Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit Professor McCleary's Google Scholar profile.

2025

On Differentiable Correlation Functions

E. Berman, J. McCleary

American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 245, 424.01

methods cosmology

Tracing the galaxy-halo connection with galaxy clustering in COSMOS-Web from z= 0.1 to z~ 12

L. Paquereau, C. Laigle, H.J. McCracken, et al. (Collaboration Author)

arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11674

JWST COSMOS-Web clustering cosmology

COSMOS-Web: Stellar mass assembly in relation to dark matter halos across 0.2< z< 12 of cosmic history

M. Shuntov, O. Ilbert, S. Toft, et al. (Collaboration Author)

Astronomy & Astrophysics 695, A20

JWST COSMOS-Web dark matter cosmology

A Detection of Circumgalactic Dust at Megaparsec Scales with Maximum Likelihood Estimation

J.E. McCleary, E.M. Huff, J.W. Bartlett, B.S. Hensley

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04098

dust cosmology methods

The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS) III: forecasts versus data

N.B. Hogg, J.W. Nightingale, Q. He, J. McCleary, G. Mahler, A. Amvrosiadis, et al.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08785

lensing JWST COSMOS-Web

The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS) II: depth, resolution, and NIR coverage from JWST reveal 17 spectacular lenses

G. Mahler, J.W. Nightingale, N.B. Hogg, G. Gozaliasl, J. McCleary, Q. He, et al.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08782

lensing JWST COSMOS-Web

The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS) I: Discovery of> 100 high redshift strong lenses in contiguous JWST imaging

J. Nightingale, G. Mahler, J. McCleary, Q. He, N.B. Hogg, A. Amvrosiadis, et al.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08777

lensing JWST COSMOS-Web

On Soft Clustering For Correlation Estimators: Model Uncertainty, Differentiability, and Surrogates

E. Berman, S. Pandya, J. McCleary, M. Shuntov, C. Casey, N. Drakos, et al.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06174

methods clustering cosmology

2024

Hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters: giant dark matter particle colliders, powered by gravity

E.L. Sirks, D. Harvey, R. Massey, et al.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 530 (3), 3160-3170

clusters dark matter simulations

Superbit superpressure flight instrument overview and performance: Near-diffraction-limited astronomical imaging from the stratosphere

A.S. Gill, et al. (Collaboration Author)

The Astronomical Journal 168 (2), 85

SuperBIT instrumentation balloon imaging

ShOpt.jl: A Julia Package for Empirical Point Spread Function Characterization of JWST NIRCam Data

E. Berman, J. McCleary

Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100), 6144

JWST methods PSF software

Efficient Point-spread Function Modeling with ShOpt.jl: A Point-spread Function Benchmarking Study with JWST NIRCam Imaging

E.M. Berman, J.E. McCleary, A.M. Koekemoer, M. Franco, N.E. Drakos, D. Liu, et al.

The Astronomical Journal 168 (4), 174

JWST methods PSF software

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

S. Fu, I. Dell'Antonio, et al. (Collaboration Author)

The Astrophysical Journal 974 (1), 69

lensing clusters LoVoCCS

2023

Empirical characterization of the NIRCam Point spread function and its impact on weak lensing

J. McCleary

EAS2023, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, 2188

JWST PSF lensing methods

COSMOS-Web: an overview of the JWST Cosmic Origins Survey

C.M. Casey, J.S. Kartaltepe, N.E. Drakos, et al. (Collaboration Author)

The Astrophysical Journal 954 (1), 31

JWST COSMOS-Web cosmology survey

Lensing in the blue. II. Estimating the sensitivity of stratospheric balloons to weak gravitational lensing

J.E. McCleary, S.W. Everett, M.M. Shaaban, A.S. Gill, G.N. Vassilakis, et al.

The Astronomical Journal 166 (3), 134

lensing SuperBIT balloon methods

Data downloaded via parachute from a nasa super-pressure balloon

E.L. Sirks, R. Massey, A.S. Gill, et al. (Collaboration Author)

Aerospace 10 (11), 960

SuperBIT instrumentation balloon

2022

LoVoCCS. I. Survey introduction, data processing pipeline, and early science results

S. Fu, I. Dell'Antonio, et al. (Collaboration Author)

The Astrophysical Journal 933 (1), 84

clusters lensing LoVoCCS survey

Weak lensing in the blue: a counter-intuitive strategy for stratospheric observations

M.M. Shaaban, A.S. Gill, J. McCleary, et al.

The Astronomical Journal 164 (6), 245

lensing SuperBIT balloon methods

2021 and Earlier

Dark Matter Distribution of Four Low-z Clusters of Galaxies

J. McCleary, I. dell'Antonio, A. von der Linden

The Astrophysical Journal 893 (1), 8

dark matter clusters lensing

Spectroscopic Tomography: A First Weak-lensing Detection Using Spectroscopic Redshifts Only

I. Dell'Antonio, J. Sohn, M.J. Geller, J. McCleary, A. Von der Linden

The Astrophysical Journal 903 (1), 64

lensing methods spectroscopy

Dark matter substructure in very low redshift galaxy clusters

J.E. McCleary

Brown University Digital Repository

dark matter clusters thesis

Mass Substructure in Abell 3128

J. McCleary, I. Dell'Antonio, P. Huwe

The Astrophysical Journal 805 (1), 40

clusters dark matter lensing

Simulating disc galaxy bulges that are consistent with observed scaling relations

C.R. Christensen, A.M. Brooks, D.B. Fisher, F. Governato, J. McCleary, et al.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 440 (1), L51-L55

galaxies simulations bulges

The effect of models of the interstellar media on the central mass distribution of galaxies

C.R. Christensen, F. Governato, T. Quinn, A.M. Brooks, S. Shen, J. McCleary, et al.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 440 (3), 2843-2859

galaxies simulations ISM

Mapping Dark Matter and the PSF: Weak Lensing Studies of Galaxy Clusters with pODI

I.P. Dell'Antonio, J.E. McCleary

American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 222, 105.07

lensing clusters dark matter

Interpreting the evolution of the size–luminosity relation for disk galaxies from redshift 1 to the present

A.M. Brooks, A.R. Solomon, F. Governato, J. McCleary, L.A. MacArthur, et al.

The Astrophysical Journal 728 (1), 51

galaxies evolution cosmology

A survey of high-contrast stellar flares observed by Chandra

J.E. McCleary, S.J. Wolk

The Astronomical Journal 141 (6), 201

stars flares X-ray