Edmund Bertschinger Publications

Refereed Publications

• Seen and unseen tidal caustics in the Andromeda galaxy
  R. Sanderson and E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 725, 1652-1675 (2010).

• Velocity Structure of Self-Similar Spherically Collapsed Halos
  P. Zukin and E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. D 82, 104045 (2010).

• Self-Similar Spherical Collapse with Tidal Torque
  P. Zukin and E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. D 82, 104044 (2010).

• Hierarchy in the phase space and dark matter Astronomy
  N. Ashfordi, R. Mohayaee, and E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. D 81, 101301 (2010).

• Hierarchical phase space structure of dark matter haloes: Tidal debris, caustics, and dark matter annihilation
  N. Ashfordi, R. Mohayaee, and E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. D 79, 083526 (2009).

• Distinguishing modified gravity from dark energy
  E. Bertschinger and P. Zukin, Phys. Rev. D 78, 024015 (2008)

• Kinematic Density Waves in Accretion Disks
  Svetlin Tassev and E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 686, 423-431 (2008)

• Variational Integrators for the Gravitational N-Body Problem
  W. M. Farr and E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 663, 1420-1433 (2007)

• Effects of Cold Dark Matter Decoupling and Pair Annihilation on Cosmological Perturbations
  E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. D 74, 063509 (2006)

• On the Growth of Perturbations as a Test of Dark Energy and Gravity
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 648, 797-806 (2006)

• A Cosmological Kinetic Theory for the Evolution of Cold Dark Matter Halos with Substructure: Quasi-Linear Theory
  C.-P. Ma & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 612, 28-50 (2004)

• The Harmonic Structure of High-Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations in Accreting Black Holes
  J. D. Schnittman & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 606, 1098-1111 (2004)

• Dynamics of Cosmological Perturbations in Position Space
  S. Bashinsky & E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. D 65, 123008 (2002)

• Multiscale Gaussian Random Fields and Their Application to Cosmological Simulations,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 137, 1-20 (2001)

• Position-Space Description of the Cosmic Microwave Backgound and its Temperature Correlation Function,
  S. Bashinsky & E. Bertschinger, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 081301 (2001)

• Self-Similar Evolution of Gravitational Clustering. II. N-Body Simulations of the n = -2 Spectrum
  B. Jain & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 509, 517-530 (1998)

• Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe
  E. Bertschinger, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 36, 599-654 (1998)

• Integral Solution for the Microwave Background Anisotropies in Non-flat Universes
  M. Zaldarriaga, U. Seljak & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 494, 491-502 (1998)

• The Peculiar Motions of Elliptical Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. III. The Photometric Data,
  R. P. Saglia, D. Burstein, G. Baggley, E. Bertschinger, M. M. Colless, R. L. Davies, R. K. McMahan, & G. Wegner, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 292, 499-572 (1997)

• Cosmological Constraints from High-Redshift Damped Lyman alpha Systems,
  C.-P. Ma, E. Bertschinger, L. Hernquist, D. H. Weinberg, & N. Katz, Astrophysical Journal, 484, L1-L5 (1997)

• The Peculiar Motions of Elliptical Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. IV. The Photometric Fitting Procedure,
  R. P. Saglia, E. Bertschinger, G. Baggley, D. Burstein, M. Colless, R. L. Davies, R. K. McMahan, & G. Wegner, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 109, 79-102 (1997)

• The Peculiar Motions of Elliptical Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. I. Cluster and Galaxy Selection,
  G. Wegner, M. Colless, G. Baggley, R. L. Davies, E. Bertschinger, D. Burstein, R. K. McMahan, & R. P. Saglia, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 106, 1 (1996)

• Adding Long Wavelength Modes to an N-Body Simulation,
  G. Tormen & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 472, 14-24 (1996)

• Local Approximations to the Gravitational Collapse of Cold Matter,
  L. Hui & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 471, 1-13 (1996)

• Building a Cosmological Hydrodynamic Code: Consistency Condition, Moving Mesh Gravity and SLH-P3M,
  N. Y. Gnedin & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 470, 115-130 (1996)

• Constraining Peaks in Gaussian Primordial Density Fields: an Application of the Hoffman-Ribak Method,
  R. Van de Weygaert & E. Bertschinger, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 281, 84-118 (1996)

• Self-Similar Evolution of Gravitational Clustering: Is n=-1 Special?
  B. Jain & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 456, 43-54 (1996)

• Cosmological Perturbation Theory in the Synchronous and Conformal Newtonian Gauges,
  C.-P. Ma & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 455, 7-25 (1995)

• Particle-Mesh Methods on the Connection Machine,
  R. Ferrell & E. Bertschinger, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 5, 933-956 (1994)

• Cold Dark Matter II: Spatial and Velocity Statistics,
  J. M. Gelb & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 436, 491-508 (1994)

• Cold Dark Matter I: The Formation of Dark Halos,
  J. M. Gelb & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 436, 467-490 (1994)

• Formation of Quasars at High Redshift,
  N. Katz, T. Quinn, E. Bertschinger, & J. M. Gelb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 270, L71-74 (1994)

• Lagrangian Evolution of the Weyl Tensor,
  E. Bertschinger & A. J. S. Hamilton, Astrophysical Journal, 435, 1-8 (1994)

• Cosmic Structure Formation,
  E. Bertschinger, Physica D, 77, 354-379 (1994)

• Do Galactic Systems Form Too Late in Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models?
  C.-P. Ma & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 434, L5-9 (1994)

• Second Order Power Spectrum and Nonlinear Evolution at High Redshift,
  B. Jain & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 431, 495-505 (1994)

• Gravitational Instability of Cold Matter,
  E. Bertschinger & B. Jain, Astrophysical Journal, 431, 486-494 (1994)

• A Calculation of the Full Neutrino Phase Space in Cold+Hot Dark Matter Models,
  C.-P. Ma & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 429, 22-28 (1994)

• Amplitude of Primeval Fluctuations from Cosmological Density Reconstructions,
  U. Seljak & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 427, 523-526 (1994)

• X-Ray Emission from a Simulated Cluster of Galaxies,
  J. C. Tsai, N. Katz, & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 423, 553-565 (1994)

• Evolution of One-Point Distributions from Gaussian Initial Fluctuations,
  L. Kofman, E. Bertschinger, J. M. Gelb, A. Nusser, & A. Dekel, Astrophysical Journal, 420, 44-57 (1994)

• Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of the COBE Angular Correlation Function,
  U. Seljak & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 417, L9-12 (1993)

• The Effects of Seeing on the Photometric Properties of Elliptical Galaxies,
  R. P. Saglia, E. Bertschinger, G. Baggley, D. Burstein, M. Colless, R. L. Davies, R. K. McMahan, & G. Wegner, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 264, 961-974 (1993)

• IRAS Galaxies versus POTENT Mass: Density Field, Biasing, and Omega,
  A. Dekel, E. Bertschinger, A. Yahil, M. Strauss, M. Davis, & J. Huchra, Astrophysical Journal, 412, 1-21 (1993)

• Photoelectric and CCD Photometry of E and S0 Galaxies,
  M. Colless, D. Burstein, G. Wegner, R. P. Saglia, R. McMahan, R. L. Davis, E. Bertschinger, & G. Baggley, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 262, 475-490 (1993)

• Statistics of Primordial Density Perturbations from Discrete Seed Masses,
  R. J. Scherrer & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 381, 349-360 (1991)

• Cosmological Velocity-Density Relation in the Quasi-Linear Regime,
  A. Nusser, A. Dekel, E. Bertschinger, & G. R. Blumenthal, Astrophysical Journal, 379, 6-19 (1991)

• Comparison of Likely Candidate Models for Abell Cluster Structures Against the Observed Distribution,
  D. J. Batuski, A. L. Melott, R. J. Scherrer, & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 367, 393-398 (1991)

• Seeded Hot Dark Matter Models for Large-Scale Structure,
  J. V. Villumsen, R. J. Scherrer, & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 367, 37-44 (1991)

• Potential, Velocity and Density Fields from Redshift-Distance Samples. Application: Cosmography within 6000 km/s,
  E. Bertschinger, A. Dekel, S. M. Faber, A. Dressler, & D. Burstein, Astrophysical Journal, 364, 370-395 (1990)

• Potential, Velocity and Density Fields from Redshift-Distance Samples: Method,
  A. Dekel, E. Bertschinger, & S. M. Faber, Astrophysical Journal, 364, 349-369 (1990)

• Effect of the Great Attractor on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation,
  E. Bertschinger, K. M. G\'orski, & A. Dekel, Nature, 345, 507-508 (1990)

• Global Strings and Superfluid Vortices: Analogies and Differences,
  B. Gradwohl, G. K\"albermann, T. Piran, & E. Bertschinger, Nuclear Physics B, 338, 371-385 (1990)

• Prescription for Successful Extended Inflation,
  D. La, P. Steinhardt, & E. Bertschinger, Physics Letters B, 231, 231-236 (1989)

• The Evolution of Cooling Flows: Self-Similar Cooling Waves,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 340, 666-679 (1989)

• The Formation of Large-Scale Structure from Cosmic Strings and Massive Neutrinos,
  R. J. Scherrer, A. L. Melott, & E. Bertschinger, Physical Review Letters, 62, 379-382 (1989)

• Recovering the Full Velocity and Density Fields from Large-Scale Redshift-Distance Samples,
  E. Bertschinger & A. Dekel, Astrophysical Journal, 336, L5-8 (1989)

• Dynamics of Radiative Supernova Remnants,
  D. F. Cioffi, C. F. McKee, & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 334, 252-265 (1988)

• Searching for the Great Attractor, E. Bertschinger & R. Juszkiewicz, Astrophysical Journal, 334, L59-62 (1988)

• Galaxy Formation with Cosmic Strings and Massive Neutrinos,
  E. Bertschinger & P. N. Watts, Astrophysical Journal, 328, 23-33 (1988)

• Can Cosmic Strings Generate Large-Scale Streaming Velocities?
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 324, 5-18 (1988)

• Path Integral Methods for Primordial Density Perturbations: Sampling of Constrained Gaussian Random Noise,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 323, L103-106 (1987)

• Cosmological Accretion Wakes,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 316, 489-496 (1987)

• The Role of Heat Conduction in the Cooling Flows of Galaxy Clusters,
  E. Bertschinger & A. Meiksin, Astrophysical Journal, 306, L1-5 (1986)

• On the Structure and Stability of Radiative Shock Waves,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 304, 154-177 (1986)

• A Periodic Shock Wave Model for Mira Variable Atmospheres,
  E. Bertschinger & R. A. Chevalier, Astrophysical Journal, 299, 167-190 (1985)

• Cosmological Detonation Waves,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 295, 1-13 (1985)

• Self-Similar Secondary Infall and Accretion in an Einstein-de Sitter Universe,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 58, 39-66 (1985)

• The Self-Similar Evolution of Holes in an Einstein-de Sitter Universe,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 58, 1-37 (1985)

• Explosions in the Early Universe,
  E. T. Vishniac, J. P. Ostriker, & E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 291, 399-416 (1985)

• Cosmological Self-Similar Shock Waves and Galaxy Formation,
  E. Bertschinger, Astrophysical Journal, 268, 17-29 (1983)

Non-refereed Publications

• Bullying Can Happen in College, Too.
  D. J. Nelson, E. Bertschinger, D. Burgess, & E. A. Nalley, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2011.

• General relativity for sophomores,
  E. Bertschinger and E. F. Taylor, American Journal of Physics, 76, 103-105 (2008)

• Brownian Motion of Stars, Dust, and Invisible Matter,
  E. Bertschinger, in Proceedings of the Albert Einstein Century, ed. J.-M. Alimi and A. Fuzfa (2006)

• A Hot Spot Model for Black Hole QPOs,
  J. D. Schnittman and E. Bertschinger, in X-Ray Timing 2003: Rossi and Beyond, ed. P. Kaaret, F. K. Lamb, and J. H. Swank (Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics), 40-43 (2004)

• Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Structure Formation,
  E. Bertschinger, in Proceedings of Cosmology 2000, ed. M. C. Bento, O. Bertolami, and L. Teodoro (2000)

• How Did Galaxies Form?
  E. Bertschinger, R.G. Bower, A.G. Doroshkevich, N. Kaiser, P. Petitjean, M. Steinmetz, A.S. Szalay, J. Wambsganss, & S.D.M. White, in The Evolution of the Universe, ed. G. B\"orner and S. Gottl\"ober (Chichester: Wiley), 275-298 (1997)

• Cosmological Dynamics,
  E. Bertschinger, in Cosmology and Large Scale Structure, proc. Les Houches Summer School, Session LX, ed. R. Schaeffer, J. Silk, M. Spiro, and J. Zinn-Justin (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science), 273-347 (1996)

• Parallel Linear General Relativity and CMB Anisotropies,
  P. Bode & E. Bertschinger, in proc. Supercomputing '95

• A Parallel Processing Algorithm for Computing Short-Range Particle Forces with Inhomogeneous Particle Distributions,
  R. C. Ferrell & E. Bertschinger, to appear in proc. Society for Computer Simulation Multiconference, April 1995

• Constraints on Models from POTENT and CMB Anisotropies,
  U. Seljak & E. Bertschinger, in Present and Future of the Cosmic Microwave Background, ed. J. L. Sanz, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, & L. Cay\'on (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), 165-171 (1994)

• The Revolution in Cosmology,
  E. Bertschinger, in 1994 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Brittanica (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Brittanica), 46-65 (1994)

• Adding Long Wavelength Modes to an N-Body Simulation,
  G. Tormen & E. Bertschinger, in Cosmic Velocity Fields, ed. F. Bouchet & M. Lachi\`eze-Rey (Gif-sur-Yvette: Editions Fronti\`eres), 589-590 (1993)

• Testing the Theoretical Models using POTENT Reconstructed Density Field,
  U. Seljak & E. Bertschinger, in Cosmic Velocity Fields, ed. F. Bouchet & M. Lachi\`eze-Rey (Gif-sur-Yvette: Editions Fronti\`eres), 579-580 (1993)

• Nonlinear Effects due to the Coupling of Long-Wave Modes,
  B. Jain & E. Bertschinger, in Cosmic Velocity Fields, ed. F. Bouchet & M. Lachi\`eze-Rey (Gif-sur-Yvette: Editions Fronti\`eres), 553-554 (1993)

• Kinematical and Dynamical Approaches to Gravitational Instability,
  E. Bertschinger, in Cosmic Velocity Fields, ed. F. Bouchet & M. Lachi\`eze-Rey (Gif-sur-Yvette: Editions Fronti\`eres), 137-146 (1993)

• Gravitational Clustering in Cosmology,
  E. Bertschinger, in Statistical Description of Transport in Plasma, Astro-, and Nuclear Physics, ed. J. Misguich, G. Pelletier, & P. Schuck, (Commack, NY: Nova Science), 193-205 (1993)

• Galaxy Formation and Large-Scale Structure,
  E. Bertschinger, Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences, 688, 297-310 (1993)

• The Distances to Elliptical Galaxies,
  R. L. Davies, G. Baggley, E. Bertschinger, D. Burstein, M. Colless, R. McMahan, R. Saglia, & G. Wegner, in Structure, Dynamics and Chemical Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies, ed. I. J. Danziger, W. W. Zeilinger, & K. Kj\"ar, 159 (1993)

• Large-Scale Structures and Motions: Linear Theory and Statistics,
  E. Bertschinger, in New Insights into the Universe, ed. V. J. Martinez, M. Portilla & D. Saez (New York: Springer-Verlag), 64-126 (1992); also in Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics, ed. N. Sanchez & A. Zichici (Singapore: World Scientific), 237-395 (1992)

• Dark Matter in the Universe,
  E. Bertschinger, in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia, ed. S. P. Maran (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold), 170-171 (1991)

• Cosmological N-Body Simulations,
  E. Bertschinger & J. M. Gelb, Computers in Physics, 5, 164-179 (1991)

• N-Body Simulations: From Galaxies to Cosmology,
  E. Bertschinger, in After the First Three Minutes, ed. S. Holt, V. Trimble & C. Bennett (New York: AIP), 297-311 (1991)

• On Determining the Dn-log(sigma) Relation for Elliptical Galaxies using Red CCD Images,
  G. Wegner, R. L. Davies, M. Colless, D. Burstein, E. Bertschinger, & R. K, McMahan, in Large-Scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe, ed. D. W. Latham \& L. N. da Costa (San Francisco: ASP), 129-133 (1991)

• Mapping Large-Scale Flows in Three Dimensions: Application,
  A. Dekel & E. Bertschinger, in Large-Scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe, ed. D. W. Latham \& L. N. da Costa (San Francisco: ASP), 83-102 (1991)

• Mapping Large-Scale Flows in Three Dimensions: Method,
  E. Bertschinger & A. Dekel, in Large-Scale Structures and Peculiar Motions in the Universe, ed. D. W. Latham \& L. N. da Costa (San Francisco: ASP), 67-82 (1991)

• Large-Scale Motions in the Universe: A Review,
  E. Bertschinger, in Particle Astrophysics: The early universe and cosmic structures, ed. J. M. Alimi, A. Blanchard, A. Bouquet, F. Martin de Volnay, & J. Tran Thanh Van (Gif sur Yvette: Editions Fronti\`eres), 411-432 (1990)

• Einstein's Blunder Resurrected,
  E. Bertschinger, Nature, 348, 675-676 (News and Views) (1990)

• String-Seeded Galaxy Formation: Linear Theory and N-Body Simulations,
  E. Bertschinger, in Proc. Cambridge Symposium on the Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Strings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 481-501 (1990)

• Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation,
  E. Bertschinger, Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences, 571, 151-169 (1989)

• Neutrinos, Cosmic Strings, and Galaxy Formation,
  E. Bertschinger, in Neutrino '88, ed. J. Schneps, T. Kafka, W. A. Mann, & P. Nath (Singapore: World Scientific), 674-686 (1989)

• Resurrecting Hot Dark Matter with Cosmic Strings,
  E. Bertschinger, in Cosmic Strings: The Current Status, ed. F. S. Accetta & L. M. Krauss (Singapore: World Scientific), 185-196 (1988)

• Monte Carlo Simulations of Large-Scale Streaming Velocities,
  E. Bertschinger, in The Post-Recombination Universe, ed. N. Kaiser & A. N. Lasenby (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 249-251 (1988)

• A Semi-Analytic Approach to Cooling Flow Evolution,
  E. Bertschinger, in Cooling Flows in Galaxies and Clusters, ed. A. C. Fabian (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 337-341 (1988)

• Path Integral Methods for Primordial Density Perturbations,
  E. Bertschinger & J. M. Gelb, in Large Scale Structures of the Universe, proc. IAU Symp. 130, ed. J. Audouze, M.-C. Pelletan, & A. Szalay (Dordrecht: Reidel), 593 (1988)

• Stringing Along the Galaxies,
  E. Bertschinger, Nature, 333, 13-14 (News and Views) (1988)

• Galaxy Formation in a Universe Dominated by Cold Dark Matter,
  E. Bertschinger, in Dark Matter in the Universe, proc. IAU Symp. 117, ed. J. Kormendy & G. R. Knapp (Dordrecht: Reidel), 360 (1987)

• GRAFIC2: Multiscale Gaussian Random Fields for Cosmological Simulations,
  E. Bertschinger (March 2001)

• COSMICS: Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes,
  E. Bertschinger (June 1995)

• Hierarchical Clustering in Scale-Free Universes,
  E. Bertschinger, a video licensed by the MIT Technology Licensing Office (1994)

• Cosmological N-Body Simulations,
  J. M. Gelb & E. Bertschinger, a video licensed by the MIT Technology Licensing Office (1990)