risa h. wechsler
assistant professor
kavli institute for
particle astrophysics and cosmology
physics department
stanford university
stanford linear accelerator center
rwechsler at stanford dot edu

(note: this is a topic sorted list, so a few papers are listed twice. here is a chronological list. click on "postscript" for the published or latest version; title goes to ADS for published papers)

[halo properties] [galaxy clusters] [halo occupation & clustering]
[long-term dynamics] [high-redshift galaxies] [dark energy survey]

the properties of dark matter halos

• The Dependence of Halo Clustering on Formation, Concentration, and Occupation
  R. H. Wechsler, A. R. Zentner, J. S. Bullock, A. V. Kravtsov and B. Allgood
  2006, ApJ, 652, 71
  [astro-ph/0512416]

• The Shape of Dark Matter Halos: Dependence on Mass, Redshift, Radius, and Formation
  B. Allgood, R. Flores, J. Primack, A. Kravtsov, R. H. Wechsler, A. Faltenbacher, and J. Bullock
  2006, MNRAS, 367, 1781
  [astro-ph/0508497]
  
  
• The Origin of Angular Momentum in Dark Matter Halos
  M. Vitvitska, A.A. Klypin, A.V. Kravtsov, R.H. Wechsler, J.R. Primack, and J.S. Bullock.
  2002, ApJ, 581, 799
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0105349]
  
  
• Dark Halo Assembly and Galaxy Formation
  R. H. Wechsler
  Proceedings of Galaxy Evolution: Theory and Observations, Cozumel, April 2002
  [poster (try printing if gv doesnt work)]
  
  
• Concentration of Dark Halos from their Assembly Histories
  R. H. Wechsler, J. S. Bullock, J. R. Primack, A. V. Kravtsov, and A. Dekel.
  2002, ApJ, 568, 52
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0108151]
  
  

galaxy clusters

• The Galaxy Content of SDSS Clusters and Groups
  S. M. Hansen, E. S. Sheldon, R. H. Wechsler, B. P. Koester
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0710.3780 astro-ph]
  
  
• Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters III: Mass-to-light Ratios
  E. S. Sheldon, D. E. Johnston, M. Masjedi, T. A. McKay, M. R. Blanton, R. Scranton, R. H. Wechsler, B. P. Koester, S. M. Hansen, J. A. Frieman, J. Annis
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0709.1162 astro-ph]
  
  
• Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS galaxy Clusters II: Cluster Density Profiles and the Mass-Richness Relation
  D. E. Johnston, E. S. Sheldon, R. H. Wechsler, E. Rozo, B. P. Koester, J. A. Frieman, T. A. McKay, A. E. Evrard, M. R. Becker, J. Annis
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0709.1159 astro-ph]
  
  
• Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters I: Measurements
  E. S. Sheldon, D. E. Johnston, R. Scranton, B. Koester, T. A. McKay, H. Oyaizu, C. Cunha, M. Lima, H. Lin, J A. Frieman, R. H. Wechsler, J. Annis, R. Mandelbaum, N. A. Bahcall, and M. Fukugita
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0709.1153 astro-ph]
  
  
• Measuring the mean and scatter of the X-ray luminosity -- optical richness relation for maxBCG galaxy clusters
  
  E. S. Rykoff, T. A. McKay, M. A. Becker, A. Evrard, D. E. Johnston, B. P. Koester, E. Rozo, E. S. Sheldon, R. H. Wechsler
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0709.1158 astro-ph]
  
  
• The Mean and Scatter of the Velocity Dispersion-Optical Richness Relation for maxBCG Galaxy Clusters
  M. R. Becker, T.A. McKay, B. Koester, R. H. Wechsler, E. Rozo, A. Evrard, D. Johnston, E. Sheldon, J. Annis, E. Lau, R. Nichol, C. Miller
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0704.3614 astro-ph]
  
  
• Cosmological Constraints from SDSS maxBCG Cluster Abundances
  E. Rozo, R. H. Wechsler, B. P. Koester, T. A. McKay, A. E. Evrard, D. Johnston, E. S. Sheldon, J. Annis, J. A. Frieman
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [astro-ph/0703571]
  
  
• Optically-Selected Cluster Catalogs as a Precision Cosmology Tool
  E. Rozo, R. H. Wechsler, B. P. Koester, T. A. McKay, A. E. Evrard
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [astro-ph/0703574]
  
  
• Cluster Lensing in the SDSS I: Weak Lensing Profiles
  E. S. Sheldon, D. E. Johnston, R. Scranton, B. Koester, T. A. McKay, H. Oyaizu, C. Cunha, M. Lima, H. Lin, J A. Frieman, R. H. Wechsler, J. Annis, R. Mandelbaum, N. A. Bahcall, and M. Fukugita
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  
  
• MaxBCG: A Red-Sequence Galaxy Cluster Finder
  B. Koester, T. McKay, J. Annis, R. Wechsler, A. Evrard, E. Rozo, L. Bleem, E. Sheldon, D. Johnston
  2007, ApJ, in press
  [astro-ph/0701268]
  
  
• A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  B. Koester, T. McKay, J. Annis, R. Wechsler, A. Evrard, L. Bleem, M. Becker, D. Johnston, E. Sheldon, R. Nichol, C. Miller, R. Scranton
  2006, ApJ, in press
  [astro-ph/0701265]
  
  
• Cross-Correlation Lensing: Determining Galaxy and Cluster Mass Profiles from Statistical Weak Lensing Measurements
  D. E. Johnston, E. S. Sheldon, A. Tasitsiomi, J. A. Frieman, R. H. Wechsler, and T. A. McKay 2006, ApJ, in press
  [astro-ph/0507467]

• Photometric Determination of R_200 for SDSS Galaxy Clusters
  S. M. Hansen, T. A. McKay, R. H. Wechsler, J. Annis, E. S. Sheldon, A. Kimball.
  2005, ApJ, 633, 122
  [astro-ph/0410467]

• The C4 Clustering Algorithm: Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  C. J. Miller, R. C. Nichol, D Reichard, R. H. Wechsler, A. E. Evrard, J. Annis, T. A. McKay, et al.
  2005, AJ, 130, 968
  [astro-ph/0503713]

• Interpreting SDSS Cluster Masses and Abundances with Mock Catalogs
  R. H. Wechsler
  in Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 3: Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution, ed. J. S. Mulchaey, A. Dressler, and A. Oemler (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium3/proceedings.html)
  [postscript]
  
  
• The Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey: The Correlation Function
  A. H. Gonzalez, D. Zaritsky, and R. H. Wechsler. 2002, ApJ, 571, 129
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0201534]
  
  

halo occupation, galaxy clustering, and the halo model

• The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Color and Luminosity Dependence of Galaxy Clustering at z~1
  A. L. Coil, J. A. Newman, D. Croton, M. C. Cooper, M. Davis, S. M. Faber, B. F. Gerke, D. C. Koo, N. Padmanabhan, R. H. Wechsler, B. J. Weiner
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0708.0004 astro-ph]
  
  
• Modeling the three-point correlation function
  F. Marin, R. H. Wechsler, J. A. Frieman, R. Nichol
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [arXiv/0704.0255 astro-ph]
  
  
• The Hierarchical Build-Up of Massive Galaxies and the Intracluster Light since z=1
  C. Conroy, R. H. Wechsler, and A. V. Kravtsov
  2007, ApJ, submitted
  [astro-ph/0703374]
  
  
• Close Galaxy Counts as a Probe of Hierarchical Structure Formation
  J. C. Berrier, J. S. Bullock, E. J. Barton, H. D. Guenther, A. R. Zentner, and R. H. Wechsler
  2006, ApJ, 652, 56
  [astro-ph/0604506]

• The effect of large-scale structure on the SDSS galaxy three-point correlation function
  R. C. Nichol, R. K. Sheth, Y. Suto, A. J. Gray, I. Kayo, R. H. Wechsler, F. Marin, G. Kulkarni, et al
  2006, MNRAS, 368, 1507
  

• The Dependence of Halo Clustering on Formation, Concentration, and Occupation
  R. H. Wechsler, A. R. Zentner, J. S. Bullock, A. V. Kravtsov and B. Allgood
  2006, ApJ, 652, 71
  [astro-ph/0512416]

• Modeling Luminosity Dependent Galaxy Clustering Through Cosmic Time
  C. Conroy, R. H. Wechsler, and A. V. Kravtsov
  2006, ApJ, 647, 201
  [astro-ph/0512234]

• Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing: Dissipationless Simulations versus the Halo Model
  R. Mandelbaum, A. Tasitsiomi, U. Seljak, A. V. Kravtsov, and R. H. Wechsler.
  2005, MNRAS, 362, 1451
  [astro-ph/0410711]

• The Physics of Galaxy Clustering I: A Model for Subhalo Populations
  A. R. Zentner, A. A. Berlind, J. S. Bullock, A. V. Kravtsov, and R. H.\ Wechsler
  2005, ApJ, 624, 505
  [astro-ph/0411586]

• Modeling Galaxy-Mass Correlations in Simulations
  A. Tasitsiomi, A. V. Kravtsov, R. H. Wechsler, J. R. Primack.
  2004, ApJ, 614, 533
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0404168]

• The Dark Side of the Halo Occupation Distribution
  A. V. Kravtsov, A. A. Berlind, R. H. Wechsler, A. A. Klypin, S. Gottlober, B. Allgood, J. R. Primack.
  2004, ApJ, 609, 35
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0308519]

• Galaxy Halo Occupation at High Redshift
  J.S. Bullock, R. H. Wechsler and R.S. Somerville. 2002, MNRAS, 329, 246
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0106293]
  
  

long-term dynamics in a LCDM universe

• The Ultimate Halo Mass in a LCDM Universe
  M. T. Busha, A. E. Evrard, F. C. Adams, and R. H. Wechsler.
  2005, MNRAS, 363, 11
  [astro-ph/0412161]

• Future Evolution of Cosmic Structure in an Accelerating Universe
  M. T. Busha, F. C. Adams, R. H. Wechsler, and A. E. Evrard. 2003, ApJ, 596, 713
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0305211]

• The Asymptotic Structure of Space Time
  F. C. Adams, M. Busha, A. E. Evrard, R. H. Wechsler. 2003, International Journal of Modern Physics D. 2003, 12, 1743; Gravity Research Foundation Essays on Gravitation honorable mention
  [pdf] [astro-ph/0308236]

high-redshift galaxy formation

• Modeling Luminosity Dependent Galaxy Clustering Through Cosmic Time
  C. Conroy, R. H. Wechsler, and A. V. Kravtsov
  2006, ApJ, 647, 201
  [astro-ph/0512234]

• The Masses of Lyman Break Galaxies
  J.R. Primack, R.H. Wechsler, and R.S. Somerville.
  Proceedings of Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift, Venice 2001
  [astro-ph/0112504]
  
  
• Galaxy Halo Occupation at High Redshift
  J.S. Bullock, R. H. Wechsler and R.S. Somerville. 2002, MNRAS, 329, 246
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0106293]
  
  
• Galaxy Formation at z~3: Constraints from Spatial Clustering
  R. H. Wechsler, R. S. Somerville, J. S. Bullock, Ts. Kolatt, J. R. Primack, G. R. Blumenthal, and A. Dekel.
  2001, ApJ, 554, 85
  [postscript] [astro-ph/0011261]
  
  
• The Nature of High-Redshift Galaxies
  J. R. Primack, R. S. Somerville, S. M. Faber and R. H. Wechsler.
  1998, Physics Reports, 307, 15
  [astro-ph/9806263]
  
  
• Implications of Spikes in the Redshift Distribution of z~3 Galaxies
  R. H. Wechsler, M. A. K. Gross, J. R. Primack, G. R. Blumenthal, and A. Dekel.
  1998, ApJ, 506, 19
  [postscript] [astro-ph/9712141]
  
  

dark energy survey

• The Dark Energy Survey
  The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
  June 2005, White paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force
  [astro-ph/0510346]
  
  
• Constraining Dark Energy with the Dark Energy Survey: Theoretical Challenges
  J. Annis, S. Bridle, F. J. Castander, A. E. Evrard, P. Fosalba, J. A. Frieman, E. Gaztanaga, B. Jain, A. V. Kravtsov, O. Lahav, H. Lin, J. Mohr, A. Stebbins, T. P. Walker, R. H. Wechsler, D. H. Weinberg, J. Weller. Sept 2005, White paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force
  [astro-ph/0510195]
  
  
• Dark Energy Studies: Challenges to Computational Cosmology
  J. Annis, F. J. Castander, A. E. Evrard, J. A. Frieman, E. Gaztanaga, B. Jain, A. V. Kravtsov, H. Lin, J. Mohr, P. M. Ricker, A. Stebbins, R. H. Wechsler, D. H. Weinberg, J. Weller. Sept 2005, White paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force
  [astro-ph/0510194]
  
  

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