Synthetic Observations
Creating realistic galaxy and CMB observables
People
Leads: Laura Sommovigo, Simone Ferraro, Shivam Pandey, Rachel Somerville
Members: Anshuman Acharya, Deaglan Bartlett, Rachel Cochrane, Simone Ferraro, Austen Gabrielpillai, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sultan Hassan, Chris Hayward, Michaela Hirschmann, Matthew Ho, Kartheik Iyer, Chris Lovell, Shivam Pandey, Viraj Pandya, Lucia Perez, Rachel Somerville, Laura Sommovigo, Tjitske Starkenburg, Ulrich Steinwandel, Steve Wilkins, Aaron Yung,
Description
The Synthetic Observations working group develops techniques to take galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations and semi-analytic models and generate spectral and photometric observables. In addition, the group works to predict secondary CMB anisotropies (kinetic and thermal SZ effects).