Publications

Partial List of Publications: TO BE UPDATED SOON!

Cross-correlation between cosmic microwave background lensing and galaxy intrinsic alignment as a contaminant to gravitational lensing cross-correlated probes of the Universe

M.A. Troxel and Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 89, 063528 (2014)

The effects of structure anisotropy on lensing observables in an exact general relativistic setting for precision cosmology

M.A. Troxel, Mustapha Ishak and Austin Peel

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 03, 040 (2014)

Effects of anisotropy on gravitational infall in galaxy clusters using an exact general relativistic model

M.A. Troxel, Austin Peel and Mustapha Ishak

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 012, 048 (2013)

Stringent restriction from the growth of large-scale structure on apparent acceleration in inhomogeneous cosmological models 

Mustapha Ishak, Austin Peel and M.A. Troxel

Physical Review Letters, 111, 251302 (2013)

Large-scale growth evolution in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models with comparison to growth data

Austin Peel, Mustapha Ishak and M.A. Troxel

Physical Review D, 86, 123508 (2012)

Spatial curvature and cosmological tests of general relativity

Jason Dossett and Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 86, 103008 (2011)

Self-calibrating the gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity-intrinsic ellipticity (GII) cross-correlation

M.A. Troxel and Mustapha Ishak

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427, 442 (2012)

Self-Calibration for 3-point Intrinsic Alignment Auto-Correlations in Weak Lensing Surveys

M.A. Troxel and Mustapha Ishak

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423, 1663 (2012)

The growth of structure in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models and the matter-dominated era

Mustapha Ishak and Austin Peel

Physical Review D, 85, 083502 (2012)

Self-Calibration Technique for 3-point Intrinsic Alignment Correlations in Weak Lensing Surveys

M.A. Troxel and Mustapha Ishak

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 419, 1804 (2012)

Testing General Relativity at Cosmological Scales: Implementation and Parameter Correlations

Jason Dossett, Mustapha Ishak and Jacob Moldenhauer

Physical Review D, 84, 123001 (2011)

Figures of merit and constraints from testing General Relativity using the latest cosmological data sets including refined COSMOS 3D weak lensing

Jason Dossett, Jacob Moldenhauer and Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 84, 023012 (2011)

Luminosity distance and redshift in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models

Anthony Nwankwo, Mustapha Ishak and John Thompson

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1105, 028 (2011)

The Relevance of the Cosmological Constant for Lensing

Mustapha Ishak and Wolfgang Rindler

General Relativity and Gravitation, 42, 2247 (2010)

Constraints on growth index parameters from current and future observations

Jason Dossett, Mustapha Ishak, Jacob Moldenhauer, Yungui Gong and Anzhong Wang

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 1004, 022 (2010)

Supernova, baryon acoustic oscillations, and CMB surface distance constraints on f(G) higher order gravity models

Jacob Moldenhauer, Mustapha Ishak, John Thompson and Damien A. Easson

Physical Review D, 81, 063514 (2010)

More on Lensing by a Cosmological Constant

Mustapha Ishak, Wolfgang Rindler, Jason Dossett

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 403, 2152 (2010)

A minimal set of invariants as a systematic approach to higher order gravity models: Physical and Cosmological Constraints

Jacob Moldenhauer, Mustapha Ishak

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0912, 020 (2009)

Contiguous redshift parameterizations of the growth index

Mustapha Ishak and Jason Dossett

Physical Review D, 80, 043004 (2009)

Growth factor parametrization in curved space

Yungui Gong, Mustapha Ishak and Anzhong Wang

Physical Review D, 80, 023002 (2009)

A minimal set of invariants as a systematic approach to higher order gravity models

Mustapha Ishak and Jacob Moldenhauer

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0901, 024 (2009)

Light Deflection, Lensing, and Time Delays from Gravitational Potentials and Fermat’s Principle in the Presence of a Cosmological Constant

Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 78, 103006 (2008)

A New Independent Limit on the Cosmological Constant/Dark Energy from the Relativistic Bending of Light by Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies

Mustapha Ishak, Wolfgang Rindler, Jason Dossett, Jacob Moldenhauer and Chris Allison

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 388, 1279 (2008)

Dark Energy or Apparent Acceleration Due to a Relativistic Cosmological Model More Complex than FLRW?

Mustapha Ishak, James Richardson, David Garred, Delilah Whittington, Anthony Nwankwo and Roberto Sussman

Physical Review D, 78, 123531 (2008)

Inverse approach to Einstein’s equations for fluids with vanishing anisotropic stress tensor

James Richardson and Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 77, 044005 (2008)

The Contribution of the Cosmological Constant to the Relativistic Bending of Light Revisited

Wolfgang Rindler and Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 76, 043006 (2007)

Intrinsic galaxy alignments from the 2SLAQ and SDSS surveys: luminosity and redshift scalings and implications for weak lensing surveys

Christopher M. Hirata, Rachel Mandelbaum, Mustapha Ishak, Uros Seljak, Robert Nichol, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Nicholas P. Ross and David Wake

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 381, 1197 (2007)

Remarks on the formulation of the cosmological constant/dark energy problems

Mustapha Ishak

Foundations of Physics, 37, 1470 (2007)

Detection of large scale intrinsic ellipticity-density correlation from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and implications for weak lensing surveys

Rachel Mandelbaum, Christopher M. Hirata, Mustapha Ishak, Uros Seljak and Jonathan Brinkmann

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 367, 611 (2006)

Probing Cosmic Acceleration Beyond the Equation of State: Distinguishing between Dark Energy and Modified Gravity Models

Mustapha Ishak, Amol Upadhye and David N. Spergel

Physical Review D, 74, 043513 (2006)

Probing decisive answers to dark energy questions from cosmic complementarity and lensing tomography

Mustapha Ishak

MNRAS, 363, 469 (2005)

Dynamical dark energy: Current constraints and forecasts

Amol Upadhye, Mustapha Ishak and Paul J. Steinhardt

Physical Review D, 72, 063501 (2005)

Spectroscopic source redshifts and parameter constraints from weak lensing and CMB

Mustapha Ishak and Christopher M. Hirata

Physical Review D, 71, 023002 (2005)

Weak Lensing and CMB: Parameter forecasts including a running spectral index

Mustapha Ishak, Christopher M. Hirata, Patrick McDonald and Uros Seljak

Physical Review D, 69, 083914 (2004)

On Perfect Fluid Models In Non-Comoving Null (Observational) Spherical Coordinates

Mustapha Ishak

Physical Review D, 69, 124027 (2004)

An Inverse Approach to Einstein’s Equations for non-conducting fluids

Mustapha Ishak and Kayll Lake

Physical Review D, 68, 104031 (2003)

Adiabatic Models of the Cosmological Radiative Era

Roberto A. Sussman and Mustapha Ishak

General Relativity and Gravitation, 34, 10, (2002)

Stability of Transparent Spherically Symmetric Thin Shells and Wormholes

Mustapha Ishak and Kayll Lake

Physical Review D, 65, 044011 (2002)

Interactive Geometric Database, Including Exact Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equations

Mustapha Ishak and Kayll Lake

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 19, 505 (2002)

The Tolman VII solution, trapped null orbits and w-modes

Nicholas Neary, Mustapha Ishak and Kayll Lake

Physical Review D, 64, 028001 (2001)

Exact solutions with w-modes

Mustapha Ishak, Luke Chamandy, Nicholas Neary and Kayll Lake

Physical Review D, 64, 024005 (2001)