Publications
For a complete list of publications, please visit Professor McCleary's Google Scholar profile.
2025
On Differentiable Correlation Functions
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 245, 424.01
Tracing the galaxy-halo connection with galaxy clustering in COSMOS-Web from z= 0.1 to z~ 12
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11674
COSMOS-Web: Stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across 0.2< z< 12 of cosmic history
Astronomy & Astrophysics 695, A20
A Detection of Circumgalactic Dust at Megaparsec Scales with Maximum Likelihood Estimation
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04098
The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS) III: forecasts versus data
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08785
The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS) II: depth, resolution, and NIR coverage from JWST reveal 17 spectacular lenses
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08782
The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS) I: Discovery of> 100 high redshift strong lenses in contiguous JWST imaging
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08777
On Soft Clustering For Correlation Estimators: Model Uncertainty, Differentiability, and Surrogates
arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06174
2024
Hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters: giant dark matter particle colliders, powered by gravity
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 530 (3), 3160-3170
Superbit superpressure flight instrument overview and performance: Near-diffraction-limited astronomical imaging from the stratosphere
The Astronomical Journal 168 (2), 85
ShOpt.jl: A Julia Package for Empirical Point Spread Function Characterization of JWST NIRCam Data
Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100), 6144
Efficient Point-spread Function Modeling with ShOpt.jl: A Point-spread Function Benchmarking Study with JWST NIRCam Imaging
The Astronomical Journal 168 (4), 174
LoVoCCS. II. Weak Lensing Mass Distributions, Red-sequence Galaxy Distributions, and Their Alignment with the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in 58 Nearby X-Ray-luminous Galaxy Clusters
The Astrophysical Journal 974 (1), 69
2023
Empirical characterization of the NIRCam Point spread function and its impact on weak lensing
EAS2023, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, 2188
COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey
The Astrophysical Journal 954 (1), 31
Lensing in the blue. II. Estimating the sensitivity of stratospheric balloons to weak gravitational lensing
The Astronomical Journal 166 (3), 134
Data downloaded via parachute from a nasa super-pressure balloon
Aerospace 10 (11), 960
2022
LoVoCCS. I. Survey introduction, data processing pipeline, and early science results
The Astrophysical Journal 933 (1), 84
Weak lensing in the blue: a counter-intuitive strategy for stratospheric observations
The Astronomical Journal 164 (6), 245
2021 and Earlier
Dark Matter Distribution of Four Low-z Clusters of Galaxies
The Astrophysical Journal 893 (1), 8
Spectroscopic Tomography: A First Weak-lensing Detection Using Spectroscopic Redshifts Only
The Astrophysical Journal 903 (1), 64
Dark matter substructure in very low redshift galaxy clusters
Brown University Digital Repository
Mass Substructure in Abell 3128
The Astrophysical Journal 805 (1), 40
Simulating disc galaxy bulges that are consistent with observed scaling relations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 440 (1), L51-L55
The effect of models of the interstellar media on the central mass distribution of galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 440 (3), 2843-2859
Mapping Dark Matter and the PSF: Weak Lensing Studies of Galaxy Clusters with pODI
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 222, 105.07
Interpreting the evolution of the size–luminosity relation for disk galaxies from redshift 1 to the present
The Astrophysical Journal 728 (1), 51
A survey of high-contrast stellar flares observed by Chandra
The Astronomical Journal 141 (6), 201