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We present a cosmic density field reconstruction method that augments the traditional reconstruction algorithms with a convolutional neural network (CNN). Following Shallue $\&$ Eisenstein (2022), the key component of our method is to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Xinyi Chen , Fangzhou Zhu , Sasha Gaines , Nikhil Padmanabhan

Recent development in the reconstruction of the large-scale structure (LSS) has seen significant improvement in restoring the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) from at least the non-linear matter field. This outstanding performance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xin Wang , Ue-Li Pen

Large-scale Fourier modes of the cosmic density field are of great value for learning about cosmology because of their well-understood relationship to fluctuations in the early universe. However, cosmic variance generally limits the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Omar Darwish , Simon Foreman , Muntazir M. Abidi , Tobias Baldauf , Blake D. Sherwin , P. Daniel Meerburg

We propose a new method to linearise cosmological mass density fields using higher order Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT). We demonstrate that a given density field can be expressed as the sum of a linear and a nonlinear component which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. S. Kitaura , R. E. Angulo

We present a fully probabilistic, physical model of the non-linearly evolved density field, as probed by realistic galaxy surveys. Our model is valid in the linear and mildly non-linear regimes and uses second order Lagrangian perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We compute the power spectrum at one-loop order in standard perturbation theory for the matter density field to which a standard Lagrangian Baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction technique is applied. The BAO reconstruction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Chiaki Hikage , Kazuya Koyama , Alan Heavens

We present a method to reconstruct the initial conditions of the universe using observed galaxy positions and luminosities under the assumption that the luminosities can be calibrated with weak lensing to give the mean halo mass. Our method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chirag Modi , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak

We propose a new velocity reconstruction method based on the displacement estimation by recently developed methods. The velocity is first reconstructed by transfer functions in Lagrangian space and then mapped into Eulerian space. High…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Yu Yu , Hong-Ming Zhu

We develop a new method to reconstruct the cosmic density field from the distribution of dark matter haloes above a certain mass threshold. Our motivation is that well-defined samples of galaxy groups/clusters, which can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Y. Wang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Y. C. Guo , Frank C. van den Bosch , X. H. Yang

Reconstructing astrophysical and cosmological fields from observations is challenging. It requires accounting for non-linear transformations, mixing of spatial structure, and noise. In contrast, forward simulators that map fields to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Florian List , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

The reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe is an important topic in cosmology, particularly in the context of sharpening the measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak. Nonlinear reconstruction algorithms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Jack Birkin , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun , Yanlong Shi

We present a detailed analysis of a new, iterative density reconstruction algorithm. This algorithm uses a decreasing smoothing scale to better reconstruct the density field in Lagrangian space. We implement this algorithm to run on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Xinyi Chen , Nikhil Padmanabhan

We present a new method for extracting the true 3-d velocity and density fields from the nonlinear redshift--space projected density field. The method is based on the nonlinear, nonlocal transformation of the density field. We assume a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. N. Taylor , M. Rowan-Robinson

We study the use of U-Nets in reconstructing the linear dark matter density field and its consequences for constraining cosmological parameters, in particular primordial non-Gaussianity. Our network is able to reconstruct the initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

Here we introduce the Delaunay Density Estimator Method. Its purpose is rendering a fully volume-covering reconstruction of a density field from a set of discrete data points sampling this field. Reconstructing density or intensity fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

Initial density distribution provides a basis for understanding the complete evolution of cosmological density fluctuations. While reconstruction in our local Universe exploits the observations of galaxy surveys with large volumes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Meng Zhou , Yi Mao

The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm to generate unbiased samples of the underlying dark matter field from halo catalogues. Our new contribution consists of implementing a non-Poisson likelihood including a deterministic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Metin Ata , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Volker Müller

Observations of galaxy clustering are made in redshift space, which results in distortions to the underlying isotropic distribution of galaxies. These redshift-space distortions (RSD) not only degrade important features of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuchan Wang , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun

We present the implementation of a halo based method for the reconstruction of the cosmic mass density field. The method employs the mass density distribution of dark matter haloes and its environments computed from cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. C. Muñoz-Cuartas , V. Mueller , J. Forero-Romero