publications
review articles
Formation of the First Black holes - Formation and evolution of the cosmic large-scale structure
contribution to the book "Formation of the first black holes" by D. Schleicher, 2018
book
The role of cosmology in modern physics
arXiv 1701.04469
book
Galaxy alignments - An overview
Space Science Review 193, 65 (2015)
lensing alignments
Galaxy alignments - Theory, modelling and simulations
Space Science Review 193, 67 (2015)
lensing alignments
Galaxy alignments - Observations and impact on cosmology
Space Science Review 193, 139 (2015)
lensing alignments
Galactic angular momenta and angular momentum correlations in the cosmological large-scale structure
IJMPD 18/2, 173-222 (2009)
lensing alignments
publications in refereed journals
Approximating non-Gaussian Bayesian partitions with normalising flows - statistics, inference and application to cosmology
arXiv/2501.04791
Bayes-inference statistical physics machine learning
Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihood - information theory and state variables for Bayesian inference
arXiv/2411.13625
Bayes-inference statistical physics machine learning
Markov walk exploration of model spaces - Bayesian selection of dark energy models with supernovae
arXiv/2407.06259
Bayes-inference statistical physics
On the full non-Gaussian surprise statistics and the cosmological concordance between DESI, SDSS and Pantheon+
arXiv/2408.08385
Bayes-inference structures
PINNferring the Hubble function with uncertainties
arXiv/2403.13899
Bayes-inference gravity machine learning
Bayesian distances for quantifying tensions in cosmological inference and the surprise statistic
arXiv/2402.19100
Bayes-inference geometry
Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes from the perspective of geometric algebra
arXiv/2402.16680
gravity geometry field theory
A unified linear intrinsic alignment model for elliptical and disc galaxies and the resulting ellipticity spectra
OJA, 7, 2024
structures alignments
Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihoods - macrocanonical paritions and replicating Markov-chains
arXiv/2311.16218
Bayes-inference statistical physics machine learning
Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihoods - partitions for the inference of functions and the Fisher-functional
MNRAS 527, 8443 (2024)
Bayes-inference statistical physics machine learning
Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihoods - physically motivated convergence criteria for Markov-chains
MNRAS 526, 473 (2023)
Bayes-inference statistical physics machine learning
Cornering extended Starobinsky-inflation with CMB and SKA
SciPost Phys. 15, 47 (2023)
structures gravity
Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves in a ΛCDM Cosmology
PRD 107, 063538 (2023)
perturbations structures gravity
Partition function approach to non-Gaussian likelihoods - formalism and expansions for weakly non-Gaussian cosmological inference
MNRAS 523, 2027 (2023)
Bayes-inference statistical physics machine learning
Etherington duality breaking - gravitational lensing in non-metric spacetimes versus intrinsic alignments
MNRAS 518, 5490 (2023)
lensing gravity
A weak lensing perspective on nonlinear structure formation with fuzzy dark matter
MNRAS 527, 10538 (2023)
structures dark matter lensing
On the Cosmic Web Elongation in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies
MNRAS 519, 4183 (2023)
structures dark matter
Constructing Exact Confidence Regions on Parameter Manifolds of Non-Linear Models
arXiv/2211.03421
statistics Bayes-inference
Three-dimensional weak gravitational lensing of the 21-cm radiation background
MNRAS 512, 5135 (2022)
structures lensing
Probing the inflaton potential with SKA
SciPost Phys. Core 5, 037 (2022)
structures gravity
Gravitational wave induced baryon acoustic oscillations
SciPost Phys. 12, 114 (2022)
structures gravity perturbations
Intrinsic and extrinsic gravitational flexions
MNRAS 510, 2773 (2022)
structures lensing alignments
Testing modified (Horndeski) gravity by combining intrinsic galaxy alignments with cosmic shear
MNRAS 510, 4456 (2022)
alignments lensing
Intrinsic Alignments in IllustrisTNG and their implications for weak lensing - Tidal shearing and tidal torquing mechanisms put to the test
MNRAS 514, 2049 (2022)
structures alignments
Extrinsic and intrinsic correlations of galaxy shapes and sizes
MNRAS 505, 2594 (2021)
structures alignments
Information entropy in cosmological inference problems
MNRAS 503, 1187 (2021)
statistics Bayes-inference
Information geometry in cosmology
JCAP 01 (2021) 005
statistics Bayes-inference
Post-inflationary isocurvature perturbations from axions facing CMB and large scale structure
JCAP 11 (2020) 046
statistics dark matter gravity perturbations
Symmetric gravitational closure
arXiv 2003.07109
gravity geometry field theory
Optimising tomography for weak gravitational lensing surveys
MNRAS 501, 683 (2021)
statistics Bayes-inference lensing
Realistic systematic biases induced by residual intrinsic alignments in cosmic shear surveys
arXiv 1910.05994
Bayes-inference lensing alignments
Isocurvature bounds on axion-like particle dark matter in the post-inflationary scenario
JCAP 05 (2019) 021
statistics Bayes-inference dark matter
KiDS+GAMA - Constraints on Horndeski gravity from combined large-scale structure probes
MNRAS 490, 2155 (2019)
statistics Bayes-inference lensing
Influence of the local Universe on weak gravitational lensing surveys
MNRAS 486 5061 (2018)
statistics Bayes-inference lensing
Environmental dependence of ellipticity correlation functions of intrinsic alignments
JCAP 04 (2018) 031
statistics lensing alignments
3D cosmic shear - numerical challenges, 3D lensing random fields generation and Minkowski Functionals for cosmological inference
PRD 98 103507 (2018)
statistics lensing Bayes-inference
Statistical separation of weak gravitational lensing and intrinsic ellipticities based on galaxy colour information
MNRAS 494, 2969 (2020)
statistics lensing alignments
Investigating scalar-tensor-gravity with statistics of the cosmic large-scale structure
MNRAS 482, 3274 (2018)
gravity lensing alignments
Testing (modified) gravity with 3D and tomographic cosmic shear
MNRAS 480, 3725 (2018)
gravity lensing alignments
Gravitational corrections to light propagation in a perturbed FLRW-universe and corresponding weak lensing spectra
MNRAS 477, 741 (2018)
gravity lensing
Angular ellipticity correlations in a composite alignment model for elliptical and spiral galaxies and inference from weak lensing
MNRAS 476, 3460 (2018)
lensing alignments
Imitating intrinsic alignments - A bias to the CMB lensing-galaxy shape cross-correlation power spectrum induced by the large-scale structure bispectrum
MNRAS 471, 2431 (2017)
lensing alignments
The mass dependence of dark matter halo alignments with large-scale structure
MNRAS 474, 1165 (2018)
lensing alignments
Parameter constraints from weak lensing tomography of galaxy shapes and cosmic microwave background fluctuations
MNRAS 469, 2760 (2017)
statistics lensing alignments
Shear and vorticity in the spherical collapse of dark matter haloes
MNRAS 473, 4558 (2018)
dark energy dark matter
Effects of tidal gravitational fields in clustering dark energy models
MNRAS 466, 1839 (2016)
dark energy dark matter
Variations of cosmic large-scale structure covariance matrices across parameter space
MNRAS 465, 4016 (2016)
statistics Bayes-inference
Spherical collapse of dark matter haloes in tidal gravitational fields
MNRAS 463, 429 (2016)
dark energy dark matter
Describing variations of the Fisher-matrix across parameter space
MNRAS 460, 3398 (2016)
statistics Bayes-inference
Extreme value statistics of CMB lensing deflection angles
MNRAS 453, 401 (2015)
lensing Bayes-inference
Planck 2015 results. XXI. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect
A+A 594, A21 (2016)
CMB
Planck 2015 results. XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity
A+A 594, A14 (2016)
CMB dark energy
Planck intermediate results. XL. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Virgo cluster
A+A 596, A101 (2016)
CMB
Angular spectra of the intrinsic galaxy ellipticity field, their observability and their impact on lensing in tomographic surveys
MNRAS 470, 3453 (2017)
lensing alignments statistics
Combined constraints on deviations of dark energy from an ideal fluid from Euclid and Planck
MNRAS 456, 109 (2016)
dark energy CMB
Non-Gaussian forecasts of weak lensing with and without priors
MNRAS 456, 1645 (2016)
lensing Bayes-inference statistics
A theoretical estimate of intrinsic ellipticity bispectra induced by angular momenta alignments
MNRAS 445, 2918 (2014)
structures alignments
Born corrections to weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarisation anisotropies
MNRAS 454, 831 (2015)
CMB lensing
Weak gravitational lensing of intrinsically aligned galaxies
MNRAS 437, 1847-1857 (2013)
lensing alignments
Detecting baryon acoustic oscillations by 3d weak lensing
MNRAS 437, 2632-2641 (2013)
lensing
Planck 2013 results. XIX. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect
A+A 571, A19 (2014)
dark energy CMB
Extreme value statistics of the weak lensing convergence - primordial non-Gaussianities
arXiv 1305.1485
statistics lensing
Intrinsic alignments and 3d weak gravitational lensing
MNRAS 434, 1808-1820 (2013)
alignments lensing
Probing the accelerating Universe with radio weak lensing in the JVLA Sky Survey
arXiv 1312.5618
statistics Bayes-inference
A test of the Suyama-Yamaguchi inequality from weak lensing
MNRAS 442, 1068 (2014)
lensing statistics Bayes-inference gravity
integrated Sachs-Wolfe tomography with orthogonal polynomials
MNRAS 425, 2589-2598 (2012)
dark energy CMB Bayes-inference
Evolution of intrinsic ellipticity correlations due to peculiar motion
MNRAS 428, 1312-1320 (2013)
lensing alignments
The interplay of CMB temperature lensing power reconstruction with primordial non-Gaussianity of local type
MNRAS 429, 444-451 (2013)
gravity CMB lensing
The pre-launch Planck Sky Model - a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths
A+A 553, A96 (2013)
CMB
Intrinsic ellipticity correlations of galaxies - models, likelihoods and interplay with weak lensing
MNRAS 435, 194 (2013)
lensing alignments
Planck intermediate results. IX. Detection of the Galactic haze with Planck
A+A 554, A139 (2013)
CMB
Planck intermediate results. VIII. Filaments between interacting clusters
A+A 550, A134 (2013)
CMB
Planck Intermediate Results. X. Physics of the hot gas in the Coma cluster
A+A 554, A140 (2013)
CMB
A Comparison of Algorithms for the Construction of SZ Cluster Catalogues
A+A 548, A51 (2013)
CMB
Cross bispectra and trispectra of the non-linear integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and the tracer galaxy density field
MNRAS 430, 797-807 (2013)
CMB structures
Contributions to the nonlinear integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect - Birkinshaw-Gull effect and gravitational self-energy density
MNRAS 431, 2433-2440 (2013)
CMB structures
Planck early results - The Planck mission
A+A 536, A1 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - The thermal performance of Planck
A+A 536, A2 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample
A+A 536, A8 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - XMM-Newton follow-up for validation of Planck cluster candidates
A+A 536, A9 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - Calibration of the local galaxy cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations
A+A 536, A11 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - Cluster Sunyaev-Zeldovich optical scaling relations
A+A 536, A12 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - first assessment of the High Frequency Instrument in-flight performance
A+A 536, A4 (2011)
CMB
The early Release Compact Source Catalog
A+A 536, A7 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - Statistical analysis of Sunyaev-Zeldovich scaling relations for X-ray galaxy clusters
A+A 536, A10 (2011)
CMB
Planck early results - The High Frequency Instrument data processing
A+A 536, A6 (2011)
CMB
Galactic angular momenta and angular momentum couplings in the large-scale structure
MNRAS 421, 2751-2762 (2012)
structures alignments
On the validity of the Born-approximations for weak cosmic flexions
MNRAS 420, 455-467 (2012)
lensing
Calibration biases in measurements of weak lensing
A+A 547A, 98 (2012)
lensing
Planck early results - Detection with Planck and confirmation by XMM-Newton of PLCK G266.6-27.3, an exceptionally X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster at z~1
A+A 536, A26 (2011)
CMB
A weak lensing view on primordial non-Gaussianities
MNRAS 421, 797-807 (2012)
gravity structures lensing
Weak lensing tomography with orthogonal polynomials
MNRAS 423, 3445-3457 (2012)
lensing structures Bayes-inference
Investigating clustering dark energy with 3d weak cosmic shear
MNRAS 422, 3056-3066 (2012)
lensing structures dark energy
Planck intermediate results - I. Further validation of new Planck clusters with XMM-Newton
A+A 543, A102 (2012)
CMB
Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by nonlinear structures
MNRAS 411, 1067-1076 (2011)
CMB lensing structures
Weak gravitational lensing with DEIMOS
MNRAS 412, 1552-1558 (2011)
lensing
Parameter estimation biases due to contributions from the Rees-Sciama effect to the integrated Sachs-Wolfe spectrum
MNRAS 416, 1302-1310 (2011)
CMB Bayes-inference structures
A study of relative velocity statistics in Lagrangian perturbation theory with PINOCCHIO
MNRAS 412, 3057-3066 (2011)
structures
Constraints on early dark energy from CMB lensing and weak lensing tomography
JCAP 4, 12 (2009)
CMB dark energy lensing
Implications of bias evolution on measurements of the iSW-effect - errors and biases in parameter estimation
MNRAS 397, 925-932 (2009)
CMB structures Bayes-inference
The growth of structure in interacting dark energy models
JCAP 7, 27 (2009)
structures dark energy
Mixed three-point correlation functions of the nonlinear integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and their detectability
MNRAS 388, 1394-1402 (2008)
CMB structures
Constraints on the decay of dark matter to dark energy from weak lensing bispectrum tomography
arXiv/0803.2154
lensing Bayes-inference
The integrated-Sachs-Wolfe effect in cosmologies with coupled dark matter and dark energy
MNRAS 388, 1403-1408 (2008)
CMB dark energy
Twist and turn - weak lensing image distortions to second order
MNRAS 396, 2167-2175 (2009)
lensing structures
Galaxy peculiar velocities and the evolution of bias
MNRAS 385, L78 (2008)
structures
Spherical collapse in modified gravity with the Birkhoff-theorem
MNRAS 385, 411-422 (2008)
gravity
Detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK - 3. Properties of the SZ-cluster sample
MNRAS 377, 253-268 (2007)
CMB dark matter
Weak lensing in the second post-Newtonian approximation - Gravitomagnetic potentials and the iSW-effect
MNRAS 369, 425-440 (2006)
lensing gravity
Detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK - 1. Construction of all-sky thermal and kinetic SZ-maps
MNRAS 370, 1309-1323 (2006)
CMB dark matter
Detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK - 2. Foreground components and optimised filtering schemes
MNRAS 370, 1713-1736 (2006)
CMB dark matter
Coded mask imaging of extended sources with Gaussian random fields
astro-ph/0407286
statistics
A Fourier-based algorithm for modelling aberrations in HETE-2's imaging system
NIM A 500 (2003) 263-271
statistics
Redshift estimation of clusters by wavelet decomposition of their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich morphology
MNRAS 362, 1418-1434 (2005)
CMB dark matter
Particle identification in ɣ-ray astronomy with the HEGRA Cerenkov-telescopes
NIM A 465 (2001) 394-403
statistics
theses
Dark energy and the evolution of the cosmic large-scale structure
habilitation thesis, Heidelberg University, 2012
book dark energy
Methods for detecting and observing clusters of galaxies
phd-thesis, Munich University, 2005
book CMB dark matter
Particle identification with multifractal and wavelet parameters in γ-ray astronomy
diploma thesis, Heidelberg University, 2000
book
book contributions
The role of cosmology in modern physics
contribution to the book "Epistemology of fundamental physics" by R. Dawid, 2018
book
Formation of the First Black holes - Formation and evolution of the cosmic large-scale structure
contribution to the book "Formation of the first black holes" by D. Schleicher, 2018
book
lecture notes
general relativity
Heidelberg University Publishing
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cosmology
Heidelberg University Publishing
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statistical physics
Heidelberg University Publishing
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tooltips for theoretical physics
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electrodynamics
Heidelberg University Publishing
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quantum mechanics
Heidelberg University Publishing
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