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Photometric galaxy surveys probe the late-time Universe where the density field is highly non-Gaussian. A consequence is the emergence of the super-sample covariance (SSC), a non-Gaussian covariance term that is sensitive to fluctuations on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 S. Gouyou Beauchamps , F. Lacasa , I. Tutusaus , M. Aubert , P. Baratta , A. Gorce , Z. Sakr

Super sample covariance (SSC) is important when estimating covariance matrices using a set of mock catalogues for galaxy surveys. If the underlying cosmological simulations do not include the variation in background parameters appropriate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Greg Schreiner , Alex Krolewski , Shahab Joudaki , Will J. Percival

We derive the complete super-sample covariance (SSC) of the matter and weak lensing convergence power spectra using the power spectrum response formalism to accurately describe the coupling of super- to sub-survey modes. The SSC term is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Alexandre Barreira , Elisabeth Krause , Fabian Schmidt

Super-sample covariance (SSC) is an important effect for cosmological analyses that use the deep structure of the cosmic web; it may, however, be nontrivial to include it practically in a pipeline. We solve this difficulty by presenting a…

We present a numerically cheap approximation to super-sample covariance (SSC) of large scale structure cosmological probes, first in the case of angular power spectra. It necessitates no new elements besides those used for the prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Fabien Lacasa , Julien Grain

Using separate universe simulations, we accurately quantify super-sample covariance (SSC), the typically dominant sampling error for matter power spectrum estimators in a finite volume, which arises from the presence of super survey modes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-28 Yin Li , Wayne Hu , Masahiro Takada

The abundance of clusters and the clustering of galaxies are two of the important cosmological probes for current and future large scale surveys of galaxies, such as the Dark Energy Survey. In order to combine them one has to account for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Fabien Lacasa , Rogerio Rosenfeld

We study the effect of super-sample covariance (SSC) on the power spectrum and higher-order statistics: bispectrum, halo mass function, and void size function. We also investigate the effect of SSC on the cross covariance between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Adrian E. Bayer , Jia Liu , Ryo Terasawa , Alexandre Barreira , Yici Zhong , Yu Feng

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

The measurement of the abundance of galaxy clusters in the Universe is a sensitive probe of cosmology, which depends on both the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of structure. Density fluctuations across the finite survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Constantin Payerne , Calum Murray , Céline Combet , Mariana Penna-Lima

We examine cosmological constraints from high precision weak lensing surveys including super-sample covariance (SSC) due to the finite survey volume. Specifically, we focus on the contribution of {\it beat coupling} in the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Saeed Ansarifard , S. M. S. Movahed

Cosmological analyses of second-order weak lensing statistics require precise and accurate covariance estimates. These covariances are impacted by two sometimes neglected terms: A negative contribution to the Gaussian covariance due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Laila Linke , Pierre A. Burger , Sven Heydenreich , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider

The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Regamey , D. Eckert , R. Seppi , W. Hartley , K. Umetsu , S. Tam , D. Gerolymatou

In this study, we measure the response of matter and halo projected power spectra $P^{\rm 2D}_{\rm XY}(k)$ (X, Y are matter and/or halos), to a large-scale density contrast, $\delta_{\rm b}$, using separate universe simulations. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Masato Shirasaki , Kosei Shiroyama

We explore a variety of statistics of clusters selected with cosmic shear measurement by utilizing both analytic models and large numerical simulations. We first develop a halo model to predict the abundance and the clustering of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

Upcoming wide-area weak lensing surveys are expensive both in time and cost and require an optimal survey design in order to attain maximum scientific returns from a fixed amount of available telescope time. The super-sample covariance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ryuichi Takahashi , Shunji Soma , Masahiro Takada , Issha Kayo

We explore the degrees of freedom required to jointly fit projected and redshift-space clustering of galaxies selected in three bins of stellar mass from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (SDSS MGS) using a subhalo abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Joseph DeRose , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

We study the covariance properties of real space correlation function estimators -- primarily galaxy-shear correlations, or galaxy-galaxy lensing -- using SDSS data for both shear catalogs and lenses (specifically the BOSS LOWZ sample).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Sukhdeep Singh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak , Anže Slosar , Jose Vazquez Gonzalez

The number density and correlation function of galaxies are two key quantities to characterize the distribution of the observed galaxy population. High-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, which usually involve complex target selection and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-05 Jiacheng Meng , Cheng Li , Houjun Mo , Yangyao Chen , Kai Wang

We use the full-sky ray-tracing weak lensing simulations to generate 2268 mock catalogues for the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalogue. Our mock catalogues take into account various effects as in the real data:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi , Hironao Miyatake
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