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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

This is the third in a series of papers that develop a new and flexible model to predict weak-lensing (WL) peak counts, which have been shown to be a very valuable non-Gaussian probe of cosmology. In this paper, we compare the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-03 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger , Sandrine Pires

Recent findings from DESI BAO combined with Planck CMB data have set an upper limit on the total neutrino mass of $\sum m_\nu < 0.072\, \text{eV}$ (95% confidence level), ruling out the inverted hierarchy. Indeed, methods that rely on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Hernán E. Noriega , Alejandro Aviles

The information content of the minimum spanning tree (MST), used to capture higher-order statistics and information from the cosmic web, is compared to that of the power spectrum for a $\nu\Lambda$CDM model. The measurements are made in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-10 Krishna Naidoo , Elena Massara , Ofer Lahav

One of the most powerful cosmological datasets when it comes to constraining neutrino masses is represented by galaxy power spectrum measurements, $P_{gg}(k)$. The constraining power of $P_{gg}(k)$ is however severely limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Elena Giusarma , Sunny Vagnozzi , Shirley Ho , Simone Ferraro , Katherine Freese , Rocky Kamen-Rubio , Kam-Biu Luk

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

We examine whether future, nearly all-sky galaxy redshift surveys, in combination with CMB priors, will be able to detect the signature of the cosmic neutrino background and determine the absolute neutrino mass scale. We also consider what…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Carmelita Carbone , Licia Verde , Yun Wang , Andrea Cimatti

We use measurements of cosmic shear from CFHTLS, combined with WMAP-5 cosmic microwave background anisotropy data, baryonic acoustic oscillations from SDSS and 2dFGRS and supernovae data from SNLS and Gold-set, to constrain the neutrino…

The weak lensing power spectrum is a powerful tool to probe cosmological parameters. Additionally, lensing peak counts contain cosmological information beyond the power spectrum. Both of these statistics can be affected by the preferential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil , Morgan May

China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a forthcoming powerful Stage IV space-based optical survey equipment. It is expected to explore a number of important cosmological problems in extremely high precision. In this work, we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hengjie Lin , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Kwan Chuen Chan , Zuhui Fan , Hu Zhan

There is a renewed interest in constraining the sum of the masses of the three neutrino flavours by using cosmological measurements. Solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments have confirmed neutrino oscillations, implying that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oystein Elgaroy , Ofer Lahav

We investigate the cosmological implications of the latest growth of structure measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS Data Release 11 with particular focus on the sum of the neutrino masses, $\sum…

When combining cosmological and oscillations results to constrain the neutrino sector, the question of the propagation of systematic uncertainties is often raised. We address this issue in the context of the derivation of an upper bound on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 F. Couchot , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

We investigate whether cosmological data suggest the need for massive neutrinos. We employ galaxy power spectrum measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS), along with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Barger , Danny Marfatia , Adam Tregre

There is currently a discrepancy in the measured value of the amplitude of matter clustering, parameterised using $\sigma_8$, inferred from galaxy weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background data, which could be an indication of new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Thomas D. Kitching , Licia Verde , Alan F. Heavens , Raul Jimenez

Measuring the absolute scale of the neutrino masses is one of the most exciting opportunities available with near-term cosmological datasets. Two quantities that are sensitive to neutrino mass, scale-dependent halo bias $b(k)$ and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Marilena LoVerde

Weak-lensing searches for galaxy clusters are plagued by low completeness and purity, severely limiting their usefulness for constraining cosmological parameters with the cluster mass function. A significant fraction of `false positives'…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. Dietrich , J. Hartlap

Nonlinear gravitational evolution induces strong nonlinearities in the observed cosmological density fields, leading to positive off-diagonal correlations in the power spectrum covariance. This has caused the information saturation in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Shi-Hui Zang , Hong-Ming Zhu

The abundance of peaks in weak gravitational lensing maps is a potentially powerful cosmological tool, complementary to measurements of the shear power spectrum. We study peaks detected directly in shear maps, rather than convergence maps,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Nicolas Martinet , James G. Bartlett , Alina Kiessling , Barbara Sartoris

We perform a forecast analysis on how well a Euclid-like photometric galaxy cluster survey will constrain the total neutrino mass and effective number of neutrino species. We base our analysis on the Monte Carlo Markov Chains technique by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-08 M. Costanzi Alunno Cerbolini , B. Sartoris , Jun-Qing Xia , A. Biviano , S. Borgani , M. Viel