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Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
About: Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Galaxy & Redshift. The organization has 297 authors who have published 1207 publications receiving 76919 citations.
Topics: Galaxy, Redshift, Dark energy, Dark matter, Cosmic microwave background
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TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D map of large-scale matter fluctuations from the Lyman-α forest was derived using a Wiener filter technique, and the total volume of the map is 0.94 h−3 Gpc3.
Abstract: The Lyman-α (hereafter Lyα) forest is a probe of large-scale matter density fluctuations at high redshift, z > 2.1. It consists of H I absorption spectra along individual lines-of-sight. If the line-of-sight density is large enough, 3D maps of H I absorption can be inferred by tomographic reconstruction. In this article, we investigate the Lyα forest available in the Stripe 82 field (220 deg2), based on the quasar spectra from SDSS Data Release DR16. The density of observed quasar spectra is 37 deg−2 with a mean pixel signal-to-noise ratio of two per angstrom. This study provides an intermediate case between the average SDSS density and that of the much denser but smaller CLAMATO survey. We derive a 3D map of large-scale matter fluctuations from these data, using a Wiener filter technique. The total volume of the map is 0.94 h−3 Gpc3. Its resolution is 13 h−1 Mpc, which is related to the mean transverse distance between nearest lines-of-sight. From this map, we provide a catalog of voids and protocluster candidates in the cosmic web. The map-making and void catalog are compared to simulated eBOSS Stripe 82 observations. A stack over quasar positions provides a visualization of the Lyα forest-quasar cross-correlation. This tomographic reconstruction constitutes the largest-volume high-redshift 3D map of matter fluctuations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the duality modified propagators in spacetimes with constant curvature and show that they are ultraviolet finite, nonperturbative in L{sub P, and behave like a zero point length of spacetime intervals.
Abstract: The hypothesis of path integral duality provides a prescription to evaluate the propagator of a free, quantum scalar field in a given classical background, taking into account the existence of a fundamental length, say, the Planck length L{sub P} in a locally Lorentz invariant manner. We use this prescription to evaluate the duality modified propagators in spacetimes with constant curvature (exactly in the case of one spacetime, and in the Gaussian approximation for another two), and show that (i) the modified propagators are ultraviolet finite, (ii) the modifications are nonperturbative in L{sub P}, and (iii) L{sub P} seems to behave like a 'zero point length' of spacetime intervals such that =[{sigma}{sup 2}(x,x{sup '})+O(1)L{sub P}{sup 2}], where {sigma}(x,x{sup '}) is the geodesic distance between the two spacetime points x and x{sup '}, and the angular brackets denote (a suitable) average over the quantum gravitational fluctuations. We briefly discuss the implications of our results.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory1, Yale University2, Stanford University3, Fermilab4, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth5, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign6, University of Utah7, Ohio State University8, Harvard University9, Carnegie Institution for Science10, Carnegie Mellon University11, University of Chicago12, University of California, Berkeley13, Argonne National Laboratory14, Johns Hopkins University15, University of Pennsylvania16, Texas A&M University17, University of Pittsburgh18, University of California, Santa Cruz19
TL;DR: The results from the Distances subgroup of the Cosmic Frontier Community Planning Study (Snowmass 2013) as discussed by the authors summarized the current state of the field as well as future prospects and challenges.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Schwarzschild interior of a black hole was investigated, incorporating quantum gravitational modifications due to loop quantum gravity, and it was shown that this interior solution is stable with respect to small perturbations, in contrast to the classical Nariai universe.
Abstract: In recent work, the Schwarzschild interior of a black hole was investigated, incorporating quantum gravitational modifications due to loop quantum gravity. The central Schwarzschild singularity was shown to be replaced by a Nariai type universe. In this brief report we show that this interior solution is stable with respect to small perturbations, in contrast to the classical Nariai universe.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Newtonian cosmological simulations can be employed to investigate the non-linear evolution of two particle species in a relativistic context, including massive neutrinos and other multi-species systems.
Abstract: We show how Newtonian cosmological simulations can be employed to investigate the non-linear evolution of two particle species in a relativistic context. We discuss the application for massive neutrinos and other multi-species systems such as Cold Dark Matter (CDM) plus baryons or Warm Dark Matter (WDM) . We propose a method that allows us to perform simulations including massive neutrinos and general relativistic effects at almost the same computational cost as ordinary CDM only N-body simulations, employing tailor-made initial conditions and a dictionary for the interpretation of the simulation output.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Robert C. Nichol | 187 | 851 | 162994 |
Daniel Thomas | 134 | 846 | 84224 |
Will J. Percival | 129 | 473 | 87752 |
Tommaso Treu | 126 | 715 | 49090 |
Claudia Maraston | 103 | 362 | 59178 |
Marco Cavaglia | 93 | 372 | 60157 |
Ashley J. Ross | 90 | 248 | 46395 |
David A. Wake | 89 | 214 | 46124 |
László Á. Gergely | 89 | 426 | 60674 |
L. K. Nuttall | 89 | 253 | 54834 |
Rita Tojeiro | 87 | 229 | 43140 |
Roy Maartens | 86 | 432 | 23747 |
David Keitel | 85 | 253 | 56849 |
Davide Pietrobon | 83 | 152 | 62010 |
Gong-Bo Zhao | 81 | 287 | 35540 |