About Me
A smiling lens. Credit: NASA & ESA.
Astrophysicist based in Hamburg, Germany. Interested in Observational Cosmology with gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters and gravitational waves.
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Research
A new mass proxy for optical galaxy clusters
In this project, we propose a new mass proxy for galaxy clusters based on the stellar masses,
named μ★.
Besides being physically motivated, μ★ is independent of the history's formation of the red-sequence and has the potential
to better characterize the mass of optical galaxy clusters at high redshifts (z>1).
Publications:
‣ Copacabana: A Probabilistic Membership Assignment Method for Galaxy Clusters
‣ μ★ Masses: Weak Lensing Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 redMaPPer Clusters using Stellar Masses
‣ Stellar Mass as a Galaxy Cluster Mass Proxy: Application to the Dark Energy Survey redMaPPer Clusters
‣ Weak-Lensing Calibration of a Stellar Mass-Based Mass Proxy for redMaPPer and Voronoi Tessellation Clusters in SDSS Stripe 82
Using binary black hole mergers to estimate H0
We performed the first measurement of H0 using the gravitational wave (GW) signals
from a binary black hole (BBH) merger in combination with the information from galaxies. This technique is interesting because it does not rely on finding the
electromagnetic counterpart of the GW events, which is very rare. The BBH events are frequent, and therefore, in a few years, we will have enough statistics
to make this methodology achieve more precise estimates for H0.
Publications:
‣ A Statistical Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant from the LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Compact Object Merger GW190814 and Dark Energy Survey Galaxies
‣ First Measurement of the Hubble Constant from a Dark Standard Siren using the Dark Energy Survey Galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo Binary–Black-hole Merger GW170814
Dark Energy Science with Gravitational Waves
Participated in “Snowmass 2021” initiative, which is the community driven long-term planning process of
the High Energy Physics & Astrophysics fields in the USA. Produced a series of white papers on the potential applications of the gravitational waves to dark
energy science. Advocated for joint analysis of gravitational wave and large astronomical surveys.
‣ Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier CF6 White Paper: Multi-Experiment Probes for Dark Energy -- Transients
‣ Report of the Topical Group on Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration: Complementarity of Probes and New Facilities for Snowmass 2021
Contact
Email: mariaeli@hs.uni-hamburg.de
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