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We present a new method for extracting the true 3-d velocity and density fields from the nonlinear redshift--space projected density field. The method is based on the nonlinear, nonlocal transformation of the density field. We assume a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. N. Taylor , M. Rowan-Robinson

The Monge-Ampere-Kantorovich (MAK) reconstruction is tested against cosmological N-body simulations. Using only the present mass distribution sampled with particles, and the assumption of homogeneity of the primordial distribution, MAK…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roya Mohayaee , Hugues Mathis , Stephane Colombi , Joseph Silk

We propose a new method to linearise cosmological mass density fields using higher order Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT). We demonstrate that a given density field can be expressed as the sum of a linear and a nonlinear component which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. S. Kitaura , R. E. Angulo

We use Bayesian inference and nested sampling to develop a non-parametric method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum $P_{\mathcal{R}}(k)$ from Large Scale Structure (LSS) data. The performance of the method is studied by applying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 G. Martínez-Somonte , A. Marcos-Caballero , E. Martínez-González , G. Cañas-Herrera

Here we introduce the Delaunay Density Estimator Method. Its purpose is rendering a fully volume-covering reconstruction of a density field from a set of discrete data points sampling this field. Reconstructing density or intensity fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

We apply the scale-length method to several three dimensional samples of the Two degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey. This method allows us to map in a quantitative and powerful way large scale structures in the distribution of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Francesco Sylos Labini , Nikolay L. Vasilyev , Yurij V. Baryshev

We present a new approach to constrain galaxy physical parameters from the combined interpretation of stellar and nebular emission in wide ranges of observations. This approach relies on the Bayesian analysis of any type of galaxy spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Camilla Pacifici , Stephane Charlot , Jeremy Blaizot , Jarle Brinchmann

Constraints on cosmological parameters from large-scale structure have traditionally been obtained from two-point statistics. However, non-linear structure formation renders these statistics insufficient in capturing the full information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Alex Hall , Alexander Mead

We present a new Bayesian methodology to learn the unknown material density of a given sample by inverting its two-dimensional images that are taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope. An image results from a sequence of projections of the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-03-06 Dalia Chakrabarty , Fabio Rigat , Nare Gabrielyan , Richard Beanland , Shashi Paul

We show how to enhance the redshift accuracy of surveys consisting of tracers with highly uncertain positions along the line of sight. Photometric surveys with redshift uncertainty delta_z ~ 0.03 can yield final redshift uncertainties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Large-scale structure of Universe includes galaxy clusters connected by filaments. Voids occupy the rest of cosmic volume. The search of any dependencities in filament structure can give answer to more general questions about origin of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 V. V. Voitsekhovskiy , A. V. Tugay

We present a novel Bayesian method for the joint reconstruction of cosmological matter density fields, peculiar velocities and power-spectra in the quasi-nonlinear regime. We study its applicability to the Ly-alpha forest based on multiple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

We present an iterative method to reconstruct the linear-theory initial conditions from the late-time cosmological matter density field, with the intent of improving the recovery of the cosmic distance scale from the baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Ryuichiro Hada , Daniel J. Eisenstein

This work describes a full Bayesian analysis of the Nearby Universe as traced by galaxies of the 2M++ survey. The analysis is run in two sequential steps. The first step self-consistently derives the luminosity dependent galaxy biases, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

The recently released Quaia quasar catalogue, with its broad redshift range and all-sky coverage, enables unprecedented three-dimensional reconstructions of matter across cosmic time. In this work, we apply the field-level inference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Adam Andrews , Arthur Loureiro , Jens Jasche , Stuart McAlpine , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq

The goal of the present paper is to set initial conditions for structure formation at non-linear order, consistent with general relativity, while also allowing for primordial non-Gaussianity. We use the non-linear continuity and Raychauduri…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Marco Bruni , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Nikolai Meures , David Wands

As galaxy redshift surveys probe deeper into the universe, they uncover ever more dramatic structures in the large-scale distribution of galaxies. In particular, the CfA2 and SSRS2 surveys to an apparent magnitude limit of 15.5 exhibit an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Sergei F. Shandarin

Recently Eisenstein and collaborators introduced a method to `reconstruct' the linear power spectrum from a non-linearly evolved galaxy distribution in order to improve precision in measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White , J. D. Cohn

Initial density distribution provides a basis for understanding the complete evolution of cosmological density fluctuations. While reconstruction in our local Universe exploits the observations of galaxy surveys with large volumes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Meng Zhou , Yi Mao

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm to generate unbiased samples of the underlying dark matter field from halo catalogues. Our new contribution consists of implementing a non-Poisson likelihood including a deterministic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Metin Ata , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Volker Müller