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Several papers have recently highlighted the possibility of measuring redshift space distortions from angular auto-correlations of galaxies in photometric redshift bins. In this work we extend this idea to include as observables the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Jacobo Asorey , Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga

From the galaxy power spectrum in redshift space, we derive semi-analytical results on the generic degeneracy of galaxy clustering measurements. Defining the observables $\bar{A}= Gb\sigma_8$ and $\bar{R} = Gf\sigma_8$, (being $G$ the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-21 Alejandro Guarnizo , Luca Amendola , Martin Kunz , Adrian Vollmer

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

With the advent of several galaxy surveys targeting star-forming galaxies, it is important to have models capable of interpreting their spatial distribution in terms of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. To address this need, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sara Ortega-Martinez , Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo

We present constraints on the amplitude of matter fluctuations from the clustering of galaxies and their cross-correlation with the gravitational lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), focusing on low redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Andrea Rubiola , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

Galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing probe the connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes in complementary ways. On one hand, the halo occupation statistics inferred from the observed clustering properties of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Marcello Cacciato , Frank C. van den Bosch , Surhud More , Ran Li , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang

We investigate how well the redshift distributions of galaxies sorted into photometric redshift bins can be determined from the galaxy angular two-point correlation functions. We find that the uncertainty in the reconstructed redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Schneider , L. Knox , H. Zhan , A. Connolly

We measure the harmonic-space auto-power spectrum of the galaxy overdensity in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) First Data Release and its cross correlation with the map of the lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 David Alonso , Emilio Bellini , Catherine Hale , Matt J. Jarvis , Dominik J. Schwarz

We propose the use of angular fluctuations in the galaxy redshift field as a new way to extract cosmological information in the Universe. This new probe $\delta z (\hat{n})$ consists on the statistics of sky maps built by projecting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Jonas Chaves-Montero , Raul E. Angulo

When analyzing galaxy clustering in multi-band imaging surveys, there is a trade-off between selecting the largest galaxy samples (to minimize the shot noise) and selecting samples with the best photometric redshift (photo-z) precision,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Chihway Chang , Joshua Frieman

In this manuscript I review the mathematics and physics that underpins recent work using the clustering of galaxies to derive cosmological model constraints. I start by describing the basic concepts, and gradually move on to some of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Will J. Percival

We show that the abundance and redshift distribution ($dN/dz$) of galaxy clusters in future high--yield cluster surveys, combined with the spatial power spectrum ($P_c(k)$) of the same clusters, can place significant constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheng Wang , Justin Khoury , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May

We study the clustering of galaxies as a function of spectral type and redshift in the range $0.35 < z < 1.1$ using data from the Advanced Large Homogeneous Area Medium Band Redshift Astronomical (ALHAMBRA) survey. The data cover 2.381…

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

Identifying new observational probes to constrain cosmological parameters has become an important goal in modern cosmology. In this work, we explore the potential of the cosmic star formation rate density (SFRD), compiled over the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Miguel Moyses , Rafael C. Nunes

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey is the first to observe more than 100,000 redshifts, making possible precise measurements of many aspects of galaxy clustering. The spatial distribution of galaxies can be studied as a function of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Peacock

Weak gravitational lensing is becoming a mature technique for constraining cosmological parameters, and future surveys will be able to constrain the dark energy equation of state $w$. When analyzing galaxy surveys, redshift information has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea Petri , Morgan May , Zoltán Haiman

Cosmological galaxy surveys aim at mapping the largest volumes to test models with techniques such as cluster abundance, cosmic shear correlations or baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), which are designed to be independent of galaxy bias.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Gaztanaga , M. Eriksen , M. Crocce , F. Castander , P. Fosalba , P. Marti , R. Miquel , A. Cabre

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

In the near future, observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies will provide accurate determinations of many fundamental cosmological parameters. In this paper, we analyse degeneracies among cosmological parameters to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Efstathiou , J. R. Bond