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The galaxy power spectrum is now a well-known tool of precision cosmology. In addition to the overall shape, baryon oscillations and the small-scale suppression of power by massive neutrinos capture complimentary information on cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray

It is shown how to decorrelate the (prewhitened) power spectrum measured from a galaxy survey into a set of high resolution uncorrelated band-powers. The treatment includes nonlinearity, but not redshift distortions. Amongst the infinitely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 A. J. S. Hamilton , Max Tegmark

The ionizing spectral energy distribution of quasars is known to exhibit a steepening of the distribution short-ward of 1050\AA. It has been assumed that this change of power-law index from -1 to -2 is intrinsic to the quasars. We study an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luc Binette , Mario Rodriguez-Martinez , Isidro Ballinas

I extend the usual linear-theory formula for large-scale clustering in redshift-space to include gravitational redshift. The extra contribution to the standard galaxy power spectrum is suppressed by k_c^{-2}, where k_c=c k/a H (k is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick McDonald

We analyse the covariance of the one-dimensional mass power spectrum along lines of sight. The covariance reveals the correlation between different modes of fluctuations in the cosmic density field and gives the sample variance error for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hu Zhan , Daniel Eisenstein

With the availability of galaxy distance indicators in weak lensing surveys, lensing tomography can be harnessed to constrain the three-dimensional (3D) matter power spectrum over a range of redshift and physical scale. By combining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon

Some aspects of gravitational lensing by large scale structure (LSS) are investigated. We show that lensing causes the damping tail of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum to fall less rapidly with decreasing angular scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Benton Metcalf , Joseph Silk

Most statistical inference from cosmic large-scale structure relies on two-point statistics, i.e.\ on the galaxy-galaxy correlation function (2PCF) or the power spectrum. These statistics capture the full information encoded in the Fourier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kamran Ali , Danail Obreschkow , Cullan Howlett , Camille Bonvin , Claudio Llinares , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Chris Power

Optimal extraction of the non-Gaussian information encoded in the Large-Scale Structure (LSS) of the universe lies at the forefront of modern precision cosmology. We propose achieving this task through the use of the Wavelet Scattering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Georgios Valogiannis , Cora Dvorkin

We study how well the Gaussian approximation is valid for computing the covariance matrices of the convergence power and bispectrum in weak gravitational lensing analyses. We focus on its impact on the cosmological parameter estimations by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Masanori Sato , Takahiro Nishimichi

This paper details a description of the pattern of galaxy image distortion over the entire sky caused by the gravitational lensing which is the result of large scale inhomogeneities in our universe. We present a tensor spherical harmonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Stebbins

We forecast constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) and bias parameters from measurements of galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum in future radio continuum and optical surveys. In the galaxy bispectrum, we consider a comprehensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-04 Dionysios Karagiannis , Andrei Lazanu , Michele Liguori , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo , Licia Verde

The fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation may exhibit non-Gaussian characteristics that are imprinted in the large-scale structure of the Universe. This non-Gaussian imprint is an ultra-large scale signal that can be detected using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Mponeng Kopana , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

With the developments of large galaxy surveys or cosmic shear surveys it is now possible to map the dark matter distribution at truly cosmological scales. Detailed examinations of the statistical properties of the dark matter distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francis Bernardeau

The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…

We present a model for the power spectrum of the density field of galaxies weighted by their star formation rate. This weighting is relevant in line-intensity mapping (LIM) when the observed line luminosity is strongly correlated with star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Rui Lan Jun , Tom Theuns , Kana Moriwaki , Sownak Bose

The power spectrum of density fluctuations measured from galaxy redshift surveys provides important constraints on models for the formation of large-scale structure. I review current results for the 3-D power spectrum and examine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael S. Vogeley

Recent studies have demonstrated that {\em secondary} non-Gaussianity induced by gravity will be detected with a high signal-to-noise (S/N) by future and even by on-going weak lensing surveys. One way to characterise such non-Gaussianity is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , R. Takahashi , F. R. Bouchet , A. Taruya , B. Bose

The large-scale structure growth index $\gamma$ provides a consistency test of the standard cosmology and is a potential indicator of modified gravity. We investigate the constraints on $\gamma$ from next-generation spectroscopic surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-12 José Fonseca , Jan-Albert Viljoen , Roy Maartens

Cosmic shear data contains a large amount of cosmological information encapsulated in the non-Gaussian features of the weak lensing mass maps. This information can be extracted using non-Gaussian statistics. We compare the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier