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We present a hybrid method for reconstructing the primordial density from late-time halos and galaxies. Our approach involves two steps: (1) apply standard Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) reconstruction to recover the large-scale features…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Liam Parker , Adrian E. Bayer , Uros Seljak

As galaxy surveys begin to measure the imprint of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) on large-scale structure at the sub-percent level, reconstruction techniques that reduce the contamination from nonlinear clustering become increasingly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 Marcel Schmittfull , Yu Feng , Florian Beutler , Blake Sherwin , Man Yat Chu

In this paper, we report a significant recovery of the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) signature by applying the isobaric reconstruction algorithm to the non-linear matter density field. Assuming only the longitudinal component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Xin Wang , Hao-Ran Yu , Hong-Ming Zhu , Yu Yu , Qiaoyin Pan , Ue-Li Pen

The density field reconstruction technique, which was developed to partially reverse the nonlinear degradation of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy redshift surveys, has been successful in substantially improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Hee-Jong Seo , Florian Beutler , Ashley J. Ross , Shun Saito

We present a new method to reconstruct the primordial (linear) density field using the estimated nonlinear displacement field. The divergence of the displacement field gives the reconstructed density field. We solve the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen , Xuelei Chen

We present a fully probabilistic, physical model of the non-linearly evolved density field, as probed by realistic galaxy surveys. Our model is valid in the linear and mildly non-linear regimes and uses second order Lagrangian perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Optimal transport theory has recently reemerged as a vastly resourceful field of mathematics with elegant applications across physics and computer science. Harnessing methods from geometry processing, we report on the efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Sebastian von Hausegger , Bruno Lévy , Roya Mohayaee

Motivated by recent developments in perturbative calculations of the nonlinear evolution of large-scale structure, we present an iterative algorithm to reconstruct the initial conditions in a given volume starting from the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Marcel Schmittfull , Tobias Baldauf , Matias Zaldarriaga

The reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe is an important topic in cosmology, particularly in the context of sharpening the measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak. Nonlinear reconstruction algorithms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Jack Birkin , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun , Yanlong Shi

Acoustic waves traveling through the early Universe imprint a characteristic scale in the clustering of galaxies, QSOs and inter-galactic gas. This scale can be used as a standard ruler to map the expansion history of the Universe, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. D. Cohn , Martin White , Tzu-Ching Chang , Gil Holder , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Olivier Doré

Initial density distribution provides a basis for understanding the complete evolution of cosmological density fluctuations. While reconstruction in our local Universe exploits the observations of galaxy surveys with large volumes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Meng Zhou , Yi Mao

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) underpin the key cosmological results from modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys, but nonlinear gravitational evolution limits the precision achievable with traditional analysis methods. To overcome this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Adrian E. Bayer , Liam Parker , David Valcin , Shi-Fan Chen , Chirag Modi , Uros Seljak

The late-time nonlinear Lagrangian displacement field is highly correlated with the initial field, so reconstructing it could enable us to extract primordial cosmological information. Our previous work [1] carefully studied the displacement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Atsuhisa Ota , Hee-Jong Seo , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler

Reconstructing an estimate of linear Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from an evolved galaxy field has become a standard technique in recent analyses. By partially removing non-linear damping caused by bulk motions, the real-space BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera , Antonio J. Cuesta , Mariana Vargas Magana , Shirley Ho

We present a method to reconstruct the initial conditions of the universe using observed galaxy positions and luminosities under the assumption that the luminosities can be calibrated with weak lensing to give the mean halo mass. Our method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chirag Modi , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak

A new fully non-linear reconstruction algorithm for the accurate recovery of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale in two-point correlation functions is proposed, based on the least-action principle and extending the Fast Action…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 E. Sarpa , C. Schimd , E. Branchini , S. Matarrese

Gravitational non-linear evolution induces a shift in the position of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak together with a damping and broadening of its shape that bias and degrades the accuracy with which the position of the peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Andrej Obuljen , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Emanuele Castorina , Matteo Viel

We present COSMIC BIRTH: COSMological Initial Conditions from Bayesian Inference Reconstructions with THeoretical models: an algorithm to reconstruct the primordial and evolved cosmic density fields from galaxy surveys on the light-cone.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Metin Ata , Sergio A. Rodriguez-Torres , Monica Hernandez-Sanchez , A. Balaguera-Antolinez , Gustavo Yepes

We present a self-consistent Bayesian formalism to sample the primordial density fields compatible with a set of dark matter density tracers after cosmic evolution observed in redshift space. Previous works on density reconstruction did not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 E. G. Patrick Bos , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Rien van de Weygaert

We propose a new scheme to reconstruct the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal, which contains key cosmological information, based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). Trained with almost no fine-tuning, the network can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Tian-Xiang Mao , Jie Wang , Baojiu Li , Yan-Chuan Cai , Bridget Falck , Mark Neyrinck , Alex Szalay
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