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Powerful current and future cosmological constraints using high precision measurements of the large-scale structure of galaxies and its weak gravitational lensing effects rely on accurate characterization of the redshift distributions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carles Sánchez , Gary M. Bernstein

Stage-IV dark energy wide-field surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe an unprecedented number density of galaxies. As a result, the majority of imaged galaxies will visually…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ismael Mendoza , Derek Hansen , Runjing Liu , Zhe Zhao , Ziteng Pang , Axel Guinot , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Fitting parameterized models to images of galaxies has become the standard for measuring galaxy morphology. This forward modelling technique allows one to account for the PSF to effectively study semi-resolved galaxies. However, using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Tim B. Miller , Pieter van Dokkum

Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Yi Zheng

Multi-wavelength astronomical studies brings a wealth of science within reach. One way to achieve a cross-wavelength analysis is via `stacking', i.e. combining precise positional information from an image at one wavelength with data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Song Chen , Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Mario G. Santos

The large-scale structure growth index $\gamma$ provides a consistency test of the standard cosmology and is a potential indicator of modified gravity. We investigate the constraints on $\gamma$ from next-generation spectroscopic surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-12 José Fonseca , Jan-Albert Viljoen , Roy Maartens

Examining the detailed structure of galaxy populations provides valuable insights into their formation and evolution mechanisms. Significant barriers to such analysis are the non-trivial noise properties of real astronomical images and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Alexandre Adam , Connor Stone , Connor Bottrell , Ronan Legin , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We develop an accurate and efficient Bayesian method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum in a model-independent way, and apply it to the latest cosmic microwave background measurement from Planck mission, and the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 Xin Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

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 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

The increasing area and depth of galaxy surveys will give us access to the largest scales in the Universe and allow for a direct test of the primordial power spectrum set by inflation. To take full advantage of the survey's volume, we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Henrique S. Xavier

We address key points for an efficient implementation of likelihood codes for modern weak lensing large-scale structure surveys. Specifically, we focus on the joint weak lensing convergence power spectrum-bispectrum probe and we tackle the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Matteo Rizzato , Karim Benabed , Francis Bernardeau , Fabien Lacasa

Cosmic shear is one of the most powerful probes of Dark Energy, targeted by several current and future galaxy surveys. Lensing shear, however, is only sampled at the positions of galaxies with measured shapes in the catalog, making its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Andrina Nicola , Carlos García-García , David Alonso , Jo Dunkley , Pedro G. Ferreira , Anže Slosar , David N. Spergel

(abridged) A wide-field galaxy redshift survey allows one to probe galaxy clustering at largest spatial scales, which carries an invaluable information on horizon-scale physics complementarily to the cosmic microwave background (CMB).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahiro Takada

One way of recovering information about the initial conditions of the Universe is by measuring features of the cosmological density field which are preserved during gravitational evolution and galaxy formation. In this paper we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Rupert A. C. Croft , Enrique Gaztanaga

Future large scale structure surveys will measure the locations and shapes of billions of galaxies. The precision of such catalogs will require meticulous treatment of systematic contamination of the observed fields. We compare several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Noah Weaverdyck , Dragan Huterer

The most promising method for measuring primordial non-Gaussianity in the post-Planck era is to detect large-scale, scale-dependent galaxy bias. Considering the information in the galaxy power spectrum, we here derive the properties of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré

We present a principled Bayesian framework for signal reconstruction, in which the signal is modelled by basis functions whose number (and form, if required) is determined by the data themselves. This approach is based on a Bayesian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Edward Higson , Will Handley , Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

Extracting information from cosmic surveys is often done in a two-step process, construction of maps and then summary statistics such as two-point functions. We use simulations to demonstrate the advantages of a general Bayesian framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Alan Junzhe Zhou , Scott Dodelson

We study whether the bias factors of galaxies can be unbiasedly recovered from their power spectra and bispectra. We use a set of numerical N-body simulations and construct large mock galaxy catalogs based upon the semi-analytical model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Hong Guo , Y. P. Jing