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To understand the universe and to interpret the cosmological parameters governing its evolution it is necessary to contrast the data from galaxy surveys with simulation. Typically it entails using computationally expensive N -body…

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Weak lensing has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe and constraining cosmological parameters. This paper aims to explore the fast mock generation pipeline to obtain the covariance matrix of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Yiming Hu , Yu Yu

We present an expression for the nonlinear evolution of the cosmological power spectrum based on following Lagrangian trajectories. This is simplified using the Zel'dovich approximation to trace particle displacements, assuming Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. N. Taylor , A. J. S. Hamilton

We examine the anisotropies in the power spectrum by the mapping of real to redshift space. Using the Zel'dovich approximation, we obtain an analytic expression for the nonlinear redshift space power spectrum in the distant observer limit.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 K. B. Fisher , A. Nusser

Only by incorporating various forms of feedback can theories of galaxy formation reproduce the present-day luminosity function of galaxies. It has also been argued that such feedback processes might explain the counter-intuitive behaviour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Stringer , A. J. Benson , K. Bundy , R. S. Ellis , E. L. Quetin

Untangling the connection between redshift space coordinates, a velocity measurement, and three dimensional real space coordinates, is a cosmological problem that is often modeled through a linear understanding of the velocity-position…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Emily Tyhurst , Hamsa Padmanabhan , Ue-Li Pen

The anisotropy of clustering in redshift space provides a direct measure of the growth rate of large scale structure in the Universe. Future galaxy redshift surveys will make high precision measurements of these distortions, and will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Elise Jennings , Carlton M. Baugh , Silvia Pascoli

[ABRIDGED] The weak gravitational lensing effect is used to infer matter density fluctuations within the field-of-view of the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey (GaBoDS). This information is employed for a statistical comparison of the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Simon , M. Hetterscheidt , M. Schirmer , T. Erben , P. Schneider , C. Wolf , K. Meisenheimer

We present mock JWST observations for more than 250,000 different galaxies from the Astrid simulation with $3 \leq z \leq 6$. The mock observations are made using the BPASS stellar SED model, and a simple dust model. They are then viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-28 Patrick LaChance , Rupert Croft , Yueying Ni , Nianyi Chen , Tiziana Di Matteo , Simeon Bird

We present the nonlinear 2D galaxy power spectrum, $P(k,\mu)$, in redshift space, measured from the Dark Sky simulations, using galaxy catalogs constructed with both halo occupation distribution and subhalo abundance matching methods,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Elise Jennings , Risa H. Wechsler , Samuel W. Skillman , Michael S. Warren

Measurements of the growth rate of structure, $f\sigma_8$ in the low-redshift Universe allow stringent tests of the cosmological model. In this work, we provide new constraints on $f\sigma_{8}$ at an effective redshift of $z=0.03$ using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Fei Qin , Cullan Howlett , Lister Staveley-Smith

Fiber-fed multi-object spectroscopic surveys, with their ability to collect an unprecedented number of redshifts, currently dominate large-scale structure studies. However, physical constraints limit these surveys from successfully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 ChangHoon Hahn , Roman Scoccimarro , Michael R. Blanton , Jeremy L. Tinker , Sergio Rodriguez-Torres

It is generally believed that the spatial distribution of galaxies does not trace that of the total mass. The understanding of the bias effect is therefore necessary to determine the cosmological parameters and the primordial density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Taruya , K. Koyama , J. Soda

We use the formalism of constrained Gaussian random field to compute a precise large scale simulation of the 60 Mpc/h volume of our Local Universe. We derive the constraints from the reconstructed peculiar velocities of the 2MASS Redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Guilhem Lavaux

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for measuring the build-up of cosmological structure, which depends both on the expansion rate of the Universe and our theory of gravity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Beth A. Reid , Martin White

We present the first $\Lambda$CDM cosmological analysis performed on a galaxy survey using marked power spectra. The marked power spectrum is the two-point function of a marked field, where galaxies are weighted by a function that depends…

I investigate through simulations the redshift dependence of several lensing measures for two cosmological models, a flat universe with a cosmological constant (\LambdaCDM), and an open universe (OCDM). I argue that quintessence models can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio C. C. Guimarães

This is the second paper of a series where we study the clustering of LRG galaxies in the latest spectroscopic SDSS data release, DR6, which has 75000 LRG galaxies covering over 1 $Gpc^3/h^3$ for $0.15<z<0.47$. Here we focus on modeling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Anna Cabre , Enrique Gaztanaga

We present a method for modelling the cluster-galaxy correlation function in redshift-space, down to ~ Mpc scales. The method builds upon the so-called Galaxy Infall Kinematics (GIK) model, a parametric model for the pairwise velocities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Andrew Robertson , Eric Huff , Katarina Markovic , Baojiu Li