Synthetic Observations
Creating realistic galaxy and CMB observables
People
Leads: Simone Ferraro, Shivam Pandey, Rachel Somerville
Members: Aaron Yung, Austen Gabrielpillai, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Chris Hayward, Chris Lovell, Kartheik Iyer, Laura Sommovigo, Lucia Perez, Matthew Ho, Michaela Hirschmann, Rachel Cochrane, Rachel Somerville, Shivam Pandey, Simone Ferraro, Steve Wilkins, Sultan Hassan, Tjitske Starkenburg, Ulrich Steinwandel, Viraj Pandya,
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).