Michael A. Troxel | Scholars@Duke

Michael A. Troxel
Assistant Professor of Physics

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019

Contact Information

Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708
michael.troxel@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas 2014
- M.S., University of Texas at Dallas 2011
- B.A., University of Oklahoma 2008
- B.S., University of Oklahoma 2008
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 26, 2020 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  Looking in the Cosmos, Making Visible the Invisible
Awards & Honors
- DOE Early Career Award. Dept. of Energy. 2020
Research
Selected Grants
- Accurate Dark Energy Constraints via the Precise Characterization of Galaxy Intrinsic Alignment Coupled with Shear and Redshift Interference awarded by Department of Energy 2020 - 2025
- Update GalSim image simulation configuration handling awarded by Jet Propulsion Lab 2020 - 2022
- Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University awarded by Department of Energy 2013 - 2021
- WFIRST Science Investigation Team: Cosmology with the WFIRST High Latitude Survey awarded by California Institute of Technology 2019 - 2021
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Troxel, M. A., H. Long, C. M. Hirata, A. Choi, M. Jarvis, R. Mandelbaum, K. Wang, M. Yamamoto, S. Hemmati, and P. Capak. “A synthetic Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey: simulation suite and the impact of wavefront errors on weak gravitational lensing.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 501, no. 2 (January 2, 2021): 2044–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3658.
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  - Gatti, M., C. Chang, O. Friedrich, B. Jain, D. Bacon, M. Crocce, J. Derose, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps - Validation on simulations.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 498, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 4060–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2680.
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  - Palmese, A., J. Devicente, M. E. S. Pereira, J. Annis, W. Hartley, K. Herner, M. Soares-Santos, et al. “A Statistical Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant from the LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Compact Object Merger GW190814 and Dark Energy Survey Galaxies.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 900, no. 2 (September 10, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abaeff.
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  - Hartley, W. G., C. Chang, S. Samani, A. Carnero Rosell, T. M. Davis, B. Hoyle, D. Gruen, et al. “The impact of spectroscopic incompleteness in direct calibration of redshift distributions for weak lensing surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496, no. 4 (August 21, 2020): 4769–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1812.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., M. Aguena, A. Alarcon, S. Allam, S. Allen, J. Annis, S. Avila, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological constraints from cluster abundances and weak lensing.” Physical Review D 102, no. 2 (July 15, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.023509.
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  - Muir, J., G. M. Bernstein, D. Huterer, F. Elsner, E. Krause, A. Roodman, S. Allam, et al. “Blinding multiprobe cosmological experiments.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494, no. 3 (May 21, 2020): 4454–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa965.
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  - Mawdsley, B., D. Bacon, C. Chang, P. Melchior, E. Rozo, S. Seitz, N. Jeffrey, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Wide-field mass maps via forward fitting in harmonic space.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493, no. 4 (April 21, 2020): 5662–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa565.
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  - Ammazzalorso, S., D. Gruen, M. Regis, S. Camera, S. Ando, N. Fornengo, K. Bechtol, et al. “Detection of Cross-Correlation between Gravitational Lensing and γ Rays.” Physical Review Letters 124, no. 10 (March 2020): 101102. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.101102.
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  - Fang, Y., N. Hamaus, B. Jain, S. Pandey, G. Pollina, C. Sánchez, A. Kovács, et al. “Dark energy survey year 1 results: The relationship between mass and light around cosmic voids.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 3573–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2805.
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  - Blazek, J. A., N. Maccrann, M. A. Troxel, and X. Fang. “Beyond linear galaxy alignments.” Physical Review D 100, no. 10 (November 7, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103506.
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  - Gatti, M., C. Chang, O. Friedrich, B. Jain, D. Bacon, M. Crocce, J. DeRose, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps – validation on simulations.” Arxiv E Prints, November 2019, arXiv:1911.05568-arXiv:1911.05568.
  - Muir, J., G. M. Bernstein, D. Huterer, F. Elsner, E. Krause, A. Roodman, S. Allam, et al. “Blinding multi-probe cosmological experiments.” Arxiv E Prints, November 2019, arXiv:1911.05929-arXiv:1911.05929.
  - Peeples, Molly, Bjorn Emonts, Mark Kyprianou, Matthew T. Penny, Gregory F. Snyder, Christopher C. Stark, Michael Troxel, Neil T. Zimmerman, and John ZuHone. “On the need for synthetic data and robust data simulators in the 2020s.” \Baas 51 (September 2019): 210–210.
  - Omori, Y., E. J. Baxter, C. Chang, D. Kirk, A. Alarcon, G. M. Bernstein, L. E. Bleem, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between Dark Energy Survey Y1 galaxy weak lensing and South Pole Telescope +Planck CMB weak lensing.” Physical Review D 100, no. 4 (August 12, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043517.
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  - Omori, Y., T. Giannantonio, A. Porredon, E. J. Baxter, C. Chang, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Tomographic cross-correlations between Dark Energy Survey galaxies and CMB lensing from South Pole Telescope+Planck.” Physical Review D 100, no. 4 (August 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043501.
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  - Peeples, Molly S., Bjorn Emonts, Mark Kyprianou, Matthew T. Penny, Gregory F. Snyder, Christopher C. Stark, Michael Troxel, Neil T. Zimmerman, and John ZuHone. “On the need for synthetic data and robust data simulators in the 2020s.” Arxiv E Prints, July 2019, arXiv:1907.07184-arXiv:1907.07184.
  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, S. Avila, M. Banerji, E. Baxter, K. Bechtol, M. R. Becker, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Constraints on extended cosmological models from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.” Physical Review D 99, no. 12 (June 7, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.123505.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., A. Alarcon, S. Allam, P. Andersen, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Annis, J. Asorey, et al. “Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey.” Physical Review Letters 122, no. 17 (May 2019): 171301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.171301.
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  - Bechtol, Keith, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Kevork N. Abazajian, Muntazir Abidi, Susmita Adhikari, Yacine Ali-Ha i ensuremath ddotmoud, James Annis, et al. “Dark Matter Science in the Era of LSST.” \Baas 51 (May 2019): 207–207.
  - Dore, Olivier, C. Hirata, Y. Wang, D. Weinberg, Tim Eifler, R. J. Foley, C He Heinrich, et al. “WFIRST: The Essential Cosmology Space Observatory for the Coming Decade.” \Baas 51 (May 2019): 341–341.
  - Eifler, Tim, M. Simet, C. Hirata, C. Heinrich, S. Hemmati, R. Mandelbaum, M. Jarvis, et al. “Partnering space and ground observatories - Synergies in cosmology from LSST and WFIRST.” \Baas 51 (May 2019): 418–418.
  - Martens, D., X. Fang, M. A. Troxel, J. Derose, C. M. Hirata, R. H. Wechsler, and Y. Wang. “Effects of [N II] and H α line blending on the WFIRST Galaxy redshift survey.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 211–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz391.
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  - Mawdsley, B., D. Bacon, C. Chang, P. Melchior, E. Rozo, S. Seitz, N. Jeffrey, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Wide field mass maps via forward fitting in harmonic space.” Arxiv E Prints, May 2019, arXiv:1905.12682-arXiv:1905.12682.
  - Rhodes, Jason, David Alonso, Behzad Ansarinejad, Robert Armstrong, Jacobo Asorey, Arturo Avelino, Jonathan Blazek, et al. “Cosmological Synergies Enabled by Joint Analysis of Multi-probe data from WFIRST, Euclid, and LSST.” \Baas 51 (May 2019): 201–201.
  - Stern, C., J. P. Dietrich, S. Bocquet, D. Applegate, J. J. Mohr, S. L. Bridle, M. Carrasco Kind, et al. “Weak-lensing analysis of SPT-selected galaxy clusters using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 69–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz234.
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  - Brout, D., D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, C. B. D’Andrea, T. M. Davis, R. R. Gupta, S. R. Hinton, et al. “First Cosmology Results Using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation.” Astrophysical Journal 874, no. 2 (April 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab08a0.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, A. Alarcon, S. Allam, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Annis, S. Avila, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 483, no. 4 (March 11, 2019): 4866–83. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3351.
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  - Akeson, Rachel, Lee Armus, Etienne Bachelet, Vanessa Bailey, Lisa Bartusek, Andrea Bellini, Dominic Benford, et al. “The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s.” Arxiv E Prints, February 2019, arXiv:1902.05569-arXiv:1902.05569.
  - Baxter, E. J., Y. Omori, C. Chang, T. Giannantonio, D. Kirk, E. Krause, J. Blazek, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Methodology and projections for joint analysis of galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing, and CMB lensing two-point functions.” Physical Review D 99, no. 2 (January 15, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.023508.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., S. Allam, P. Andersen, C. Angus, J. Asorey, A. Avelino, S. Avila, et al. “First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 872, no. 2 (January 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa.
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  - Buchs, R., C. Davis, D. Gruen, J. DeRose, A. Alarcon, G. M. Bernstein, C. Sánchez, et al. “Phenotypic redshifts with self-organizing maps: A novel method to characterize redshift distributions of source galaxies for weak lensing.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 489, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 820–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2162.
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  - Chang, C., M. Wang, S. Dodelson, T. Eifler, C. Heymans, M. Jarvis, M. James Jee, et al. “A unified analysis of four cosmic shear surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 482, no. 3 (January 1, 2019): 3696–3717. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2902.
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  - Lee, S., E. M. Huff, A. J. Ross, A. Choi, C. Hirata, K. Honscheid, N. MacCrann, et al. “Producing a BOSS CMASS sample with des imaging.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 489, no. 2 (January 1, 2019): 2887–2906. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2288.
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  - McClintock, T., T. N. Varga, D. Gruen, E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, T. Shin, P. Melchior, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Weak lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 482, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 1352–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2711.
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  - Prat, J., E. Baxter, T. Shin, C. Sánchez, C. Chang, B. Jain, R. Miquel, et al. “Cosmological lensing ratios with des Y1, SPT, and Planck.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 487, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 1363–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1309.
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  - Samuroff, S., J. Blazek, M. A. Troxel, N. MacCrann, E. Krause, C. D. Leonard, J. Prat, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Constraints on intrinsic alignments and their colour dependence from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 489, no. 4 (January 1, 2019): 5453–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2197.
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  - Yao, J., M. Ishak, and M. A. Troxel. “Self-calibration method for II and GI types of intrinsic alignments of galaxies.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 483, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 276–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3188.
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  - Cawthon, R., C. Davis, M. Gatti, P. Vielzeuf, J. Elvin-Poole, E. Rozo, J. Frieman, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of redMaGiC redshift distributions in DES and SDSS from cross-correlations.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 2427–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY2424.
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  - Zunt, J., E. Sheldon, S. Samuroff, M. A. Troxel, M. Jarvis, N. MacCrann, D. Gruen, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Weak lensing shape catalogues.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 1149–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY2219.
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  - Troxel, M. A., E. Krause, C. Chang, T. F. Eifler, O. Friedrich, D. Gruen, N. MacCrann, et al. “Survey geometry and the internal consistency of recent cosmic shear measurements.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 479, no. 4 (October 1, 2018): 4998–5004. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1889.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, A. Amara, J. Annis, J. Asorey, S. Avila, et al. “The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1.” Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series 239, no. 2 (September 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aae9f0.
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  - Chang, C., E. Baxter, B. Jain, C. Sánchez, S. Adhikari, T. N. Varga, Y. Fang, et al. “The Splashback Feature around des Galaxy Clusters: Galaxy Density and Weak Lensing Profiles.” Astrophysical Journal 864, no. 1 (September 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad5e7.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, A. Alarcon, J. Aleksić, S. Allam, S. Allen, A. Amara, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.” Physical Review D 98, no. 4 (August 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043526.
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  - Elvin-Poole, J., M. Crocce, A. J. Ross, T. Giannantonio, E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, S. Avila, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes.” Physical Review D 98, no. 4 (August 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.042006.
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  - Prat, J., C. Sánchez, Y. Fang, D. Gruen, J. Elvin-Poole, N. Kokron, L. F. Secco, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy-galaxy lensing.” Physical Review D 98, no. 4 (August 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.042005.
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  - Troxel, M. A., N. Maccrann, J. Zuntz, T. F. Eifler, E. Krause, S. Dodelson, D. Gruen, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear.” Physical Review D 98, no. 4 (August 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043528.
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  - Hoyle, B., D. Gruen, G. M. Bernstein, M. M. Rau, J. De Vicente, W. G. Hartley, E. Gaztanaga, et al. “Dark energy survey year 1 results: Redshift distributions of the weak-lensing source galaxies.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 478, no. 1 (July 21, 2018): 592–610. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty957.
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  - Friedrich, O., D. Gruen, J. Derose, D. Kirk, E. Krause, T. McClintock, E. S. Rykoff, et al. “Density split statistics: Joint model of counts and lensing in cells.” Physical Review D 98, no. 2 (July 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.023508.
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  - Gruen, D., O. Friedrich, E. Krause, J. Derose, R. Cawthon, C. Davis, J. Elvin-Poole, et al. “Density split statistics: Cosmological constraints from counts and lensing in cells in des Y1 and SDSS data.” Physical Review D 98, no. 2 (July 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.023507.
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  - Davis, C., E. Rozo, A. Roodman, A. Alarcon, R. Cawthon, M. Gatti, H. Lin, et al. “Cross-correlation redshift calibration without spectroscopic calibration samples in DES Science Verification Data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477, no. 2 (June 21, 2018): 2196–2208. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty787.
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  - Gatti, M., P. Vielzeuf, C. Davis, R. Cawthon, M. M. Rau, J. DeRose, J. De Vicente, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Cross-correlation redshifts - methods and systematics characterization.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477, no. 2 (June 21, 2018): 1664–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty466.
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  - Soares-Santos, M., D. E. Holz, J. Annis, R. Chornock, K. Herner, E. Berger, D. Brout, et al. “VizieR Online Data Catalog: Counterpart of GW170817. I. DECam obs. (Soares-Santos+, 2017).” Vizier Online Data Catalog 184 (June 2018).
  - Baxter, E. J., S. Raghunathan, T. M. Crawford, P. Fosalba, Z. Hou, G. P. Holder, Y. Omori, et al. “A measurement of CMB cluster lensing with SPT and DES year 1 data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 476, no. 2 (May 11, 2018): 2674–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY305.
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  - Samuroff, S., S. L. Bridle, J. Zuntz, M. A. Troxel, D. Gruen, R. P. Rollins, G. M. Bernstein, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: The impact of galaxy neighbours on weak lensing cosmology with IM3SHAPE.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 475, no. 4 (April 21, 2018): 4524–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3282.
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  - Chang, C., A. Pujol, B. Mawdsley, D. Bacon, J. Elvin-Poole, P. Melchior, A. Kovács, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Curved-sky weak lensing mass map.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 475, no. 3 (April 1, 2018): 3165–90. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3363.
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  - Drlica-Wagner, A., I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. S. Rykoff, R. A. Gruendl, B. Yanny, D. L. Tucker, B. Hoyle, et al. “Dark energy survey year 1 results: The photometric data set for cosmology.” Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series 235, no. 2 (April 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aab4f5.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, J. Annis, K. Bechtol, J. Blazek, B. A. Benson, R. A. Bernstein, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: A Precise H0 Estimate from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H Data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 480, no. 3 (January 1, 2018): 3879–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY1939.
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  - MacCrann, N., J. DeRose, R. H. Wechsler, J. Blazek, E. Gaztanaga, M. Crocce, E. S. Rykoff, et al. “DES Y1 Results: Validating cosmological parameter estimation using simulated Dark Energy Surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 480, no. 4 (January 1, 2018): 4614–35. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY1899.
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  - LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration, The D. E. S., The D. E. S. 1M2H Collaboration, The D. E. S. Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration and the DES Collaboration, The D. E. S. DLT40 Collaboration, The D. E. S. Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration, The D. E. S. VINROUGE Collaboration, and The D. E. S. MASTER Collaboration. “A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant.” Nature 551, no. 7678 (November 2017): 85–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24471.
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  - Yao, J., M. Ishak, W. Lin, and M. Troxel. “Effects of self-calibration of intrinsic alignment on cosmological parameter constraints from future cosmic shear surveys.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2017, no. 10 (October 31, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/10/056.
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  - Cowperthwaite, P. S., E. Berger, V. A. Villar, B. D. Metzger, M. Nicholl, R. Chornock, P. K. Blanchard, et al. “The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (October 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8fc7.
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  - Soares-Santos, M., D. E. Holz, J. Annis, R. Chornock, K. Herner, E. Berger, D. Brout, et al. “The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (October 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9059.
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  - Samuroff, S., M. A. Troxel, S. L. Bridle, J. Zuntz, N. MacCrann, E. Krause, T. Eifler, and D. Kirk. “Simultaneous constraints on cosmology and photometric redshift bias from weak lensing and galaxy clustering.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 465, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): L20–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw201.
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  - Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, et al. “Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (January 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9.
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  - Clampitt, J., C. Sánchez, J. Kwan, E. Krause, N. MacCrann, Y. Park, M. A. Troxel, et al. “Galaxy-galaxy lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 465, no. 4 (January 1, 2017): 4204–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2988.
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  - Kwan, J., C. Sanchez, J. Clampitt, J. Blazek, M. Crocce, B. Jain, J. Zuntz, et al. “Cosmology from large-scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 464, no. 4 (January 1, 2017): 4045–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2464.
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  - Melchior, P., D. Gruen, T. McClintock, T. N. Varga, E. Sheldon, E. Rozo, A. Amara, et al. “Weak-lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters in dark energy survey Science verification data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469, no. 4 (January 1, 2017): 4899–4920. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1053.
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  - Baxter, E., J. Clampitt, T. Giannantonio, S. Dodelson, B. Jain, D. Huterer, L. Bleem, et al. “Joint measurement of lensing-galaxy correlations using SPT and DES SV data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 461, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 4099–4114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1584.
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  - Bonnett, C., M. A. Troxel, W. Hartley, A. Amara, B. Leistedt, M. R. Becker, G. M. Bernstein, et al. “Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing.” Physical Review D 94, no. 4 (August 30, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.042005.
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  - Abbott, T., F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, A. Amara, J. Annis, R. Armstrong, D. Bacon, et al. “Cosmology from cosmic shear with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data.” Physical Review D 94, no. 2 (July 6, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.022001.
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  - Becker, M. R., M. A. Troxel, N. Maccrann, E. Krause, T. F. Eifler, O. Friedrich, A. Nicola, et al. “Cosmic shear measurements with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data.” Physical Review D 94, no. 2 (July 6, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.022002.
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  - Chang, C., A. Pujol, E. Gaztañaga, A. Amara, A. Réfrégier, D. Bacon, M. R. Becker, et al. “Galaxy bias from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data: Combining galaxy density maps and weak lensing maps.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 459, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 3203–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw861.
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  - Kirk, D., Y. Omori, A. Benoit-Lévy, R. Cawthon, C. Chang, P. Larsen, A. Amara, et al. “Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT and Planck lensing.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 459, no. 1 (June 11, 2016): 21–34. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw570.
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  - Gruen, D., O. Friedrich, A. Amara, D. Bacon, C. Bonnett, W. Hartley, B. Jain, et al. “Weak lensing by galaxy troughs in DES Science Verification data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 455, no. 3 (January 1, 2016): 3367–80. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2506.
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  - Jarvis, M., E. Sheldon, J. Zuntz, T. Kacprzak, S. L. Bridle, A. Amara, R. Armstrong, et al. “The DES Science Verification weak lensing shear catalogues.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 460, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 2245–81. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw990.
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  - Kacprzak, T., D. Kirk, O. Friedrich, A. Amara, A. Refregier, L. Marian, J. P. Dietrich, et al. “Cosmology constraints from shear peak statistics in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 463, no. 4 (January 1, 2016): 3653–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2070.
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  - Chang, C., V. Vikram, B. Jain, D. Bacon, A. Amara, M. R. Becker, G. Bernstein, et al. “Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data.” Physical Review Letters 115, no. 5 (July 29, 2015): 051301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.115.051301.
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  - Vikram, V., C. Chang, B. Jain, D. Bacon, A. Amara, M. R. Becker, G. Bernstein, et al. “Wide-field lensing mass maps from Dark Energy Survey science verification data: Methodology and detailed analysis.” Physical Review D Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 92, no. 2 (July 29, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.022006.
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  - Peel, A., M. A. Troxel, and M. Ishak. “Erratum: Effect of inhomogeneities on high precision measurements of cosmological distances (Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2014) 90 (123536)).” Physical Review D Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 92, no. 2 (July 20, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.029901.
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  - Troxel, M. A., and M. Ishak. “The intrinsic alignment of galaxies and its impact on weak gravitational lensing in an era of precision cosmology.” Physics Reports 558 (January 1, 2015): 1–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2014.11.001.
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  - Peel, A., M. A. Troxel, and M. Ishak. “Effect of inhomogeneities on high precision measurements of cosmological distances.” Physical Review D Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 90, no. 12 (December 30, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.123536.
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  - Troxel, M. A., and M. Ishak. “Cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background lensing and galaxy intrinsic alignment as a contaminant to gravitational lensing cross-correlated probes of the Universe.” Physical Review D Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 89, no. 6 (March 25, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063528.
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  - Troxel, M. A., M. Ishak, and A. Peel. “The effects of structure anisotropy on lensing observables in an exact general relativistic setting for precision cosmology.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014, no. 3 (January 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/03/040.
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  - Ishak, Mustapha, Austin Peel, and M. A. Troxel. “Stringent restriction from the growth of large-scale structure on apparent acceleration in inhomogeneous cosmological models.” Physical Review Letters 111, no. 25 (December 19, 2013): 251302. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.111.251302.
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  - Troxel, M. A., A. Peel, and M. Ishak. “Effects of anisotropy on gravitational infall in galaxy clusters using an exact general relativistic model.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2013, no. 12 (December 1, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/12/048.
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  - Peel, A., M. Ishak, and M. A. Troxel. “Large-scale growth evolution in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models with comparison to growth data.” Physical Review D Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86, no. 12 (December 6, 2012). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.123508.
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  - Troxel, M. A., and M. Ishak. “Self-calibrating the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity-intrinsic ellipticity cross-correlation.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 427, no. 1 (November 21, 2012): 442–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21912.x.
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  - Troxel, M. A., and M. Ishak. “Self-calibration for three-point intrinsic alignment autocorrelations in weak lensing surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 423, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 1663–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20987.x.
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  - Troxel, M. A., and M. Ishak. “Self-calibration technique for three-point intrinsic alignment correlations in weak lensing surveys.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 419, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 1804–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20205.x.
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  - Branch, David, David J. Jeffery, Jerod Parrent, E. Baron, M. A. Troxel, V. Stanishev, Melissa Keithley, Joshua Harrison, and Christopher Bruner. “Comparative Direct Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Spectra. IV. Postmaximum.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 120, no. 864 (February 2008): 135–49. https://doi.org/10.1086/527572.
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  - Branch, David, M. A. Troxel, David J. Jeffery, Kazuhito Hatano, Miriam Musco, Jerod Parrent, E. Baron, et al. “Comparative Direct Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Spectra. III. Premaximum.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 119, no. 857 (July 2007): 709–21. https://doi.org/10.1086/520553.
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  - Parrent, Jerod, David Branch, M. A. Troxel, D. Casebeer, David J. Jeffery, W. Ketchum, E. Baron, F. J. D. Serduke, and Alexei V. Filippenko. “Direct Analysis of Spectra of the Unusual Type Ib Supernova 2005bf.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 119, no. 852 (February 2007): 135–42. https://doi.org/10.1086/512494.
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  - Branch, David, Leeann Chau Dang, Nicholas Hall, Wesley Ketchum, Mercy Melakayil, Jerod Parrent, M. A. Troxel, D. Casebeer, David J. Jeffery, and E. Baron. “Comparative Direct Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Spectra. II. Maximum Light.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 118, no. 842 (April 2006): 560–71. https://doi.org/10.1086/502778.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, A. Alarcon, S. Allam, J. Annis, S. Avila, K. Aylor, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Joint analysis of galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing, and CMB lensing two-point functions.” Physical Review D 100, no. 2 (n.d.). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.023541.
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  - Collaboration, The LSST Dark Energy Science, Rachel Mandelbaum, Tim Eifler, Renée Hložek, Thomas Collett, Eric Gawiser, Daniel Scolnic, et al. “The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Science Requirements Document (null),” n.d.
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  - Doré, Olivier, Christopher Hirata, Yun Wang, David Weinberg, Ivano Baronchelli, Andrew Benson, Peter Capak, et al. “WFIRST Science Investigation Team "Cosmology with the High Latitude Survey" Annual Report 2017,” n.d.
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- Conference Papers
  - Branch, David, Jerod Parrent, M. A. Troxel, D. Casebeer, David J. Jeffery, E. Baron, Wesley Ketchum, and Nicholas Hall. “Probing the Nature of Type I Supernovae with SYNOW.” American Institute of Physics, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2774879.
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- Theses and Dissertations
  - Troxel, M. A. “Gravitational lensing in standard and non-standard frameworks as a probe for precision cosmology: Challenges and applications,” 2014.
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