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The peculiar velocities of galaxies cause their redshift-space clustering to depend on the angle to the line-of-sight, providing a key test of gravitational physics on cosmological scales. These effects may be described using a multipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Chris Blake , Paul Carter , Jun Koda

Super-sample covariance (SSC) is the dominant source of statistical error on large scale structure (LSS) observables for both current and future galaxy surveys. In this work, we concentrate on the SSC of cluster counts, also known as sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Fabien Lacasa , Marcos Lima , Michel Aguena

Conventional algorithms for galaxy power spectrum estimation measure the true spectrum convolved with a survey window function, which, for parameter inference, must be compared with a similarly convolved theory model. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Oliver H. E. Philcox

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 investigate, in dark matter and galaxy mocks, the effects of approximating the galaxy power spectrum-bispectrum estimated covariance as a diagonal matrix, for an analysis that aligns with the specifications of recent and upcoming galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Sergi Novell-Masot , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

We study the properties of galaxy cluster 2-point correlation function covariance matrices estimated using the linear-construction (LC) method, which is computationally up to 20 times faster than the standard sample-covariance method. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 V. Lindholm , E. Sihvola , J. Valiviita , A. Fumagalli , B. Altieri , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , T. Castro , J. Martín-Fleitas , P. Monaco , A. Pezzotta , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Viel , D. Sciotti

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 present a power spectrum analysis of the final 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, employing a direct Fourier method. The sample used comprises 221,414 galaxies with measured redshifts. We investigate in detail the modelling of the sample…

We forecast the benefits induced by adding the bispectrum anisotropic signal to the standard, two- and three-point, clustering statistics analysis. In particular, we forecast cosmological parameter constraints including the bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-22 Davide Gualdi , Licia Verde

In this study, we aim to develop a new methodology to estimate the cross-correlation function and uncertainties and apply it to the analysis of magnification bias in galaxy surveys. We adopt a new methodological framework that uses a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 J. González-Nuevo , L. Bonavera , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , J. M. Casas

Accurate covariance matrices for two-point functions are critical for inferring cosmological parameters in likelihood analyses of large-scale structure surveys. Among various approaches to obtaining the covariance, analytic computation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Xiao Fang , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause

We present a new method, called $x$-cut cosmic shear, which optimally removes sensitivity to poorly modeled scales from the two-point cosmic shear signal. We show that the $x$-cut cosmic shear covariance matrix can be computed from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Peter L. Taylor , Francis Bernardeau , Eric Huff

Stage-IV galaxy surveys will measure correlations at small cosmological scales with high signal-to-noise ratio. One of the main challenges of extracting information from small scales is devising accurate models, as well as characterizing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Abdias Aires , Nickolas Kokron , Rogerio Rosenfeld , Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , Vivian Miranda

Modern galaxy surveys focus on the galaxy power spectrum or 2-point correlation function to test and constrain cosmological models. Additional information comes from higher-order N-point functions, but their analysis is challenging. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Marcel Schmittfull , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah

As the determination of density fluctuations becomes more precise with larger surveys, it becomes more important to account for the increased covariance due to the non-linearity of the field. Here I have focussed on the galaxy density, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-12 Fabien Lacasa

We derive and implement a full Bayesian large scale structure inference method aiming at precision recovery of the cosmological power spectrum from galaxy redshift surveys. Our approach improves over previous Bayesian methods by performing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The likelihood function for cosmological parameters, given by e.g. weak lensing shear measurements, depends on contributions to the covariance induced by the nonlinear evolution of the cosmic web. As nonlinear clustering to date has only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Robert Reischke , Alina Kiessling , Björn Malte Schäfer

An accurate covariance matrix is essential for obtaining reliable cosmological results when using a Gaussian likelihood. In this paper we study the covariance of pseudo-$C_\ell$ estimates of tomographic cosmic shear power spectra. Using two…

Data analysis from upcoming large galaxy redshift surveys, such as Euclid and DESI will significantly improve constraints on cosmological parameters. To optimally extract the information from these galaxy surveys, it is important to control…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 S. Gouyou Beauchamps , P. Baratta , S. Escoffier , W. Gillard , J. Bel , J. Bautista , C. Carbone

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei