English
Related papers

Related papers: Toward a robust inference method for the galaxy bi…

200 papers

We develop a novel method to explore the galaxy-halo connection using the galaxy imaging surveys by modeling the projected two-point correlation function measured from the galaxies with reasonable photometric redshift measurements. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , Hong Guo , Zheng Zheng , Ying Zu , Zhigang Li , Chengze Liu

We examine the signature of dynamic (redshift-space) distortions and geometric distortions (including the Alcock-Paczynski effect) in the context of the galaxy power spectrum measured in upcoming galaxy redshift surveys. Information comes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Jonathan Blazek , Uroš Seljak , Zvonimir Vlah , Teppei Okumura

We study the information content of the angle-averaged (monopole) redshift space galaxy bispectrum. The main novelty of our approach is the use of a systematic tree-level perturbation theory model that includes galaxy bias, IR resummation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Takahiro Nishimichi , Marko Simonović , Masahiro Takada , Matias Zaldarriaga

As deeper observations discover increasingly distant galaxies, characterizing the properties of high-redshift galaxy populations will become increasingly challenging and paramount. We present a method for measuring the clustering bias of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Brant E. Robertson

Shot noise is an important ingredient to any measurement or theoretical modeling of discrete tracers of the large scale structure. Recent work has shown that the shot noise in the halo power spectrum becomes increasingly sub-Poissonian at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-21 Dimitry Ginzburg , Vincent Desjacques , Kwan Chuen Chan

We present a novel method to compress galaxy clustering three-point statistics and apply it to redshift space galaxy bispectrum monopole measurements from BOSS DR12 CMASS data considering a $k$-space range of $0.03-0.12\,h/\mathrm{Mpc}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Davide Gualdi , Héctor Gil-Marín , Marc Manera , Benjamin Joachimi , Ofer Lahav

We present a joint likelihood analysis of the real-space power spectrum and bispectrum measured from a variety of halo and galaxy mock catalogs. A novel aspect of this work is the inclusion of nonlinear triangle configurations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Alexander Eggemeier , Román Scoccimarro , Robert E. Smith , Martin Crocce , Andrea Pezzotta , Ariel G. Sánchez

We address key points for an efficient implementation of likelihood codes for modern weak lensing large-scale structure surveys. Specifically, we focus on the joint weak lensing convergence power spectrum-bispectrum probe and we tackle the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Matteo Rizzato , Karim Benabed , Francis Bernardeau , Fabien Lacasa

Our ability to extract cosmological information from galaxy surveys is limited by uncertainties in the galaxy-dark matter halo relationship for a given galaxy population, which are governed by the intricacies of galaxy formation. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Mahlet Shiferaw , Nickolas Kokron , Risa H. Wechsler

We compare reduced three-point correlations $Q$ of matter, haloes (as proxies for galaxies) and their cross correlations, measured in a total simulated volume of $\sim100 \ (h^{-1} \text{Gpc})^{3}$, to predictions from leading order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Kai Hoffmann , Enrique Gaztanaga , Roman Scoccimarro , Martin Crocce

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

We use N-body simulations to test the predictions of the redshift distortion in the power spectrum given by the halo model in which the clustering of dark matter particles is considered as a result both of the clustering of dark halos in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xi. Kang , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Borner

The determination of the density parameter $\Omega_0$ from the large-scale distribution of galaxies is one of the major goals of modern cosmology. However, if galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying mass distribution, linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Licia Verde , Alan F. Heavens , Sabino Matarrese , Lauro Moscardini

Likelihood fitting to two-point clustering statistics made from galaxy surveys usually assumes a multivariate normal distribution for the measurements, with justification based on the central limit theorem given the large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Mike Shengbo Wang , Will J. Percival , Santiago Avila , Robert Crittenden , Davide Bianchi

High- to ultrahigh-redshift clustering of halos provides a powerful tool to understand cosmology and galaxy formation. However, theoretical predictions are not firmly established in the first billion years, where current and upcoming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Kuan Wang , Julian B. Muñoz , L. Y. Aaron Yung

We study the matter bispectrum of large-scale structure by comparing the predictions of different perturbative and phenomenological models with the full three-dimensional bispectrum from $N$-body simulations estimated using modal methods.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Andrei Lazanu , Tommaso Giannantonio , Marcel Schmittfull , E. P. S. Shellard

We explore a variety of statistics of clusters selected with cosmic shear measurement by utilizing both analytic models and large numerical simulations. We first develop a halo model to predict the abundance and the clustering of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the two-point correlation function of galaxies supplies a standard ruler to probe the expansion history of the Universe. We study here several galaxy selection schemes, aiming at building an…

We present a proof-of-concept of a novel and fully Bayesian methodology designed to detect halos of different masses in cosmological observations subject to noise and systematic uncertainties. Our methodology combines the previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Alexander I. Merson , Jens Jasche , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Benjamin Wandelt , D. Heath Jones , Matthew Colless

We present a phenomenological modification of the standard perturbation theory prediction for the bispectrum in redshift space that allows us to extend the model to mildly non-linear scales over a wide range of redshifts, $z\leq1.5$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-16 Héctor Gil-Marín , Christian Wagner , Jorge Noreña , Licia Verde , Will Percival