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Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the large-scale cosmic matter distribution. Wide-field galaxy surveys allow us to generate the so-called weak lensing maps, but actual observations suffer from noise due to imperfect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda

Weak lensing surveys are expected to provide direct measurements of the statistics of the projected dark matter distribution. Most analytical studies of weak lensing statistics have been limited to quasilinear scales as they relied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dipak Munshi , Bhuvnesh Jain

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

We use weak gravitational lensing to measure mean mass profiles around Locally Brightest Galaxies (LBGs). These are selected from the SDSS/DR7 spectroscopic and photometric catalogues to be brighter than any neighbour projected within 1.0…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-15 Wenting Wang , Simon White , Rachel Mandelbaum , Bruno Henriques , Michael E. Anderson , Jiaxin Han

We quantify the cosmological constraining power of the `lensing PDF' - the one-point probability density of weak lensing convergence maps - by modelling this statistic numerically with an emulator trained on $w$CDM cosmic shear simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Benjamin Giblin , Yan-Chuan Cai , Joachim Harnois-Déraps

We measure the Voronoi density probability distribution function (PDF) for both dark matter and halos in N-body simulations. For the dark matter, Voronoi densities represent the matter density field smoothed on a uniform mass scale, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

While second and higher order correlations of the light distribution have received extensive study, the lowest order probability distribution function (PDF) -- the probability that a unit volume of space will emit a given amount of light --…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Kentaro Nagamine , Renyue Cen , Masataka Fukugita

Density fluctuations in the matter distribution lead to distortions of the images of distant galaxies through weak gravitational lensing effects. This provides an efficient probe of the cosmological parameters and of the density field. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Valageas

Perturbation Theory (PT) applied to a cosmological density field with Gaussian initial fluctuations suggests a specific hierarchy for the correlation functions when the variance is small. In particular quantitative predictions have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Munshi , F. Bernardeau , A. L. Melott , R. Schaeffer

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density of molecular clouds provides essential information about the structure of molecular cloud gas and condensed structures out of which stars may form. In general, the PDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jörg Fischera

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

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 Patrick Valageas , Masanori Sato , Takahiro Nishimichi

Modern analysis on parton distribution functions (PDFs) requires calculations of the log-likelihood functions from thousands of experimental data points, and scans of multi-dimensional parameter space with tens of degrees of freedom. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 DianYu Liu , ChuanLe Sun , Jun Gao

For Poisson-Delaunay triangulations in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, a structured and computationally efficient form of the probability density function (PDF) of the volume of a typical cell is analytically derived in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Minghua Xia , Sonia Aïssa

We develop in more detail our reweighting method for incorporating new datasets in parton fits based on a Monte Carlo representation of PDFs. After revisiting the derivation of the reweighting formula, we show how to construct an unweighted…

The late universe contains a wealth of information about fundamental physics and gravity, wrapped up in non-Gaussian fields. To make use of as much information as possible it is necessary to go beyond two-point statistics. Rather than going…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Alex Gough , Cora Uhlemann

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) convergence peaks contain valuable cosmological information in the regime of non-linear collapse. Using the FLAMINGO suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, we study the physical origin and redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jeger C. Broxterman , Matthieu Schaller , Henk Hoekstra , Joop Schaye , Robert J. McGibbon , Victor J. Forouhar Moreno , Roi Kugel , Willem Elbers

We present a method to produce mock galaxy catalogues with efficient perturbation theory schemes, which match the number density, power spectra and bispectra in real and in redshift space from N-body simulations. The essential contribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Héctor Gil-Marín , Claudia Scoccola , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Volker Müller , Gustavo Yepes , Francisco Prada

The generation of simulated convergence maps is of key importance in fully exploiting weak lensing by Large Scale Structure (LSS) from which cosmological parameters can be derived. In this paper we present an extension of the PINOCCHIO code…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-05 Carlo Giocoli , Pierluigi Monaco , Lauro Moscardini , Tiago Castro , Massimo Meneghetti , R. Benton Metcalf , Marco Baldi

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

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

In this paper, we show that Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of weak gravitational lensing (WL) convergence maps contain significant non-Gaussian, cosmology-dependent information. To do this, we use a large suite of cosmological ray-tracing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jan M. Kratochvil , Eugene A. Lim , Sheng Wang , Zoltan Haiman , Morgan May , Kevin Huffenberger