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We calculate the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density in non-linear regime of the gravitational evolution. Under the local approximation that the evolution of cosmic fluid fields can be characterized by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

We propose counting peaks in weak lensing (WL) maps, as a function of their height, to probe models of dark energy and to constrain cosmological parameters. Because peaks can be identified in two-dimensional WL maps directly, they can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Jan M. Kratochvil , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

Weak gravitational lensing, resulting from the bending of light due to the presence of matter along the line of sight, is a potent tool for exploring large-scale structures, particularly in quantifying non-Gaussianities. It stands as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Vilasini Tinnaneri Sreekanth , Sandrine Codis , Alexandre Barthelemy , Jean-Luc Starck

We develop an accurate and computationally efficient emulator to model the gravitational lensing magnification probability distribution function (PDF), enabling robust cosmological inference of point sources such as supernovae and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Tunç Türker , Valerio Marra , Tiago Castro , Miguel Quartin , Stefano Borgani

We perform high resolution ray-tracing simulations to investigate probability distribution functions (PDFs) of lensing convergence, shear, and magnification on distant sources up to the redshift of $z_s=20$. We pay particular attention to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ryuichi Takahashi , Masamune Oguri , Masanori Sato , Takashi Hamana

The 1-point matter density probability distribution function (PDF) captures some of the non-Gaussian information lost in standard 2-point statistics. The matter PDF can be well predicted at mildly non-linear scales using large deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Beth McCarthy Gould , Lina Castiblanco , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich

We investigate the performance of an analytic model of the 3D matter distribution, which combines perturbation theory with halo models, for weak-lensing configuration-space statistics. We compared our predictions for the weak-lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Patrick Valageas , Masanori Sato , Takahiro Nishimichi

We compute statistical properties of weak gravitational lensing by large-scale structure in three Cold Dark Matter models. We use a P$^3$M $N$-body code to simulate the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takashi Hamana , Hugo Martel , Toshifumi Futamase

We present novel statistical tools to cross-correlate frequency cleaned thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) maps and tomographic weak lensing (wl) convergence maps. Moving beyond the lowest order cross-correlation, we introduce a hierarchy of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dipak Munshi , Shahab Joudaki , Peter Coles , Joseph Smidt , Scott T. Kay

We use the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator (DTFE) to study the one-point density distribution functions of the Millennium (MS) and Millennium-II (MS-II) simulations. The DTFE technique is based directly on the particle positions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Biswajit Pandey , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Raul Angulo

We develop an analytical framework to predict the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of dispersion measures (DMs) for fast radio bursts (FRBs) within the baryonification (BFC) model. BFC provides a computationally efficient…

We report the first result of weak gravitational lensing survey on a 2.1 sq deg Rc-band image taken with a wide field camera (Suprime-Cam) on the prime focus of 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. The weak lensing mass reconstruction is applied to the…

We provide a set of general tools for studying the alignments of dark matter halos and galaxies with respect to the large scale structure. The statistics of the positioning of these objects is represented by a Probability Distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Ignacio Trujillo

One of the principle efforts in cosmic microwave background (CMB) research is measurement of the parameter fnl that quantifies the departure from Gaussianity in a large class of non-minimal inflationary (and other) models. Estimators for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tristan L. Smith , Marc Kamionkowski , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point probability distribution function (PDF) has been estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational perturbation theory with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gaztanaga , P. Fosalba , E. Elizalde

Turbulence is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. There is a need for adequate tools to describe and characterize the properties of turbulent flows. One-point probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen

We study the reliability of dark matter (DM) profile determinations for rich clusters of galaxies based on weak gravitational lensing measurements. We consider three functional forms for the mass distribution: a softened isothermal sphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey A. Willick , Nikhil Padmanabhan

Weak lensing (WL) promises to be a particularly sensitive probe of both the growth of large scale structure (LSS) as well as the fundamental relation between matter density perturbations and metric perturbations, thus providing a powerful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Philippe Brax

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point Probability Distribution Function (PDF) can be estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational Perturbation Theory (PT) with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , E. Elizalde

We introduce the position-dependent probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed matter field as a cosmological observable. In comparison to the PDF itself, the spatial variation of the position-dependent PDF is simpler to model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde