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The Interplay of Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Final Report Summary - LSSVSCMB (The Interplay of Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation)

Dr. Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo has very significantly contributed to the scientific organization and scientific activity at CEFCA these last years, and to the outreach activities related to his work and CEFCA.

1. Scientific organization.
Before the resolution of the CIG was notified, Dr. Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo was granted in June 2011a Ramón y Cajal fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the period 2011 – 2016 (June 2011). Immediately after the fellow was awarded the CIG in September 2011, CEFCA transformed his current situation into a permanent position, with the mandate to organize a research group on Cosmology at CEFCA. In that respect, a graduate student was hired (S. Gracia-Gracia, October 2011) and two researchers were contacted (February 2012, Dr. R. Angulo and Dr. S. Bonoli, both at Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik at that time) to offer them two postdoc positions at CEFCA, with prospects of becoming permanent. Both were hired by CEFCA and have now permanent positions. In May 2013 Dr. A. Orsí (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) was offered a postdoc position at CEFCA, having now a permanent position. Two more postdoctoral fellows (N. Greisel and G. Hurier) have been incorporated in 2015 to the Cosmology Group, together with two more PhD students (J. J. Chaves-Montero [2013] and S. Gurung [2015]).
As a consequence of all that activity the CEFCA Cosmology group started by Dr. Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo includes at present 4 researches with permanent positions, two postdoctoral fellows and two PhD students.
This is a key achievement for CEFCA scientific activity mainly due to the prestige and active commitment of Dr. C. Hernández-Monteagudo.

2. Scientific activity.
Dr. C. Hernández-Monteagudo has developed his scientific activity in two main domains: development of tools for the analysis of the data from the first long-term Javalambre surveys, J-PLUS (http://www.j-plus.es) and J-PAS (http://j-pas.org) to be carried out with the CEFCA telescopes of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, and the collaboration in large international projects like Planck and BOSS. The Cosmology group at CEFCA is in charge of the cosmological exploitation of the surveys, within the J-PAS Collaboration. To that end the group has written algorithms that compute two point statistics and are able to handle the photo-z probability density distributions as input. The group is currently working on reconstruction techniques of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and investigating the sensitivity of the Javalambre surveys, as they are planned, to the redshift space distortions.
All that work should be made public during 2016 through different peer reviewed publications, with the prospects of increasing the group's visibility within planned future large international projects, in particular Euclid and 4MOST.
Within the J-PAS collaboration he is co-leading the Theoretical Cosmology working group and co-leading the Large Scale science group, where he has promoted and carried out theoretical work and developed key analysis tools to get the best results form the first data produced by the aforementioned surveys.

Dr. C. Hernández-Monteagudo had an important activity within the Planck collaboration where he leads several tasks and researches. His expertise in the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect (ISW) identified him as the leader for its analysis both in Planck and BOSS collaborations. Those analyses has resulted in several publications led by Dr. C. Hernández-Monteagudo. He is also the leader of the projects associated to bulk flows and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect for Planck, for which he has led two published papers within the collaboration. Special mention to the article published in Physical Review Letters: Constraints on the missing baryon from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in Planck data, (Hernández-Monteagudo et al., 2015), presenting the detection of about half the missing baryons, in the form of gas clouds surrounding halos. This has been a result of high impact that deserved a press release and commenting articles in several Spanish newspapers like El País, Abc, La Vanguardia, Heraldo de Aragón, Diario de Teruel, or specialized magazines like Alkaid, and regional TV channels like Aragón TV.
His publication record is very important, with 91 articles in peer reviewed journals and more than 11,000 citations in the last two years.

Dr. C. Hernández-Monteagudo has been invited to present his results and developments in several meetings, in particular the 100 Zeldovich meeting in Moskow, the IFT/MPA Spring Workshop on Large Scale Structure [Madrid, IV-2012], Microwave Polarimetry Conference [Paris, XII 2012], 47th ESLAB Symposium [Noordwjik, IV 2013], Cosmic Flows: Observations and Simulations [Marseille, VI-2013], and Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Flows [Quy-Nhon, Vietnam, VII-2016] ).

In addition to this, he has also taken part in outreach activities, like open talks in local schools in Teruel, or teaching in courses oriented to senior people, organised by the University of Zaragoza, or visiting undergraduate student colleges belonging to the universities of Madrid and León, or general public talks, like in the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias of Valencia.

The full publication record of the project has been attached. Given that the web form in a section below (1) does not allow to enter those publication currently in press in peer-reviewed journals, and (2) the publication list is so long that it would be needed hours of dedicated work to include all publications, only the most relevant and highest impact publications have been uploaded in the web form.