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

Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission

Collaboration, E., Mellier, Y., Barroso, J. A. A., Achúcarro, A., Adamek, J., Adam, R., Addison, G. E., Aghanim, N., Aguena, M., Ajani, V., Akrami, Y., Al-Bahlawan, A., Alavi, A., Albuquerque, I. S., Alestas, G., Alguero, G., Allaoui, A., Allevato, V., Alonso-Tetilla, A. V., Altieri, B., Alvarez-Candal, A., Amara, A., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Beutler, F., Bose, B., Collett, T. E., Fiorini, B., Fonseca, J., Gaztanaga, E., Joudaki, S., Koyama, K., Leclercq, F., Manera, M., Maraston, C., Markovic, K., Nadathur, S., Nichol, R. C., Noller, J., Pace, F., Pattison, C., Percival, W. J., Pollack, J. E., Pourtsidou, A., Raccanelli, A., Schewtschenko, J. A., Whalen, D. J., Winther, H. -., Youles, S., Fonseca De La Bella, L.

1 May 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 697, 94p., A1

Research output: Article

The hierarchical growth of bright central galaxies and intracluster light as traced by the magnitude gap

Golden-Marx, J. B., Zhang, Y., Ogando, R. L., Yanny, B., Da Silva Pereira, M. E., Hilton, M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cheng, T. Y., Da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lee, S., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J., Palmese, A., Pieres, A., Plazas Malagón, A. A., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Weaverdyck, N.

1 Apr 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538, 2, p. 622-638, 17p.

Research output: Article

Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey. II. Anisotropic large-scale coherence in hot gas, galaxies, and dark matter

Lokken, M., van Engelen, A., Aguena, M., Allam, S. S., Anbajagane, D., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Blazek, J., Bocquet, S., Bond, J. R., Brooks, D., Calabrese, E., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Coulton, W. R., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Doux, C., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Dunkley, J., Huang, Z., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gluscevic, V., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Guan, Y., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hlozek, R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, S., Li, Z., Madhavacheril, M., Marques, G. A., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F.

28 Mar 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 982, 2, p. 1-34, 34p., 186

Research output: Article

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Simulation-based cosmological inference with wavelet harmonics, scattering transforms, and moments of weak lensing mass maps. II. cosmological results

Gatti, M., Campailla, G., Jeffrey, N., Whiteway, L., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Williamson, J., Raveri, M., Jain, B., Ajani, V., Giannini, G., Yamamoto, M., Zhou, C., Blazek, J., Anbajagane, D., Samuroff, S., Kacprzak, T., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Campos, A., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C., Derose, J., Diehl, H. T., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Ferte, A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Kuropatkin, N., Leget, P. F., MacCrann, N., McCullough, J., Myles, J., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Gaztanaga, E.

3 Mar 2025, In: Physical Review D. 111, 6, 25p., 063504

Research output: Article

Galaxy cluster matter profiles I. Self-similarity, mass calibration, and observable-mass relation validation employing cluster mass posteriors

Singh, A., Mohr, J. J., Davies, C. T., Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Klein, M., Marshall, J. L., Aguena, M., Allam, S. S., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Rosell, A. C., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lima, M., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Myles, J., Pieres, A., Romer, A. K., Samuroff, S., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, D. L.

1 Mar 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695, 24p., A49

Research output: Article

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: an updated measurement of the Hubble constant using the inverse distance ladder

Camilleri, R., Davis, T. M., Hinton, S. R., Armstrong, P., Brout, D., Galbany, L., Glazebrook, K., Lee, J., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Nichol, R. C., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Shah, P., Smith, M., Sullivan, M., Sánchez, B. O., Vincenzi, M., Wiseman, P., Allam, S., Abbott, T. M., Aguena, M., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. C., Carollo, D., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Conselice, C., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Herner, K., Hollowood, D. L.

4 Feb 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537, 2, p. 1818-1825, 8p.

Research output: Article

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

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

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

Research output: Article

2024

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

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

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

Research output: Article

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

Collaboration, T. D. E. S., 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., Rosell, A. C., Carollo, D., Carr, A., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Costa, L. N. d., Crocce, M., Frohmaier, C., Gaztanaga, E., Graur, O., Kelsey, L., Li, T. S., Nichol, R. C., Percival, W. J., Thomas, D., Vincenzi, M.

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

Research output: Article

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

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

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

Research output: Article

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Professor David Bacon

Biography

Research interests

Research outputs

2025

2024