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Extracting the non-Gaussian information of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) is vital in unlocking the full potential of the rich datasets from the upcoming stage-IV galaxy surveys. Galaxy skew spectra serve as efficient…

In the era of precision cosmology, establishing the correct magnitude of statistical errors in cosmological parameters is of crucial importance. However, widely used approximations in galaxy surveys analyses can lead to parameter…

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We analyse the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS Data Release 11 (DR11) sample, which consists of $690\,827$ galaxies in the redshift range $0.43 < z < 0.7$ and has a sky coverage of…

We present the first application of the weighted skew-spectra to analyze non-Gaussian information in galaxy survey data. Using the tree-level galaxy skew-spectra together with the one-loop power spectrum multipoles, we analyze the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shu-Fan Chen , Priyesh Chakraborty , Cora Dvorkin

An accurate covariance matrix is essential for obtaining reliable cosmological results when using a Gaussian likelihood. In this paper we study the covariance of pseudo-$C_\ell$ estimates of tomographic cosmic shear power spectra. Using two…

We explore a variety of statistics of clusters selected with cosmic shear measurement by utilizing both analytic models and large numerical simulations. We first develop a halo model to predict the abundance and the clustering of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

We report a $5.3\sigma$ detection of the gravitational lensing effect of cosmic voids from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (BOSS) Data Release 12 seen in the $Planck$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence map. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Seshadri Nadathur , Blake D. Sherwin , Nathan Whitehorn

We present a novel method to compress galaxy clustering three-point statistics and apply it to redshift space galaxy bispectrum monopole measurements from BOSS DR12 CMASS data considering a $k$-space range of $0.03-0.12\,h/\mathrm{Mpc}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Davide Gualdi , Héctor Gil-Marín , Marc Manera , Benjamin Joachimi , Ofer Lahav

We quantify the accuracy with which the cosmological parameters characterizing the energy density of matter (\Omega_m), the amplitude of the power spectrum of matter fluctuations (\sigma_8), the energy density of neutrinos (\Omega_{\nu})…

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

Covariance matrices are important tools for obtaining reliable parameter constraints. Advancements in cosmological surveys lead to larger data vectors and, consequently, increasingly complex covariance matrices, whose number of elements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tassia Ferreira , Valerio Marra

Cosmological parameter estimation from forthcoming experiments promise to reach much greater precision than current constraints. As statistical errors shrink, the required control over systematic errors increases. Therefore, models or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 José Luis Bernal , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

We re-examine a genuine power of weak lensing bispectrum tomography for constraining cosmological parameters, when combined with the power spectrum tomography, based on the Fisher information matrix formalism. To account for the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada

Super sample covariance (SSC) is important when estimating covariance matrices using a set of mock catalogues for galaxy surveys. If the underlying cosmological simulations do not include the variation in background parameters appropriate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Greg Schreiner , Alex Krolewski , Shahab Joudaki , Will J. Percival

Covariance matrices are essential cosmological probes of fundamental physics, providing information on numerous fundamental physical parameters and varying with any change in the underlying cosmology. However, this cosmology dependence,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Theodore Steele , Robert Smith , Roisin O'Connor

We perform the first application of the wavelet scattering transform (WST) to actual galaxy observations, through a WST analysis of the BOSS DR12 CMASS dataset. We included the effects of redshift-space anisotropy, non-trivial survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Georgios Valogiannis , Cora Dvorkin

We forecast the future constraints on scale-dependent parametrizations of galaxy bias and their impact on the estimate of cosmological parameters from the power spectrum of galaxies measured in a spectroscopic redshift survey. For the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 L. Amendola , E. Menegoni , C. Di Porto , M. Corsi , E. Branchini

Cosmological large-scale structure analyses based on two-point correlation functions often assume a Gaussian likelihood function with a fixed covariance matrix. We study the impact on cosmological parameter estimation of ignoring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 Darsh Kodwani , David Alonso , Pedro Ferreira

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6) power spectrum is expected to provide state-of-the-art cosmological constraints, with an associated need for precise error modeling. In this paper we design, and evaluate the…

We analyse the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS Data Release 11 sample, which consists of $690 827$ galaxies in the redshift range $0.43 < z < 0.70$ and has a sky coverage of $8 498$ deg$^2$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Héctor Gil-Marín , Jorge Noreña , Licia Verde , Will J. Percival , Christian Wagner , Marc Manera , Donald P. Schneider

We conducted a review of the fundamental aspects of describing and detecting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy surveys, emphasizing the optimal tools for constraining this probe based on the type of observation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis