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Using mock observations of numerical simulations, we investigate the completeness and efficiency of searches for galaxy clusters in weak lensing surveys. While it is possible to search for high mass objects directly as density enhancements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Martin White , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Jonathan Mackey

We address the question of how well the density profile of galaxy clusters can be determined by combining strong lensing and velocity dispersion data. We use cosmological dark matter simulations of clusters to test the reliability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Meneghetti , M. Bartelmann , A. Jenkins , C. Frenk

We explore the cosmological constraints expected from wide area XMM-type cluster surveys covering 50-200 deg2, under realistic observing conditions. We perform a Fisher matrix analysis based on cluster number counts in combination with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-26 M. Pierre , F. Pacaud , J. B. Juin , J. B. Melin , N. Clerc , P. S. Corasaniti

Wide-field cosmological surveys provide hundreds of thousands of spectroscopically confirmed galaxy groups and clusters, valuable for tracing baryonic matter distribution. However, controlling systematics in identifying host dark matter…

We present a method for populating dark matter simulations with haloes of mass below the resolution limit. It is based on stochastically sampling a field derived from the density field of the halo catalogue, using constraints from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sylvain de la Torre , John A. Peacock

We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. The reference catalogues are drawn from the BigMultiDark…

We present an efficient and robust approach for extracting clusters of galaxies from weak lensing survey data and measuring their properties. We use simple, physically-motivated cluster models appropriate for such sparse, noisy data, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 F. Feroz , P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson

We present high-fidelity cosmology results from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing ($\Delta\!\Sigma$) and projected galaxy clustering ($w_{\rm p}$) measured from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Year-1 (HSC-Y1) data and…

LSST will provide galaxy cluster catalogs up to z$\sim$1 that can be used to constrain cosmological models once their selection function is well-understood. We have applied the deep convolutional network YOLO for CLuster detection (YOLO-CL)…

Cosmological constraints from galaxy clusters rely on accurate measurements of the mass and internal structure of clusters. An important source of systematic uncertainty in cluster mass and structure measurements is the secure selection of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Felicia Ziparo , Graham P. Smith , Nobuhiro Okabe , Chris P. Haines , Maria J. Pereira , Eiichi Egami

Galaxies and galaxy clusters trace the same cosmic density field, but their statistics have been modeled separately in cosmological analyses. We present a unified, simulation-based framework to model them using the galaxy-halo connection.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Shulei Cao , Hao-Yi Wu , Andrés N. Salcedo , David H. Weinberg , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Obtaining tight constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a key step in discriminating between different models for cosmic inflation. The constraining power from large-scale structure (LSS) measurements is expected to overtake that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 James Morawetz , Enrique Paillas , Will J. Percival

We study galaxy clustering using halo models, where gravitational clustering is described in terms of dark matter halos. At small scales, clustering statistics are dominated by halo density profiles, whereas at large scales, correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth , Lam Hui , Bhuvnesh Jain

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

The characterization of dark energy is a central task of cosmology. To go beyond a cosmological constant, we need to introduce at least an equation of state and a sound speed and consider observational tests that involve perturbations. If…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 Domenico Sapone , Martin Kunz , Luca Amendola

We have developed a new geometrical method for identifying and reconstructing a homogeneous and highly complete set of galaxy groups in the next generation of deep, flux-limited redshift surveys. Our method combines information from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Marinoni , Marc Davis , Jeffrey A. Newman , Alison L. Coil

(Abridged) This is the first of a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmological parameters and X-ray scaling relations using observations of the growth of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. Our data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adam Mantz , Steven W. Allen , David Rapetti , Harald Ebeling

In this series of papers, we present a simulation-based model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies based on separate modelling of clustering in real space and velocity statistics. In the first paper, we present an emulator for the…

We assess how much unused strong lensing information is available in the deep \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} imaging and VLT/MUSE spectroscopy of the \emph{Frontier Field} clusters. As a pilot study, we analyse galaxy cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 M. Jauzac , D. Harvey , R. Massey