Rachel Mandelbaum

Assistant Professor, Physics

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University

Research

My research interests are predominantly in the areas of observational cosmology and galaxy studies.  This work includes the use of weak gravitational lensing and other analysis techniques, with projects that range from development of improved data analysis methods, to actual application of such methods to existing data.  Currently, I am focusing on data from the SDSS (including the ongoing SDSS-III), and I am working on upcoming surveys including Hyper-SuprimeCam (HSC) and LSST.

Selected Publications

• R. Reyes, R. Mandelbaum, J. E. Gunn, R. Nakajima, U. Seljak, C. M. Hirata, Optical-to-virial velocity ratios of local disc galaxies from combined kinematics and galaxy-galaxy lensing, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 425, 2610 (2012)
• Jonathan Blazek, Rachel Mandelbaum, Uroš Seljak, Reiko Nakajima, Separating intrinsic alignment and galaxy-galaxy lensing, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 05, 041 (2012)
• Rachel Mandelbaum, Christopher M. Hirata, Alexie Leauthaud, Richard J. Massey, Jason Rhodes, Precision simulation of ground-based lensing data using observations from space, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 420, 1518 (2012)
• B. Joachimi, R. Mandelbaum, F. B. Abdalla, S. L. Bridle, Constraints on intrinsic alignment contamination of weak lensing surveys using the MegaZ-LRG sample, Astronomy & Astrophysics 527, A26 (2011)
• Rachel Mandelbaum et al., The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: direct constraints on blue galaxy intrinsic alignments at intermediate redshifts, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 410, 844 (2011)
• A. E. Schulz, Rachel Mandelbaum, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Testing adiabatic contraction with Sloan Digital Sky Survey elliptical galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 408, 1463 (2010)
• Tobias Baldauf, Robert E. Smith, Uroš Seljak, Rachel Mandelbaum, Algorithm for the direct reconstruction of the dark matter correlation function from weak lensing and galaxy clustering, Physical Review D 81, 063531 (2010)
• Reinabelle Reyes, Rachel Mandelbaum, Uros Seljak, Tobias Baldauf, James E. Gunn, Lucas Lombriser, Robert E. Smith, Confirmation of general relativity on large scales from weak lensing and galaxy velocities, Nature 464, 256 (2010)
• R. Reyes, R. Mandelbaum, C. Hirata, N. Bahcall, U. Seljak, Improved optical mass tracer for galaxy clusters calibrated using weak lensing measurements, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 390, 1157 (2008)
• Rachel Mandelbaum, Uroš Seljak, Christopher M Hirata, A halo mass—concentration relation from weak lensing, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 08, 006 (2008)
• R. Mandelbaum et al., Precision photometric redshift calibration for galaxy–galaxy weak lensing, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 386, 781 (2008)
• Rachel Mandelbaum, Uros Seljak, Guinevere Kauffmann, Christopher M. Hirata, Jonathan Brinkmann, Galaxy halo masses and satellite fractions from galaxy-galaxy lensing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: stellar mass, luminosity, morphology and environment dependencies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 368, 715 (2006)
• Rachel Mandelbaum, Christopher M. Hirata, Mustapha Ishak, Uros Seljak, Jonathan Brinkmann, Detection of large-scale intrinsic ellipticity-density correlation from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and implications for weak lensing surveys, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 367, 611 (2006)
• Rachel Mandelbaum, Christopher M. Hirata, Uros Seljak, Jacek Guzik, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Cullen Blake, Michael R. Blanton, Robert Lupton, Jonathan Brinkmann, Systematic errors in weak lensing: application to SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 361, 1287 (2005)