

Professor 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
Achúcarro, A., Adam, R., Adamek, J., 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.,
1 May 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 697, 94p., A1
The hierarchical growth of bright central galaxies and intracluster light as traced by the magnitude gap
Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cheng, T. Y., Da Costa, L. N., Da Silva Pereira, M. E., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Everett, S.,
1 Apr 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538, 2, p. 622-638, 17p.
Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey. II. Anisotropic large-scale coherence in hot gas, galaxies, and dark matter
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., Coulton, W. R., De Vicente, J.,
28 Mar 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 982, 2, p. 1-34, 34p., 186
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
Ajani, V., Alarcon, A., Amon, A., Anbajagane, D., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Blazek, J., Campailla, G., Campos, A., Chang, C., Chen, R., Choi, A., Davis, C.,
3 Mar 2025, In: Physical Review D. 111, 6, 25p., 063504
Galaxy cluster matter profiles I. Self-similarity, mass calibration, and observable-mass relation validation employing cluster mass posteriors
Aguena, M., Allam, S. S., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Bhargava, S., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Carretero, J., Cid, D. S., Costanzi, M., Davies, C. T., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P.,
1 Mar 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695, 24p., A49
The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: an updated measurement of the Hubble constant using the inverse distance ladder
Abbott, T. M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Armstrong, P., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Brout, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camilleri, R.,
4 Feb 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537, 2, p. 1818-1825, 8p.
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.,
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.,
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.,
1 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534, 1, p. 655-682, 28p.