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We develop a new approach to study the nonlinear evolution in the large-scale structure of the Universe both in real space and in redshift space, extending the standard perturbation theory of gravitational instability. Infinite series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Takahiko Matsubara

Large-scale Fourier modes of the cosmic density field are of great value for learning about cosmology because of their well-understood relationship to fluctuations in the early universe. However, cosmic variance generally limits the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Omar Darwish , Simon Foreman , Muntazir M. Abidi , Tobias Baldauf , Blake D. Sherwin , P. Daniel Meerburg

We address the inverse problem of cosmic large-scale structure reconstruction from a Bayesian perspective. For a linear data model, a number of known and novel reconstruction schemes, which differ in terms of the underlying signal prior,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. S. Kitaura , T. A. Ensslin

We present a detailed analysis of a new, iterative density reconstruction algorithm. This algorithm uses a decreasing smoothing scale to better reconstruct the density field in Lagrangian space. We implement this algorithm to run on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Xinyi Chen , Nikhil Padmanabhan

The Zeldovich approximation, 1st order Lagrangian perturbation theory, provides a good description of the clustering of matter and galaxies on large scales. The acoustic feature in the large-scale correlation function of galaxies imprinted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Martin White

Reconstructing the mass density, velocity, and tidal (MTV) fields of dark matter from galaxy surveys is essential for advancing our understanding of the LSS of the Universe. In this work, we present a machine learning-based framework using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-27 Feng Shi , Zitong Wang , Xiaohu Yang , Yizhou Gu , Chengliang Wei , Ming Li , Jiaxin Han , Zhejie Ding , Huiyuan Wang , Youcai Zhang , Wensheng Hong , Yirong Wang , Xiao-dong Li

We perform an analysis of the three-dimensional cosmic matter density field traced by galaxies of the SDSS-III/BOSS galaxy sample. The systematic-free nature of this analysis is confirmed by two elements: the successful cross-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche , Florent Leclercq

The peculiar velocity field of the local Universe provides direct insights into its matter distribution and the underlying theory of gravity, and is essential in cosmological analyses for modelling deviations from the Hubble flow. Numerous…

We aim to construct a machine-learning approach that allows for a pixel-by-pixel reconstruction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) density field for various warm dark matter (WDM) models using the Lyman-alpha forest. With this regression…

Accurate analyses of present and next-generation galaxy surveys require new ways to handle effects of non-linear gravitational structure formation in data. To address these needs we present an extension of our previously developed algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

We show how to enhance the redshift accuracy of surveys consisting of tracers with highly uncertain positions along the line of sight. Photometric surveys with redshift uncertainty delta_z ~ 0.03 can yield final redshift uncertainties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

In this work we present the first non-linear, non-Gaussian full Bayesian large scale structure analysis of the cosmic density field conducted so far. The density inference is based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Jasche , F. S. Kitaura , C. Li , T. A. Ensslin

We present the largest Wiener reconstruction of the cosmic density field made to date. The reconstruction is based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 6 covering the northern Galactic cap. We use a novel supersampling algorithm to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Francisco S. Kitaura , Jens Jasche , Cheng Li , Torsten A. Ensslin , R. Benton Metcalf , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Gerard Lemson , Simon D. M. White

Here we introduce the Delaunay Density Estimator Method. Its purpose is rendering a fully volume-covering reconstruction of a density field from a set of discrete data points sampling this field. Reconstructing density or intensity fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

Accurate modeling of galaxy distributions is paramount for cosmological analysis using galaxy redshift surveys. However, this endeavor is often hindered by the computational complexity of resolving the dark matter halos that host these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 J. M. Coloma-Nadal , F. -S. Kitaura , J. E. García-Farieta , F. Sinigaglia , G. Favole , D. Forero Sánchez

We present a new method for recovering the cosmological density, velocity, and potential fields from all-sky redshift catalogues. The method is based on an expansion of the fields in orthogonal radial (Bessel) and angular (spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Karl Fisher , Ofer Lahav , Yehuda Hoffman , Donald Lynden-Bell , Saleem Zaroubi

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

Recent Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tomography measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) have revealed a wealth of cosmic structures at high redshift ($z\sim 2.5$). In this work, we present the Tomographic Absorption Reconstruction and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-18 Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Martin White , Alex Krolewski , Metin Ata

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 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