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Intrinsic alignments of galaxies are recognised as one of the most important systematic in weak lensing surveys on small angular scales. In this paper we investigate ellipticity correlation functions that are measured separately on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Tim M. Tugendhat , Robert Reischke , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We develop a general formalism for analysing parameter information from non-Gaussian cosmic fields. The method can be adapted to include the nonlinear effects in galaxy redshift surveys, weak lensing surveys and cosmic velocity field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andy Taylor , Peter Watts

Intrinsically aligned galaxy shapes are one of the most important systematics in cosmic shear measurements. So far theoretical studies of intrinsic alignments almost exclusively focus on their statistics at the two-point level. Results from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

Galaxy surveys that map multiple species of tracers of large-scale structure can improve the constraints on some cosmological parameters far beyond the limits imposed by a simplistic interpretation of cosmic variance. This enhancement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 L. Raul Abramo , Katie E. Leonard

We report a direct observational evidence for the existence of the galaxy spin alignments with the real space tidal field. We calculate the real space tidal field from the real space density field reconstructed recently from the Two Mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jounghun Lee , Pirin Erdogdu

Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey we study correlations between directions of galaxy angular momenta determined from images of spiral galaxies and various observables derived from the reconstructed initial conditions. We find an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Pavel Motloch , Ue-Li Pen , Hao-Ran Yu

Large scale correlations in the orientations of galaxies can result from alignments in their angular momentum vectors. These alignments arise from the tidal torques exerted on neighboring proto-galaxies by the smoothly varying shear field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Robert G. Crittenden , Priyamvada Natarajan , Ue-Li Pen , Tom Theuns

Weak gravitational lensing has become a powerful probe of large-scale structure and cosmological parameters. Precision weak lensing measurements require an understanding of the intrinsic alignment of galaxy ellipticities, which can in turn…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jonathan Blazek , Matthew McQuinn , Uros Seljak

The outer regions of galaxies are more susceptible to the tidal interactions that lead to intrinsic alignments of galaxies. The resulting alignment signal may therefore depend on the passband if the colours of galaxies vary spatially. To…

The large-scale clustering of galaxies can serve as a probe of primordial non-Gaussianity in the Universe competitive with the anisotropies of the CMB. Here, we present improved theoretical predictions which include an important, previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Vincent Desjacques , Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt

In this paper, we explore a detectable imprint of massive fields with integer spins $s \geq 2$, which may be predicted from string theory. It was shown that such a massive non-zero spin field can generate the squeezed primordial bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Kazuhiro Kogai , Takahiko Matsubara , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Yuko Urakawa

We studied the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity with varied bispectrum shapes on the number counts of signal-to-noise peaks in wide field cosmic shear maps. The two cosmological contributions to this particular weak lensing statistic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Maturi , C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

We investigate analytically a large-scale coherence in the orientation of galaxies embedded in two-dimensional sheet-like structures in the frame of the tidal torque theory. Assuming that the galaxy spin and the surrounding matter fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jounghun Lee

Gravitational waves have been shown to provide new constraints on gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR), especially in the strong field regime. Gravitational wave signals from galactic double white dwarfs, expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

Neutron stars may exhibit pressure anisotropy arising from various physical mechanisms, such as elasticity, magnetic fields, viscosity, and superfluidity. We compute the tidal deformability and the $f$-mode oscillation frequency of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Victor Guedes , Siddarth Ajith , Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi

Primordial non-Gaussianities of the scalar(tensor)-tensor-tensor type supporting a non-trivial squeezed component are known to induce anisotropies in the stochastic gravitational wave background. We derive the explicit form of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Ema Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Lucas Pinol

As well as the galaxy number density and peculiar velocity, the galaxy intrinsic alignment can be used to test the cosmic isotropy. We study distinctive impacts of the isotropy breaking on the configuration-space two-point correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Maresuke Shiraishi , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu

We present the 3-{\it dimensional} intrinsic alignment power spectra between the projected 2d galaxy shape/spin and the 3d tidal field across $0.1<k/h{\rm Mpc}^{-1}<60$ using cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, Illustris-TNG300, at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Jingjing Shi , Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada , Ken Osato , Yosuke Kobayashi , Takahiro Nishimichi

Next-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on the mechanism by which perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Ballardini , William Luke Matthewson , Roy Maartens

Galaxy shapes are not randomly oriented, rather they are statistically aligned in a way that can depend on formation environment, history and galaxy type. Studying the alignment of galaxies can therefore deliver important information about…