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The power spectrum is widely used in astronomy, to analyze temporal or spatial structure. In cosmology, it is used to quantify large-scale structure (LSS) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This is because the power spectrum…

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We present the application of the pseudo-spectrum method to galaxy-galaxy lensing. We derive explicit expressions for the pseudo-spectrum analysis of the galaxy-shear cross spectrum, which is the Fourier space counterpart of the stacked…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Chiaki Hikage , Masamune Oguri

Future precision cosmology from large-scale structure experiments including the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid will probe wider and deeper cosmic volumes than those covered by previous surveys. The Cartesian power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-12 Mike Shengbo Wang , Santiago Avila , Davide Bianchi , Robert Crittenden , Will J. Percival

Several recent studies have shown how to properly calculate the observed clustering of galaxies in a relativistic context, and uncovered corrections to the Newtonian calculation that become significant on scales near the horizon. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt , Christopher M. Hirata

One of the main unsolved problems of cosmology is how to maximize the extraction of information from nonlinear data. If the data are nonlinear the usual approach is to employ a sequence of statistics (N-point statistics, counting statistics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Uros Seljak , Grigor Aslanyan , Yu Feng , Chirag Modi

We investigate whether a Gaussian likelihood is sufficient to obtain accurate parameter constraints from a Euclid-like combined tomographic power spectrum analysis of weak lensing, galaxy clustering and their cross-correlation. Testing its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Robin E. Upham , Michael L. Brown , Lee Whittaker

Modern datasets have the precision necessary to uncover new information by including higher-order, non-Gaussian information into cosmological inference. The marked power spectrum offers access to such information while preserving the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Haruki Ebina , Martin White , Edmond Chaussidon

Owing to their more extensive sky coverage and tighter control on systematic errors, future deep weak lensing surveys should provide a better statistical picture of the dark matter clustering beyond the level of the power spectrum. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Joseph Smidt , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles , Asantha Cooray

Accurate covariance matrices for two-point functions are critical for inferring cosmological parameters in likelihood analyses of large-scale structure surveys. Among various approaches to obtaining the covariance, analytic computation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Xiao Fang , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology, with second-order shear statistics commonly used to constrain parameters such as the matter density $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$ and the clustering amplitude $S_8$. However, parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Niek Wielders , Laila Linke , Pierre A. Burger , Sven Heydenreich , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider

We compute the covariance of the galaxy power spectrum multipoles in perturbation theory, including the effects of nonlinear evolution, nonlinear and nonlocal bias, radial redshift-space distortions, arbitrary survey window and shot noise.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Digvijay Wadekar , Roman Scoccimarro

The upcoming generation of galaxy surveys will probe the distribution of matter in the universe with unprecedented accuracy. Measurements of the matter power spectrum at different scales and redshifts will provide stringent constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Linda Blot , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Reverdy , Yann Rasera

We propose a method to estimate non-Gaussian error bars on the matter power spectrum from galaxy surveys in the presence of non-trivial survey selection functions. The estimators are often obtained from formalisms like FKP and PKL, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen

(Abridged) Estimating the uncertainty on the matter power spectrum internally (i.e. directly from the data) is made challenging by the simple fact that galaxy surveys offer at most a few independent samples. In addition, surveys have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen

Over the next decade, improvements in cosmological parameter constraints will be driven by surveys of large-scale structure. Its inherent non-linearity suggests that significant information will be embedded in higher correlations beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Joyce Byun , Alexander Eggemeier , Donough Regan , David Seery , Robert E. Smith

The growing field of large-scale time domain astronomy requires methods for probabilistic data analysis that are computationally tractable, even with large datasets. Gaussian Processes are a popular class of models used for this purpose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Eric Agol , Sivaram Ambikasaran , Ruth Angus

We re-examine a genuine power of weak lensing bispectrum tomography for constraining cosmological parameters, when combined with the power spectrum tomography, based on the Fisher information matrix formalism. To account for the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada

The likelihood function for cosmological parameters, given by e.g. weak lensing shear measurements, depends on contributions to the covariance induced by the nonlinear evolution of the cosmic web. As nonlinear clustering to date has only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Robert Reischke , Alina Kiessling , Björn Malte Schäfer

Future galaxy surveys will provide accurate measurements of the matter power spectrum across an unprecedented range of scales and redshifts. The analysis of these data will require one to accurately model the imprint of non-linearities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Linda Blot , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Yann Rasera , Shankar Agarwal

We present a formalism to extract the angular power spectrum of fields sampled at a finite number of points with arbitrary positions -- a common situation for several catalog-based astrophysical probes -- through a simple extension of the…

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