Matthew Becker

KICP Graduate student


Scientific Advisor: Andrey V. Kravtsov
 
Contact Information
Location: LASR 215
Email: beckermruchicago.edu
 
Research
Scientific Advisor: Andrey V. Kravtsov

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Talks, Lectures, & Workshops

 
KICP Publications
2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009


Latest Journal Publications
  1. "First SN Discoveries from the Dark Energy Survey", The Astronomer's Telegram, #4668 (Dec 2012)
  2. "A High Throughput Workflow Environment for Cosmological Simulations", arXiv:1210.3317 (Oct 2012)
  3. "A Measurement of the Correlation of Galaxy Surveys with CMB Lensing Convergence Maps from the South Pole Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 753, Issue 1, article id. L9, 6 pp. (2012) (Jul 2012)
  4. "Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and the Mass-to-number Ratio of Galaxy Clusters", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 745, Issue 1, article id. 16 (2012) (Jan 2012)
  5. "On the Accuracy of Weak-lensing Cluster Mass Reconstructions", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 740, Issue 1, article id. 25, 17 pp. (2011) (Oct 2011)
  6. "A GMBCG Galaxy Cluster Catalog of 55,424 Rich Clusters from SDSS DR7", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 191, Issue 2, pp. 254-274 (2010) (Dec 2010)
  7. "Cosmological Constraints from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey maxBCG Cluster Catalog", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 708, Issue 1, pp. 645-660 (2010) (Jan 2010)
  8. "Precision Measurements of the Cluster Red Sequence Using an Error-Corrected Gaussian Mixture Model", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 702, Issue 1, pp. 745-758 (2009) (Sep 2009)
  9. "Improvement of the Richness Estimates of maxBCG Clusters", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 703, Issue 1, pp. 601-613 (2009) (Sep 2009)
  10. "Constraining the Scatter in the Mass-richness Relation of maxBCG Clusters with Weak Lensing and X-ray Data", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 699, Issue 1, pp. 768-781 (2009) (Jul 2009)

Latest Conference Proceedings
  1. "A High Throughput Workflow Environment for Cosmological Simulations", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #221, #352.21 (Jan 2013)
  2. "COsmic Sky MAchine (COSMA) For The Dark Energy Survey", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #248.13 (Jan 2012)
  3. "Weak Lensing Simulations and Precision Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #248.06 (Jan 2012)
  4. "A GMBCG Galaxy Cluster Catalog of 55,437 Rich Clusters from SDSS DR7", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #213.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011 (Jan 2011)