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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…

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We present a study of unbiased reconstruction of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization maps from data collected by modern ground-based observatories. Atmospheric emission is a major source of correlated noise in such experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Simon Biquard , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

We seek to improve estimates of the power spectrum covariance matrix from a limited number of simulations by employing a novel statistical technique known as shrinkage estimation. The shrinkage technique optimally combines an empirical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adrian C. Pope , István Szapudi

We study the properties of galaxy cluster 2-point correlation function covariance matrices estimated using the linear-construction (LC) method, which is computationally up to 20 times faster than the standard sample-covariance method. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 V. Lindholm , E. Sihvola , J. Valiviita , A. Fumagalli , B. Altieri , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , T. Castro , J. Martín-Fleitas , P. Monaco , A. Pezzotta , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Viel , D. Sciotti

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure of the Universe induces high-order correlations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We construct minimum variance estimators of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wayne Hu , Takemi Okamoto

We extend the pure pseudo-power-spectrum formalism proposed recently in the context of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarized power spectra estimation by Smith (2006) to incorporate cross-spectra computed for multiple maps of the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 J. Grain , M. Tristram , R. Stompor

In cosmic shear likelihood analyses the covariance is most commonly assumed to be constant in parameter space. Therefore, when calculating the covariance matrix (analytically or from simulations), its underlying cosmology should not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tim Eifler , Peter Schneider , Jan Hartlap

We explore strategies to extract cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, galaxy clustering, cluster number counts and cluster weak lensing. We utilize the CosmoLike software to simulate results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler

The aim of this study is to distinguish genuine cosmic voids, found in a galaxy catalog by the void finder ZOBOV-VIDE, from under-dense regions in a Poisson distribution of objects. For this purpose, we perform two multivariate analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-14 M. -C Cousinou , A. Pisani , A. Tilquin , N. Hamaus , A. -J Hawken , S. Escoffier

We constrain cosmological parameters by analysing the angular power spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 galaxies, a spectroscopic follow-up of around 1.3 million SDSS galaxies over 9,376 deg$^2$ with an effective…

We investigate the information on cosmology contained in Gaussianised weak gravitational lensing convergence fields. Employing Box-Cox transformations to determine optimal transformations to Gaussianity, we develop analytical models for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. Joachimi , A. N. Taylor , A. Kiessling

Large-scale deep learning models are well-suited for compression. Across a variety of tasks, methods like pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation have been used to achieve massive reductions in model parameters with only marginal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedram Bakhtiarifard , Tong Chen , Jonathan Wenshøj , Erik B Dam , Raghavendra Selvan

Due to the large dynamic ranges involved with separating the cosmological 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn from galactic foregrounds, a well-calibrated instrument is essential to avoid biases from instrumental systematics. In this paper we…

With a primary goal of conducting precision weak lensing measurements from space, the COSMOS survey has imaged the largest contiguous area observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to date using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

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

Accurate mock catalogues are essential for assessing systematics in the cosmological analysis of large galaxy surveys. Anisotropic two-point clustering measurements from the same simulation show some scatter for different lines of sight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Alex Smith , Arnaud de Mattia , Etienne Burtin , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Cheng Zhao

Dark matter cannot be observed directly, but its weak gravitational lensing slightly distorts the apparent shapes of background galaxies, making weak lensing one of the most promising probes of cosmology. Several observational studies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , István Csabai

We present $\it{CosmoPower}$, a suite of neural cosmological power spectrum emulators providing orders-of-magnitude acceleration for parameter estimation from two-point statistics analyses of Large-Scale Structure (LSS) and Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 A. Spurio Mancini , D. Piras , J. Alsing , B. Joachimi , M. P. Hobson

Precision cosmology with gravitational wave (GW) sources requires a deeper understanding of the interplay between GW source population and cosmological parameters governing the dynamics of the Universe. With the swift increase in GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Christos Karathanasis , Benoit Revenu , Suvodip Mukherjee , Federico Stachurski

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are one of the most used probes to understand the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Traditional methods rely on fiducial model information within their statistical analysis, which may be a problem…

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