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Inferring the values and uncertainties of cosmological parameters in a cosmology model is of paramount importance for modern cosmic observations. In this paper, we use the simulation-based inference (SBI) approach to estimate cosmological…

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We propose a morphological multi-scale analysis of large-scale structures obtained by computer simulations and by observations. Structures are obtained at different scales by applying a wavelet transform on the observed and simulated data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Lega , A. Bijaoui , J. -M. Alimi , H. Scholl

Given the wealth of increasingly accurate cosmological observations, especially the recent results from the WMAP, and the development of methods and strategies in the search for cosmic topology, it is reasonable to expect that we should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Reboucas , J. S. Alcaniz

We evaluate the ability of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to measure the power spectrum of large scale structure using quadratic estimators of the weak lensing deflection field. We calculate the sensitivity of upcoming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julien Lesgourgues , Laurence Perotto , Sergio Pastor , Michel Piat

Accurate cosmological simulations that include the effect of non-linear matter clustering as well as of massive neutrinos are essential for measuring the neutrino mass scale from upcoming galaxy surveys. Typically, Newtonian simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Christian Partmann , Christian Fidler , Cornelius Rampf , Oliver Hahn

Recent analyses of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations from CAMELS have shown that machine learning models can predict the parameter describing the total matter content of the universe, $\Omega_{\rm m}$, from the features of a single…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Gabriella Contardo , Roberto Trotta , Serafina Di Gioia , David W. Hogg , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The statistical properties of a map of the primary fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) may be specified to high accuracy by a few thousand power spectra measurements, provided the fluctuations are gaussian, yet the number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sujata Gupta , Alan F. Heavens

We apply two Bayesian hierarchical inference schemes to infer shear power spectra, shear maps and cosmological parameters from the CFHTLenS weak lensing survey - the first application of this method to data. In the first approach, we sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Justin Alsing , Alan F. Heavens , Andrew H. Jaffe

In this work we systematically study the linear and nonlinear structure formation in chameleon theories of modified gravity, using a generic parameterisation which describes a large class of models using only 4 parameters. For this we have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 Philippe Brax , Anne-C. Davis , Baojiu Li , Hans A. Winther , Gong-Bo Zhao

In this work, we reconstruct the H(z) based on observational Hubble data with Artificial Neural Network, then estimate the cosmological parameters and the Hubble constant. The training data we used are covariance matrix and mock H(z), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Jie-feng Chen , Tong-Jie Zhang , Peng He , Tingting Zhang , Jie Zhang

Extracting accurate cosmological information from galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions on non-linear scales ($\lesssim 10 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$) requires cosmological simulations. Additionally, one has to marginalise over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Johannes U. Lange , Frank C. van den Bosch , Andrew R. Zentner , Kuan Wang , Andrew P. Hearin , Hong Guo

In the near future, the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will obtain unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic data. The statistical errors in the cosmological parameter constraints will be reduced significantly. The corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Zhao Chen , Yu Yu , Jiaxin Han , Y. P. Jing

Precise estimation of cosmological parameters from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains a central goal of modern cosmology and a key test of inflationary physics. However, this task is fundamentally limited by strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Larissa Santos , Camila P. Novaes , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Carlo Baccigalupi

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

We present a collection of new, open-source computational tools for numerically modeling recent large-scale observational data sets using modern cosmology theory. Specifically, these tools will allow both students and researchers to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-22 Jacob Moldenhauer , Larry Engelhardt , Keenan Stone , Ezekiel Shuler

We employ a convolutional neural network to explore the distinct phases in random spin systems with the aim to understand the specific features that the neural network chooses to identify the phases. With the energy spectrum normalized to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-24 Rubah Kausar , Wen-Jia Rao , Xin Wan

We explore the cosmological constraints from cosmic shear using a new way of modelling the non-linear matter correlation functions. The new formalism extends the method of Angulo & White (2010), which manipulates outputs of $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Raul E. Angulo , Stefan Hilbert

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter ${S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}}$, obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in the data, and limiting our ability to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Cyrille Doux , Tanvi Karwal

Cosmological analyses are moving past the well understood 2-point statistics to extract more information from cosmological fields. A natural step in extending inference pipelines to other summary statistics is to include higher order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Kai Lehman , Zhengyangguang Gong , David Gebauer , Stella Seitz , Jochen Weller

We demonstrate that the output of a cosmological N-body simulation can, to remarkable accuracy, be scaled to represent the growth of large-scale structure in a cosmology with parameters similar to but different from those originally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White