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The three-point correlation function (3PCF) can now be measured in large galaxy redshift surveys, but in three dimensions its interpretation is complicated by the presence of redshift-space distortions. I investigate the projected 3PCF,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zheng Zheng

The field of cosmology is entering an epoch of unparalleled wealth of observational data thanks to galaxy surveys such as DESI, Euclid, and Roman. Therefore, it is essential to have a firm theoretical basis that allows the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 William Ortolá Leonard , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou

We report a measurement of the large-scale 3-point correlation function of galaxies using the largest dataset for this purpose to date, 777, 202 Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Spectroscopic…

We present new measurements of the redshift-space three-point correlation function (3PCF) of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using the largest dataset to date, the Data Release 7 (DR7) LRGs, and an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Felipe Marin

Higher-order statistics are a useful and complementary tool for measuring the clustering of galaxies, containing information on the non-gaussian evolution and morphology of large-scale structure in the Universe. In this work we present…

We constrain the linear and quadratic bias parameters from the configuration dependence of the three-point correlation function (3PCF) in both redshift and projected space, utilizing measurements of spectroscopic galaxies in the Sloan…

We study two key issues militating against the use of the anisotropic three-point correlation function (3PCF) for cosmological parameter inference: difficulties with its computational estimation and high-dimensionality. We show how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Obinna Umeh

As well as the galaxy number density and peculiar velocity, the galaxy intrinsic alignment can be used to test the cosmic isotropy. We study distinctive impacts of the isotropy breaking on the configuration-space two-point correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Maresuke Shiraishi , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu

The three-point correlation function (3PCF) is a crucial probe of non-Gaussianity and nonlinear structure formation. We develop a thermodynamic framework for the galaxy 3PCF by closing the BBGKY hierarchy with a physically motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sameer Choudhary , Naseer Iqbal

We present a configuration-space model of the large-scale galaxy 3-point correlation function (3PCF) based on leading-order perturbation theory and including redshift space distortions (RSD). This model should be useful in extracting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Zachary Slepian , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The two-point correlation function (2PCF) is the most widely used tool for quantifying the spatial distribution of galaxies. Since the distribution of galaxies is determined by galaxy formation physics as well as the underlying cosmology,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Manodeep Sinha , Lehman H. Garrison

The three-point correlation function (3PCF) is a powerful probe to investigate the clustering of matter in the Universe in a complementary way with respect to lower-order statistics, providing additional information with respect to the…

We present new predictions for the galaxy three-point correlation function (3PCF) using high-resolution dissipationless cosmological simulations of a flat LCDM Universe which resolve galaxy-size halos and subhalos. We create realistic mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe Marin , Risa Wechsler , Joshua Frieman , Robert Nichol

We present the integrated 3-point correlation functions (3PCF) involving both the cosmic shear and the galaxy density fields. These are a set of higher-order statistics that describe the modulation of local 2-point correlation functions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Anik Halder , Zhengyangguang Gong , Alexandre Barreira , Oliver Friedrich , Stella Seitz , Daniel Gruen

We propose an anisotropic generalisation of the line correlation function (ALCF) to separate and quantify phase information in the large-scale structure of galaxies. The line correlation function probes the strictly non-linear regime of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 Alexander Eggemeier , Thorsten Battefeld , Robert E. Smith , Jens Niemeyer

We developed a modification to the calculation of the two-point correlation function commonly used in the analysis of large scale structure in cosmology. An estimator of the two-point correlation function is constructed by contrasting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Regina Demina , Sanha Cheong , Segev BenZvi , Otto Hindrichs

We present the measurements of the redshift-space three-point correlation function (3PCF) for z~0.5 luminous red galaxies of the CMASS sample in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 11. The…

We investigate the possibility of constraining coupled dark energy (cDE) cosmologies using the three-point correlation function (3PCF). Making use of the CoDECS N-body simulations, we study the statistical properties of cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Michele Moresco , Federico Marulli , Marco Baldi , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

In the forthcoming large volume galaxy surveys higher order statistics will provide complementary information to the usual two point statistics. Low variance estimators of the Three Point Correlation Function (3CPF) of discrete data count…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Fidel Sosa Nuñez , Gustavo Niz

We introduce a two-particle correlation function (2PCF) for the Milky Way, constructed to probe spatial correlations in the orthogonal directions of the stellar disk in the Galactic cylindrical coordinates of $R$, $\phi$, and $z$. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Austin Hinkel , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny