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We present a method for reconstructing cosmological densityn for and velocity fields using the Lagrangian Zel'dovich formalism. . The method involves finding the least action solution for straight line particle paths in an evolving density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. A. C. Croft , E. Gaztanaga

The well-developed separate universe technique enables accurate calibration of the response of any observable to an isotropic long-wavelength density fluctuation. The large-scale environment also hosts tidal modes that perturb all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Yin Li , Teppei Okumura

We obtain approximations for the CDM particle trajectories starting from Lagrangian Perturbation Theory. These estimates for the CDM trajectories result in approximations for the density in real and redshift space, as well as for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Svetlin Tassev , Matias Zaldarriaga

Primordial, non-Gaussian perturbations can generate scale-dependent bias in the galaxy distribution. This in turn will modify correlations between galaxy positions and peculiar velocities at late times, since peculiar velocities reflect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yin-Zhe Ma , James E. Taylor , Douglas Scott

We numerically investigate the feasibility and limits of jointly estimating flow fields and unknown particle properties (e.g., position, size, and density) from Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) data. LPT offers time-resolved, volumetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ke Zhou , Samuel J. Grauer

We present a new fast and efficient approach to model structure formation with Augmented Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (ALPT). Our method is based on splitting the displacement field into a long and a short-range component. The long-range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Steffen Heß

Untangling the connection between redshift space coordinates, a velocity measurement, and three dimensional real space coordinates, is a cosmological problem that is often modeled through a linear understanding of the velocity-position…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Emily Tyhurst , Hamsa Padmanabhan , Ue-Li Pen

We assess a neural network (NN) method for reconstructing 3D cosmological density and velocity fields (target) from discrete and incomplete galaxy distributions (input). We employ second-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory to generate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Robert Lilow , Adi Nusser

The late-time nonlinear Lagrangian displacement field is highly correlated with the initial field, so reconstructing it could enable us to extract primordial cosmological information. Our previous work [1] carefully studied the displacement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Atsuhisa Ota , Hee-Jong Seo , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler

Cosmological Perturbation Theory (PT) is a useful tool to study the cumulants of the density and velocity fields in the large scale structure of the Universe. In Papers I & II of this series we saw that the Spherical Collapse (SC) model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga

The line-of-sight peculiar velocities are good indicators of the gravitational fluctuation of the density field. Techniques have been developed to extract cosmological information from the peculiar velocities in order to test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Fei Qin

A hierarchical Bayesian model is applied to the Cosmicflows-3 catalog of galaxy distances in order to derive the peculiar velocity field and distribution of matter within $z \sim 0.054$. The model assumes the $\Lambda$CDM model within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 R. Graziani , H. M. Courtois , G. Lavaux , Y. Hoffman , R. B. Tully , Y. Copin , D. Pomarède

Scalar-tensor theories have shown promise in many sectors of cosmology. However, recent constraints from the speed of gravitational waves have put severe limits on the breadth of models such classes of theories can realize. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Fabiano F. Santos , Jackson Levi Said

We formulate a perturbative approximation to gravitational instability, based on Lagrangian hydrodynamics in Newtonian cosmology. We take account of `pressure' effect of fluid, which is kinematically caused by velocity dispersion, to aim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Morita , Takayuki Tatekawa

We characterize the peculiar velocity field of the local large-scale structure reconstructed from the $2M++$ survey, by treating it as a fluid, extracting the divergence via different approximations over a range pf averaged scales. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Erick Pastén , Sebastián Gálvez , Víctor Cárdenas

[abridge]Cosmic velocity and tidal fields are important for the understanding of the cosmic web and the environments of galaxies, and can also be used to constrain cosmology. In this paper, we reconstruct these two fields in SDSS volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Frank C. van den Bosch

We study Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) and its regularization in the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach. We evaluate the LPT displacement with the same phases as a corresponding $N$-body simulation, which allows us to compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Tobias Baldauf , Emmanuel Schaan , Matias Zaldarriaga

The non--linear dynamics of self--gravitating irrotational dust is analyzed in a general relativistic framework, using synchronous and comoving coordinates. Writing the equations in terms of the metric tensor of the spatial sections…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese , David Terranova

We present results of the investigations of the statistical properties of a joint density and velocity divergence probability distribution function (PDF) in the mildly non-linear regime. For that purpose we use both perturbation theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bernardeau , M. J. Chodorowski , E. L. Lokas , R. Stompor , A. Kudlicki

This paper focusses on the barely understood gap between the weakly nonlinear regime of structure formation and the onset of the virialized regime. While the former is accessed through perturbative calculations and the latter through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Buchert