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Cosmological inference from weak lensing (WL) surveys is increasingly limited by uncertainties in baryonic physics, which suppress the non-linear matter power spectrum on small scales. Multi-probe analyses that incorporate complementary…

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Several Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations have recently found evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) by measuring the perturbations that this background induces in the time-of-arrivals of pulsar signals. These…

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Modern cosmological observations clearly reveal that the universe contains a hierarchy of clustering. However, recent surveys show a transition to homogeneity on large scales. The exact scale at which this transition occurs is still a topic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristiano Sabiu

Theoretical uncertainties on non-linear scales are among the main obstacles to exploit the sensitivity of forthcoming galaxy and hydrogen surveys like Euclid or the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Here, we devise a new method to model the…

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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

A promising avenue to measure the total, and potentially individual, mass of neutrinos consists of leveraging cosmological datasets, such as the cosmic microwave background and surveys of the large-scale structure of the universe. In order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Weishuang Linda Xu , Nicholas DePorzio , Julian B. Muñoz , Cora Dvorkin

The observable universe contains density perturbations on scales larger than any finite volume survey. Perturbations on scales larger than a survey can measure degrade its power to constrain cosmological parameters. The dependence of survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Matthew C. Digman , Joseph E. McEwen , Christopher M. Hirata

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and has emerged as a key probe for the Dark Universe. Up till now this science has been conducted mainly at optical wavelengths. Current upgraded and future radio facilities will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 Prina Patel

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect is one of the primary tools for finding and characterizing galaxy clusters. Several ground-based experiments are either underway or are being planned for mapping wide areas of the sky at $\sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Nikhel Gupta , Cristiano Porciani , Kaustuv Basu

Next-generation spectroscopic surveys will map the large-scale structure of the observable universe, using emission line galaxies as tracers. While each survey will map the sky with a specific emission line, interloping emission lines can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Anthony R. Pullen , Christopher M. Hirata , Olivier Dore , Alvise Raccanelli

Future surveys will access large volumes of space and hence very long wavelength fluctuations of the matter density and gravitational field. It has been argued that the set of secondary effects that affect the galaxy distribution,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-15 Christiane S. Lorenz , David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira

We investigate how well future large-scale radio surveys could measure different shapes of primordial non-Gaussianity; in particular we focus on angle-dependent non-Gaussianity arising from primordial anisotropic sources, whose bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 Alvise Raccanelli , Maresuke Shiraishi , Nicola Bartolo , Daniele Bertacca , Michele Liguori , Sabino Matarrese , Ray P. Norris , David Parkinson

We demonstrate that local, scale-dependent non-Gaussianity can generate cosmic variance uncertainty in the observed spectral index of primordial curvature perturbations. In a universe much larger than our current Hubble volume, locally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joseph Bramante , Jason Kumar , Elliot Nelson , Sarah Shandera

We investigate the potential of using cosmic voids as a probe to constrain cosmological parameters through the gravitational lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and make predictions for the next generation surveys. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Teeraparb Chantavat , Utane Sawangwit , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

A cosmic shear survey, spanning a significant proportion of the sky, should greatly improve constraints on a number of cosmological parameters. It also provides a unique opportunity to examine the matter power spectrum directly. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fergus Simpson

Using multiple tracers of large-scale structure allows to evade the limitations imposed by sampling variance for some parameters of interest in cosmology. We demonstrate the optimal way of carrying out a multitracer analysis in a galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-22 Nico Hamaus , Uroš Seljak , Vincent Desjacques

Identifying the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by upcoming networks of advanced ground-based interferometers will be challenging due in part to the large number of unrelated astrophysical transients…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Brian D. Metzger , David L. Kaplan , Edo Berger

We explore three different methods based on weak lensing to extract cosmological constraints from the large-scale structure. In the first approach (method I), small-scale galaxy lensing measurements of their halo mass provide a constraint…

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