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Research Interests (Click here for details): Galaxy clustering as dark energy probe Supernovae as dark energy probe Cosmological data analysis Cosmic microwave background anisotropy Observational constraint on inflationary models Gravitational lensing and cosmology Measurement of cosmological parameters Research Funding: Current: DOE Office of Science Previous: NSF CAREER Award Participation in Dark Energy Space Missions: EUCLID (as a Science Topics Coordinator for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the U.S. Representative on the Science Advisory Team for EUCLID-NIS until May 2010, now as a member of the Euclid Consortium) WFIRST (as a member of the WFIRST Science Definition Team) Participation in Ground-based Cosmology Projects: ALPACA (as the chair of the ALPACA Science Advisory Council) LSST (as a member of the LSST Supernova Science Collaboration) Euclid Definition Study Report (The Red Book) LSST Science Book Dept. of Physics & Astronomy The University of Oklahoma 440 W. Brooks St., Norman, OK 73019 voice: (405) 325-3961, ext 36327 fax: (405) 325-7557; e-mail: wang at nhn.ou.edu ePrint  World Clock  Local Weather Local Attractions  Other Links

Left: A very deep view of space from the Hubble Space Telescope. (credit: HDF team) Right: a simulation of a slice of the universe as seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). (credit: the SDSS team)

Selected papers (1996-present) sorted by subject (click here for my complete publication list; and click here for most-cited papers):

Probing Dark Energy

1. Observational Probes of Dark Energy (Invited plenary talk at Spanish Relativity Meeting 2011 (ERE2011))

2. A Comparative Study of Dark Energy Constraints from Current Observational Data (Phys. Rev. D 85, 023517 (2012), arXiv:1109.3172)

3. Measurements of H(z) and D(z) from the Two-Dimensional Two-Point Correlation Function of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxies, (MNRAS, submitted (2011))

4. Neutrino constraints from future nearly all-sky spectroscopic galaxy surveys (JCAP 03 (2011) 030)

5. Effects of cosmological model assumptions on galaxy redshift survey measurements, (MNRAS, 410, 1993 (2011))

6. A Robust Distance Measurement and Dark Energy Constraints from the Spherically-Averaged Correlation Function of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxies, (MNRAS, submitted (2010))

7. Designing a space-based galaxy redshift survey to probe dark energy, (MNRAS, 409, 737 (2010))

8. Probing dark energy with future redshift surveys: A comparison of emission line and broad band selection in the near infrared (MNRAS, 405, 1006 (2010))

9. Empirical H-alpha emitter count predictions for dark energy surveys (MNRAS, 402, 1330 (2010))

10. Forecasts of Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (MPLA, 25, 3093 (2010))

11. Distance Measurements from Supernovae and Dark Energy Constraints (PRD 80, 123525 (2009))

12. SPACE: the SPectroscopic All-sky Cosmic Explorer, (Experimental Astronomy, 23, 39 (2009))

13. Model-Independent Distance Measurements from Gamma-Ray Bursts and Constraints on Dark Energy, (PRD, 78, 123532 (2008))

14. Figure of Merit for Dark Energy Constraints from Current Observational Data, (PRD, 77, 123525 (2008))

15. Planck priors for dark energy surveys, (PRD 78, 083529 (2008) )

16. Improving the Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae Using Late-time Lightcurves (MNRAS 389, 489 (2008))

17. Differentiating dark energy and modified gravity with galaxy redshift surveys (JCAP05(2008)021)

18. Observational Bounds on Modified Gravity Models (Phys. Rev. D 77, 024017 (2008))

19. Observational approaches to understanding dark energy (Invited review at Lepton and Photon 2007)

20. Survey Requirements for Accurate and Precise Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernovae (MNRAS, 382, 377 (2007))

21. Observational Constraints on Dark Energy and Cosmic Curvature (Phys. Rev. D 76, 103533 (2007))

22. A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae (ApJ, 654, L123 (2007))

23. Present and future evidence for evolving dark energy (PRD, 74, 123506 (2006))

24. Robust Dark Energy Constraints from Supernovae, Galaxy Clustering, and Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations ( ApJ, 650, 1 (2006))

25. Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations ( ApJ, 647, 1 (2006))

26. Probing Dark Energy Using Its Density Instead of Its Equation of State, (Phys. Lett. B, 632, 449 (2006))

27. Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI): a Candidate Implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) (JEDI white paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force (2005))

28. Uncorrelated Measurements of the Cosmic Expansion History and Dark Energy from Supernovae, (Phys. Rev. D 71, 103513 (2005))

29. Observational signatures of the weak lensing magnification of supernovae, (JCAP, 03, 005 (2005))

30. Current Observational Constraints on Cosmic Doomsday, (JCAP, 12, 006 (2004))

31. Dark Energy Search with Supernovae, (in proceedings of the 6th UCLA Symposium on Dark Matter and Dark Energy, (2004))

32. New dark energy constraints from supernovae, microwave background and galaxy clustering (Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 241302 (2004))

33. Probing the Evolution of the Dark Energy Density with Future Supernova Surveys, (JCAP, 12, 003 (2004))

34. Model-Independent Constraints on Dark Energy Density from Flux-averaging Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Data, (ApJ, 606, 654 (2004))

35. Galaxy Clustering and Dark Energy (MNRAS, 349, 281 (2004))

36. Future Type Ia Supernova Data as Tests of Dark Energy from Modified Friedmann Equations (ApJ, 594, 25-32 (2003))

37. Dark energy effects on the Lyman-alpha forest (MNRAS, 340, L47 (2003))

38. How Sensitive Are Weak Lensing Statistics to Dark Energy Content? (Astrophys. J., 583, 566-574 (2003))

39. A Universal Probability Distribution Function for Weak-lensing Amplification, (Astrophys. J., 572, L15-L18 (2002))

40. Unbiased Estimate of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data, (Astrophys. J., 562, L115 (2001))

41. Measuring Time-Dependence of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data, (Astrophys. J. 552, 445 (2001))

42. Flux-averaging Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Data(Astrophys. J. 536, 531 (2000))

43. Supernova pencil beam survey (astro-ph/9806185, Astrophys. J. 531, 676 (2000))

44. Analytical Modeling of the Weak Lensing of Standard Candles (Astrophys. J. 525, 651 (1999))

45. The Cosmological Constant and Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors, (Phys. Rev. D56, 724 (1997).)

    Probing Early Universe Physics

46. Primordial Power Spectrum Reconstruction, (JCAP, 12 (2005) 007)

47. Looking for Cosmological Alfven Waves in WMAP Data, (ApJ, 611, 655 (2004))

48. Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity, (ApJ, 613, 51 (2004))

49. Model-Independent Reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum from WMAP Data (ApJ, 599, 1 (2003))

50. Direct Wavelet Expansion of the Primordial Power Spectrum (ApJ, 598, 779 (2003))

51. Wavelet Band Powers of the Primordial Power Spectrum from CMB Data (ApJ, 593, 38 (2003))

52. A Measurement of the Primordial Power Spectrum from Maxima, Boomerang, and DASI Data, (Astrophys. J. 573, 1 (2002))

53. Cosmology in the Next Millennium: Combining MAP and SDSS Data to Constrain Inflationary Models (Astrophys. J. 510, 20 (1999))

54. A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for Computing Tensor CBR Anisotropy (Phys.Rev. D 53, 5727 (1996))

55. Simple Analytical Methods for Computing the Gravity-Wave Contribution to the Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy (Phys.Rev. D 53, 639 (1996))

    Gravtitational Lensing

56. Caustics, critical curves and cross sections for gravitational lensing by disk galaxies(MNRAS, 292, 863 (1997))

57. A Robust Determination of the Time Delay in 0957+561A,B and a Measurement of the Global Value of Hubble's Constant (Astrophys. J. 482, 75 (1997).)

58. Statistics of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events. II. The Small Shear Case(Astrophys. J. 482, 63 (1997).)

59. Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Star Binaries(Phys.Rev.Lett. 77, 2875 (1996))

60. Statistics of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events. I.The Zero Shear Case(Astrophys.J. 464, 114 (1996))

    Cosmological Parameters

61. Constraints on Neutrino Degeneracy from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Primordial Nucleosynthesis, (Phys. Rev. D 65, 123504 (2002).

62. Constraints on extra dimensions from cosmological and terrestrial measurements, (Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 16, No. 35, pp. 2281, (2001))

63. Prospects for Constraining Cosmology with the Extragalactic Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature, (Phys. Rev. D 64 (2001) 123002.

64. Implications of cosmic microwave background anisotropies for large scale variations in Hubble's constant (Astrophys. J., 498, 1 (1998))

    Photometric Redshifts

65. A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator (in the proceedings of theWorkshop on Photometric Redshifts and High Redshift Galaxies,edited by Ray Weymann, et al. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific),1999)

66. A Catalog of Color-based Redshift Estimates for z < 4 Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (AJ 116, 2081 (1998))

    Dark Matter

67. The Secondary Infall Model of Galactic Halo Formation and the Spectrum of Cold Dark Matter Particles on Earth (Phys. Rev. D56, 1863 (1997).)

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