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We present a method to transform multivariate unimodal non-Gaussian posterior probability densities into approximately Gaussian ones via non-linear mappings, such as Box--Cox transformations and generalisations thereof. This permits an…

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On the smallest scales, three-dimensional large-scale structure surveys contain a wealth of cosmological information which cannot be trivially extracted due to the non-linear dynamical evolution of the density field. Lagrangian perturbation…

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We present a forward-modelled velocity field reconstruction algorithm that performs the reconstruction of the mass density field using only peculiar velocity data. Our method consistently accounts for the inhomogeneous Malmquist bias using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Supranta S. Boruah , Guilhem Lavaux , Michael J. Hudson

Constraints on cosmological parameters from large-scale structure have traditionally been obtained from two-point statistics. However, non-linear structure formation renders these statistics insufficient in capturing the full information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Alex Hall , Alexander Mead

We present a new method for reconstructing the cosmological density, peculiar velocity and peculiar gravitational potential on large scales from redshift data. We remove the distorting effects of line-of-sight peculiar motions by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Benjamin Bromley

The next generation of galaxy surveys like the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid will provide datasets orders of magnitude larger than anything available to date. Our ability to model nonlinear effects in late time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Atsuhisa Ota , Hee-Jong Seo , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler

We obtain approximations for the CDM particle trajectories starting from Lagrangian Perturbation Theory. These estimates for the CDM trajectories result in approximations for the density in real and redshift space, as well as for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Svetlin Tassev , Matias Zaldarriaga

Conventional approaches to cosmology inference from galaxy redshift surveys are based on n-point functions, which are under rigorous perturbative control on sufficiently large scales. Here, we present an alternative approach, which employs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabian Schmidt , Franz Elsner , Jens Jasche , Nhat Minh Nguyen , Guilhem Lavaux

Redshift space distortions of the matter density power spectrum carry information on the growth rate of cosmic structure but require accurate modeling of nonlinear and velocity effects on the density field. We test and advance the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Alberto Vallinotto , Eric V. Linder

One way of recovering information about the initial conditions of the Universe is by measuring features of the cosmological density field which are preserved during gravitational evolution and galaxy formation. In this paper we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Rupert A. C. Croft , Enrique Gaztanaga

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 address the problem of inferring the three-dimensional matter distribution from a sparse set of one-dimensional quasar absorption spectra of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Using a Bayesian forward modelling approach, we focus on extending…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Natalia Porqueres , Oliver Hahn , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

Reconstructing cosmological initial conditions (ICs) from late-time observations is a difficult task, which relies on the use of computationally expensive simulators alongside sophisticated statistical methods to navigate multi-million…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Oleg Savchenko , Florian List , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

Determining magnetic field properties in different environments of the cosmic large-scale structure as well as their evolution over redshift is a fundamental step toward uncovering the origin of cosmic magnetic fields. Radio observations…

The gravitational coupling of a long-wavelength tidal field with small-scale density fluctuations leads to anisotropic distortions of the locally measured small-scale matter correlation function. Since the local correlation function is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-25 Hong-Ming Zhu , Ue-Li Pen , Yu Yu , Xinzhong Er , Xuelei Chen

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm that infers the three-dimensional large-scale matter distribution from the weak gravitational lensing effects measured in the image shapes of galaxies. The algorithm is designed to also work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vanessa Böhm , Stefan Hilbert , Maksim Greiner , Torsten A. Enßlin

Previous studies using numerical simulations have demonstrated that the shape of the cosmic web can be described by studying the Lagrangian displacement field. We extend these analyses, showing that it is now possible to perform a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin Wandelt , Will Percival

We develop information field theory (IFT) as a means of Bayesian inference on spatially distributed signals, the information fields. A didactical approach is attempted. Starting from general considerations on the nature of measurements,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Torsten A. Ensslin , Mona Frommert , Francisco S. Kitaura

We present the one-loop 2-point function of biased tracers in redshift space computed with Lagrangian perturbation theory, including a full resummation of both long-wavelength (infrared) displacements and associated velocities. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Shi-Fan Chen , Zvonimir Vlah , Emanuele Castorina , Martin White

The problem of the reconstruction of the large scale density and velocity fields from peculiar velocities surveys is addressed here within a Bayesian framework by means of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling. The HAmiltonian Monte carlo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Aurélien Valade , Yehuda Hoffman , Noam I Libeskind , Romain Graziani