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We present an algorithm for quickly generating multiple realizations of N-body simulations to be used, for example, for cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of large-scale structure. Our algorithm uses a new method to resample the…

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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

We study the constraining power on primordial non-Gaussianity of future surveys of the large-scale structure of the Universe for both near-term surveys (such as the Dark Energy Survey - DES) as well as longer term projects such as Euclid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Tommaso Giannantonio , Cristiano Porciani , Julien Carron , Adam Amara , Annalisa Pillepich

We investigate whether a Gaussian likelihood, as routinely assumed in the analysis of cosmological data, is supported by simulated survey data. We define test statistics, based on a novel method that first destroys Gaussian correlations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Elena Sellentin , Alan F. Heavens

Poisson distributed shot noise is normally considered in the Gaussian limit in cosmology. However, if the shot noise is large enough and the correlation function/power spectrum conspires, the Gaussian approximation mis-estimates the errors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 J. D. Cohn

We present forecasts for constraints on deviations from Gaussian distribution of primordial density perturbations from future X-ray surveys of galaxy clusters. Our analysis is based on computing the Fisher-Matrix for number counts and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Sartoris , S. Borgani , C. Fedeli , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini , P. Rosati , J. Weller

Likelihood fitting to two-point clustering statistics made from galaxy surveys usually assumes a multivariate normal distribution for the measurements, with justification based on the central limit theorem given the large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Mike Shengbo Wang , Will J. Percival , Santiago Avila , Robert Crittenden , Davide Bianchi

Tighter constraints on measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity will allow the differentiation of inflationary scenarios. The cosmic microwave background bispectrum-the standard method of measuring the local non-Gaussianity-is limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 Zahra Gomes , Stefano Camera , Matt J. Jarvis , Catherine Hale , José Fonseca

Uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of biological and geospatial data which is almost made by measurement error in the observed values of the quantity of interest. Ignoring measurement error can lead to biased estimates and inflated…

Applications · Statistics 2018-11-16 Vahid Tadayon

We introduce an exact Bayesian approach to search for non-Gaussianity of local type in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. Using simulated CMB temperature maps, the newly developed technique is compared against the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Analyses of the galaxy N-Point Correlation Functions (NPCFs) have a large number of degrees of freedom, meaning one cannot directly estimate an invertible covariance matrix purely from mock catalogs, as has been the standard approach for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Jessica Chellino , Alessandro Greco , Simon May , Zachary Slepian

Future or ongoing galaxy redshift surveys can put stringent constraints on neutrinos masses via the high-precision measurements of galaxy power spectrum, when combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) information. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Shun Saito , Masahiro Takada , Atsushi Taruya

We computed the power spectrum of weak cosmic shear in models with non-Gaussian primordial density fluctuations. Cosmological initial conditions deviating from Gaussianity have recently attracted much attention in the literature, especially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

Employing the perturbative treatment of gravitational clustering, we discuss possible effects of primordial non-Gaussianity on the matter power spectrum. As gravitational clustering develops, the coupling between different Fourier modes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-08 Atsushi Taruya , Kazuya Koyama , Takahiko Matsubara

Gaussian cosmic microwave background skies are fully specified by the power spectrum. The conventional method of characterizing non-Gaussian skies is to evaluate higher order moments, the n-point functions and their Fourier transforms. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Pedro G. Ferreira , Joao Magueijo

The normalisation of the matter power spectrum, sigma_8, is an essential ingredient to predict the phenomenology of the low redshift universe. It has been measured using several methods, such as X-ray cluster counts, weak lensing and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Amara , A. Refregier

We investigate the constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity with varied bispectrum shapes that can be derived from the power spectrum of galaxies and clusters of galaxies detected in future wide field optical/near-infrared surveys. Having…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Cosimo Fedeli , Carmelita Carbone , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

The power spectrum estimated from a galaxy redshift survey is the real spectrum convolved with a window function, so when estimating the power on very large scales (for small k), it is important that this window function be as narrow as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

The upcoming generation of galaxy surveys will probe the distribution of matter in the universe with unprecedented accuracy. Measurements of the matter power spectrum at different scales and redshifts will provide stringent constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Linda Blot , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Reverdy , Yann Rasera