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I present an estimator for the angular cross-correlation of two tracers of the cosmological large-scale structure that utilizes redshift information to isolate separate physical contributions. The estimator is derived by solving the Limber…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael D. Schneider

We address the question of how well the density profile of galaxy clusters can be determined by combining strong lensing and velocity dispersion data. We use cosmological dark matter simulations of clusters to test the reliability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Meneghetti , M. Bartelmann , A. Jenkins , C. Frenk

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing is an integrated effect whose kernel is greater than half the peak value in the range $1<z<5$. Measuring this effect offers a powerful tool to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Toshiya Namikawa , Benjamin Bose , François R. Bouchet , Ryuichi Takahashi , Atsushi Taruya

Gravitational lensing has long been considered as a valuable tool to determine the total mass of galaxy clusters. The shear profile as inferred from the statistics of ellipticity of background galaxies allows to probe the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Vincenzo F. Cardone , Martina Vicinanza , Xinzhong Er , Roberto Maoli , Roberto Scaramella

We discuss detectability of the nonlinear growth of the large-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. Lensing signals involved in CMB anisotropies have been measured from multiple CMB experiments, such as Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Toshiya Namikawa

We investigate the prospects for probing large-scale statistical anisotropy through galaxy clustering and intrinsic alignments (IA) in Stage IV galaxy surveys. Specifically, we consider a dipolar modulation in the primordial power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Keita Minato , Atsushi Taruya , Teppei Okumura , Maresuke Shiraishi

Cosmic shear data contains a large amount of cosmological information encapsulated in the non-Gaussian features of the weak lensing mass maps. This information can be extracted using non-Gaussian statistics. We compare the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dominik Zürcher , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier

We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing measurements from BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulation method combined with a halo occupation distribution model. Our emulators are constructed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenhao Gao , Zhenjie Liu , Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Jun Zhang , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

Galaxy surveys are an important probe for superimposed oscillations on the primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbations, which are predicted in several theoretical models of inflation and its alternatives. In order to exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Mario Ballardini , Riccardo Murgia , Marco Baldi , Fabio Finelli , Matteo Viel

We compute the redshift-dependent angular bispectrum of galaxy number counts at tree-level, including nonlinear clustering bias and estimating numerically for the first time the effect of redshift space distortions (RSD). We show that for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-30 Enea Di Dio , Ruth Durrer , Roy Maartens , Francesco Montanari , Obinna Umeh

We present a novel approach to measuring the expansion rate and the geometry of the Universe, which combine time-delay cosmography in lens galaxy clusters with pure samples of 'cosmic chronometers' (CCs) by probing the member galaxies. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 P. Bergamini , S. Schuldt , A. Acebron , C. Grillo , U. Mestric , G. Granata , G. B. Caminha , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , S. H. Suyu , E. Vanzella

We present CLUMI+, a self-consistent, multiprobe methodology for reconstructing the mass distribution in and around galaxy clusters by combining gravitational lensing and dynamical observations. Building on the joint likelihood framework of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Keiichi Umetsu , Michele Pizzardo , Antonaldo Diaferio , Margaret J. Geller

Weak gravitational lensing has been used extensively in the past decade to constrain the masses of galaxy clusters, and is the most promising observational technique for providing the mass calibration necessary for precision cosmology with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rachel Mandelbaum , Uros Seljak , Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith

The lensing convergence measurable with future CMB surveys like CMB-S4 will be highly correlated with the clustering observed by deep photometric large scale structure (LSS) surveys such as the LSST, with cross-correlation coefficient as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Marcel Schmittfull , Uros Seljak

Next-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on the mechanism by which perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Ballardini , William Luke Matthewson , Roy Maartens

CMB lensing is a promising, novel way to measure galaxy cluster masses that can be used, e.g., for mass calibration in galaxy cluster counts analyses. Understanding the statistics of the galaxy cluster mass observable obtained with such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Íñigo Zubeldia , Anthony Challinor

We demonstrate the utility and constraining power of a new statistic for investigating galaxy bias: the galaxy-lensing phase difference. The statistic consists in taking the differences of the phases of the harmonic wave-modes between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Marc Manera , David Bacon

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) is a formalism that allows us to predict the clustering of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure in the mildly non-linear regime in an accurate and reliable way. After validating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Guido D'Amico , Jérôme Gleyzes , Nickolas Kokron , Dida Markovic , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang , Florian Beutler , Héctor Gil-Marín

In this paper, we apply the multi-tracer technique to harmonic-space (i.e.\ angular) power spectra with a likelihood-based approach. This goes beyond the usual Fisher matrix formalism hitherto implemented in forecasts with angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Konstantinos Tanidis , Stefano Camera

We develop a clustering-based redshift estimation approach for CMB lensing tomography, focusing on the kernel function of the lensing galaxies. Within a linear galaxy bias framework, we derive estimators for this kernel from two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Shun Arai , John A. Peacock , Hironao Miyatake , Atsushi J. Nishizawa