Cosmology seminar: Mark Dijkstra

Mark Dijkstra is an Associate-Professor at ITA.

HETDEX: constraining cosmology with Lyman alpha emitting galaxies

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment plans to measure the dark energy equation of state at z=1.9-3.5 using about 1 million Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. I will discuss how radiative transfer effects on galaxy-scales can affect the clustering of these galaxies on scales that exceed (tens of) Mpcs, and possibly affect measurements of the dark energy and other cosmological parameters.

Published Feb. 24, 2014 2:42 PM - Last modified Mar. 3, 2014 11:55 AM