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We present direct constraints on galaxy intrinsic alignments using the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3), the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) and its precursor, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 S. Samuroff , R. Mandelbaum , J. Blazek , A. Campos , N. MacCrann , G. Zacharegkas , A. Amon , J. Prat , S. Singh , J. Elvin-Poole , A. J. Ross , A. Alarcon , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , J. McCullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , A. Porredon , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , G. Rossi , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , N. Weaverdyck , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz M. Aguena , O. Alves , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Newman , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To

We present a new Bayesian methodology to learn the unknown material density of a given sample by inverting its two-dimensional images that are taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope. An image results from a sequence of projections of the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-03-06 Dalia Chakrabarty , Fabio Rigat , Nare Gabrielyan , Richard Beanland , Shashi Paul

We introduce a new method for performing robust Bayesian estimation of the three-dimensional spatial power spectrum at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), from interferometric observations. The versatility of this technique allows us to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Peter H. Sims , Lindley Lentati , Jonathan C. Pober , Chris Carilli , Michael P. Hobson , Paul Alexander , Paul Sutter

We establish concentration rates for estimation of treatment effects in experiments that incorporate prior sources of information -- such as past pilots, related studies, or expert assessments -- whose external validity is uncertain. Each…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-03-24 Frederico Finan , Demian Pouzo

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will conduct wide-field multiband photometric imaging and slitless spectroscopic surveys, advancing cosmology and galaxy evolution studies. Achieving CSST's cosmological goals requires precise…

We develop a practical methodology to remove modes from a galaxy survey power spectrum that are associated with systematic errors. We apply this to the BOSS CMASS sample, to see if it removes the excess power previously observed beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-25 B. Bahr-Kalus , W. J. Percival , D. J. Bacon , E. -M. Mueller , L. Samushia , L. Verde , A. J. Ross , J. L. Bernal

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

Multi-frequency observations are needed to separate the CMB from foregrounds and accurately extract cosmological information from the data. The Analytical Blind Separation (ABS) method is dedicated to extracting the CMB power spectrum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Larissa Santos , Jian Yao , Le Zhang , Shamik Ghosh , Pengjie Zhang , Wen Zhao , Thyrso Villela , Jiming Chen , Jacques Delabrouille

We derive an estimator of weak gravitational lensing shear from background galaxy images that avoids noise-induced biases through a rigorous Bayesian treatment of the measurement. The derived shear estimator disposes with the assignment of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gary M. Bernstein , Robert Armstrong

21cm tomography promises to be a powerful tool for estimating cosmological parameters, constraining the epoch of reionization, and probing the so-called dark ages. However, realizing this promise will require the extraction of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Adrian Liu , Max Tegmark

We study the power spectrum of galaxies in redshift space, with third order perturbation theory to include corrections that are absent in linear theory. We assume a local bias for the galaxies: i.e. the galaxy density is sampled from some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. F. Heavens , S. Matarrese , L. Verde

Cosmic shear is one of the most powerful probes of Dark Energy, targeted by several current and future galaxy surveys. Lensing shear, however, is only sampled at the positions of galaxies with measured shapes in the catalog, making its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Andrina Nicola , Carlos García-García , David Alonso , Jo Dunkley , Pedro G. Ferreira , Anže Slosar , David N. Spergel

Blind cleaning methods are currently the preferred strategy for handling foreground contamination in single-dish HI intensity mapping surveys. Despite the increasing sophistication of blind techniques, some signal loss will be inevitable…

Applying a transformation to a non-Gaussian field can enhance the information content of the resulting power spectrum, by reducing the correlations between Fourier modes. In the context of weak gravitational lensing, it has been shown that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Fergus Simpson , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Catherine Heymans , Raul Jimenez , Benjamin Joachimi , Licia Verde

We study a simple setup with dark matter halos in real space, with the amplitude of the linear density field $A$ as the only free cosmological parameter. We show that Eulerian perturbation theory is adequate for describing this system on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Francesco Spezzati , Marco Marinucci , Marko Simonović

The estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects in the potential outcome setting is biased when there exists model misspecification or unobserved confounding. As these biases are unobservable, what model to use when remains a critical…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Shonosuke Sugasawa , Kosaku Takanashi , Kenichiro McAlinn , Edoardo M. Airoldi

We present a Bayesian hierarchical framework to analyze photometric galaxy survey data with stellar population synthesis (SPS) models. Our method couples robust modeling of spectral energy distributions with a population model and a noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Boris Leistedt , Justin Alsing , Hiranya Peiris , Daniel Mortlock , Joel Leja

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

A major goal of ongoing and future cosmological surveys of the large-scale structure is to measure local type primordial non-Gaussianity in the galaxy power spectrum through the scale-dependent bias. General relativistic effects have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Chris Addis , Sêcloka L. Guedezounme , Jessie Hammond , Chris Clarkson , Federico Montano , Stefano Camera , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a significant source of knowledge about the origin and evolution of our universe. However, observations of the CMB are contaminated by foreground emissions, obscuring the CMB signal and reducing its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Jadie Adams , Steven Lu , Krzysztof M. Gorski , Graca Rocha , Kiri L. Wagstaff