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For the list of typos in Komatsu et al. (2009) [WMAP 5-year paper], please click here. [Last updated: March 8, 2012]

For the list of typos in Komatsu et al. (2011) [WMAP 7-year paper], please click here. [Last updated: May 2, 2012]

Click here to download a note on the WMAP 5-year distance prior including BAO. [Last updated: October 12, 2009]
Click here to download a note on the WMAP 7-year distance prior including BAO. [Last updated: May 29, 2010]

Eiichiro Komatsu
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Texas Cosmology Center
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What's New 2012

January 19-22

Munich.

1/19: AUS(2:33pm)-ORD-MUC(9:50am)
1/22: MUC(9:20am)-EWR-AUS(6:19pm)

January 26-28

"Coming Opportunities in Physical Cosmology" Workshop at Arizona State University.

1/26: AUS(3:27pm)-PHX(5:03pm)
1/27: Give a talk on "Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)"; PHX(7:55pm)-AUS(11:14pm)

February 23

Colloquium on "Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background" at Texas A&M University. video

March 9-19

Kyoto, Japan.

3/9-10: AUS(9:35am)-DFW-NRT(4:15pm)-ITM(7:50pm)
3/15-17: GUT2012: International Workshop on Grand Unified Theories at Kyoto University
- 3/17: Give a talk on "What does cosmology tell us about particle physics beyond Standard Model?"
3/19: ITM(2:40pm)-NRT(7:10pm)-DFW-AUS(8:50pm)

March 23,24

Cook's Branch. Give a talk on "Squeezed-limit bispectrum, non-Bunch-Davies vacuum, scale-dependent bias, and multi-field consistency relation" (3/23)

April 1-7

Institute for Advanced Study.

4/1: AUS(6:20am)-EWR(10:55am)
4/3: Give a talk on "Hunting for Dark Matter in Anisotropies of the Gamma-ray Sky: Predictions and First Observational Results from Fermi-LAT"
Abstract: Can we use the Fermi satellite like WMAP? In 2006, S. Ando and I proposed to use anisotropies in the gamma-ray background (not CMB!) as a smoking-gun signature of annihilation of dark matter particles in the universe. The idea is simple: since dark matter traces the large-scale structure of the universe, the emission from dark matter must be anisotropic, and its spatial pattern is predictable. The use of anisotropy (especially the power spectrum) was new to the gamma-ray community, so I teamed up with the Fermi-LAT team to look for this signature. Here, we report on the first detection of anisotropy in the diffuse gamma-ray background measured by Fermi-LAT. We find that the detected signal is very likely due to unresolved blazers. Subtracting this signal, we can place a fairly stringent upper limit on the residual anisotropy signal, which would then put constraints on dark matter properties.
4/7: EWR(5:00pm)-AUS(7:58pm)

April 12-14

"Supernova cosmology and looking to the future" workshop at Cook's Branch. Give a talk on "Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment".

Abstract: Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) will yield about 800,000 blindly-detected spectra of distant (z=1.9-3.5) galaxies, providing an unprecedented opportunity to measure the large-scale structure of the universe in a high-redshift universe. This unique dataset is expected to improve our understanding of the physics of inflation, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and the properties of neutrinos. In this talk, I will describe the experiment and discuss cosmological constraints expected from the HETDEX 3-year survey.

April 17-21

Munich and Berlin.

4/17-18: AUS(12:04pm)-IAD-MUC(7:50am)
4/18,19: MPA
4/19: MUC(5:15pm)-TXL(6:20pm)
4/20: Berlin
4/21: TXL(10:10am)-FRA-ORD-AUS(7:44pm)

May 7,8

Texas Cosmology Center Workshop on "Dark Matter Signatures in the Gamma-ray Sky," University of Texas at Austin.

May 14,15

Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics-Texas Cosmology Center Workshop on "Near Infrared Background and the Epoch of Reionization," University of Texas at Austin.

May 20-26

Perimeter Institute and CITA.

5/20: AUS(11:10am)-DFW-YYZ(5:45pm)
5/22: Give a talk on "New probes of initial state of quantum fluctuations during inflation" at PI.
Abstract:
How did inflation actually happen? Precision measurements of statistical properties of primordial fluctuations generated during inflation offer a direct probe of the physics of inflation. When we calculate statistical properties of primordial fluctuations generated during inflation, we usually assume that the initial state of quantum fluctuations is in a preferred vacuum state called Bunch-Davies vacuum. While there is some motivation for choosing such a state, this is an assumption, and thus needs to be tested by observations. In this talk I will present new probes of initial state of quantum fluctuations during inflation: the 3-point function of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, the 2-point function of galaxies, and a spectral distortion of the thermal spectrum of the cosmic microwave background.
5/23: Give a talk at 2pm on "TBD" at CITA.
5/26: YYZ(3:15pm)-DFW-AUS(7:55pm)

June 1-July 31

Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan).

June 25-29

WKYC 2012 at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon. Give a talk on "New probes of initial state of quantum fluctuations during inflation".

August 1