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We present the first public cosmic-web environment catalog built on any DESI data release. Using ASTRA (Algorithm for Stochastic Topological RAnking), we classify each object in the DESI Early Data Release into void, sheet, filament, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Diana C. Zapata-Zuluaga , Sofía Guevara-Montoya , Valeria Torres-Gomez , Juliana Hernandez , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

We propose a decision criterion for segmenting the cosmic web into different structure types (voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters) on the basis of their respective probabilities and the strength of data constraints. Our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Benjamin Wandelt

The initial shear field, characterized by a primordial perturbation potential, plays a crucial role in the formation of large scale structures. Hence, considerable analytic work has been based on the joint distribution of its eigenvalues,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Graziano Rossi

We present a proof-of-concept of a novel and fully Bayesian methodology designed to detect halos of different masses in cosmological observations subject to noise and systematic uncertainties. Our methodology combines the previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Alexander I. Merson , Jens Jasche , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Benjamin Wandelt , D. Heath Jones , Matthew Colless

Cosmic structures at large scales represent the earliest and most extended form of matter condensation. In this lecture we review the application of the methods and concepts of modern statistical physics to these structures. This leads to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Luciano Pietronero , Francesco Sylos Labini

We present the clustering of galaxy clusters as a useful addition to the common set of cosmological observables. The clustering of clusters probes the large-scale structure of the Universe, extending galaxy clustering analysis to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Annalisa Mana , Tommaso Giannantonio , Jochen Weller , Ben Hoyle , Gert Huetsi , Barbara Sartoris

Wide-angle, moderately deep redshift surveys such as that conducted as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) allow study of the relationship between the structural elements of the large-scale distribution of galaxies -- including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael S. Vogeley , Fiona Hoyle , Randall R. Rojas , David M. Goldberg

Knowledge of the primordial matter density field from which the large-scale structure of the Universe emerged over cosmic time is of fundamental importance for cosmology. However, reconstructing these cosmological initial conditions from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Oleg Savchenko , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Florian List , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

An attractive and simple hypothesis for the formation of large-scale structure is that it developed by gravitational instability from primordial fluctuations with an initially Gaussian probability distribution. Non-linear gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ewa Luiza Lokas , Roman Juszkiewicz , David Weinberg , Francois Bouchet

The cosmic structure formed from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the early universe is imprinted in the galaxy distribution observable in large scale surveys, and is used as a standard ruler in contemporary cosmology. BAO are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Z. Brown , G. Mishtaku , R. Demina , Y. Liu , C. Popik

The major uncertainties in studies of the multi-scale structure of the Universe arise not from observational errors but from the variety of legitimate definitions and detection methods for individual structures. To facilitate the study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. J. Way , P. R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

The cosmic web is the largest scale manifestation of the anisotropic gravitational collapse of matter. It represents the transitional stage between linear and non-linear structures and contains easily accessible information about the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-02 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Carlos S. Frenk

We introduce a new self-consistent structure finding algorithm that parses large scale cosmological structure into clusters, filaments and voids. This structure finding algorithm probes the cosmological structure at multiple scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Ali Snedden , Lara Arielle Phillips , Grant J. Mathews , Jared Coughlin , In-Saeng Suh , Aparna Bhattacharya

The cosmic web is one of the most striking features of the distribution of galaxies and dark matter on the largest scales in the Universe. It is composed of dense regions packed full of galaxies, long filamentary bridges, flattened sheets…

The application of Bayesian methods in cosmology and astrophysics has flourished over the past decade, spurred by data sets of increasing size and complexity. In many respects, Bayesian methods have proven to be vastly superior to more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Roberto Trotta

Cosmic voids contain higher-order cosmological information and are of interest for astroparticle physics. Finding genuine matter underdensities in sparse galaxy surveys is, however, an underconstrained problem. Traditional void finding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Leander Thiele

A fundamental assumption in cosmology is that of statistical isotropy - that the universe, on average, looks the same in every direction in the sky. Statistical isotropy has recently been tested stringently using Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-14 Caroline Zunckel , Dragan Huterer , Glenn D. Starkman

Analyzes of next-generation galaxy data require accurate treatment of systematic effects such as the bias between observed galaxies and the underlying matter density field. However, proposed models of the phenomenon are either numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

An approach to cosmological modelling is presented that incorporates the inhomogeneous structure of the Cosmic Web, specifically focusing on the interplay between cosmic voids and density walls. We extend the standard homogeneous and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 John Moffat