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Cosmic shear estimation is an essential scientific goal for large galaxy surveys. It refers to the coherent distortion of distant galaxy images due to weak gravitational lensing along the line of sight. It can be used as a tracer of the…

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Approximate Bayesian inference on the basis of summary statistics is well-suited to complex problems for which the likelihood is either mathematically or computationally intractable. However the methods that use rejection suffer from the…

Computation · Statistics 2010-05-04 M. G. B. Blum , O. Francois

Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

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We develop an efficient posterior sampling scheme for the Poisson INGARCH models. The proposed method is based on the approximation of the posterior density that exploits the Poisson limit of the negative binomial distribution. It allows us…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Yixuan Fan , Zhengwei Liu , Fukang Zhu

Standard present day large-scale structure (LSS) analyses make a major assumption in their Bayesian parameter inference --- that the likelihood has a Gaussian form. For summary statistics currently used in LSS, this assumption, even if the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 ChangHoon Hahn , Florian Beutler , Manodeep Sinha , Andreas Berlind , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg

Understanding a behavior of galaxy biasing is crucial for future galaxy redshift surveys. One aim is to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) within the precision of a few percent level. Using 30 large cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 Masanori Sato , Takahiko Matsubara

Simulating the evolution of the local universe is important for studying galaxies and the intergalactic medium in a way free of cosmic variance. Here we present a method to reconstruct the initial linear density field from an input…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , W. P. Lin

Modern galaxy surveys demand extensive survey volumes and resolutions surpassing current dark matter-only simulations' capabilities. To address this, many methods employ effective bias models on the dark matter field to approximate object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia , Jose María Coloma-Nadal , Jean-Paul Kneib

Mock catalogues are a crucial tool in the analysis of galaxy surveys data, both for the accurate computation of covariance matrices, and for the optimisation of analysis methodology and validation of data sets. In this paper, we present a…

The nonlinear perturbation theory of gravitational instability is extended to include effects of both biasing and redshift-space distortions, which are inevitable in predicting observable quantities in galaxy surveys. The precise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Takahiko Matsubara

We introduce PHI, a fully Bayesian Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithm designed for the structural decomposition of galaxy images. PHI uses a triple layer approach to effectively and efficiently explore the complex parameter space. Combining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 J. J. Argyle , J. Méndez-Abreu , V. Wild , D. J. Mortlock

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework is an empirical method to describe the connection between dark matter halos and galaxies, which is constrained by small scale clustering data. Efficient fitting procedures are required to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Antoine Rocher , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Etienne Burtin , Arnaud de Mattia

We propose a UNet-based deep learning model to reconstruct the real-space dark matter (DM) velocity field from the redshift-space distribution of sparse DM halos. Using various statistical measures, we show that the reconstructed velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , XiaoLin Luo , Sun Ke Lan , Liang Xiao , Shuai Liu , Xin Wang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We aim to construct a machine-learning approach that allows for a pixel-by-pixel reconstruction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) density field for various warm dark matter (WDM) models using the Lyman-alpha forest. With this regression…

We discuss the extension to redshift space of a rescaling algorithm, designed to alter the effective cosmology of a pre-existing simulated particle distribution or catalogue of dark matter haloes. The rescaling approach was initially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Alexander Mead , John Peacock

We present a phenomenological modification of the standard perturbation theory prediction for the bispectrum in redshift space that allows us to extend the model to mildly non-linear scales over a wide range of redshifts, $z\leq1.5$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-16 Héctor Gil-Marín , Christian Wagner , Jorge Noreña , Licia Verde , Will Percival

The distribution of matter that is measured through galaxy redshift and peculiar velocity surveys can be harnessed to learn about the physics of dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of gravity. To improve our understanding of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Fei Qin , David Parkinson , Sungwook E. Hong , Cristiano G. Sabiu

We develop an algorithm to reconstruct the triaxial shapes of dark matter halos from the anisotropic spatial distributions of their substructures for the concordance background cosmology. First, we construct an analytic model for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jounghun Lee , Xi Kang

Over $90$\% of dark matter haloes in cosmological simulations have unresolved properties. This can hinder the dynamical range of simulations and result in systematic biases when modelling cosmological tracers. We aim to more precisely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Gabriele Parimbelli , Gustavo Yepes

We put forward a new Bayesian modeling strategy for spatiotemporal count data that enables efficient posterior sampling. Most previous models for such data decompose logarithms of the response Poisson rates into fixed effects and spatial…

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