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Keck Deep Fields. I. Observations, Reductions, and the Selection of Faint Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z~4, 3, and 2
We introduce a very deep, R_lim~27, multicolor imaging survey of very faint
star-forming galaxies at z~4, z~3, z~2.2, and z~1.7. This survey, carried out
on the Keck I telescope, uses the very same UGRI filter system that is employed
by the Steidel team to select galaxies at these redshifts, and thus allows us
to construct identically-selected, but much fainter, samples. However, our
survey reaches ~1.5 mag deeper than the work of Steidel and his group, letting
us probe substantially below the characteristic luminosity L* and thus study
the properties and redshift evolution of the faint component of the high-z
galaxy population. The survey covers 169 square arcminutes in three spatially
independent patches on the sky and -- to R<~27 -- contains 427 GRI-selected z~4
LBGs, 1481 UGR-selected z~3 LBGs, 2417 UGR-selected z~2.2 star-forming
galaxies, and 2043 UGR-selected z~1.7 star-forming galaxies. In this paper, the
first in a series, we introduce the survey, describe our observing and data
reduction strategies, and outline the selection of our z~4, z~3, z~2.2, and
z~1.7 samples.Comment: To appear in Ap
A Parameterized Post-Friedmann Framework for Modified Gravity
We develop a parameterized post-Friedmann (PPF) framework which describes
three regimes of modified gravity models that accelerate the expansion without
dark energy. On large scales, the evolution of scalar metric and density
perturbations must be compatible with the expansion history defined by distance
measures. On intermediate scales in the linear regime, they form a
scalar-tensor theory with a modified Poisson equation. On small scales in dark
matter halos such as our own galaxy, modifications must be suppressed in order
to satisfy stringent local tests of general relativity. We describe these
regimes with three free functions and two parameters: the relationship between
the two metric fluctuations, the large and intermediate scale relationships to
density fluctuations and the two scales of the transitions between the regimes.
We also clarify the formal equivalence of modified gravity and generalized dark
energy. The PPF description of linear fluctuation in f(R) modified action and
the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati braneworld models show excellent agreement with
explicit calculations. Lacking cosmological simulations of these models, our
non-linear halo-model description remains an ansatz but one that enables
well-motivated consistency tests of general relativity. The required
suppression of modifications within dark matter halos suggests that the linear
and weakly non-linear regimes are better suited for making complementary test
of general relativity than the deeply non-linear regime.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, additional references reflect PRD published
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On constraining the speed of gravitational waves following GW150914
We point out that the observed time delay between the detection of the signal
at the Hanford and Livingston LIGO sites from the gravitational wave event
GW150914 places an upper bound on the speed of propagation of gravitational
waves, in the units of speed of light. Combined with the
lower bound from the absence of gravitational Cherenkov losses by cosmic rays
that rules out most of subluminal velocities, this gives a model-independent
double-sided constraint . We compare this result
to model-specific constraints from pulsar timing and cosmology.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, references adde
Multipartite quantum correlations: symplectic and algebraic geometry approach
We review a geometric approach to classification and examination of quantum
correlations in composite systems. Since quantum information tasks are usually
achieved by manipulating spin and alike systems or, in general, systems with a
finite number of energy levels, classification problems are usually treated in
frames of linear algebra. We proposed to shift the attention to a geometric
description. Treating consistently quantum states as points of a projective
space rather than as vectors in a Hilbert space we were able to apply powerful
methods of differential, symplectic and algebraic geometry to attack the
problem of equivalence of states with respect to the strength of correlations,
or, in other words, to classify them from this point of view. Such
classifications are interpreted as identification of states with `the same
correlations properties' i.e. ones that can be used for the same information
purposes, or, from yet another point of view, states that can be mutually
transformed one to another by specific, experimentally accessible operations.
It is clear that the latter characterization answers the fundamental question
`what can be transformed into what \textit{via} available means?'. Exactly such
an interpretations, i.e, in terms of mutual transformability can be clearly
formulated in terms of actions of specific groups on the space of states and is
the starting point for the proposed methods.Comment: 29 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, final form submitted to the journa
Interval identification of FMR parameters for spin reorientation transition in (Ga,Mn)As
In this work we report results of ferromagnetic resonance studies of a 6% 15
nm (Ga,Mn)As layer, deposited on (001)-oriented GaAs. The measurements were
performed with in-plane oriented magnetic field, in the temperature range
between 5K and 120K. We observe a temperature induced reorientation of the
effective in-plane easy axis from [-110] to [110] direction close to the Curie
temperature. The behavior of magnetization is described by anisotropy fields,
H_{eff} (= 4\piM -H_{2\perp}), H_{2\parallel}, and H_{4\parallel}. In order to
precisely investigate this reorientation, numerical values of anisotropy fields
have been determined using powerful - but still largely unknown - interval
calculations. In simulation mode this approach makes possible to find all the
resonance fields for arbitrarily oriented sample, which is generally
intractable analytically. In 'fitting' mode we effectively utilize full
experimental information, not only those measurements performed in special,
distinguished directions, to reliably estimate the values of important physical
parameters as well as their uncertainties and correlations.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. Presented at The European Conference "Physics of
Magnetism 2011" (PM'11), June 27 - July 1, 2011, Poznan, Polan
Models of f(R) Cosmic Acceleration that Evade Solar-System Tests
We study a class of metric-variation f(R) models that accelerates the
expansion without a cosmological constant and satisfies both cosmological and
solar-system tests in the small-field limit of the parameter space.
Solar-system tests alone place only weak bounds on these models, since the
additional scalar degree of freedom is locked to the high-curvature
general-relativistic prediction across more than 25 orders of magnitude in
density, out through the solar corona. This agreement requires that the
galactic halo be of sufficient extent to maintain the galaxy at high curvature
in the presence of the low-curvature cosmological background. If the galactic
halo and local environment in f(R) models do not have substantially deeper
potentials than expected in LCDM, then cosmological field amplitudes |f_R| >
10^{-6} will cause the galactic interior to evolve to low curvature during the
acceleration epoch. Viability of large-deviation models therefore rests on the
structure and evolution of the galactic halo, requiring cosmological
simulations of f(R) models, and not directly on solar-system tests. Even small
deviations that conservatively satisfy both galactic and solar-system
constraints can still be tested by future, percent-level measurements of the
linear power spectrum, while they remain undetectable to cosmological-distance
measures. Although we illustrate these effects in a specific class of models,
the requirements on f(R) are phrased in a nearly model-independent manner.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
How Future Space-Based Weak Lensing Surveys Might Obtain Photometric Redshifts Independently
We study how the addition of on-board optical photometric bands to future
space-based weak lensing instruments could affect the photometric redshift
estimation of galaxies, and hence improve estimations of the dark energy
parameters through weak lensing. Basing our study on the current proposed
Euclid configuration and using a mock catalog of galaxy observations, various
on-board options are tested and compared with the use of ground-based
observations from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and Pan-STARRS.
Comparisons are made through the use of the dark energy Figure of Merit, which
provides a quantifiable measure of the change in the quality of the scientific
results that can be obtained in each scenario. Effects of systematic offsets
between LSST and Euclid photometric calibration are also studied. We find that
adding two (U and G) or even one (U) on-board optical band-passes to the
space-based infrared instrument greatly improves its photometric redshift
performance, bringing it close to the level that would be achieved by combining
observations from both space-based and ground-based surveys while freeing the
space mission from reliance on external datasets.Comment: Accepted for publication in PASP. A high-quality version of Fig 1 can
be found on http://www.ap.smu.ca/~sawicki/DEphoto
Thickness dependence of magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As
We report on a monotonic reduction of Curie temperature in dilute
ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As upon a well controlled
chemical-etching/oxidizing thinning from 15 nm down to complete removal of the
ferro- magnetic response. The effect already starts at the very beginning of
the thinning process and is accompanied by the spin reorientation transition of
the in-plane uniaxial anisotropy. We postulate that a negative gradient along
the growth direction of self-compensating defects (Mn interstitial) and the
presence of surface donor traps gives quantitative account on these effects
within the p-d mean field Zener model with adequate mod- ifications to take a
nonuniform distribution of holes and Mn cations into account. The described
here effects are of practical importance for employing thin and ultrathin
layers of (Ga,Mn)As or relative compounds in concept spintronics devices, like
resonant tunneling devices in particular.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures and supplementary information 2 pages, 1 figur
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