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Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure. In this paper we develop and test a new statistic based on anisotropies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Will J Percival , Martin White

Future galaxy surveys require one percent precision in the theoretical knowledge of the power spectrum over a large range including very nonlinear scales. While this level of accuracy is easily obtained in the linear regime with…

We measure the power spectrum of galaxy clustering in real space from the APM Galaxy Survey. We present an improved technique for the numerical inversion of Limber's equation that relates the angular clustering of galaxies to an integral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. D. Padilla , C. M. Baugh

The low surface brightness (LSB) regime ($\mu_{g} \gtrsim 26$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$) comprises a vast, mostly unexplored discovery space, from dwarf galaxies to the diffuse interstellar medium. Accessing this regime requires precisely removing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 A. E. Watkins , S. Kaviraj , C. C. Collins , J. H. Knapen , L. S. Kelvin , P. -A. Duc , J. Román , J. C. Mihos

The high cosmological precision offered by the next generation of galaxy surveys hinges on improved corrections for Galactic dust extinction. We explore the possibility of estimating both the dust extinction and large-scale structure from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Matías Bravo , Eric Gawiser , Nelson D. Padilla , Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

The next generation of galaxy surveys, aiming to observe millions of galaxies, are expensive both in time and cost. This raises questions regarding the optimal investment of this time and money for future surveys. In a previous work, it was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Paykari , S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. H. Jaffe

The weak gravitational lensing distortion of distant galaxy images (defined as sources) probes the projected large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. To improve quality in the 3D mass mapping using 3D-lensing, we combine the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon

We present a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) forecast for the precision of neutrino mass and cosmological parameter measurements with a Euclid-like galaxy clustering survey. We use a complete perturbation theory model for the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-28 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov

In the coming decade, a new generation of massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys, such as PFS, WAVES, and MOONS, will probe galaxies in the distant universe in vastly greater numbers than was previously possible. In this work, we…

We present optimized source galaxy selection schemes for measuring cluster weak lensing (WL) mass profiles unaffected by cluster member dilution from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP). The ongoing HSC-SSP…

We present a method to measure the small-scale matter power spectrum using high-resolution measurements of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). To determine whether small-scale structure today is suppressed on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ho Nam Nguyen , Neelima Sehgal , Mathew Madhavacheril

When extracting cosmological information from power spectrum measurements, we must consider the impact of super-sample density fluctuations whose wavelengths are larger than the survey scale. These modes contribute to the mean density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Yin Li , Wayne Hu , Masahiro Takada

Conventional approaches to cosmology inference from galaxy redshift surveys are based on n-point functions, which are under rigorous perturbative control on sufficiently large scales. Here, we present an alternative approach, which employs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabian Schmidt , Franz Elsner , Jens Jasche , Nhat Minh Nguyen , Guilhem Lavaux

With galaxy groups constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we analyze the expected galaxy-galaxy lensing signals around satellite galaxies residing in different host haloes and located at different halo-centric distances. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-04 Ran Li , Houjun Mo , Zuhui Fan , Xiaohu Yang , Frank C. van den Bosch

Surveys of galaxy clusters provide a promising method of testing models of structure formation in the universe. Within the context of our standard structure formation scenario, surveys provide measurements of the geometry of the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph J. Mohr

The treatment of unknown foreground contaminations will be one of the major challenges for galaxy clustering analyses of coming decadal surveys. These data contaminations introduce erroneous large-scale effects in recovered power spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Natalia Porqueres , Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

Dark sirens are a powerful way to infer cosmological and astrophysical parameters from the combination of gravitational wave sirens and galaxy catalogues. Importantly, the method relies on the completeness of the galaxy catalogues being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Charles Dalang , Tessa Baker

Primordial non-Gaussianity of local type is predicted to lead to enhanced halo clustering on very large scales. Photometric quasars, which can be seen from cosmological redshifts z>2 even in wide-shallow optical surveys, are promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Anthony R. Pullen , Christopher M. Hirata

In this work we explore the power of future large-scale surveys to constrain possible deviations from the standard single-field slow-roll inflationary scenario. Specifically, we parametrize possible fluctuations around the almost…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-14 Muhammad Sadegh Esmaeilian , Marzieh Farhang , Shirin Khodabakhshi