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Many of the cosmological tests to be performed by planned dark energy experiments will require extremely well-characterized photometric redshift measurements. Current estimates are that the true mean redshift of the objects in each photo-z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman

A variety of methods have been proposed to define and to quantify galaxy environments. While these techniques work well in general with spectroscopic redshift samples, their application to photometric redshift surveys remains uncertain. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Chuan-Chin Lai , Lihwai Lin , Hung-Yu Jian , Tzi-Hong Chiueh , Alex Merson , Carlton Baugh , Sebastien Foucaud , Chin-Wei Chen , Wen-Ping Chen

We demonstrate that observations lacking reliable redshift information, such as photometric and radio continuum surveys, can produce robust measurements of cosmological parameters when empowered by clustering-based redshift estimation. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Ely D. Kovetz , Alvise Raccanelli , Mubdi Rahman

As a contribution to the understanding of the dark energy concept, the Dark energy American French Team (DAFT, in French FADA) has started a large project to characterize statistically high redshift galaxy clusters, infer cosmological…

We test the cosmological implications of studying galaxy clustering using a tomographic approach, by computing the galaxy two-point angular correlation function $\omega(\theta)$ in thin redshift shells using a spectroscopic-redshift galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Ariel G. Sánchez , Nelson D. Padilla , Carlton M. Baugh

We make the first detailed MCMC likelihood study of cosmological constraints that are expected from some of the largest, ongoing and proposed, cluster surveys in different wave-bands and compare the estimates to the prevalent Fisher matrix…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-21 Satej Khedekar , Subhabrata Majumdar

Measuring cosmic shear in wide-field imaging surveys requires accurate knowledge of the redshift distribution of all sources. The clustering-redshift technique exploits the angular cross-correlation of a target galaxy sample with unknown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 J. L. van den Busch , H. Hildebrandt , A. H. Wright , C. B. Morrison , C. Blake , B. Joachimi , T. Erben , C. Heymans , K. Kuijken , E. N. Taylor

This work is part of a series establishing the redshift framework for the $3\times2$pt analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6). For DES Y6, photometric redshift distributions are estimated using self-organizing maps (SOMs),…

We explore the effects of incorporating redshift uncertainty into measurements of galaxy clustering and cross-correlations of galaxy positions and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps. We use a simple Gaussian model for a redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Ross Cawthon

In a recent study, we developed a method to model the impact of photometric redshift uncertainty on the two-point correlation function (2PCF). In this method, we can obtain both the intrinsic clustering strength and the photometric redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-29 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Yipeng Jing , Kai Wang , Hong Guo , Fuyu Dong , Min He

Magnification bias, an observational effect of gravitational lensing in the weak regime, allows testing the cosmological model through angular correlations of sources at different redshifts. This effect has been observed in various…

We present measurements of the redshift-dependent clustering of a DESI-like luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample selected from the Legacy Survey imaging dataset, and use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to fit the clustering…

We investigate the cosmological implications of studying galaxy clustering using a tomographic approach applied to the final BOSS DR12 galaxy sample, including both auto- and cross-correlation functions between redshift shells. We model the…

Determining the redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxy samples is essential for several cosmological probes including weak lensing. For imaging surveys, this is usually done using photometric redshifts estimated on an object-by-object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola

Recent studies have shown that the cross-correlation coefficient between galaxies and dark matter is very close to unity on scales outside a few virial radii of galaxy halos, independent of the details of how galaxies populate dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rachel Mandelbaum , Anze Slosar , Tobias Baldauf , Uros Seljak , Christopher M. Hirata , Reiko Nakajima , Reinabelle Reyes , Robert E. Smith

Galaxy clusters are usually detected in blind optical surveys via suitable filtering methods. We present an optimal matched filter which maximizes their signal-to-noise ratio by taking advantage of the knowledge we have of their intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Bellagamba , Matteo Maturi , Takashi Hamana , Massimo Meneghetti , Satoshi Miyazaki , Lauro Moscardini

The DEEP2 project will obtain redshifts for ~60,000 galaxies between z~0.7-1.5 in a comoving volume of 7 10^6 Mpc/h^3 for an LCDM universe. The survey will map four separate 2 by 0.5 degree strips of the sky. To study the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alison L. Coil , Marc Davis , Istvan Szapudi

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

We determine an optimized clustering statistic to be used for galaxy samples with significant redshift uncertainty, such as those that rely on photometric redshifts. To do so, we study the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) information…

Weak lensing peak abundance analyses have been applied in different surveys and demonstrated to be a powerful statistics in extracting cosmological information complementary to cosmic shear two-point correlation studies. Future large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shuo Yuan , Chuzhong Pan , Xiangkun Liu , Qiao Wang , Zuhui Fan