David Bacon

Biography

I studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and then joined the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge for my PhD, which I received in 2002. I was awarded a PPARC research fellowship to carry out research at the University of Edinburgh, followed by an STFC Advanced Fellowship in 2004. I joined the University of Portsmouth in 2007 as a Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Academic Fellow, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2012, Reader in 2014, Professor in 2018 and Associate Director of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation in 2019.

Research interests

Cosmology at radio wavelengths, gravitational lensing, theories of gravity.

Research outputs

2025

Fast Radio Bursts and Artificial Neural Networks: a cosmological-model-independent estimation of the Hubble Constant

Bacon, D. J., Fortunato, J. A. S., Hipólito-Ricaldi, W. S., Wands, D.

8 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025, 1, 19p., 018

2024

Environmental Quenching of Low-surface-brightness Galaxies Near Hosts from Large Magellanic Cloud to Milky Way Mass Scales

Aguena, M., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bhattacharyya, J., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cheng, T. Y., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Mena-Fernández, J., Miquel, R., Mutlu-Pakdil, B., Pace, A. B., Palmese, A., Pereira, M. E., Peter, A. H., Pieres, A., Plazas Malagón, A. A., Roberts, D., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Strigari, L. E., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E., Tanoglidis, D., Tarle, G., Vincenzi, M., Walker, A. R., Weaverdyck, N., da Costa, L. N.

6 Nov 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 975, 2, 17p., 244

The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

Abbott, T. M. C., Acevedo, M., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Armstrong, P., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bassett, B., Bechtol, K., Bernardinelli, P. H., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Camilleri, R., Campos, A., Carollo, D., Carr, A., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Collaboration, T. D. E. S., Conselice, C., Costa, L. N. d., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., Frohmaier, C., Gaztanaga, E., Graur, O., Kelsey, L., Li, T. S., Nichol, R. C., Percival, W. J., Rosell, A. C., Thomas, D., Vincenzi, M.

1 Oct 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 973, 1, 20p., L14

Weak lensing combined with the kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect: a study of baryonic feedback

Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Battaglia, N., Bernstein, G. M., Bigwood, L., Campos, A., Chang, C., Chen, A., Choi, A., Davis, C., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Ferraro, S., Ferté, A., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Harrison, I., Huang, H., Huff, E. M., Lee, S., Marshall, J. L., McCarthy, I. G., Muir, J., Navarro-Alsina, A., Pieres, A., Preston, C., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. C., Ross, A. J., Rykoff, E. S., Salcido, J., Sanchez, D., Schaan, E., Schneider, A., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Sijacki, D., Smith, M., Sánchez, C., Tarsitano, F., Tutusaus, I., Weller, J., Yanny, B., Yin, B., Zhang, Y.

1 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 1, p. 655-682, 28p.

The gravitational lensing imprints of DES Y3 superstructures on the CMB: a matched filtering approach

Abbott, T., Adamow, M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Costa, L. d., Davies, C. T., Demirbozan, U., Desai, S., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W., Hinton, S., Hollowood, D. L., James, D., Jeffrey, N., Kovacs, A., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Malagón, A. P., Marshall, J., Mena-Fernández, J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J., Myles, J., Nadathur, S., Ogando, R., Pandey, S., Pereira, M. E. d. S., Pieres, A., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. C., Ross, A., Rykoff, E., Sanchez, E., Sevilla, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M., Tarle, G., Vicente, J. D., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Wiseman, P., Yanny, B.

24 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Dark Energy Survey: A 2.1% measurement of the angular baryonic acoustic oscillation scale at redshift zeff = 0.85 from the final dataset

Abbott, T. M., Adamow, M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Carnero Rosell, A., Carollo, D., Carr, A., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chan, K. C., Chang, C., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., Da Costa, L. N., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Deiosso, N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Gaztanaga, E., Lee, S., Lewis, G. F., Maraston, C., Marshall, J. L., Nichol, R. C., Percival, W. J., Pereira, M. E., Ross, A. J., Smith, M., Thomas, D., Walker, A. R., Weller, J.

15 Sep 2024, In: Physical Review D. 110, 6, 39p., 063515

Dark energy survey year 3 results: miscentring calibration and X-ray-richness scaling relations in redMaPPer clusters

Abd, A., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bhargava, S., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Collins, C. A., Costanzi, M., Cross, D., Davis, T. M., Doel, P., Eiger, O., Everett, S., Farahi, A., Faridjoo, R., Ferrero, I., Franco, J., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gardner, G., Giannini, G., Giles, P., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Hollowood, D. L., Jeltema, T. E., Jobel, J., Kelly, P. M., Kwiecien, M., Laubner, D., McDaniel, A., O’Donnell, J. H., Pereira, M. E., Romer, A. K., Rosell, A. C., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, L., Schmidt, E., Sripada, S., Swart, A., Turner, D. J., Upsdell, E., Wang, F., Webber, A., Wilkinson, R. D., da Costa, L. N.

1 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533, 1, p. 572-588, 17p.

The Dark Energy Survey 5-yr photometrically classified type Ia supernovae without host-galaxy redshifts

Abbott, T. M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Castander, F. J., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., Galbany, L., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kessler, R., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, J., Lee, S., Lidman, C., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Myles, J., Möller, A., Nichol, R. C., Ogando, R. L., Palmese, A., Pieres, A., Sako, M., Smith, M., Sullivan, M., Sánchez, B. O., Tucker, B. E., Vincenzi, M., Wiseman, P.

1 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533, 2, p. 2073-2088, 16p.

The dark energy survey supernova program: investigating beyond-ΛCDM

Abbott, T. M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Annis, J., Armstrong, P., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Burke, D. L., Camilleri, R., Carr, A., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Chen, R., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Doux, C., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Galbany, L., Gaztanaga, E., Glazebrook, K., Hinton, S. R., Kessler, R., Lee, J., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Pereira, M. E., Popovic, B., Qu, H., Rosell, A. C., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Shah, P., Smith, M., Sullivan, M., Sánchez, B. O., Taylor, G., Toy, M., Vincenzi, M., Wiseman, P., da Costa, L. N.

1 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533, 3, p. 2615-2639, 25p.

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: slow supernovae show cosmological time dilation out to z ∼ 1

Abbott, T. M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Asorey, J., Bacon, D., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carollo, D., Carretero, J., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Galbany, L., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Glazebrook, K., Gruendl, R. A., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kessler, R., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, J., Lewis, G. F., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Pereira, M. E., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Shah, P., Smith, M., Sullivan, M., Sánchez, B. O., Vincenzi, M., White, R. M., Wiseman, P., da Costa, L. N.

1 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533, 3, p. 3365-3378, 14p.

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Professor David Bacon

Biography

Research interests

Research outputs

2025

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