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Extracting the bispectrum information from the large scale structure observations is challenging due to the complex models and the computational costs to measure the signal and its covariance. Recently, the skew spectrum was proposed to…

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The Fisher matrix is a widely used tool to forecast the performance of future experiments and approximate the likelihood of large data sets. Most of the forecasts for cosmological parameters in galaxy clustering studies rely on the Fisher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Alberto Bailoni , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Luca Amendola

We discuss the potential of the multi-tracer technique to improve observational constraints of the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ from the galaxy power spectrum. For two galaxy samples $A$ and $B$, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Alexandre Barreira , Elisabeth Krause

Marginalizing over roughly 12 effective-field-theory (EFT) nuisance parameters per tracer per redshift bin is a dominant systematic cost in full-shape galaxy power spectrum analyses. Simulation-based priors (SBP) tighten these parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Nhat-Minh Nguyen

Correlations between intrinsic galaxy shapes on large-scales arise due to the effect of the tidal field of the large-scale structure. Anisotropic primordial non-Gaussianity induces a distinct scale-dependent imprint in these tidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin , Fabian Schmidt , David Spergel

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

Peculiar velocity surveys, which measure galaxy peculiar velocities directly from standard candles in addition to redshifts, can provide strong constraints on the linear growth rate of cosmological large-scale structure at low redshift. The…

Multiple tracers of the cosmic density field, with different bias, number and luminosity evolution, can be used to measure the large-scale properties of the Universe. We show how an optimal combination of tracers can be used to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira

Upcoming cosmological surveys will achieve increasingly precise constraints in cosmological parameter estimation. To guarantee the robustness of cosmological analyses, it is essential to account for and model systematic effects that can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Biancamaria Sersante , Christos Georgiou , Nora Elisa Chisari

We present the cosmological distance errors achievable using the baryon acoustic oscillations as a standard ruler. We begin from a Fisher matrix formalism that is upgraded from Seo & Eisenstein (2003). We isolate the information from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Hee-Jong Seo , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in the clustering of galaxies is a powerful standard ruler to measure cosmological distances and determine the geometry of the Universe. Past surveys have detected the BAO feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Ginevra Favole , Domenico Sapone , Javier Silva Lafaurie

We show that the abundance and redshift distribution ($dN/dz$) of galaxy clusters in future high--yield cluster surveys, combined with the spatial power spectrum ($P_c(k)$) of the same clusters, can place significant constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheng Wang , Justin Khoury , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May

Fisher Information Matrix methods are commonly used in cosmology to estimate the accuracy that cosmological parameters can be measured with a given experiment, and to optimise the design of experiments. However, the standard approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Kiessling , A. N. Taylor , A. F. Heavens

As one of Stage IV space-based telescopes, China Space Station Telescope (CSST) can perform photometric and spectroscopic surveys simultaneously to efficiently explore the Universe in extreme precision. In this work, we investigate several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Haitao Miao , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Zhiqi Huang , Xiao-Dong Li , Hu Zhan

In the pursuit of understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe, the synergy between complementary cosmological surveys has proven to be a powerful tool. Using multiple tracers of the large-scale structure can significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Simthembile Dlamini , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

Upcoming large-scale structure surveys will be able to measure new features in the galaxy two point correlation function. Relativistic effects appear on large scales as subtle corrections to redshift-space distortions, showing up as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Daniel Sobral-Blanco , Camille Bonvin , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

We develop a general formalism for analysing parameter information from non-Gaussian cosmic fields. The method can be adapted to include the nonlinear effects in galaxy redshift surveys, weak lensing surveys and cosmic velocity field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andy Taylor , Peter Watts

Extracting the non-Gaussian information encoded in the higher-order clustering statistics of the large-scale structure is key to fully realizing the potential of upcoming galaxy surveys. We investigate the information content of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jiamin Hou , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , ChangHoon Hahn , Elena Massara

We show how the cosmological constant can be estimated from redshift surveys at different redshifts, using maximum-likelihood techniques. The apparent redshift-space clustering on large scales (\simgt 20 \himpc) are affected in the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Takahiko Matsubara , Alexander S. Szalay

We use analytic covariance matrices to carry out a full-shape analysis of the galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We obtain parameter estimates that agree well with those based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 Digvijay Wadekar , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Roman Scoccimarro