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Ben Gold

Research Associate

235 Tate, 624-0673, email gold @ physics.umn.edu
Research Areas
Cosmology and Galactic Astrophysics

Current Research

I am currently Co-Investigator (with Shaul Hanany, as part of the EBEX project) on a research grant to characterize and remove interstellar dust contamination from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. I am also a member of the WMAP science team. My specialty is performing computer simulations to help analysis of cosmological data, but I've worked on a broad range of topics in astrophysics and cosmology.

Selected Publications

B. Gold et al., Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Galactic Foreground Emission, Astrophysical Journal Supplement [abstract]

A.N. Witt, B. Gold, F.S. Barnes III, C.T. DeRoo, U.P. Vijh, G.J. Madsen, On the Origins of the High-Latitude H-alpha Background, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]

B. Gold et al., Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Galactic Foreground Emission, Astrophysical Journal Supplement [abstract]

A. Riess, B. Gold, et al., New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z>=1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy, Astrophysical Journal [abstract]

B. Gold, Limits of Dark Energy Measurements from CMB Lensing-ISW-Galaxy Count Correlations, Physical Review [abstract]

B. Gold and A. Albrecht, Next-generation Test of Cosmic Inflation, Physical Review [abstract]

Education

Research Associate, University of Minnesota, 2010-current
Assistant Research Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2010
Ph.D., University of California Davis, 2005
M.S., University of California Davis, 1999
B.S., Michigan State University, 1997