Matthew Becker

This page is for a fomer group member and only contains group-affiliated papers. A full list can be found here.

First-authored papers

Co-authored papers

1. [2509.20458] A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies (Sep 24, 2025)
   Chun-Hao To, Chihway Chang, Dhayaa Anbajagane, Risa H. Wechsler, Alex Drlica-Wagner, M. Adamów, A. Alarcon, M. R. Becker, J. A. Carballo-Bello, R. Cawthon, N. Chicoine, C. Doux, J. H. Esteves, P. S. Ferguson, M. Gatti, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, K. Herron, David J. James, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, S. Mau, J. McCullough, G. E. Medina, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, A. Navarro-Alsina, N. E. D. Noël, A. B. Pace, M. Raveri, A. H. Riley, D. J. Sand, L. F. Secco, T. Shin, G. S. Stringfellow, D. Suson, C. Y. Tan, R. Teixeira, A. Zenteno, Z. Zhang
   
   
2. [2503.13631] Dark Energy Survey: Modeling strategy for multiprobe cluster cosmology and validation for the Full Six-year Dataset (Mar 17, 2025)
   Chun-Hao To, Elisabeth Krause, Chihway Chang, Hao-Yi Wu, Risa H. Wechsler, Eduardo Rozo, David H. Weinberg, D. Anbajagane, S. Avila, J. Blazek, S. Bocquet, M. Costanzi, J. De Vicente, J. Elvin-Poole, A. Ferté, S. Grandis, J. Muir, A. Porredon, S. Samuroff, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, N. Weaverdyck, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, F. Andrade-Oliveira, D. Bacon, M. R. Becker, D. Brooks, A. Carnero Rosell, J. Carretero, A. Choi, L. N. da Costa, M. E. S. Pereira, T. M. Davis, S. Desai, P. Doel, S. Everett, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, M. Gatti, E. Gaztanaga, G. Giannini, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, T. Jeltema, K. Kuehn, S. Lee, J. L. Marshall, J. Mena-Fern, R. Miquel, J. J. Mohr, J. Myles, A. Palmese, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. K. Romer, T. Shin, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, V. Vikram, A. R. Walker, J. Weller
   
   
3. [2105.12105] ADDGALS: Simulated Sky Catalogs for Wide Field Galaxy Surveys (May 25, 2021)
   Risa H. Wechsler, Joseph DeRose, Michael T. Busha, Matthew R. Becker, Eli Rykoff, August Evrard
   
   
4. [2105.12104] Modeling Redshift-Space Clustering with Abundance Matching (May 25, 2021)
   Joseph DeRose, Matthew R. Becker, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
5. [1907.13167] The Aemulus Project IV: Emulating Halo Bias (Jul 30, 2019)
   Thomas McClintock, Eduardo Rozo, Arka Banerjee, Matthew R. Becker, Joseph DeRose, Sean McLaughlin, Jeremy L. Tinker, Risa H. Wechsler, Zhongxu Zhai
   
   
6. [1903.04509] Astro2020: Empirically Constraining Galaxy Evolution (Mar 11, 2019)
   Peter Behroozi, Matthew R. Becker, Frank C. van den Bosch, Jarle Brinchmann, Charlie Conroy, Mark Dickinson, Christopher M. Hirata, Andrew Hearin, Alexie Leauthaud, Chun Ly, Yao-Yuan Mao, Benjamin P. Moster, Christine O'Donnell, Casey Papovich, Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, Rachel Somerville, Erik Tollerud, Jeremy Tinker, Yun Wang, Risa H. Wechsler, Charity Woodrum, Ann Zabludoff, Dennis Zaritsky, Andrew R. Zentner, Huanian Zhang
   
   
7. [1901.02401] The Buzzard Flock: Dark Energy Survey Synthetic Sky Catalogs (Jan 8, 2019)
   Joseph DeRose, Risa H. Wechsler, Matthew R. Becker, Michael T. Busha, Eli S. Rykoff, Niall MacCrann, Brandon Erickson, August E. Evrard, Andrey Kravtsov, Daniel Gruen, Sahar Allam, Santiago Avila, Sarah Bridle, David Brooks, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Matias Carrasco Kind, Jorge Carretero, Francisco J. Castander, Ross Cawthon, Martin Crocce, Luiz N. da Costa, Christopher Davis, Juan De Vicente, Jörg P. Dietrich, Peter Doel, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Pablo Fosalba, Josh Frieman, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Gaston Gutierrez, Will G. Hartley, Devon L. Hollowood, Ben Hoyle, David J. James, Elisabeth Krause, Kyler Kuehn, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Marcos Lima, Marcio A. G. Maia, Felipe Menanteau, Christopher J. Miller, Ramon Miquel, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Andrés Plazas Malagón, A. Kathy Romer, Eusebio Sanchez, Rafe Schindler, Santiago Serrano, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Mathew Smith, Eric Suchyta, Molly E. C. Swanson, Gregory Tarle, Vinu Vikram
   
   
8. [1804.05867] The Aemulus Project III: Emulation of the Galaxy Correlation Function (Apr 16, 2018)
   Zhongxu Zhai, Jeremy L. Tinker, Matthew R. Becker, Joseph DeRose, Yao-Yuan Mao, Thomas McClintock, Sean McLaughlin, Eduardo Rozo, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
9. [1804.05866] The Aemulus Project II: Emulating the Halo Mass Function (Apr 16, 2018)
   Thomas McClintock, Eduardo Rozo, Matthew R. Becker, Joseph DeRose, Yau-Yuan Mao, Sean McLaughlin, Jeremy L. Tinker, Risa H. Wechsler, Zhongxu Zhai
   
   
10. [1804.05865] The Aemulus Project I: Numerical Simulations for Precision Cosmology (Apr 16, 2018)
    Joseph DeRose, Risa H. Wechsler, Jeremy L. Tinker, Matthew R. Becker, Yao-Yuan Mao, Thomas McClintock, Sean McLaughlin, Eduardo Rozo, Zhongxu Zhai
    
    
11. [1605.09056] Cosmic Shear as a Probe of Galaxy Formation Physics (May 29, 2016)
    Simon Foreman, Matthew R. Becker, Risa H. Wechsler
    
    
12. [1604.07871] Cosmology from large scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data (Apr 26, 2016)
    Juliana Kwan, Carles Sanchez, Joseph Clampitt, Jonathan Blazek, Martin Crocce, Bhuvnesh Jain, Joe Zuntz, Adam Amara, Matthew Becker, Gary Bernstein, Christopher Bonnett, Joseph DeRose, Scott Dodelson, Tim Eifler, Enrique Gaztanaga, Tommaso Giannantonio, Daniel Gruen, Will Hartley, Tomasz Kacprzak, Donnacha Kirk, Elisabeth Krause, Niall MacCrann, Ramon Miquel, Youngsoo Park, Ashley Ross, Eduardo Rozo, Eli Rykoff, Erin Sheldon, Michael A. Troxel, Risa Wechsler, Tim Abbott, Filipe Abdalla, Sahar Allam, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, David Brooks, David Burke, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Matias Carrasco Kind, Carlos Cunha, Chris D'Andrea, Luiz da Costa, Shantanu Desai, H. Thomas Diehl, Jörg Dietrich, Peter Doel, August Evrard, Enrique Fernandez, David Finley, Brenna Flaugher, Pablo Fosalba, Josh Frieman, David Gerdes, Robert Gruendl, Gaston Gutierrez, Klaus Honscheid, David James, Mike Jarvis, Kyler Kuehn, Ofer Lahav, Marcos Lima, Marcio Maia, Jennifer Marshall, Paul Martini, Peter Melchior, Joe Mohr, Robert Nichol, Brian Nord, Andres Plazas, Kevin Reil, Kathy Romer, Aaron Roodman, Eusebio Sanchez, Vic Scarpine, Ignacio Sevilla, R. Chris Smith, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Flavia Sobreira, Eric Suchyta, Molly Swanson, Gregory Tarle, Daniel Thomas, Vinu Vikram, Alistair Walker
    
    
13. [1510.05651] The Concentration Dependence of the Galaxy-Halo Connection: Modeling Assembly Bias with Abundance Matching (Oct 19, 2015)
    Benjamin V. Lehmann, Yao-Yuan Mao, Matthew R. Becker, Samuel W. Skillman, Risa H. Wechsler
    
    
14. [1410.1193] redMaPPer IV: Photometric Membership Identification of Cluster Galaxies with 1% Precision (Oct 5, 2014)
    Eduardo Rozo, Eli S. Rykoff, Matthew Becker, Rachel M. Reddick, Risa H. Wechsler
    
    
15. [1405.2923] Orientation Bias of Optically Selected Galaxy Clusters and Its Impact on Stacked Weak Lensing Analyses (May 12, 2014)
    Jörg P. Dietrich, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jeeseon Song, Christopher P. Davis, Timothy A. McKay, Leon Baruah, Matthew Becker, Christophe Benoist, Michael Busha, Luiz A. N. da Costa, Jiangang Hao, Marcio A. G. Maia, Christopher J. Miller, Ricardo Ogando, A. Kathy Romer, Eduardo Rozo, Eli Rykoff, Risa Wechsler
    
    
16. [1210.3317] A High Throughput Workflow Environment for Cosmological Simulations (Oct 11, 2012)
    Brandon M. S. Erickson, Raminderjeet Singh, August E. Evrard, Matthew R. Becker, Michael T. Busha, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Suresh Marru, Marlon Pierce, Risa H. Wechsler
    
    
17. [1104.1635] Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and the Mass-to-Number Ratio of Galaxy Clusters (Apr 8, 2011)
    Jeremy L. Tinker, Erin S. Sheldon, Risa H. Wechsler, Matthew R. Becker, Eduardo Rozo, Ying Zu, David H. Weinberg, Idit Zehavi, Michael Blanton, Michael Busha, Benjamin P. Koester
    
    
18. [1010.5503] A GMBCG Galaxy Cluster Catalog of 55,424 Rich Clusters from SDSS DR7 (Oct 26, 2010)
    Jiangang Hao, Timothy A. McKay, Benjamin P. Koester, Eli S. Rykoff, Eduardo Rozo, James Annis, Risa H. Wechsler, August Evrard, Seth R. Siegel, Matthew Becker, Michael Busha, David Gerdes, David E. Johnston, Erin Sheldon
    
    
19. [0907.4383] Precision Measurements of the Cluster Red Sequence using an Error Corrected Gaussian Mixture Model (Jul 24, 2009)
    Jiangang Hao, Benjamin P. Koester, Timothy A. Mckay, Eli S. Rykoff, Eduardo Rozo, August Evrard, James Annis, Matthew Becker, Michael Busha, David Gerdes, David E. Johnston, Erin Sheldon, Risa H. Wechsler
    
    
20. [0902.3702] Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS maxBCG Cluster Catalog (Feb 21, 2009)
    Eduardo Rozo, Risa H. Wechsler, Eli S. Rykoff, James T. Annis, Matthew R. Becker, August E. Evrard, Joshua A. Frieman, Sarah M. Hansen, Jiangang Hao, David E. Johnston, Benjamin P. Koester, Timothy A. McKay, Erin S. Sheldon, David H. Weinberg
    
    
21. [0809.2797] An Improved Cluster Richness Estimator (Sep 16, 2008)
    Eduardo Rozo, Eli S. Rykoff, Benjamin P. Koester, Timothy McKay, Jiangang Hao, August Evrard, Risa H. Wechsler, Sarah Hansen, Erin Sheldon, David Johnston, Matthew Becker, James Annis, Lindsey Bleem, Ryan Scranton
    
    
22. [0809.2794] Constraining the Scatter in the Mass-Richness Relation of maxBCG Clusters With Weak Lensing and X-ray Data (Sep 16, 2008)
    Eduardo Rozo, Eli S. Rykoff, August Evrard, Matthew Becker, Timothy McKay, Risa H. Wechsler, Benjamin P. Koester, Jiangang Hao, Sarah Hansen, Erin Sheldon, David Johnston, James Annis, Joshua Frieman
    
    
23. [0709.1159] Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS galaxy Clusters II: Cluster Density Profiles and the Mass--Richness Relation (Sep 9, 2007)
    David E. Johnston, Erin S. Sheldon, Risa H. Wechsler, Eduardo Rozo, Benjamin P. Koester, Joshua A. Frieman, Timothy A. McKay, August E. Evrard, Matthew R. Becker, James Annis