Useful Papers for Journal Club

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This list was created for two purposes. First, this list was constructed to help students to understand the recent methods and techniques discussed (or being discussed) in DES & LSST telecons, so they don't get lost by a bunch of mysterious terminologies. Hence, most of them are from the early stage of DES or include the methods adopted by DES or LSST. 

Second, the list was constructed to help students to pick useful and concise papers for journal club presentations. Papers were selected based on these conditions if possible: 1) short; 2) goal is clear and easy to understand; 3) topics covered in papers are very specific and narrow ( measurement papers such as Planck or DES key papers are very  important, but were excluded due to this condition ).

The list is still evolving and a bit more DES-oriented. Feel free to edit or add your favorite paper below. 

Weak Lensing

• Cosmology with WL

• WL with Dark Energy : Joint Galaxy-Lensing Observables and the Dark Energy

• WL with Modified Gravity : [0805.4812] Weak Lensing Probes of Modified Gravity 

• Towards accurate measurements: 

• Astrophysical effects related to WL 

• Magnification: 

• Intrinsic Alignment : 

• Intrinsic galaxy alignments from the 2SLAQ and SDSS surveys: luminosity and redshift scalings and implications for weak lensing surveys 

• Dark energy constraints from cosmic shear power spectra: impact of intrinsic alignments on photometric redshift requirements 

• Redshift : 

• Photo-z algorithms (BPZ, DNF) and Applications to DES : [1708.01532] Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Redshift distributions of the weak lensing source galaxies

• Effects of photo-z errors 

• Effect of Photometric Redshift Uncertainties on Weak Lensing Tomography 

• [1002.3383] A General Study of the Influence of Catastrophic Photometric Redshift Errors on Cosmology with Cosmic Shear Tomography 

• Clustering-z (photo-z calibration method) : 

• Calibrating Redshift Distributions beyond Spectroscopic Limits with Cross-Correlations

• Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts in the DES -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions 

• Nonlinear modeling  (small scale modeling)

• HOD :  

• Baryonic effect : Effects of Baryons and Dissipation on the Matter Power Spectrum 

• Cosmic shear calibration :

• Not WL specific, but must-know paper

• Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations 

• The very first detection of BAO : Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

SNe

• The acceleration of the universe papers, 

  • Riess et al 1998: Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

  • Perlmutter et al. 1999: Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

• The origin of the SALT templates, 

  • Guy et al. 2005: SALT: a spectral adaptive light curve template for type Ia supernovae

  • Second iteration, Guy 2007: SALT2: using distant supernovae to improve the use of type Ia supernovae as distance indicators
• Decadal review paper:
  • Astro2020: The Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

General Cosmology