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Michael L. Brown
Researcher at University of Manchester
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Citations - 15639
Michael L. Brown is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmic microwave background & Weak gravitational lensing. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 222 publications receiving 13692 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael L. Brown include University of Edinburgh & University of Cambridge.
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Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
Peter A. R. Ade,Nabila Aghanim,M. I. R. Alves,C. Armitage-Caplan,Monique Arnaud,M. Ashdown,Fernando Atrio-Barandela,J. Aumont,Herve Aussel,Carlo Baccigalupi,A. J. Banday,A. J. Banday,R. B. Barreiro,R. Barrena,Matthias Bartelmann,James G. Bartlett,James G. Bartlett,N. Bartolo,Soumen Basak,E. Battaner,Richard A. Battye,K. Benabed,Alain Benoit,A. Benoit-Lévy,A. Benoit-Lévy,J.-P. Bernard,J.-P. Bernard,Marco Bersanelli,Marco Bersanelli,B. Bertincourt,Matthieu Béthermin,P. Bielewicz,P. Bielewicz,I. F. Bikmaev,Alain Blanchard,Jérôme Bobin,James J. Bock,Hans Böhringer,Anna Bonaldi,Laura Bonavera,J. R. Bond,Julian Borrill,Julian Borrill,François R. Bouchet,F. Boulanger,Hervé Bourdin,J. W. Bowyer,M. Bridges,Michael L. Brown,M. Bucher,R. A. Burenin,Carlo Burigana,Carlo Burigana,R. C. Butler,Erminia Calabrese,B. Cappellini,Jean-François Cardoso,Jean-François Cardoso,Jean-François Cardoso,R. Carr,P. Carvalho,M. Casale,G. Castex,A. Catalano,A. Catalano,Anthony Challinor,A. Chamballu,A. Chamballu,A. Chamballu,Ranga-Ram Chary,Xun Chen,H. C. Chiang,H. C. Chiang,Lung-Yih Chiang,Gayoung Chon,P. R. Christensen,E. Churazov,Sarah E. Church,Marcel Clemens,David L. Clements,S. Colombi,L. P. L. Colombo,L. P. L. Colombo,C. Combet,Barbara Comis,F. Couchot,A. Coulais,B. P. Crill,M. Cruz,A. Curto,A. Curto,F. Cuttaia,A. Da Silva,Håkon Dahle,Luigi Danese,R. D. Davies,R. J. Davis,P. de Bernardis,A. de Rosa,G. de Zotti,G. de Zotti,T. Déchelette,Jacques Delabrouille,J.-M. Delouis,J. Démoclès,F.-X. Désert,J. Dick,Clive Dickinson,Jose M. Diego,Klaus Dolag,H. Dole,H. Dole,S. Donzelli,Olivier Doré,Marian Douspis,A. Ducout,A. Ducout,Joanna Dunkley,X. Dupac,George Efstathiou,F. Elsner,F. Elsner,Torsten A. Enßlin,H. K. Eriksen,O. Fabre,E. Falgarone,M. C. Falvella,Yabebal Fantaye,James R. Fergusson,C. Filliard,Fabio Finelli,I. Flores-Cacho,I. Flores-Cacho,Suzanne Foley,Olivier Forni,Olivier Forni,Pablo Fosalba,M. Frailis,A. A. Fraisse,E. Franceschi,M. Freschi,S. Fromenteau,S. Fromenteau,M. Frommert,Todd Gaier,S. Galeotta,J. E. Gallegos,S. Galli,B. Gandolfo,K. Ganga,C. Gauthier,C. Gauthier,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Tuhin Ghosh,M. Giard,M. Giard,G. Giardino,Marat Gilfanov,D. Girard,Y. Giraud-Héraud,E. Gjerløw,J. González-Nuevo,J. González-Nuevo,Krzysztof M. Gorski,Krzysztof M. Gorski,Serge Gratton,A. Gregorio,Alessandro Gruppuso,Jon E. Gudmundsson,J. Haissinski,Jan Hamann,F. K. Hansen,Magnus Hansen,Duncan Hanson,Duncan Hanson,Duncan Hanson,D. L. Harrison,Alan Heavens,George Helou,A. Hempel,A. Hempel,Sophie Henrot-Versille,C. Hernández-Monteagudo,D. Herranz,S. R. Hildebrandt,E. Hivon,Shirley Ho,Michael P. Hobson,W. A. Holmes,Allan Hornstrup,Z. Hou,W. Hovest,G. Huey,Kevin M. Huffenberger,G. Hurier,S. Ilić,Andrew H. Jaffe,T. R. Jaffe,T. R. Jaffe,Jens Jasche,Jeffrey Jewell,W. C. Jones,Mika Juvela,Peter M. W. Kalberla,Pekka Kangaslahti,E. Keihänen,J. Kerp,Reijo Keskitalo,Reijo Keskitalo,Irek Khamitov,Irek Khamitov,K. Kiiveri,J. Kim,Theodore Kisner,R. Kneissl,R. Kneissl,J. Knoche,Lloyd Knox,Martin Kunz,Martin Kunz,Martin Kunz,Hannu Kurki-Suonio,F. Lacasa,Guilaine Lagache,Anne Lähteenmäki,Anne Lähteenmäki,J.-M. Lamarre,Mathieu Langer,Anthony Lasenby,Massimiliano Lattanzi,René J. Laureijs,A. Lavabre,Charles R. Lawrence,M. Le Jeune,S. Leach,J. P. Leahy,R. Leonardi,Jonathan León-Tavares,Jonathan León-Tavares,Claude Leroy,Claude Leroy,Claude Leroy,Julien Lesgourgues,Julien Lesgourgues,Antony Lewis,C. Li,Andrew R. Liddle,Andrew R. Liddle,Michele Liguori,P. B. Lilje,M. Linden-Vørnle,V. Lindholm,M. López-Caniego,S. R. Lowe,Philip Lubin,J. F. Macías-Pérez,C. J. MacTavish,Bruno Maffei,G. Maggio,Davide Maino,Davide Maino,N. Mandolesi,N. Mandolesi,A. Mangilli,A. Mangilli,A. Marcos-Caballero,Domenico Marinucci,M. Maris,Francine R. Marleau,Douglas J. Marshall,Peter G. Martin,E. Martínez-González,Silvia Masi,Marcella Massardi,Sabino Matarrese,Tomotake Matsumura,F. Matthai,Loïc Maurin,Pasquale Mazzotta,A. B. McDonald,Jason D. McEwen,P. M. McGehee,Simona Mei,Simona Mei,Simona Mei,Peter Meinhold,Alessandro Melchiorri,Jean-Baptiste Melin,L. Mendes,Eloisa Menegoni,A. Mennella,A. Mennella,M. Migliaccio,K. Mikkelsen,Marius Millea,R. Miniscalco,Subhabrata Mitra,Subhabrata Mitra,M.-A. Miville-Deschênes,M.-A. Miville-Deschênes,Diego Molinari,Diego Molinari,A. Moneti,L. Montier,L. Montier,Gianluca Morgante,N. Morisset,Daniel J. Mortlock,Adam Moss,Dipak Munshi,J. A. Murphy,Pavel Naselsky,Federico Nati,Paolo Natoli,Paolo Natoli,Mattia Negrello,Nicole P. H. Nesvadba,Calvin B. Netterfield,Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen,C. North,F. Noviello,Dmitry Novikov,I. D. Novikov,I. J. O'Dwyer,François Orieux,S. Osborne,Créidhe O'Sullivan,C. A. Oxborrow,F. Paci,L. Pagano,F. Pajot,Roberta Paladini,S. Pandolfi,Daniela Paoletti,Bruce Partridge,F. Pasian,G. Patanchon,P. Paykari,David Pearson,T. J. Pearson,Michael W. Peel,Hiranya V. Peiris,O. Perdereau,L. Perotto,Francesca Perrotta,Valeria Pettorino,F. Piacentini,M. Piat,E. Pierpaoli,Davide Pietrobon,Stéphane Plaszczynski,P. Platania,Dmitry Pogosyan,Etienne Pointecouteau,Etienne Pointecouteau,G. Polenta,Nicolas Ponthieu,Nicolas Ponthieu,L. Popa,T. Poutanen,T. Poutanen,G. W. Pratt,G. Prézeau,Simon Prunet,J.-L. Puget,Anthony R. Pullen,Jörg P. Rachen,B. Racine,Alexandra S. Rahlin,Christoph Räth,William T. Reach,Rafael Rebolo,Rafael Rebolo,M. Reinecke,Mathieu Remazeilles,Mathieu Remazeilles,Mathieu Remazeilles,C. Renault,A. Renzi,A. Riazuelo,S. Ricciardi,T. Riller,Christophe Ringeval,Christophe Ringeval,I. Ristorcelli,I. Ristorcelli,Georg Robbers,Graca Rocha,Matthieu Roman,C. Rosset,Mariachiara Rossetti,Mariachiara Rossetti,G. Roudier,G. Roudier,G. Roudier,M. Rowan-Robinson,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,B. Ruiz-Granados,Ben Rusholme,Emanuele Salerno,M. Sandri,L. Sanselme,D. Santos,M. Savelainen,Giorgio Savini,B. M. Schaefer,F. Schiavon,Douglas Scott,Michael Seiffert,Paolo Serra,E. P. S. Shellard,Kendrick M. Smith,George F. Smoot,George F. Smoot,George F. Smoot,Tarun Souradeep,Locke D. Spencer,Jean-Luc Starck,V. Stolyarov,V. Stolyarov,V. Stolyarov,Radek Stompor,Rashmikant V. Sudiwala,R. A. Sunyaev,Florent Sureau,Paul M. Sutter,D. Sutton,A.-S. Suur-Uski,J.-F. Sygnet,J. A. Tauber,D. Tavagnacco,David Taylor,Luca Terenzi,D. Texier,L. Toffolatti,L. Toffolatti,L. Toffolatti,M. Tomasi,J. P. Torre,M. Tristram,M. Tucci,J. Tuovinen,Marc Türler,M. Tuttlebee,G. Umana,Luca Valenziano,Jussi-Pekka Väliviita,Jussi-Pekka Väliviita,B. Van Tent,Jussi Varis,L. Vibert,Matteo Viel,P. Vielva,Fabrizio Villa,Nicola Vittorio,L. A. Wade,Benjamin D. Wandelt,Benjamin D. Wandelt,C. Watson,Robert A. Watson,Ingunn Kathrine Wehus,Niraj Welikala,Jochen Weller,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,Althea Wilkinson,Benjamin Winkel,Jun-Qing Xia,D. Yvon,Andrea Zacchei,J. P. Zibin,Andrea Zonca +472 more
TL;DR: The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14 May 2009 and has been scanning the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously since 12 August 2009 as discussed by the authors.
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The Simons Observatory : Science goals and forecasts
Peter A. R. Ade,James E. Aguirre,Z. Ahmed,Simone Aiola,Simone Aiola,Aamir Ali,David Alonso,David Alonso,Marcelo A. Alvarez,Marcelo A. Alvarez,Kam Arnold,Peter Ashton,Peter Ashton,Peter Ashton,Jason E. Austermann,Humna Awan,Carlo Baccigalupi,Taylor Baildon,Darcy Barron,Darcy Barron,Nick Battaglia,Nick Battaglia,Richard A. Battye,Eric J. Baxter,A. O. Bazarko,James A. Beall,Rachel Bean,D. Beck,S. Beckman,Benjamin Beringue,Federico Bianchini,Steven Boada,D. Boettger,J. Richard Bond,Julian Borrill,Julian Borrill,Michael L. Brown,Sarah Marie Bruno,Sean Bryan,Erminia Calabrese,Victoria Calafut,P. Calisse,P. Calisse,Julien Carron,Anthony Challinor,Grace E. Chesmore,Yuji Chinone,Yuji Chinone,Jens Chluba,Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho,Steve K. Choi,Gabriele Coppi,Nicholas F. Cothard,Kevin Coughlin,Devin Crichton,Kevin D. Crowley,Kevin T. Crowley,A. Cukierman,A. Cukierman,John M. D'Ewart,Rolando Dünner,Tijmen de Haan,Tijmen de Haan,Mark J. Devlin,Simon Dicker,Joy Didier,Matt Dobbs,Bradley Dober,Cody J. Duell,Shannon M. Duff,Adri Duivenvoorden,Jo Dunkley,John E. Dusatko,Josquin Errard,Giulio Fabbian,Stephen M. Feeney,Simone Ferraro,Pedro Fluxa,Katherine Freese,Katherine Freese,Josef Frisch,Andrei V. Frolov,George M. Fuller,Brittany Fuzia,Nicholas Galitzki,Patricio A. Gallardo,José T. Gálvez Ghersi,Jiansong Gao,Eric Gawiser,Martina Gerbino,Vera Gluscevic,Vera Gluscevic,Neil Goeckner-Wald,Joseph E. Golec,Sam Gordon,Megan Gralla,Daniel Green,Arpi Grigorian,John Groh,Christopher Groppi,Yilun Guan,Jon E. Gudmundsson,Dongwon Han,Peter Charles Hargrave,Masaya Hasegawa,Matthew Hasselfield,Makoto Hattori,Victor Haynes,Masashi Hazumi,Masashi Hazumi,Yizhou He,Erin Healy,S. Henderson,C. Hervias-Caimapo,Charles A. Hill,Charles A. Hill,J. Colin Hill,J. Colin Hill,Gene C. Hilton,Matt Hilton,Adam D. Hincks,Adam D. Hincks,Gary Hinshaw,Renée Hložek,Shirley Ho,Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho,L. Howe,Zhiqi Huang,Johannes Hubmayr,Kevin M. Huffenberger,John P. Hughes,Anna Ijjas,Margaret Ikape,Kent D. Irwin,Kent D. Irwin,Andrew H. Jaffe,Bhuvnesh Jain,Oliver Jeong,D. Kaneko,E. Karpel,Nobuhiko Katayama,Brian Keating,Sarah S. Kernasovskiy,Reijo Keskitalo,Reijo Keskitalo,Theodore Kisner,Theodore Kisner,Kenji Kiuchi,Jacob Klein,Kenda Knowles,Brian J. Koopman,Arthur Kosowsky,Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff,Stephen E. Kuenstner,Chao-Lin Kuo,Chao-Lin Kuo,Akito Kusaka,Akito Kusaka,Jacob Lashner,Adrian T. Lee,Adrian T. Lee,Eunseong Lee,D. Leon,Jason S.-Y. Leung,Antony Lewis,Yaqiong Li,Zack Li,Michele Limon,Eric V. Linder,Eric V. Linder,Carlos H. López-Caraballo,Thibaut Louis,L. N. Lowry,Marius Lungu,Mathew S. Madhavacheril,Daisy Mak,Felipe Maldonado,Hamdi Mani,Ben Mates,Frederick Matsuda,Loïc Maurin,Phil Mauskopf,Andrew May,Nialh McCallum,Chris McKenney,Jeff McMahon,P. Daniel Meerburg,Joel Meyers,Joel Meyers,Amber Miller,Mark Mirmelstein,Kavilan Moodley,Moritz Münchmeyer,Charles Munson,Sigurd Naess,Federico Nati,M. Navaroli,Laura Newburgh,Ho Nam Nguyen,Michael D. Niemack,H. Nishino,John Orlowski-Scherer,Lyman A. Page,Bruce Partridge,J. Peloton,J. Peloton,Francesca Perrotta,Lucio Piccirillo,Giampaolo Pisano,Davide Poletti,Roberto Puddu,Giuseppe Puglisi,Christopher Raum,Christian L. Reichardt,Mathieu Remazeilles,Yoel Rephaeli,Dominik Riechers,Felipe Rojas,Anirban Roy,Sharon Sadeh,Yuki Sakurai,Maria Salatino,Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,Emmanuel Schaan,Marcel Schmittfull,Neelima Sehgal,Joseph Seibert,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Blake D. Sherwin,Meir Shimon,Carlos Sierra,Jonathan Sievers,Precious Sikhosana,Maximiliano Silva-Feaver,Sara M. Simon,Adrian Sinclair,Praween Siritanasak,Kendrick M. Smith,Stephen R. Smith,David N. Spergel,David N. Spergel,Suzanne T. Staggs,George Stein,Jason R. Stevens,Radek Stompor,Aritoki Suzuki,Osamu Tajima,S. Takakura,Grant Teply,Daniel B. Thomas,B. Thorne,B. Thorne,Robert Thornton,Hy Trac,C. Tsai,Carole Tucker,Joel N. Ullom,Sunny Vagnozzi,Alexander van Engelen,Jeff Van Lanen,Daniel D. Van Winkle,Eve M. Vavagiakis,Clara Vergès,Michael R. Vissers,Kasey Wagoner,Samantha Walker,Jon Ward,Ben Westbrook,Nathan Whitehorn,Jason Williams,Joel Williams,Edward J. Wollack,Zhilei Xu,Byeonghee Yu,C. Yu,Fernando Zago,Hezi Zhang,Ningfeng Zhu +279 more
TL;DR: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s as mentioned in this paper.
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CFHTLenS tomographic weak lensing cosmological parameter constraints: Mitigating the impact of intrinsic galaxy alignments
Catherine Heymans,Emma Grocutt,Alan Heavens,Martin Kilbinger,Thomas D. Kitching,Fergus Simpson,J. Benjamin,Thomas Erben,Hendrik Hildebrandt,Hendrik Hildebrandt,Henk Hoekstra,Henk Hoekstra,Yannick Mellier,Lance Miller,Ludovic Van Waerbeke,Michael L. Brown,Jean Coupon,Liping Fu,Joachim Harnois-Déraps,Michael J. Hudson,Michael J. Hudson,Konrad Kuijken,Barnaby Rowe,Barnaby Rowe,Tim Schrabback,Tim Schrabback,Tim Schrabback,E. Semboloni,Sanaz Vafaei,Malin Velander,Malin Velander +30 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a finely-binned tomographic weak lensing analysis of the Canada-FranceHawaii Telescope Lensing Survey, CFHTLenS, mitigating contamination to the signal from the presence of intrinsic galaxy alignments via the simultaneous fit of a cosmological model and an intrinsic alignment model.
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The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
Peter A. R. Ade,James E. Aguirre,Zeeshan Ahmed,Simone Aiola,Aamir Ali,David Alonso,Marcelo A. Alvarez,Kam Arnold,Peter Ashton,Jason E. Austermann,Humna Awan,Carlo Baccigalupi,Taylor Baildon,Darcy Barron,Nick Battaglia,Richard A. Battye,Eric J. Baxter,Andrew Bazarko,James A. Beall,Rachel Bean,D. Beck,S. Beckman,Benjamin Beringue,Federico Bianchini,Steven Boada,D. Boettger,J. Richard Bond,Julian Borrill,Michael L. Brown,Sarah Marie Bruno,Sean Bryan,Erminia Calabrese,Victoria Calafut,P. G. Calisse,Julien Carron,Anthony Challinor,Grace E. Chesmore,Yuji Chinone,Jens Chluba,Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho,Steve K. Choi,Gabriele Coppi,Nicholas F. Cothard,Kevin Coughlin,Devin Crichton,Kevin D. Crowley,Kevin T. Crowley,Ari Cukierman,John M. D'Ewart,Rolando Dünner,Tijmen de Haan,Mark J. Devlin,Simon Dicker,Joy Didier,Matt Dobbs,Bradley Dober,Cody J. Duell,Shannon M. Duff,Adri Duivenvoorden,Jo Dunkley,John E. Dusatko,Josquin Errard,Giulio Fabbian,Stephen M. Feeney,Simone Ferraro,Pedro Fluxa,Katherine Freese,Josef Frisch,Andrei V. Frolov,George M. Fuller,Brittany Fuzia,Nicholas Galitzki,Patricio A. Gallardo,José T. Gálvez Ghersi,Jiansong Gao,Eric Gawiser,Martina Gerbino,Vera Gluscevic,Neil Goeckner-Wald,Joseph E. Golec,Sam Gordon,Megan Gralla,Dan Green,Arpi Grigorian,John Groh,Christopher Groppi,Yilun Guan,Jon E. Gudmundsson,Dongwon Han,Peter Charles Hargrave,Masaya Hasegawa,Matthew Hasselfield,Makoto Hattori,Victor Haynes,Masashi Hazumi,Yizhou He,Erin Healy,Shawn W. Henderson,C. Hervias-Caimapo,Charles A. Hill,J. Colin Hill,Gene C. Hilton,Matt Hilton,Adam D. Hincks,Gary Hinshaw,Renée Hložek,Shirley Ho,Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho,L. Howe,Zhiqi Huang,Johannes Hubmayr,Kevin M. Huffenberger,John P. Hughes,Anna Ijjas,Margaret Ikape,Kent D. Irwin,Andrew H. Jaffe,Bhuvnesh Jain,Oliver Jeong,D. Kaneko,E. Karpel,Nobuhiko Katayama,Brian Keating,Sarah S. Kernasovskiy,Reijo Keskitalo,Theodore Kisner,Kenji Kiuchi,Jacob Klein,Kenda Knowles,Brian J. Koopman,Arthur Kosowsky,Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff,Stephen E. Kuenstner,Chao-Lin Kuo,Akito Kusaka,Jacob Lashner,Adrian T. Lee,Eunseong Lee,D. Leon,Jason S.-Y. Leung,Antony Lewis,Yaqiong Li,Zack Li,Michele Limon,Eric V. Linder,Carlos H. López-Caraballo,Thibaut Louis,L. N. Lowry,Marius Lungu,Mathew S. Madhavacheril,Daisy Mak,Felipe Maldonado,Hamdi Mani,Ben Mates,Frederick Matsuda,Loïc Maurin,Phil Mauskopf,Andrew May,Nialh McCallum,Chris McKenney,Jeff McMahon,P. Daniel Meerburg,Joel Meyers,Amber Miller,Mark Mirmelstein,Kavilan Moodley,Moritz Münchmeyer,Charles Munson,Sigurd Naess,Federico Nati,M. Navaroli,Laura Newburgh,Ho Nam Nguyen,Michael D. Niemack,Haruki Nishino,John Orlowski-Scherer,Lyman A. Page,Bruce Partridge,J. Peloton,Francesca Perrotta,Lucio Piccirillo,Giampaolo Pisano,Davide Poletti,Roberto Puddu,Giuseppe Puglisi,Christopher Raum,Christian L. Reichardt,Mathieu Remazeilles,Yoel Rephaeli,Dominik Riechers,Felipe Rojas,Anirban Roy,Sharon Sadeh,Yuki Sakurai,Maria Salatino,Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,Emmanuel Schaan,Marcel Schmittfull,Neelima Sehgal,Joseph Seibert,Uroš Seljak,Blake D. Sherwin,Meir Shimon,Carlos Sierra,Jonathan Sievers,Precious Sikhosana,Maximiliano Silva-Feaver,Sara M. Simon,Adrian Sinclair,Praween Siritanasak,Kendrick M. Smith,Stephen R. Smith,David N. Spergel,Suzanne T. Staggs,George Stein,Jason R. Stevens,Radek Stompor,Aritoki Suzuki,Osamu Tajima,S. Takakura,Grant Teply,Daniel Thomas,B. Thorne,Robert Thornton,Hy Trac,C. Tsai,Carole Tucker,Joel N. Ullom,Sunny Vagnozzi,Alexander van Engelen,Jeff Van Lanen,Daniel D. Van Winkle,Eve M. Vavagiakis,Clara Vergès,Michael R. Vissers,Kasey Wagoner,Samantha Walker,Jon Ward,Ben Westbrook,Nathan Whitehorn,Jason Williams,Joel Williams,Edward J. Wollack,Zhilei Xu,Byeonghee Yu,C. Yu,Fernando Zago,Hezi Zhang,Ningfeng Zhu +248 more
TL;DR: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s as discussed by the authors.
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The Shear Testing Programme – I. Weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations
Catherine Heymans,Ludovic Van Waerbeke,D. J. Bacon,Joel Bergé,Gary Bernstein,Emmanuel Bertin,Sarah Bridle,Michael L. Brown,Douglas Clowe,H. Dahle,Thomas Erben,Meghan E. Gray,M. Hetterscheidt,Henk Hoekstra,P. Hudelot,Mike Jarvis,Konrad Kuijken,Vera Margoniner,Richard Massey,Yannick Mellier,R. Nakajima,Alexandre Refregier,Jason Rhodes,Tim Schrabback,David Wittman +24 more
TL;DR: The Shear Testing Programme (STEP) is a collaborative project to improve the accuracy and reliability of all weak lensing measurements in preparation for the next generation of wide-field surveys as discussed by the authors.