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We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

Cosmologists are exploring two possible sets of explanations for the remarkable observation of cosmic acceleration: dark energy fills space or general relativity fails on cosmological scales. We define a null test parameter $\epsilon(k,a)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Viviana Acquaviva , Amir Hajian , David N. Spergel , Sudeep Das

We present a new method to estimate redshift distributions and galaxy-dark matter bias parameters using correlation functions in a fully data driven and self-consistent manner. Unlike other machine learning, template, or correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau

We investigate the cosmological dependence and the constraining power of large-scale galaxy correlations, including all redshift-distortions, wide-angle, lensing and gravitational potential effects on linear scales. We analyze the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Alvise Raccanelli , Francesco Montanari , Daniele Bertacca , Olivier Doré , Ruth Durrer

We apply a new method to measure primordial non-Gaussianity, using the cross-correlation between galaxy surveys and the CMB lensing signal to measure galaxy bias on very large scales, where local-type primordial non-Gaussianity predicts a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Tommaso Giannantonio , Will J. Percival

In a tomographic approach, we measure the cross-correlation between the CMB lensing reconstructed from the Planck satellite and the galaxies of the photometric redshift catalogue based on the combination of the South Galactic Cap u-band Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Gabriela A. Marques , Armando Bernui

Gravitational lensing can provide pure geometric tests of the structure of space-time, for instance by determining empirically the angular diameter distance-redshift relation. This geometric test has been demonstrated several times using…

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering data has the potential to simultaneously constrain both the cosmological and galaxy formation models. In this paper we perform a comprehensive exploration of these signals and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Raul E. Angulo

Combining galaxy cluster and void abundances is a novel, powerful way to constrain deviations from General Relativity and the $\Lambda$CDM model. For a flat $w$CDM model with growth of large-scale structure parameterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Martin Sahlén , Joseph Silk

Cosmology inference of galaxy clustering at the field level with the EFT likelihood in principle allows for extracting all non-Gaussian information from quasi-linear scales, while robustly marginalizing over any astrophysical uncertainties.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Julia Stadler , Fabian Schmidt , Martin Reinecke

We introduce a new method for constraining the redshift distribution of a set of galaxies, using weak gravitational lensing shear. Instead of using observed shears and redshifts to constrain cosmological parameters, we ask how well the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. Wittman , W. A. Dawson

We explore three different methods based on weak lensing to extract cosmological constraints from the large-scale structure. In the first approach (method I), small-scale galaxy lensing measurements of their halo mass provide a constraint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jaiyul Yoo , Uros Seljak

We investigate the ability of state-of-the-art redshift-space distortions models for the galaxy anisotropic two-point correlation function \xi(r_p, \pi), to recover precise and unbiased estimates of the linear growth rate of structure f,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sylvain de la Torre , Luigi Guzzo

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

We present the first computation of the gravity model testing parameter $E_G$ on realistic simulated modified gravity galaxy mocks. The analysis is conducted using two twin simulations presented in arXiv:1805.09824(1): one based on general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 C. Viglione , P. Fosalba , I. Tutusaus , L. Blot , J. Carretero , P. Tallada , F. Castander

Strong lensing provides popular techniques to investigate the mass distribution of intermediate redshift galaxies, testing galaxy evolution and formation scenarios. It especially probes the background cosmic expansion, hence constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Vincenzo F. Cardone , Ester Piedipalumbo , Paolo Scudellaro

We develop a new method of combining cluster observables (number counts and cluster-cluster correlation functions) and stacked weak lensing signals of background galaxy shapes, both of which are available in a wide-field optical imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Masamune Oguri , Masahiro Takada

The magnification of galaxies in modern galaxy surveys induces additional correlations in the cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing and clustering observables used in modern lensing "3x2pt" analyses, due to sample selection. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Christopher A. J. Duncan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Lance Miller

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri