English
Related papers

Related papers: Constraining neutrino mass with tomographic weak l…

200 papers

Upcoming weak lensing surveys on wide fields will provide the opportunity to reconstruct the structure along the line of sight tomographically by employing photometric redshift information about the source distribution. We define…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu

Distortions of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropy maps caused by gravitational lensing, observable with high angular resolution and sensitivity, can be used to constrain the sterile neutrino mass, offering several advantages…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 L. A. Popa , A. Vasile

The gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by inspiraling binary black holes, expected to be detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), could be used to determine the luminosity distance to these sources with the unprecedented…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Cien Shang , Zoltan Haiman

We analyze the ability of galaxy and CMB lensing surveys to constrain massive neutrinos and new models of dark radiation. We present a Fisher forecast analysis for neutrino mass constraints with the LSST galaxy survey and the CMB S4 survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Arka Banerjee , Bhuvnesh Jain , Neal Dalal , Jessie Shelton

The characteristic signatures of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure (LSS), if fully captured, can be used to put a stringent constraint on their mass sum, $M_{\nu}$. Previous work utilizing N-body simulations has shown the Minkowski…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Wei Liu , Aoxiang Jiang , Wenjuan Fang

We present the first attempt to analytically study the nonlinear matter power spectrum for a mixed dark matter (cold dark matter plus neutrinos of total mass ~0.1eV) model based on cosmological perturbation theory. The suppression in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Shun Saito , Masahiro Takada , Atsushi Taruya

This is the fourth of a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmological parameters and X-ray scaling relations using observations of the growth of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. Here we examine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adam Mantz , Steven W. Allen , David Rapetti

In this paper, we study the cosmological implications of the 100 square degree Weak Lensing survey (the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys). We combine these weak lensing data with the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Hong Li , Jie Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Lei Sun , Zu-Hui Fan , Charling Tao , Andre Tilquin , Xinmin Zhang

The 1-point matter density probability distribution function (PDF) captures some of the non-Gaussian information lost in standard 2-point statistics. The matter PDF can be well predicted at mildly non-linear scales using large deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Beth McCarthy Gould , Lina Castiblanco , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich

We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

Given recent indications of additional neutrino species and cosmologically significant neutrino masses, we analyze their signatures in the weak lensing shear power spectrum. We find that a shear deficit in the 20-40% range or excess in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 R. Ali Vanderveld , Wayne Hu

The anisotropic galaxy clustering of large scale structure observed by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 11 is analyzed to probe the sum of neutrino mass in the small $m_\nu < 1eV$ limit in which the early broadband…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Minji Oh , Yong-Seon Song

Gravitational lensing is a crucial tool for exploring cosmic phenomena, providing insights into galaxy clustering, dark matter, and dark energy. Given the substantial computational demands of $N$-body simulations, approximate methods like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Viviane Alfradique , Tiago Castro , Valerio Marra , Miguel Quartin , Carlo Giocoli , Pierluigi Monaco

Reliable density estimation is fundamental for numerous applications in statistics and machine learning. In many practical scenarios, data are best modeled as mixtures of component densities that capture complex and multimodal patterns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mustafa Musab , Joseph K. Chege , Arie Yeredor , Martin Haardt

We present robust, model-marginalized limits on both the total neutrino mass ($\sum m_\nu$) and abundance ($N_{\rm eff}$) to minimize the role of parameterizations, priors and models when extracting neutrino properties from cosmology. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Eleonora di Valentino , Stefano Gariazzo , Olga Mena

We aim to constrain mass-varying neutrino models using large scale structure observations and produce forecast for the Euclid survey. We investigate two models with different scalar field potential and both positive and negative coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-20 Giuseppe La Vacca , David F. Mota

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

We present a complementary methodology to constrain the total neutrino mass, $\sum m_{\nu}$, based on the diffusion coefficient of the splashback mass function of dark matter halos. Analyzing the snapshot data from the Massive Neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Suho Ryu , Jounghun Lee

We derive constraints on the neutrino mass using a variety of recent cosmological datasets, including DESI BAO, the full-shape analysis of the DESI matter power spectrum and the one-dimensional power spectrum of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest…

We use numerical simulations of ray tracing through N-body simulations to investigate weak lensing by large-scale structure. These are needed for testing the analytic predictions of two-point correlators, to set error estimates on them and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bhuvnesh Jain , Uros Seljak , Simon White