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Kaiser & Squires have proposed a technique for mapping the dark matter in galaxy clusters using the coherent weak distortion of background galaxy images caused by gravitational lensing. We investigate the effectiveness of this technique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

The parameter-free reconstruction of the surface-mass density of clusters of galaxies is one of the principal applications of weak gravitational lensing. From the observable ellipticities of images of background galaxies, the tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marco Lombardi , Peter Schneider , Carlos Morales-Merino

We propose a new method to use the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich for measuring the baryon fraction in cluster of galaxies. In this proposal we need a configuration in which a supernova Type Ia resides in a brightest cluster galaxy of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 Shant Baghram

Redshift space distortions in galaxy clustering offer a promising technique for probing the growth rate of structure and testing dark energy properties and gravity. We consider the issue of to what accuracy they need to be modeled in order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-19 Eric V. Linder , Johan Samsing

The reliability of cluster lens reconstruction techniques based on weak lensing is studied in terms of the accuracy of their reproduction of the total cluster mass as a function of distance from the cluster center. To do so, a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann

We perform the first joint analysis of galaxy clustering (GC) and the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect to simultaneously constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters in this work, utilizing a combination of the Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng

[abridge]Cosmic velocity and tidal fields are important for the understanding of the cosmic web and the environments of galaxies, and can also be used to constrain cosmology. In this paper, we reconstruct these two fields in SDSS volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Frank C. van den Bosch

Upcoming cosmic shear analyses will precisely measure the cosmic matter distribution at low redshifts. At these redshifts, the matter distribution is affected by galaxy formation physics, primarily baryonic feedback from star formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Chun-Hao To , Shivam Pandey , Elisabeth Krause , Nihar Dalal , Dhayaa Anbajagane , David H. Weinberg

The uncovering of the large-scale structure that is hidden in the Zone of Avoidance is essential to our quest for the understanding of the dynamics of the nearby universe. Dedicated and sophisticated observations of the Zone of Avoidance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yehuda Hoffman

Joint analyses of the large-scale distribution of galaxies, and their motions under the gravitational influence of this density field, allow powerful tests of the cosmological model, including measurement of the growth rate of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

Using large numbers of simulations of the microwave sky, incorporating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect due to clusters, we investigate the statistics of the power spectrum at microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Michael W. Peel , Richard A. Battye , Scott T. Kay

Since galaxy distribution reconstruction effectively reduces non-Gaussian terms in the power spectrum covariance matrix, it has attracted interest not only for Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signals but also for various cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Naonori Sugiyama

A cosmic shear survey, spanning a significant proportion of the sky, should greatly improve constraints on a number of cosmological parameters. It also provides a unique opportunity to examine the matter power spectrum directly. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fergus Simpson

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) serves as a backlight to large-scale structure during the epoch of reionization, where Thomson scattering gives rise to temperature anisotropies on small angular scales from the kinetic Sunyaev…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 Selim C. Hotinli , Matthew C. Johnson

The cosmic deceleration parameter $q$ has been reconstructed in a non-parametric way using various combinations of recent observational datasets. The Pantheon compilation of the Supernova (SN) distance modulus data, the Cosmic Chronometer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Purba Mukherjee , Narayan Banerjee

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

Galaxy clusters, the most massive collapsed structures, have been routinely used to determine cosmological parameters. When using clusters for cosmology, the crucial assumption is that they are relaxed. However, subarcminute resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sandor M. Molnar , Nathan C. Hearn , Joachim G. Stadel

We present imaging simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of galaxy clusters for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) including the Atacama Compact Array (ACA). In its most compact configuration at 90GHz, ALMA will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 K. Yamada , T. Kitayama , S. Takakuwa , D. Iono , T. Tsutsumi , K. Kohno , M. Takizawa , K. Yoshikawa , T. Akahori , E. Komatsu , Y. Suto , H. Matsuo , R. Kawabe

The complex processes of baryonic feedback associated with galaxy evolution are still poorly understood, and their impact on the clustering of matter on small scales remains difficult to quantify. While many fitting functions and emulators…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alex Laguë , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Josh Borrow , Kendrick M. Smith , Xinyi Chen , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present a new reconstruction of the mass density and the peculiar velocity fields in the nearby universe using recent measurements of Tully-Fisher distances for a sample of late spirals. We find significant differences between our…