Browsing by Author "Finkbeiner, Douglas"

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    • Distributions of Gas and Galaxies From Galaxy Clusters to Larger Scales 

      Patej, Anna (2016-05-19)
      This thesis addresses the distributions of baryonic matter on three scales: the outskirts of the gas and galaxy profiles in galaxy clusters, the clustering of galaxies of galaxies on large scales and its relation to the ...

    • Dust in Large Optical Surveys 

      Schlafly, Edward Ford (2012-08-03)
      We present results studying the distribution and properties of the diffuse dust in the Milky Way Galaxy using large optical surveys—specifically, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and ...

    • Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. The Sample 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Hogg, David; Lupton, Robert; Schlegel, David; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta; Blakeslee, John; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco; Connolly, Andrew; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory; Ivezić, Željko; Knapp, G.; Lamb, Don; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald; Thakar, Aniruddha; York, Donald (2003)
      A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describes how the sample was ...

    • Early-type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Correlations between Observables 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi K.; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Hogg, David W.; Lupton, Robert H.; Schlegel, David J.; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Knapp, G. R.; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald P.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; York, Donald G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      A magnitude-limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The sample was used to study ...

    • Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. III. The Fundamental Plane 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi K.; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Hogg, David W.; Lupton, Robert H.; Schlegel, David J.; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Knapp, G. R.; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald P.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; York, Donald G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      A magnitude-limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3 was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using morphological and spectral criteria. The fundamental plane ...

    • Early-Type Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. Colors and Chemical Evolution 

      Bernardi, Mariangela; Sheth, Ravi K.; Annis, James; Burles, Scott; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Lupton, Robert H.; Schlegel, David J.; SubbaRao, Mark; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Brinkmann, J.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Fukugita, Masataka; Frieman, Joshua; Heckman, Timothy; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Knapp, G. R.; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nichol, Robert; Okamura, Sadanori; Schneider, Donald P.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; York, Donald G. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      The colors and chemical abundances of early-type galaxies at redshifts z < 0.3 are studied using a sample of nearly 9000 galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. In ...

    • The Effect of FIR Emission from SDSS Galaxies on the SFD Galactic Extinction Map 

      Yahata, Kazuhiro; Yonehara, Atsunori; Suto, Yasushi; Turner, Edwin L.; Broadhurst, Tom; Finkbeiner, Douglas (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2007)
      We compare the most successful and widely used map of Galactic dust extinction, provided by Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998; hereafter SFD), to the galaxy number counts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) ...

    • Evidence for gamma-ray jets in the Milky Way 

      Su, Meng; Finkbeiner, Douglas (IOP Publishing, 2012)
      Although accretion onto supermassive black holes in other galaxies is seen to produce powerful jets in X-ray and radio, no convincing detection has ever been made of a kpc-scale jet in the Milky Way. The recently discovered ...

    • Exciting dark matter and the INTEGRAL/SPI 511 keV signal 

      Finkbeiner, Douglas; Weiner, Neal (American Physical Society (APS), 2007)
      We propose a WIMP candidate with an ``excited state'' 1-2 MeV above the ground state, which may be collisionally excited and de-excites by e+e- pair emission. By converting its kinetic energy into pairs, such a particle ...

    • Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

      Sesar, Branimir; Ivezic, Zeljko; Lupton, Robert H.; Juric, Mario; Gunn, James E.; Knapp, Gillian R.; De Lee, Nathan; Smith, J. Allyn; Miknaitis, Gajus; Lin, Huan; Tucker, Douglas; Doi, Mamoru; Tanaka, Masayuki; Fukugita, Masataka; Holtzman, Jon; Kent, Steve; Yanny, Brian; Schlegel, David; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Rockosi, Constance M.; Bond, Nicholas; Lee, Brian; Stoughton, Chris; Jester, Sebastian; Harris, Hugh; Harding, Paul; Brinkmann, Jon; Schneider, Donald P.; York, Donald; Richmond, Michael W.; Vanden Berk, Daniel (IOP Publishing, 2007)
      We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS stripe 82, which lies along the celestial equator in the southern Galactic ...

    • Extended Anomalous Foreground Emission in the WMAP Three-Year Data 

      Dobler, Gregory; Finkbeiner, Douglas (IOP Publishing, 2008)
      We study the spectral and morphological characteristics of the diffuse Galactic emission in the WMAP temperature data using a template-based multilinear regression, and obtain the following results. (1) We confirm previous ...

    • Extrapolation of Galactic Dust Emission at 100 Microns to Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Frequencies Using FIRAS 

      Finkbeiner, Douglas; Davis, Marc; Schlegel, David J. (IOP Publishing, 1999)
      We present predicted full-sky maps of submillimeter and microwave emission from the diffuse interstellar dust in the Galaxy. These maps are extrapolated from the 100 μm emission and 100/240 μm flux ratio maps that Schlegel, ...

    • The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze 

      Dobler, Gregory; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Cholis, Ilias; Slatyer, Tracy; Weiner, Neal (IOP Publishing, 2010)
      The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a diffuse inverse Compton (IC) signal in the inner Galaxy with a similar spatial morphology to the microwave haze observed by WMAP, supporting the synchrotron interpretation of ...

    • The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 

      Abazajian, Kevork; Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.; Ageros, Marcel A.; Allam, Sahar S.; Anderson, Scott F.; Annis, James; Bahcall, Neta A.; Baldry, Ivan K.; Bastian, Steven; Berlind, Andreas; Bernardi, Mariangela; Blanton, Michael R.; Blythe, Norman; Bochanski, John J. Jr.; Boroski, William N.; Brewington, Howard; Briggs, John W.; Brinkmann, J.; Brunner, Robert J.; Budavri, Tams; Carey, Larry N.; Carr, Michael A.; Castander, Francisco J.; Chiu, Kuenley; Collinge, Matthew J.; Connolly, A. J.; Covey, Kevin R.; Csabai, Istvn; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Dodelson, Scott; Doi, Mamoru; Dong, Feng; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Evans, Michael L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Feldman, Paul D.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Friedman, Scott D.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gal, Roy R.; Gillespie, Bruce; Glazebrook, Karl; Gonzalez, Carlos F.; Gray, Jim; Grebel, Eva K.; Grodnicki, Lauren; Gunn, James E.; Gurbani, Vijay K.; Hall, Patrick B.; Hao, Lei; Harbeck, Daniel; Harris, Frederick H.; Harris, Hugh C.; Harvanek, Michael; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Helmboldt, J. F.; Hendry, John S.; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Hindsley, Robert B.; Hogg, David W.; Holmgren, Donald J.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Homer, Lee; Hui, Lam; Ichikawa, Shin-ichi; Ichikawa, Takashi; Inkmann, John P.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Jester, Sebastian; Johnston, David E.; Jordan, Beatrice; Jordan, Wendell P.; Jorgensen, Anders M.; Juri, Mario; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kent, Stephen M.; Kleinman, S. J.; Knapp, G. R.; Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Kron, Richard G.; Krzesiski, Jurek; Kunszt, Peter Z.; Kuropatkin, Nickolai; Lamb, Donald Q.; Lampeitl, Hubert; Laubscher, Bryan E.; Lee, Brian C.; Leger, R. French; Li, Nolan; Lidz, Adam; Lin, Huan; Loh, Yeong-Shang; Long, Daniel C.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Malik, Tanu; Margon, Bruce; McGehee, Peregrine M.; McKay, Timothy A.; Meiksin, Avery; Miknaitis, Gajus A.; Moorthy, Bhasker K.; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Murphy, Tara; Nakajima, Reiko; Narayanan, Vijay K.; Nash, Thomas; Neilsen, Eric H. Jr.; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Newman, Peter R.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nicinski, Tom; Nieto-Santisteban, Maria; Nitta, Atsuko; Odenkirchen, Michael; Okamura, Sadanori; Ostriker, Jeremiah P.; Owen, Russell; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Peoples, John; Pier, Jeffrey R.; Pindor, Bartosz; Pope, Adrian C.; Quinn, Thomas R.; Rafikov, R. R.; Raymond, Sean N.; Richards, Gordon T.; Richmond, Michael W.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Rockosi, Constance M.; Schaye, Joop; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schroeder, Joshua; Scranton, Ryan; Sekiguchi, Maki; Seljak, Uro; Sergey, Gary; Sesar, Branimir; Sheldon, Erin; Shimasaku, Kazu; Siegmund, Walter A.; Silvestri, Nicole M.; Sinisgalli, Allan J.; Sirko, Edwin; Smith, J. Allyn; Smoli, Vernesa; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Stebbins, Albert; Steinhardt, Charles; Stinson, Gregory; Stoughton, Chris; Strateva, Iskra V.; Strauss, Michael A.; SubbaRao, Mark; Szalay, Alexander S.; Szapudi, Istvn; Szkody, Paula; Tasca, Lidia; Tegmark, Max; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Tremonti, Christy; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uomoto, Alan; Vanden Berk, Daniel E.; Vandenberg, Jan; Vogeley, Michael S.; Voges, Wolfgang; Vogt, Nicole P.; Walkowicz, Lucianne M.; Weinberg, David H.; West, Andrew A.; White, Simon D. M.; Wilhite, Brian C.; Willman, Beth; Xu, Yongzhong; Yanny, Brian; Yarger, Jean; Yasuda, Naoki; Yip, Ching-Wa; Yocum, D. R.; York, Donald G.; Zakamska, Nadia L.; Zehavi, Idit; Zheng, Wei; Zibetti, Stefano; Zucker, Daniel B. (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and ...

    • A Full-Sky Hα Template for Microwave Foreground Prediction 

      Finkbeiner, Douglas (IOP Publishing, 2003)
      A full-sky Hα map with 6' (FWHM) resolution is presented. This map is a composite of the Virginia Tech Spectral line Survey (VTSS) in the north and the Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas (SHASSA) in the south. The Wisconsin ...

    • A Full-Sky, High-Resolution Atlas of Galactic 12 μM Dust Emission With WISE 

      Meisner, Aaron; Finkbeiner, Douglas (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We describe our custom processing of the entire Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 12 μm imaging data set, and present a high-resolution, full-sky map of diffuse Galactic dust emission that is free of compact sources ...

    • Full-sky, High-resolution Maps of Interstellar Dust 

      Meisner, Aaron Michael (2015-05-12)
      We present full-sky, high-resolution maps of interstellar dust based on data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Planck missions. We describe our custom processing of the entire WISE 12 micron All-Sky ...

    • Galactic Conformity via Small-Scale Clustering in Simulations and Surveys 

      Bray, Aaron David Dakin (2016-05-14)
      Data from recent galaxy surveys reveal that, even at fixed stellar mass, quiescent galaxies are preferentially found around other red galaxies, an observation referred to as galactic conformity. This detection may offer ...

    • A Galactic-scale gas wave in the solar neighbourhood 

      Alves, Joao; Zucker, Catherine; Goodman, Alyssa; Speagle, Joshua; Meingast, Stefan; Robitaille, Thomas; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Schlafly, Edward; Green, Gregory (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01-07)
      For the past 150 years, the prevailing view of the local Interstellar Medium (ISM) was based on a peculiarity known as the Gould's Belt (Herschel 1847, Gould 1874, Bobylev 2014, Palous 2016), an expanding ring of young ...

    • Galaxy Clustering in Early Sloan Digital Sky Survey Redshift Data 

      Zehavi, Idit; Blanton, Michael R.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Weinberg, David H.; Mo, Houjun J.; Strauss, Michael A.; Anderson, Scott F.; Annis, James; Bahcall, Neta A.; Bernardi, Mariangela; Briggs, John W.; Brinkmann, Jon; Burles, Scott; Carey, Larry; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Csabai, Istvan; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Dodelson, Scott; Doi, Mamoru; Eisenstein, Daniel James; Evans, Michael L.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Friedman, Scott; Fukugita, Masataka; Gunn, James E.; Hennessy, Greg S.; Hindsley, Robert B.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Kent, Stephen; Knapp, Gillian R.; Kron, Richard; Kunszt, Peter; Lamb, Donald Q.; Leger, R. French; Long, Daniel C.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; McKay, Timothy; Meiksin, Avery; Merrelli, Aronne; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Narayanan, Vijay; Newcomb, Matt; Nichol, Robert C.; Owen, Russell; Peoples, John; Pope, Adrian; Rockosi, Constance M.; Schlegel, David; Schneider, Donald P.; Scoccimarro, Roman; Sheth, Ravi K.; Siegmund, Walter; Smee, Stephen; Snir, Yehuda; Stebbins, Albert; Stoughton, Christopher; SubbaRao, Mark; Szalay, Alexander S.; Szapudi, Istvan; Tegmark, Max; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uomoto, Alan; Vanden Berk, Dan; Vogeley, Michael S.; Waddell, Patrick; Yanny, Brian; York, Donald G.; undefined, undefined (IOP Publishing, 2002)
      We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5700 km s-1 ≤ cz ≤ 39,000 km s-1, distributed in several ...