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Gravitational lensing affects observed cosmological correlation functions because observed images do not coincide with true source locations. We treat this universal effect in a general way here, deriving a single formula that can be used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Fabian Schmidt , Alberto Vallinotto

We present a study of the effect of High Column Density (HCD) systems on the Lyman \alpha forest correlation function on large scales. We study the effect both numerically, by inserting HCD systems on mock spectra for a specific model, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andreu Font-Ribera , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

We describe techniques for comparing spectra extracted from cosmological simulations and observational data, using the same methodology to link Lyman-alpha properties derived from the simulations with properties derived from observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. E. Petry , C. D. Impey , N. Katz , D. H. Weinberg , L. E. Hernquist

We examine the impact of gas pressure on the transverse coherence of high-redshift (2 <= z <= 4) Lyman-alpha forest absorption along neighboring lines of sight that probe the gas Jeans scale (projected separation Delta r <= 500 kpc/h…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Molly S. Peeples , David H. Weinberg , Romeel Davé , Mark A. Fardal , Neal Katz

We introduce a new estimator of the CMB lensing power spectrum, together with its likelihood, based on iterative lensing reconstruction. Despite the increased complexity of the lensing maps, this estimator shares similarities with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

Context. One important step in the statistical analysis of the Ly-alpha forest data is the study of their second order properties. Usually, this is accomplished by means of the two-point correlation function or, alternatively, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Vio , V. D'Odorico , H. Stoyan , D. Stoyan

Current analyses of the Lyman-alpha forest assume that the primordial power spectrum of density perturbations obeys a simple power law, a strong theoretical assumption which should be tested. Employing a large suite of numerical simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-24 Simeon Bird

Non-linear evolution of density fluctuations yields secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which are correlated with the same density fluctuations that can be measured by weak lensing (WL) surveys. We study the…

We apply a recently developed method to directly measure the gravitational lensing power spectrum from CMB power spectra to the Planck satellite data. This method allows us to analyze the tension between the temperature power spectrum and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-07 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu

We investigate the impact of a common approximation on weak lensing power spectra: the use of single-epoch matter power spectra in integrals over redshift. We disentangle this from the closely connected Limber's approximation. We derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Lucia F. de la Bella , Nicolas Tessore , Sarah Bridle

We present an improved and extended analysis of the cross-correlation between the map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential derived from the \emph{Planck} mission data and the high-redshift galaxies detected by the…

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

We investigate three-point statistics in weak lensing convergence, through the integrated bispectrum. This statistic involves measuring power spectra in patches, and is thus easy to measure, and avoids the complexity of estimating the very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Gabriel Jung , Toshiya Namikawa , Michele Liguori , Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens

We present a measurement of the DLA mean bias from the cross-correlation of DLA and the Ly$\alpha$ forest, updating earlier results of Font-Ribera et al. 2012 with the final BOSS Data Release and an improved method to address continuum…

Absorption lines in the Lyman-alpha forest can be thought of as peaks in neutral hydrogen density along lines of sight. The column density distribution (the number density of absorption lines as a function of column density) is then a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lam Hui , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Yu Zhang

Gravitational lensing information from the two and higher point statistics of the CMB temperature and polarization fields are intrinsically correlated because they are lensed by the same realization of structure between last scattering and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is gravitationally lensed by large-scale structure, which distorts observations of the primordial anisotropies in any given direction. Averaged over the sky, this important effect is routinely modelled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 G. Fabbian , J. Carron , A. Lewis , M. Lembo

We revisit the estimation of higher order corrections to the angular power spectra of weak gravitational lensing. Extending a previous calculation of Cooray and Hu, we find two additional terms to the fourth order in potential perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Charles Shapiro , Asantha Cooray

We study the general properties of the CMB temperature four-point function, specifically its harmonic analogue the angular trispectrum, and illustrate its utility in finding optimal quadratic statistics through the weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Wayne Hu

We present a measurement of the cross-correlation between the MagLim galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of observations (Y3) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from the Atacama Cosmology…