Excessive shift of the CMB acoustic peaks of the Cold Spot area
Measurement of the acoustic peaks of the full-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies has been instrumental in deciding the geometry and content of the universe, e.g. the first acoustic
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The HII region around the first star
Cosmological simulations suggest that the first stars were very massive. They could emit a large amount of UV radiation and create extensive HII regions.
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Chemical Enrichment of the First Supernovae
Metallicity distribution after the first supernova explosion. The metal-rich ejecta has been dispersed to ~ 1 kpc and polluted the pristine IGM gas at 20 Myr after the explosion.
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Estimated beam of WMAP Q1 Differencing Assembly Map in Ecliptic Coordinate
Estimation of the effective inflight beam of WMAP Q1 Differencing Assembly in Ecliptic Coordinate. The bar denotes the asymmetry R= r_maj /r_min -1, where r_maj and r_min are the major
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Cosmological constraints from gravitational lens time delays
Posterior probability distribution function of H0, Ωde, w, and Ωk for supernovae (SN; turquoise dot-dashed; Hicken et al. 2009), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO; magenta dashed; Percival et al. 2010), time-delay
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Histogram of the estimated beam orientation of WMAP Internal Linear Combination Map in Ecliptic Coordinate
Histogram of the estimated beam orientation of WMAP Internal Linear Combination Map in Ecliptic Coordinate. The angle is defined with that between the bar and the Ecliptic Equator.
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Histogram of the estimated beam asymmetry of WMAP Internal Linear Combination Map
The histogram of the estimated beam asymmetry R= r_maj /r_min -1 of WMAP Internal Linear Combination Map, where r_maj and r_min are the major and minor axis of the elliptical
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Estimated beam of WMAP Internal Linear Combination Map in Ecliptic Coordinate
Estimation of the effective inflight beam of WMAP Internal Linear Combination in Ecliptic Coordinate. The bar denotes the asymmetry R= r_maj /r_min -1, where r_maj and r_min are the major
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Histogram of the estimated beam orientation of WMAP Q1 Differencing Assembly Map in Ecliptic Coordinate
Histogram of the estimated beam orientation of WMAP Q1 Differencing Assembly Map in Ecliptic Coordinate. The angle is defined with that between the major axis and the Ecliptic Equator.
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Histogram of the estimated beam asymmetry of WMAP Q1 Differencing Assembly Map
The histogram of the estimated beam asymmetry R= r_maj /r_min -1 of WMAP Q1 Differencing Assembly Map, where r_maj and r_min are the major and minor axis of the elliptical
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Strong gravitational lens system with time delays
Image of the gravitational lens RXJ1131−1231, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. The lensed AGN images of the spiral source galaxy are marked by
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Evidence for a 300 Mpc Radius Local Under-density
Near-infrared K-band (2.2 micron) luminosity density as a function of comoving distance in the local universe. Data points show measurements from this study and others from the literature. The right
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Mass Distribution in and around the Galaxy Cluster MACS J1206.2-0847
Subaru BVRIz composite color images centered on the galaxy cluster MACS1206 (z=0.439), overlaid with mass contours from our joint strong-and-weak lensing analysis of HST and Subaru observations. The image size
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21cm brightness fluctuation at z=0.8 in cross-correlation
Three-dimensional cross power spectrum of the 21cm emission measured at the Green Bank Telescope and the optical density field traced by the WiggleZ redshift survey. Negative points are shown with
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Direct measurement of the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies in the WMAP Data
Direct measurement of the CMB angular power spectrum. From WMAP V band map we choose patches with σ < 98 μK (after eliminating bright point sources), and we take the
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An intensity map of hydrogen 21-cm emission at redshift z ≈ 0.8
A cross-correlation measurement of 21-cm emission measured by the
Green Bank Telescope, and the optical galaxies measured by the DEEP2
galaxy survey.
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The GMRT Epoch of Reionization experiment: a new upper limit on the neutral hydrogen power spectrum at z ≈ 8.6
Average power spectrum in units of K
2
of all combinations of
days, excluding December 11, as a function of the multipole moment l. Each
point is shown with a
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Full mass profiles of five massive galaxy clusters
Model-free direct reconstruction of full mass profiles for five massive galaxy clusters, A1689, A1703, A370, Cl0024+17, and RXJ1347-11, from combined weak and strong gravitational lensing.
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Three-dimensional galaxy distribution for about 1/10 field of view of the RCS photometric redshift catalog
The figure represents the three-dimensional galaxy distribution for about 1/10 field of view of the RCS photometric redshift catalog (Hsieh et al. 2005, ApJS, 158, 161; Gladders and Yee 2005,
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Direct measurement of dark matter halo ellipticity of massive clusters
A Subaru Suprime-Cam image of one of the clusters used in the analysis, A2390, (2.7 billion light years from the Earth). The purple hue shows the dark matter distribution measured
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Correlation between the temperature of the intra-cluster medium of galaxy cluster A1689 and its surrounding environment of the large-scale-structure.
Maps of the large-scale structure of galaxies (purple) and gas
temperature distributions within the cluster (pink). Brighter pink
indicates higher temperature. The filamentary structure is found
outside the cluster in
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Joint constraints on the DM halo structure parameters from full lensing analysis (CL0024+1654)
Joint constraints on the dark-matter halo structure parameters of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 (z=0.395) from full lensing analysis of Subaru weak lensing and ACS strong lensing data (Umetsu et al.
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Quadrupole power spectra for the 2dF QSO redshift survey
Quadrupole power spectra for the 2dF QSO redshift survey measured with our algorithm. Anisotropic nature due to the redshift-space distortions can be seen although it is noisy (Yamamoto, Nakamichi, Kamino,
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Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect as a probe for large structures in the Universe
The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect as a probe for large structures in the Universe. Top: integrated pressure contour map showing a signature of merger. Left: comparison between thermal and non-thermal spectral functions
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