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We present FuGa3D, a code for fast computation of correlation functions and power spectra for galaxy survey observables, including galaxy clustering and cosmic shear. We define the redshift-space correlation function (RCF) as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Elina Keihänen , Jani Haapala , Valtteri Lindholm , Martin Reinecke , Susan Rissanen , Jussi Valiviita , Akke Viitanen

Starting from the Fisher matrix for counts in cells, I derive the full Fisher matrix for surveys of multiple tracers of large-scale structure. The key assumption is that the inverse of the covariance of the galaxy counts is given by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-28 L. Raul Abramo

We present Fisher matrix projections for future cosmological parameter measurements, including neutrino masses, dark energy, curvature, modified gravity, the inflationary perturbation spectrum, non-Gaussianity, and dark radiation. We focus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andreu Font-Ribera , Patrick McDonald , Nick Mostek , Beth A. Reid , Hee-Jong Seo , Anže Slosar

Galaxy redshift surveys encode a wealth of information generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution, galaxy bias, and redshift-space distortions, only part of which is accessible through standard two-point statistics. Motivated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Davide Bianchi

It is shown how to decorrelate the (prewhitened) power spectrum measured from a galaxy survey into a set of high resolution uncorrelated band-powers. The treatment includes nonlinearity, but not redshift distortions. Amongst the infinitely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 A. J. S. Hamilton , Max Tegmark

In various fields of physics and astronomy, access to experimental facilities or to telescopes is becoming more and more competitive and limited. It becomes therefore important to optimize the type of measurements and their scheduling to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 A. Hees , A. Dehghanfar , T. Do , A. M. Ghez , G. D. Martinez , R. Campbell , J. R. Lu

We use the Fisher matrix formalism to study the expansion and growth history of the Universe using galaxy clustering with 2D angular cross-correlation tomography in spectroscopic or high resolution photometric redshift surveys. The radial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-26 Alex Alarcon , Martin Eriksen , Enrique Gaztanaga

Marginalizing over roughly 12 effective-field-theory (EFT) nuisance parameters per tracer per redshift bin is a dominant systematic cost in full-shape galaxy power spectrum analyses. Simulation-based priors (SBP) tighten these parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Nhat-Minh Nguyen

We investigate how the lensing potential can be measured tomographically with future galaxy surveys using their number counts. Such a measurement is an independent test of the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework and can be used to discern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Francesco Montanari , Ruth Durrer

We compare Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) and Redshift Space Distortion (RSD) measurements from recent galaxy surveys with their Fisher matrix based predictions. Measurements of the position of the BAO signal lead to constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Setareh Foroozan , Alex Krolewski , Will J. Percival

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy contains information on the galaxy's physical properties, and multi-wavelength observations are needed in order to measure these properties via SED fitting. In planning these surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Viviana Acquaviva , Eric Gawiser , Steven J. Bickerton , Norman A. Grogin , Yicheng Guo , Seong-Kook Lee

Strong gravitational lensing provides an independent and powerful probe of cosmic expansion by directly linking observables to cosmological distances. Upcoming surveys such as LSST will discover large number of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Xinyue Jiang , Yalong Nan , Chenfa Zheng

We study the dark matter halos of galaxies with galaxy-galaxy lensing using the COMBO-17 survey. This survey offers an unprecedented data set for studying lens galaxies at z=0.2-0.7 including redshift information and spectral classification…

Galaxy redshift surveys can be used to detect gravitationally-lensed quasars if the spectra obtained are searched for the quasars' emission lines. Previous investigations of this possibility have used simple models to show that the 2 degree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Rachel L. Webster

The High Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS) of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide powerful tests of cosmological models through sensitive measurements of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL), and galaxy clustering. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kaili Cao , David H. Weinberg , Vivian Miranda , Nihar Dalal , Tim Eifler , Jiachuan Xu , Haley Bowden

The 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) aims to measure the redshifts of around 150,000 galaxies, and the peculiar velocities of a 15,000-member sub-sample, over almost the entire southern sky. When complete, it will be the largest redshift survey of…

We introduce $\texttt{GWFAST}$, a Fisher information matrix $\texttt{Python}$ code that allows easy and efficient estimation of signal-to-noise ratios and parameter measurement errors for large catalogs of resolved sources observed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Mancarella , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

Fisher Information Matrix methods are commonly used in cosmology to estimate the accuracy that cosmological parameters can be measured with a given experiment, and to optimise the design of experiments. However, the standard approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Kiessling , A. N. Taylor , A. F. Heavens

We introduce $\texttt{GWFAST}$, a novel Fisher-matrix code for gravitational-wave studies, tuned toward third-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE). We use it to perform a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-02 Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Mancarella , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore