Astrophysical: Cosmology

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    Cosmology with Large Scale Structure Probes
    The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) contains the statistical information about the early seeds of the structure formation in our Universe. Its natural...
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    COSMOSOMAS observations of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic foregrounds at 11 GHz: evidence for anomalous microwave emission at high Galactic latitude
    We present observations with the new 11-GHz radiometer of the COSMOSOMAS experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). The sky region between 0°
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    COSMOSOMAS: a circular scanning instrument to map the sky at centimetric wavelengths
    We describe the first instrument of a cosmic microwave background experiment for mapping cosmological structures on medium angular scales (the COSMOSOMAS...
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    Could dark energy be measured in the lab?
    The experimentally measured spectral density of current noise in Josephson junctions provides direct evidence for the existence of zero-point fluctuations...
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    Counts-in-cylinders in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with Comparisons to N-body Simulations
    Environmental statistics provide a necessary means of comparing the properties of galaxies in different environments, and a vital test of models of galaxy...
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    Covariance matrices for variance-suppressed simulations
    Cosmological N-body simulations provide numerical predictions of the structure of the Universe against which to compare data from ongoing and future surveys...
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    Cross-correlation of SDSS DR7 Quasars and DR10 BOSS Galaxies: The Weak Luminosity Dependence of Quasar Clustering at z ~ 0.5
    We present the measurement of the two-point cross-correlation function (CCF) of 8198 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 quasars and 349,608 Data Release 10...
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    Cross-Correlation of Tenerife Data with Galactic Templates-Evidence for Spinning Dust?
    The recent discovery of dust-correlated diffuse microwave emission has prompted two rival explanations: free-free emission and spinning dust grains. We present...
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    Cusped Mass Models of Gravitational Lenses
    Recent observations of galaxy luminosity profiles and dark matter simulations find luminosity and mass distributions characterized by central cusps rather than...