Hume A Feldman


Hume A. Feldman
  • Department Chair, Professor

Contact Info

1082 Malott Hall

Biography

Professional Background

1996-present: Professor, University of Kansas
1994-1996: Research Professor, Gravity Group, Department of Physics, Princeton University
1991-1994: Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
1989-1991: Postdoctoral Fellow, CITA, University of Toronto, Canada

Research

My research interests include Astrophysics and Cosmology. I study the large scale structure of the universe, developing and implementing dynamical and statistical tools. In particular I analyze proper distance surveys to find the distribution of mass in the Universe. I am looking at the kinetic Sunayev-Zeldovich signature of clusters to study dark energy and the evolution of the Hubble parameter and the distribution, properties and substructure of void-supercluster network. I also study the effects of neutrino mass on the power spectrum of mass fluctuation in the linear and non-linear regimes.

Selected Publications

Watkins, R. & Feldman, H. (2015). An Unbiased Estimator of Peculiar Velocity with Gaussian Distributed Errors for Precision Cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(2), 1868-1873. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv651 http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/450/2/1868
Watkins, R. & Feldman, H. (2015). Large-scale bulk flows from the Cosmicflows-2 catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, 132-139. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stu2414
Agarwal, S. Abdalla, F. Feldman, H. Lahav, O. & Thomas, S. (2014). PkANN - II. A non-linear matter power spectrum interpolator developed using artificial neural networks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439, 2102-2121. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stu090
Feldman, H. A. (2013). PKANN: A non-linear matter power spectrum interpolator developed using artificial neural networks. http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~fba/PkANN/
Agarwal, S. & Feldman, H. A. (2013). The Cosmic Mach Number: Comparison from Observations, Numerical Simulations and Nonlinear Predictions. MNRAS, 432(1), 307-317. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stt464
Turnbull, S. J., Hudson, M. J., Feldman, H. A., Hicken, M. Kirshner, R. P., & Watkins, R. (2012). Cosmic flows in the nearby universe from Type Ia Supernovae. MNRAS, 420, 447-454.
Macaulay, E. Feldman, H. A., Ferreira, P. G., Jaffe, A. H., Agarwal, S. Hudson, M. J., & Watkins, R. (2012). Power Spectrum Estimation from Peculiar Velocity Catalogues: Power spectra from peculiar velocity catalogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425(3), 1709-1717. DOI:10.1111/J.1365-2966.2012.21629.X
Agarwal, S. Abdalla, F. B., Feldman, H. A., Lahav, O. & Thomas, S. A. (2011). Constraining Cosmological Parameters, Including Neutrino Mass, Using N-body Large Scale Simulations and Artificial Neural Networks. In American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219 (pp. #143.09).
Macaulay, E. Feldman, H. A., Ferreira, P. G., Hudson, M. J., & Watkins, R. (2011). A Slight Excess of Large Scale Power from Moments of the Peculiar Velocity Field: Large-scale power from velocity moments. MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), 414(1), 621-626. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18426.x
Feldman, H. A., Watkins, R. & Hudson, M. J. (2010). Cosmic Flows on 100 Mpc/h Scales: Standardized Minimum Variance Bulk Flow, Shear and Octupole Moments: Cosmic flows minimum variance moments. MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), 407(4), 2328-2338. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17052.x
Juszkiewicz, R. Feldman, H. A., Fry, J. N., & Jaffe, A. H. (2010). Nonlinear Effects in the Amplitude of Cosmological Density Fluctuations. JCAP, 02, 021.
Agarwal, S. & Feldman, H. A. (2010). The Effect of Massive Neutrinos on the Matter Power Spectrum: Massive neutrinos and matter power spectrum. MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), 410, 1647-1654. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17546.x
Watkins, R. Feldman, H. A., & Hudson, M. J. (2009). Consistently Large Cosmic Flows on Scales of 100 h-1Mpc: a Challenge for the Standard ΛCDM Cosmology. MNRAS, 392, 743-756.
Colberg, J. M., Pearce, F. Foster, C. Platen, E. Brunino, R. Neyrinck, M. Basilakos, S. Fairall, A. Feldman, H. A., Gottloeber, S. Hahn, O. Hoyle, F. Mueller, V. Nelson, L. Plionis, M. Porciaini, C. Shandarin, S. Vogeley, M. S., & van de Weygaert, R. (2008). The Aspen-Amsterdam Void Finder Comparison Project. MNRAS, 387, 933-944.
Shandarin, S. Feldman, H. A., Heitmann, K. & Habib, S. (2006). Shapes and Sizes of Voids in the LCDM Universe: Excursion Set Approach. MNRAS, 367, 1629-1640.
Feldman, H. A., Juszkiewicz, R. Ferreira, P. Davis, M. Gaztanaga, E. Fry, J. N., Jaffe, A. Chambers, S. W., da Costa, L. Bernandi, M. Giovanelli, R. Haynes, M. P., & Wegner, G. (2003). An estimate of Ωm without priors. ApJ, 596, L131-L134.
Feldman, H. A., Frieman, J. A., Fry, J. N., & Scoccimarro, R. (2001). Constraints on Galaxy Bias, Ωm, and Primordial Non-Gaussianity from the IRAS-PSCz Survey Bispectrum. PRL, 86, 1434-1437.
Scoccimarro, R. Feldman, H. A., Frieman, J. & Fry, J. (2001). The Bispectrum of Redshift Catalogs. ApJ, 546, 652-664.
Juszkiewicz, R. Ferreira, P. G., Feldman, H. A., Jaffe, A. H., & Davis, M. (2000). Relative Velocities of Galaxies Suggest a Low Density Universe. Science, 287, 109-112.
Feldman, H. A., & Watkins, R. (1995). Interpreting New Data on Large Scale Bulk Flows. ApJL, 453, L72–76.
Feldman, H. A., Kaiser, N. & Peacock, J. (1994). Power Spectrum Analysis of Three-Dimensional Redshift Surveys. ApJ, 426, 23-37.
Feldman, H. A., & Watkins, R. (1994). Theoretical Expectations for Bulk Flows in Large Scale Surveys. ApJL, 430, L17-20.
Sahni, V. Feldman, H. A., & Stebbins, A. (1992). Loitering Universes. ApJ, 385, 1-8.
Brandenberger, R. Feldman, H. A., & Mukhanov, V. F. (1992). Theory of Cosmological Perturbations. Part I: Classical Perturbations. Phys. Rep., 215, 206-256.