Marc Manera

Marc Manera is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for High Energy Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Previously, he was a Research Associate at Cambridge University, Univesity College London, University of Portsmouth, and New York University. Dr Manera is interested in dark matter and dark energy, as well as in measurements of the expansion of the universe from the distribution of galaxies.

Large scale structure, dark energy, exploitation of data from large cosmological surveys, cosmological simulations, dark matter, high-order statistics from the galaxy distributions, weak lensing.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a large sample of mock galaxy catalogues”, Manera, Marc; (and 9 authors); MNRAS (2013), 428, 1036.

• “Cluster number counts dependence on dark energy inhomogeneities and coupling to dark mattter” M. Manera, D. F. Mota, MNRAS (2006) 371, 1373.

• “Testing the lognormality of the galaxy and weak lensing convergence distributions from Dark Energy Survey maps”, Clerkin L., Kirk M., Manera M., and 57 authors, MNRAS 2016, in print, epub 10.1093.

• “L-PICOLA: A parallel code for fast dark matter simulation”, Howlett, Cullan; Manera, Marc; Percival, Will J., 2015, Astronomy&Ccomputing Volume 12, p109-126.

• “The information content of anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale measurements”, Ross, Ashley J.; Percival, Will J.; Manera, Marc, MNRAS (2015), 445, 1331.

PUBLICATIONS WITHIN THE P-SPHERE PROJECT

• Enhancing BOSS bispectrum cosmological constraints with maximal compression. Gualdi, Davide; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Schuhmann, Robert L.; Manera, Marc; Joachimi, Benjamin; Lahav, Ofer.  2019 MNRAS 484, 3713.

•  Geometrical compression: a new method to enhance the BOSS galaxy bispectrum monopole constraints, Gualdi, Davide; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Manera, Marc; Joachimi, Benjamin; Lahav, Ofer. 2019 MNRAS 484 L29.

• Cosmological Measurements from Angular Power Spectra Analysis of BOSS DR12 Tomography. Loureiro, Arthur; Moraes, Bruno; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Cuceu, Andrei; McLeod, Michael; Whiteway, Lorne; Balan, Sreekumar T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Lahav, Ofer; Manera, Marc; Rollins, Richard P.; Xavier, Henrique S. 2019 MNRAS, accepted

• M. Manera "LSS mocks and covariances", Consistency of Cosmological Data Sets Conference, Cambridge May 2018.

• M. Manera "Galaxy bias from phase differences", Statistical Challenges in the era of LSST Conference, Oxford, April 2018.

• M. Manera "The Dark Energy Survey, first year results and 2-point measurements" , Seminar, NYU, May 2018.

• M. Manera "Non linear galaxy bias from phase differences", DES collaboraition meeting, contribution. May. 2018.