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We formulate the Lagrangian perturbation theory of galaxy intrinsic alignments and compute the resulting auto and cross power spectra of galaxy shapes, densities and matter to 1-loop order. Our model represents a consistent effective-theory…

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The intrinsic alignment of galaxies is a key factor in modeling weak-lensing observations and can serve as a valuable signal for both cosmological and astrophysical studies. Modelling this signal requires understanding how galaxy shapes…

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Fluctuations with wavelengths larger than the volume of a galaxy survey affect the measurement of the galaxy power spectrum within the survey itself. In the presence of local Primordial Non- Gaussianities (PNG), in addition to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Emanuele Castorina , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah

Large scale density modes are difficult to measure because they are sensitive to systematic observational errors in galaxy surveys, but we can study them indirectly by observing their impact on small scale perturbations. Cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peikai Li , Scott Dodelson , Rupert A. C. Croft

In this work we use Lagrangian perturbation theory to analyze the harmonic space galaxy clustering signal of Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) targeted by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), combined…

Correlations between the intrinsic shapes of galaxies and the large-scale galaxy density field provide an important tool to investigate galaxy intrinsic alignments, which constitute a major astrophysical systematic in cosmological weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 B. Joachimi , R. Mandelbaum , F. B. Abdalla , S. L. Bridle

We present the one-loop 2-point function of biased tracers in redshift space computed with Lagrangian perturbation theory, including a full resummation of both long-wavelength (infrared) displacements and associated velocities. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Shi-Fan Chen , Zvonimir Vlah , Emanuele Castorina , Martin White

As a major source of cosmological information, galaxy clustering is susceptible to long-wavelength density and tidal fluctuations. These long modes modulate the growth and expansion rate of local structures, shifting them in both amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Yin Li , Marcel Schmittfull , Uroš Seljak

Gravitational lensing allows to quantify the angular distribution of the convergence field around clusters of galaxies to constrain their connectivity to the cosmic web. We describe in this paper the corresponding theory in Lagrangian space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Sandrine Codis , Raphael Gavazzi , Christophe Pichon , Celine Gouin

The dark matter halos that host galaxies and clusters form out of initial high-density patches, providing a biased tracer of the linear matter density field. In the simplest local bias approximation, the halo field is treated as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 Titouan Lazeyras , Marcello Musso , Vincent Desjacques

We investigate the cosmological constraining power of combined weak galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering probes, i.e. $3\times2$-point analyses, assuming flexible models for redshift uncertainty, and Lagrangian perturbation theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Joseph DeRose , Noah Weaverdyck , Martin White , Shi-Fan Chen , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar

The nonlinear perturbation theory of gravitational instability is extended to include effects of both biasing and redshift-space distortions, which are inevitable in predicting observable quantities in galaxy surveys. The precise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Takahiko Matsubara

We address the impact of consistent modifications of gravity on the largest observable scales, focusing on relativistic effects in galaxy number counts and the cross-correlation between the matter large scale structure (LSS) distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-26 Janina Renk , Miguel Zumalacarregui , Francesco Montanari

We extend the scale-dependent Gaussian Streaming Model (GSM) to produce analytical predictions for the anisotropic redshift-space correlation function for biased tracers in modified gravity models. Employing the Convolution Lagrangian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-03 Georgios Valogiannis , Rachel Bean , Alejandro Aviles

Large-scale structure (LSS) analysis in galaxy surveys is a powerful cosmological probe but is limited by tracer bias, which can obscure underlying information and weaken parameter constraints. Existing methods either model bias or restrict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Zhujun Jiang , Xiaolin Luo , Wenying Du , Zhiwei Min , Fenfen Yin , Longlong Feng , Jiacheng Ding , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

Cross-correlating the lensing signals of galaxies and comic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations is expected to provide valuable cosmological information. In particular it may help tighten constraints on parameters describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We study the effects of peculiar velocities on statistical measures of galaxy clustering. These effects occur when distances to the galaxies are estimated from their redshifts. It is assumed that the clustering pattern results from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 E. Hivon , F. R. Bouchet , S. Colombi , R. Juszkiewicz

The intrinsic alignment of galaxies with the large-scale density field is an important astrophysical contaminant in upcoming weak lensing surveys. We present detailed measurements of the galaxy intrinsic alignments and associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-12 Ananth Tenneti , Sukhdeep Singh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Tiziana Di Matteo , Yu Feng , Nishikanta Khandai

As a large-scale overdensity collapses, it affects the orientation and shape of galaxies that form, by exerting tidal shear along their axes. Therefore, the shapes of elliptical galaxies align with the tidal field of cosmic structures. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Eleni Tsaprazi , Nhat-Minh Nguyen , Jens Jasche , Fabian Schmidt , Guilhem Lavaux

The spatial distribution of galaxies is a highly complex phenomenon currently impossible to predict deterministically. However, by using a statistical $\textit{bias}$ relation, it becomes possible to robustly model the average abundance of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Jens Stücker , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez , Raul E. Angulo , Francisco Maion , Rodrigo Voivodic
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