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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the first low-frequency instrument with the capability to directly image the structures of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Indeed, deep imaging of the EoR over 5 targeted fields of 20 square degrees…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Qian Zheng , Xiang-Ping Wu , Quan Guo , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Huanyuan Shan , Stefan W. Duchesne , Weitian Li

This is the second part in a pair of papers forecasting the sensitivity of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to dark photons, a highly motivated, simple extension of the Standard Model. Through a kinetic mixing term, visible photons from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ethan Baker , Hongwan Liu

We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The survey spans an effective area of 4139…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. Gatti , B. Jain , C. Chang , M. Raveri , D. Zürcher , L. Secco , L. Whiteway , N. Jeffrey , C. Doux , T. Kacprzak , D. Bacon , P. Fosalba , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. Becker , G. Bernstein , J. Blazek , A. Campos , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. Derose , S. Dodelson , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , D. Gruen , I. Harrison , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , P. F. Leget , P. Lemos , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro , S. Pandey , J. Prat , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , B. Yin , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Anni , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Laha , C. Lidman , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , M. Rodriguez-Monroyv , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga

We develop a pseudo power spectrum technique for measuring the lensing power spectrum from weak lensing surveys in both the full sky and flat sky limits. The power spectrum approaches have a number of advantages over the traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-06 Chiaki Hikage , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , David Spergel

This chapter describes the assumed specifications and sensitivities for HI galaxy surveys with SKA1 and SKA2. It addresses the expected galaxy number densities based on available simulations as well as the clustering bias over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Mario G. Santos , David Alonso , Philip Bull , Marta Silva , Sahba Yahya

We present an assessment of the accuracy of common operations performed in $21$-cm spectral line stacking experiments. To this end, we generate mock interferometric data surveying the 21-cm emission at frequency $1310<\nu<1420$ MHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Sinigaglia , Ed Elson , Giulia Rodighiero , Mattia Vaccari

Supplemented with suitable buffering techniques, the low-frequency part of the SKA can be used as an ultra-precise detector for cosmic-ray air showers at very high energies. This would enable a wealth of scientific applications: the physics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder

We present a framework for forecasting cosmological constraints from future neutral hydrogen intensity mapping experiments at low to intermediate redshifts. In the process, we establish a simple way of comparing such surveys with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Prina Patel , Mario G. Santos

I outline the prospects for performing weak lensing studies with the new generation of radio telescopes that are coming online now and in the future. I include a description of a proposed technique to use polarization observations in radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-21 Michael L Brown

We present two galaxy shape catalogues from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data set, covering 1500 square degrees with a median redshift of $0.59$. The catalogues cover two main fields: Stripe 82, and an area overlapping the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-10 J. Zuntz , E. Sheldon , S. Samuroff , M. A. Troxel , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , D. Gruen , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , A. Choi , S. L. Bridle , G. M. Bernstein , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , Y. Fang , R. A. Gruendl , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , D. Kirk , T. Kacprzak , C. Krawiec , A. A. Plazas , R. P. Rollins , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , B. Soergel , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , Y. Zhang

Weak lensing by large-scale structure allows a direct measure of the dark matter distribution. We have used parallel images taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure weak lensing, or…

The substantial decrease in star formation density from z=1 to the present day is curious given the relatively constant neutral gas density over the same epoch. Future radio astronomy facilities, including the SKA and pathfinder telescopes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Natasha Maddox , Matt J. Jarvis , Tom Oosterloo

Accurate simulation of pulsar flux variability is critical for testing Square Kilometre Array (SKA) interferometric pipelines. However, most existing simulators neglect the effects of integration time and related observational parameters,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 X. Li , V. Stolyarov

We present parameter estimation forecasts for present and future 3D cosmic shear surveys. We demonstrate that, in conjunction with results from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, the properties of dark energy can be estimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching , A. N. Taylor

Understanding the nature of dark energy is one of the most outstanding problems in cosmology at present. In last twenty years, cosmological observations related to SNIa, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 Bikash R. Dinda , Anjan A Sen , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The current generation of air shower radio arrays has demonstrated that the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum Xmax can be reconstructed with high accuracy. These experiments are now contributing to mass composition studies in the…

As weak lensing surveys go deeper, there is an increasing need for reliable characterization of non-Gaussian structures at small angular scales. Here we present the first cosmological constraints with weak lensing scattering transform, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Sihao Cheng , Gabriela A. Marques , Daniela Grandón , Leander Thiele , Masato Shirasaki , Brice Ménard , Jia Liu