Richard MASSEY
Astronomy Fellow

Refereed journals: (see also ADS or arXiv searches for my name)

42. Rachel McInnes, Felipe Menanteau, Alan Heavens, John Hughes, Raul Jimenez, Richard Massey, Patrick Simon & Andy Taylor 2009
    Lensing measurements of SZ-discovered clusters in the Southern Cosmology Survey.
    
    
41. Takashi Hamana, Satoshi Miyazaki, Nobunari Kashikawa, Richard Ellis, Richard Massey, Alexandre Refregier & James Taylor 2008
    Subaru weak lensing survey II: multi-object spectroscopy and cluster masses.
    PASJ in press
    
    
40. Sarah Bridle et al. 2009
    The GREAT08 PASCAL challenge.
    AoAS 3, 6
    
    
39. Cécile Faure, J.-P. Kneib, S. Hilbert, Richard Massey, G. Covone, A. Finoguenov, A. Leauthaud, J. Taylor, S. Pires & N. Scoville 2009
    On the contribution of large scale structure to strong gravitational lensing.
    ApJ 695, 1233
    
    
38. Jared Gabor, C. Impey, K. Jahnke, B. Simmons, J. Trump, A. Koekemoer, M. Brusa, N. Cappelluti, E. Schinnerer, V. Smolcic, M. Salvato, J. Rhodes, B. Mobasher, P. Capak, Richard Massey, A. Leauthaud & N. Scoville 2009
    AGN host galaxy morphologies in COSMOS.
    ApJ 691, 705
    
    
37. Marusa Bradac, Steve Allen, Tommaso Treu, Harald Ebeling, Richard Massey, Glenn Morris, Anja von der Linden & Douglas Applegate 2008
    Revealing the properties of dark matter in the merging cluster MACSJ0025.4-1222.
    ApJ 687, 959
    
    
36. Mansi Kasliwal, Richard Massey, Richard Ellis, Satoshi Miyazaki & Jason Rhodes 2008
    A comparison of weak lensing measurements from ground- and space-based facilities.
    ApJ 684, 34
    
    
35. Matt Ferry, Jason Rhodes, Richard Massey & Richard Ellis 2008
    Multicolor image simulations with shapelets.
    Astropart. Phys. 30, 65
    
    
34. Cécile Faure, Jean-Paul Kneib, Giovanni Covone, Lidia Tasca, Alexie Leauthaud, Peter Capak, Knud Jahnke, Vernesa Smolcic, Sylvain de la Torre, Richard Ellis, Alexis Finoguenov, Anton Koekemoer, Olivier Le Fevre, Richard Massey, Yannick Mellier, Alexandre Refregier, Jason Rhodes, Nick Scoville, Eva Schinnerer, James Taylor, Ludovic Van Waerbeke & Jakob Walcher 2008
    First catalog of strong lens candidates in the COSMOS field.
    ApJS 176, 19
    
    
33. Joel Bergé, Florian Pacaud, Alexandre Refregier, Richard Massey, Marguerite Pierre, Adam Amara, Mark Birkinshaw, Stéphane Paulin-Henriksson, Graham Smith & Jon Willis 2008
    Combined analysis of weak lensing and X-ray blind surveys.
    MNRAS 385, 695
    
    
32. Richard Massey & David Goldberg 2008
    Weak lensing ellipticities in a strong lensing regime.
    ApJL 673, 111
    
    
31. Yasuhiro Shioya et al. 2008
    The Hα luminosity function and star formation rate at z~0.24 in the COSMOS 2 square degree field.
    ApJS 175, 128
    
    
30. Will High, Jason Rhodes, Richard Massey & Richard Ellis 2007
    Pixelation effects in weak lensing.
    PASP 119, 1295
    
    
29. Julien Lesgourgues, Matteo Viel, Martin Haenhelt & Richard Massey 2007
    A combined analysis of Lyman-α forest, 3D weak lensing and WMAP year three data.
    JCAP 11, 8
    
    
28. Satoshi Miyazaki, Takashi Hamana, Richard Ellis, Nobunari Kashikawa, Richard Massey, James Taylor & Alexandre Refregier 2007
    Subaru weak lensing survey I: cluster candidates and spectroscopic verification.
    ApJ 669, 714
    
    
27. Raphael Gavazzi, Tommaso Treu, Jason Rhodes, Leon Koopmans, Adam Bolton, Scott Burles, Richard Massey & Lexi Moustakas 2007
    The Sloan Lens ACS Survey IV: the mass density profile of early-type galaxies out to 100 effective radii.
    ApJ 667, 176
    
    
26. Adrienne Leonard, David Goldberg, Jason Haaga & Richard Massey 2007
    Gravitational shear, flexion and strong lensing in Abell 1689.
    ApJ 666, 51
    
    
25. Richard Massey, Barnaby Rowe, Alexandre Refregier, David Bacon & Joel Bergé 2007
    Weak gravitational shear and flexion with polar shapelets.
    MNRAS 380, 229
    
    
24. Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Richard Ellis, Nick Scoville, Alexie Leathaud, Alexis Finoguenov, Peter Capak, David Bacon, Herve Aussel, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anton Koekemoer, Henry McCracken, Bahram Mobasher, Sandrine Pires, Alexandre Refregier, Shunji Sasaki, Jean-Luc Starck, Yoshi Taniguchi & James Taylor 2007
    Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding.
    Nature 445, 286 and front cover!
    
    
23. Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Alexie Leauthaud, Peter Capak, Richard Ellis, Anton Koekemoer, Alexandre Refregier, James Taylor, Nick Scoville, Justin Albert, Joel Bergé, Catherine Heymans, Jean-Paul Kneib, Yannick Mellier, Bahram Mobasher, Lidia Tasca & Ludovic Van Waerbeke 2007
    COSMOS: 3D weak lensing and the growth of structure.
    ApJS 172, 239
    
    
22. Luigi Guzzo, Paolo Cassata, Alexis Finoguenov, Richard Massey, Nick Scoville et al. 2007
    COSMOS: a large-scale stucture at z=0.73 and the relation of galaxy morphologies to local environment.
    ApJS 172, 254
    
    
21. Alexie Leauthaud, Richard Massey, Jean-Paul Kneib, Jason Rhodes, Peter Capak, Richard Ellis, Catherine Heymans, David Johnston, Anton Koekemoer, Olivier Le Fevre, Yannick Mellier, Alexandre Refregier, Annie Robin, Nick Scoville, Lidia Tasca, James Taylor & Ludovic Van Waerbeke 2007
    COSMOS: space-based galaxy selection and shape measurement.
    ApJS 172, 219
    
    
20. Henry McCracken, J. Peacock, L. Guzzo, P. Capak, C. Porciani, N. Scoville, H. Aussel, A. Finoguenov, M. Kitzbichler, A. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, O. Le Fevre, Richard Massey, Y. Mellier, B. Mobasher, P. Norberg, J. Rhodes, D. Sanders, S. Sasaki, Y. Taniguchi, D. Thompson, S. White & A. El-Zant 2007
    The angular correlations of galaxies in the COSMOS field.
    ApJS 172, 314
    
    
19. Alexis Finoguenov, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger, N. Scoville, H. Aussel, H. Bohringer, M. Brusa, P. Capak, N. Capelluti, A. Comastri, R. Griffiths, C. Impey, A. Koekemoer, J.-P. Kneib, A. Leauthaud, O. LeFevre, S. Lilly, V. Mainieri, Richard Massey, H. McCracken, B. Mobasher, T. Murayama, J. Peacock, I. Sakelliou, E. Schinnerer & J. Silverman 2006
    The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: VI. Statistical properties of clusters of galaxies.
    ApJS 172, 182
    
    
18. Marcella Brusa, G. Zamorani, A. Comastri, G. Hasinger, N. Cappelluti, F. Civano, A. Finoguenov, V. Mainieri, M. Salvato, C. Vignali, M. Elvis, F. Fiore, R. Gilli, C. Impey, S. Lilly, M. Mignoli, J. Silverman, J. Trump, C. Urry, R. Bender, P. Capak, J. Huchra, J.-P. Kneib, A. Koekemoer, A. Leauthaud, I. Lehmann, Richard Massey, I. Matute, P. McCarthy, H. McCracken, J. Rhodes, N. Scoville, Y. Taniguchi & D. Thompson 2007
    The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: III. Optical identification and multiwavelength properties of a large sample of x-ray selected sources.
    ApJS 172, 353
    
    
17. Nick Scoville, H. Aussel, A. Benson, A. Blain, D. Calzetti, P. Capak, R. Ellis, A. Finoguenov, M. Giavalisco, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger, J. Koda, O. Lefevre, Richard Massey, H. McCracken, B. Mobasher, A. Renzini, J. Rhodes, M. Salvato, D. Sanders, S. Sasaki, E. Schinnerer, K. Sheth, P. Shopbell, Y. Taniguchi & D. Thompson 2007
    Large Structures and Galaxy Evolution in COSMOS at z<1.1.
    ApJS 172, 150
    
    
16. Claudia Scarlata, C. Carollo, S. Lilly, R. Feldmann, P. Kampcyzk, A. Renzini, A. Cimatti, C. Halliday, E. Daddi, M. Sargent, A. Koekemoer, N. Scoville, J.-P. Kneib, A. Leauthaud, Richard Massey, J. Rhodes, L. Tasca, P. Capak, H. McCracken, B. Mobasher, Y. Taniguchi, D. Thompson, M. Ajiki, H. Aussel, T. Murayama, D. Sanders, S. Sasaki, Y. Shioya & M. Takahashi 2007
    The redshift evolution of early-type galaxies in COSMOS: evidence against dry mergers since redshift ~1.
    ApJS 172, 494
    
    
15. Mark Sargent, C. Carollo, S. Lilly, C. Scarlata, R. Feldmann, P. Kampczyk, A. Koekemoer, N. Scoville, J.-P. Kneib, A. Leauthaud, Richard Massey, J. Rhodes, L. Tasca, P. Capak, H. McCracken, C. Porciani, A. Renzini, Y. Taniguchi, D. Thompson & K. Sheth 2007
    The evolution of the number density of large disk galaxies in COSMOS.
    ApJS 172, 434
    
    
14. Claudia Scarlata, C. Carollo, S. Lilly, M. Sargent, R. Feldmann, P. Kampczyk, C. Porciani, A. Koekemoer, N. Scoville, J-P. Kneib, A. Leauthaud, Richard Massey, J. Rhodes, L. Tasca, Capak, C. Maier, H. McCracken, B. Mobasher, A. Renzini, Y. Taniguchi, D. Thompson, K. Sheth, M. Ajiki, H. Aussel, T. Murayama, D. Sanders, S. Sasaki, Y. Shioya & M. Takahashi 2007
    COSMOS: morphological classification with ZEST and the evolution since z=1 of the Luminosity Function of early-, disk-, and irregular galaxies.
    ApJS 172, 406
    
    
13. Peter Capak and the COSMOS collaboration 2007
    The first release COSMOS optical and near-IR data and catalog.
    ApJS 172, 99
    
    
12. Jason Rhodes, Richard Massey, Justin Albert, Nicholas Collins, Richard Ellis, Catherine Heymans, Jonathan Gardner, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anton Koekemoer,Alexie Leauthaud, Yannick Mellier, Alexander Refregier, James Taylor & Ludovic Van Waerbeke 2007
    The stability of the HST/ACS Point Spread Function and implications for weak gravitational lensing.
    ApJS 172, 203
    
    
11. Anton Koekemoer, H. Aussel, D. Calzetti, P. Capak, M. Giavalisco, J.-P. Kneib, A. Leauthaud, O. LeFevre, H. McCracken, Richard Massey, B. Mobasher, J. Rhodes & N. Scoville 2007
    COSMOS: Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys observations and data processing.
    ApJS 172, 196
    
    
10. Nick Scoville and the COSMOS collaboration 2007
    COSMOS: Hubble Space Telescope observations.
    ApJS 172, 38
    
    
9. Richard Massey et al. 2007
   The Shear TEsting Programme 2: factors affecting high precision weak lensing analyses.
   MNRAS 376, 13
   
   
8. Catherine Heymans et al. 2006
   The Shear TEsting Programme 1: weak lensing analysis of simulated ground-based observations.
   MNRAS 368, 1323
   
   
7. Richard Massey & Alexandre Refregier 2005
   Polar shapelets.
   MNRAS 363, 197
   
   
6. Richard Massey, Alexandre Refregier, David Bacon, Richard Ellis & Michael Brown 2005
   An enlarged cosmic shear survey with the William Herschel Telescope.
   MNRAS 359, 1277
   
   
5. Alexandre Refregier, Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Richard Ellis, Justin Albert, David Bacon, Gary Bernstein, Tim McKay & Saul Perlmutter 2004
   Weak lensing from space III: cosmological parameter estimation.
   AJ 127, 3102
   
   
4. Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Alexandre Refregier, Justin Albert, David Bacon, Gary Bernstein, Richard Ellis, Bhuvnesh Jain, Tim McKay, Saul Perlmutter & Andy Taylor 2004
   Weak lensing from space II: dark matter mapping.
   AJ 127, 3089
   
   
3. Jason Rhodes, Alexandre Refregier, Richard Massey, Justin Albert, David Bacon, Gary Bernstein, Richard Ellis, Mike Lampton, Alex Kim, Tim McKay, Saul Perlmutter & the SNAP collaboration 2004
   Weak lensing from space I: prospects for the SuperNova/Acceleration Probe.
   Astropart. Phys. 20, 377
   
   
2. Richard Massey, Alexandre Refregier, Christopher Conselice & David Bacon 2004
   Image simulation with shapelets.
   MNRAS 348, 214
   
   
1. David Bacon, Richard Massey, Richard Ellis & Alexandre Refregier 2003
   Joint cosmic shear measurements with the Keck and William Herschel telescopes.
   MNRAS 344, 673
   

Theses:

2. Ph.D. thesis by Richard Massey 2004
   Weighing the Universe with Weak Gravitational Lensing. < PS 4.6Mb | PDF 5.0Mb >
   Introduction only. < PS 656kb | PDF 236kb >
   
   
1. MSci. thesis by Richard Massey 2000
   On the Topology of Large-Scale Structure. < PS 5.0Mb | PDF 3.3Mb >
   
   

Conference proceedings, popular articles and other non-refereed material:

32. Richard Massey 2009
    Celebrating a landmark experiment.
    BBC News Online, 30 May 2009
    
    
31. Richard Massey 2009
    Digging into dark matter with weak gravitational lensing.
    (AAS conference proceedings)
    
    
30. Yasuhiro Shioya et al. 2009
    Hα emitting galaxies in COSMOS.
    VizieR On-line Data Catalog 21750128S
    
    
29. Richard Massey 2008
    Viewing dark matter with weak lensing from HST.
    In "Practical Cosmology", eds. Y. Baryshev, I. Taganov & P. Teerikorpi
    
    
28. Alexis Finoguenov et al. 2008
    XMM Clusters of galaxies in COSMOS field.
    VizieR On-line Data Catalog 21720182F
    
    
27. Peter Capak et al. 2008
    COSMOS Multi-Wavelength Photometry Catalog.
    VizieR On-line Data Catalog 21720099C
    
    
26. Richard Massey, Lars Lindberg Christensen & Felice Frankel 2007
    Dark matter comes to light.
    American Scientist 93, 257 (Published by Sigma Xi)
    
    
25. Mansi Kasliwal, Richard Massey, Richard Ellis & Jason Rhodes 2007
    Weak lensing: ground vs. space in the COSMOS field.
    (AAS conference proceedings)
    
    
24. Barnaby Rowe, David Bacon, Catherine Heymans, Andy Taylor, Richard Massey, Marco Barden & John Caldwell 2006
    New constraints on dark matter substructure from weak gravitational flexion.
    In "Cosmic frontiers" (ASP conference series)
    
    
23. Joel Bergé, Alxandre Refregier & Richard Massey 2006
    Shapelet analysis of weak lensing surveys
    In "Contents and structures of the universe" (Moriond XLI)
    
    
22. Matt Ferry, Jason Rhodes, Richard Massey & Will High 2006
    Improving the Image Simulations for SNAP.
    (AAS conference proceedings)
    
    
21. Jason Rhodes, Richard Massey, Justin Albert, James Taylor, Anton Koekemoer & Alexie Leauthaud 2005
    Modelling and correcting the time-dependent ACS PSF.
    In "HST calibration workshop", eds. A. Koekemoer, P. Goudfrooij & L. Dressel
    
    
20. The SNAP collaboration 2005
    Probing Dark Energy via Weak Gravitational Lensing with the SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP).
    SLAC-PUB-11393: White paper to the Dark Energy Task Force
    
    
19. The SNAP collaboration 2005
    Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae.
    SLAC-PUB-11394: White paper to the Dark Energy Task Force
    
    
18. The SNAP collaboration 2005
    Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP.
    SLAC-PUB-11391: White paper to the Dark Energy Task Force
    
    
17. Will High, Richard Ellis, Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes & Jodi Lamoureux 2004
    Optimising SNAP for weak lensing.
    (AAS conference proceedings)
    
    
16. Richard Massey, Alexandre Refregier & David Bacon 2004
    Shapelets "multiple multipole" shear measurement methods.
    In "Impact of gravitational lensing on cosmology" (IAU conference proceedings)
    
    
15. Satoshi Miyazaki, Takashi Hamana, Alexandre Refregier, Richard Massey, Richard Ellis & Nobunari Kashikawa 2004
    Subaru Suprime-Cam weak lensing survey over 33 square degrees.
    In "Impact of gravitational lensing on cosmology" (IAU conference proceedings)
    
    
14. The SNAP collaboration 2004
    SuperNova/Acceleration Probe: a satellite experiment to study the nature of the dark energy.
    astro-ph/0405232
    
    
13. Anne Ealet et al. 2004
    An integral field spectrograph for SNAP.
    Proc. SPIE 5487, 1587
    
    
12. Michael Scholl et al. 2004
    SNAP telescope.
    Proc. SPIE 5487, 1473
    
    
11. Richard Massey, Alexandre Refregier & Jason Rhodes 2003
    Probing Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Space-Based Weak Lensing.
    Review talk in "Gravitational Lensing: a Unique Tool for Cosmology" (Aussois winter school)
    
    
10. Anne Ealet et al. 2003
    An integral field spectrograph for supernova identification.
    Proc. SPIE 4850, 1169
    
    
9. Greg Tarle et al. 2003
   SNAP NIR detectors.
   Proc. SPIE 4850, 919
   
   
8. Mike Lampton et al. 2003
   SNAP Focal Plane.
   Proc. SPIE 4854, 632
   
   
7. Mike Lampton et al. 2002
   SNAP Telescope.
   Proc. SPIE 4849, 215
   
   
6. Alex Kim et al. 2002
   Wide-Field Surveys from the SNAP Mission.
   Proc. SPIE 4836, 53
   
   
5. Greg Aldering et al. 2002
   Overview of the SuperNova/Acceleration Probe.
   Proc. SPIE 4835, 146
   
   
4. Richard Massey & Alexandre Refregier 2002
   Shapelets for shear surveys.
   In "Structure evolution and cosmology" (ESO conference proceedings)
   
   
3. Richard Massey, David Bacon, Alexandre Refregier & Richard Ellis 2001
   Cosmic Shear with Keck: Systematic Effects.
   In "A New Era in Cosmology", eds. T. Shanks & N. Metcalfe (ASP conference proceedings)
   
   
2. Timothy Hawarden, Andrew Adamson, Timothy Chuter, Nicholas Rees, Richard Massey, Charles Cavedoni, Eli Atad-Ettedgui 2000
   Thermal performance and facility seeing at the upgraded 3.8m UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT).
   Proc. SPIE 4004, 104
   
   
1. Timothy Hawarden, Stuart Ryder, Richard Massey & Gillian Wright 1999
   A near-IR spectral atlas of IR-selected nearby spirals.
   In "Towards a New Millenium in Galaxy Morphology", eds. D. Block, I. Puerari, A. Stockton & D. Ferreira (Kluwer academic publishers)
   

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