,Donnacha Kirk,Richard G. Kron,Kyler Kuehn,Nikolay Kuropatkin,Ofer Lahav,Tianjun Li,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Marcio A. G. Maia,Martin Makler,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Jennifer L. Marshall,Paul Martini,Richard G. McMahon,Peter Melchior,Alex Merson,Christopher J. Miller,Ramon Miquel,Ramon Miquel,Joseph J. Mohr,Xan Morice-Atkinson,Krishna Naidoo,Eric H. Neilsen,Robert C. Nichol,Brian Nord,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,F. Ostrovski,Antonella Palmese,A. Papadopoulos,A. Papadopoulos,Hiranya V. Peiris,John Peoples,Will J. Percival,A. A. Plazas,S. L. Reed,Alexandre Refregier,A. K. Romer,A. Roodman,A. Roodman,Ashley J. Ross,Eduardo Rozo,Eli S. Rykoff,Eli S. Rykoff,I. Sadeh,M. Sako,C. Sánchez,E. J. Sanchez,Basilio X. Santiago,V. Scarpine,Michael Schubnell,I. Sevilla-Noarbe,Erin Sheldon,Mathew Smith,Robert Connon Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,Flavia Sobreira,Maayane T. Soumagnac,E. Suchyta,Mark Sullivan,M. E. C. Swanson,G. Tarle,Jon J Thaler,Daniel Thomas,Daniel Thomas,R. C. Thomas,Douglas L. Tucker,Joaquin Vieira,Joaquin Vieira,Vinu Vikram,Alistair R. Walker,Risa H. Wechsler,Risa H. Wechsler,Jochen Weller,W. C. Wester,L. Whiteway,H. Wilcox,Brian Yanny,Yanming Zhang,Joe Zuntz +156 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the results of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2019 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): the GAMA galaxy group catalogue (G3Cv1)
Aaron S. G. Robotham,Peder Norberg,Simon P. Driver,Simon P. Driver,Ivan K. Baldry,Steven P. Bamford,Andrew M. Hopkins,Jochen Liske,Jon Loveday,Alex Merson,John A. Peacock,Sarah Brough,Ewan Cameron,Christopher J. Conselice,Scott M. Croom,Carlos S. Frenk,Madusha Gunawardhana,David T. Hill,David Heath Jones,Lee S. Kelvin,Koen H. Kuijken,Robert C. Nichol,H Parkinson,Kevin A. Pimbblet,Steven Phillipps,Cristina Popescu,Matthew Prescott,Rob Sharp,William J. Sutherland,Edward N. Taylor,Daniel Thomas,Richard J. Tuffs,E. van Kampen,D. Wijesinghe +33 more
TL;DR: Using the complete Galaxy and Mass Assembly I (GAMA-I) survey covering ∼142 deg2 to rAB= 194, of which ∼47 deg2 is to RAB= 198, the G3Cv1 catalogue as mentioned in this paper was created using a friends-of-friends (FoF) based grouping algorithm.
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Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation – I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection
Alex Merson,Alex Merson,Carlton M. Baugh,John C. Helly,Violeta Gonzalez-Perez,Shaun Cole,R. M. Bielby,Peder Norberg,Carlos S. Frenk,Andrew J. Benson,Richard G. Bower,Cedric G. Lacey,Claudia del P. Lagos +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, a method for constructing end-to-end mock galaxy catalogues using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, applied to the halo merger trees extracted from a cosmological N-body simulation, is presented.