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The halo model (HM) describes the inhomogeneous universe as a collection of halos. The full nonlinear power spectrum of the universe is well approximated by the HM, whose prediction can be easily computed without lengthy numerical…

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In this paper, we study the statistical properties of weak lensing peaks in light-cones generated from cosmological simulations. In order to assess the prospects of such observable as a cosmological probe, we consider simulations that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Carlo Giocoli , Lauro Moscardini , Marco Baldi , Massimo Meneghetti , Robert B. Metcalf

In weak-lensing cosmological studies, peak statistics is sensitive to nonlinear structures and thus complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlations. In this paper, we explore a new approach, namely, the peak steepness statistics, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Ziwei Li , Xiangkun Liu , Zuhui Fan

We present the results of weak gravitational lensing statistics in four different cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data has been generated using an algorithm for the three-dimensional shear, which makes use of a variable softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Barber , Peter A. Thomas , H. M. P. Couchman , C. J. Fluke

The aperture mass has been shown in a series of recent publications to be a useful quantitative tool for weak lensing studies, ranging from cosmic shear to the detection of a mass-selected sample of dark matter haloes. Quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Katrin Reblinsky , Guido Kruse , Bhuvnesh Jain , Peter Schneider

We investigate three-point statistics in weak lensing convergence, through the integrated bispectrum. This statistic involves measuring power spectra in patches, and is thus easy to measure, and avoids the complexity of estimating the very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Gabriel Jung , Toshiya Namikawa , Michele Liguori , Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens

We investigate the impact of the observed correlation between a galaxies shape and its surrounding density field on the measurement of third order weak lensing shear statistics. Using numerical simulations, we estimate the systematic error…

Third-order weak lensing statistics are a promising tool for cosmological analyses since they extract cosmological information in the non-Gaussianity of the cosmic large-scale structure. However, such analyses require precise and accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Laila Linke , Sven Heydenreich , Pierre A. Burger , Peter Schneider

The clustering of galaxies and the matter distribution around them can be described using the halo model complemented with a realistic description of the way galaxies populate dark matter haloes. This has been used successfully to describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marcello Cacciato , Edo van Uitert , Henk Hoekstra

We introduce the response function (RFs) approach to model the weak lensing statistics in the context of separate universe formalism. Numerical results for the RFs are presented for various semi-analytical models that include perturbative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 D. Munshi , R. Takahashi , J. D. McEwen

We investigate 3D density and weak lensing profiles of dark matter haloes predicted by a cosmology-rescaling algorithm for $N$-body simulations. We extend the rescaling method of Angulo & White (2010) and Angulo & Hilbert (2015) to improve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Malin Renneby , Stefan Hilbert , Raúl E. Angulo

Measuring the 3D distribution of mass on galaxy cluster scales is a crucial test of the LCDM model, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter. Recent work investigating mass distributions of individual galaxy clusters (e.g. Abell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Virginia L. Corless , Lindsay J. King , Douglas Clowe

Extending previous studies, we derive generic predictions for lower order cumulants and their correlators for individual tomographic bins as well as between two different bins. We derive the corresponding one- and two-point joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dipak Munshi , Peter Coles , Martin Kilbinger

The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) is a powerful summary statistic for non-Gaussian cosmological fields, such as the weak lensing (WL) convergence reconstructed from galaxy shapes or cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Leander Thiele , J. Colin Hill , Kendrick M. Smith

Cosmological simulations predict that galaxies are embedded into triaxial dark matter haloes, which appear approximately elliptical in projection. Weak gravitational lensing allows us to constrain these halo shapes and thereby test the…

We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1)…

We study the spatial distribution of dark matter halos in the Universe in terms of their number density contrast, related to the underlying dark matter fluctuation via a non-local and non-linear bias random field. The description of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Paolo Catelan , Sabino Matarrese , Cristiano Porciani

We develop a simple analytic model for the gravitational clustering of dark matter haloes to understand how their spatial distribution is biased relative to that of the mass. The statistical distribution of dark haloes within the initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. J. Mo , S. D. M. White

Several recent studies show that bright, intermediate and high redshift optically and radio selected QSOs are positively correlated with nearby galaxies on a range of angular scales up to a degree. Obscuration by unevenly distributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Liliya L. R. Williams

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang