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Motivated by recent suggestions that a number of observed galaxy clusters have masses which are too high for their given redshift to occur naturally in a standard model cosmology, we use Extreme Value Statistics to construct confidence…

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Surveys of the matter distribution contain `fossil' information on possible non-Gaussianity that is generated in the primordial Universe. This primordial signal survives only on the largest scales where cosmic variance is strongest. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens , Simthembile Dlamini

We apply the multi-tracer technique to test the possibility of improved constraints on the amplitude of local primordial non-Gaussianity, $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$, in the cosmic large-scale structure. A precise measurement of $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$ is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Matilde Barberi Squarotti , Stefano Camera , Roy Maartens

By obtaining photometric redshift information, tomography allows us to cross-correlate galaxy ellipticities in different source redshift bins. The cross-correlation is non-vanishing because the different bins share much of the foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Takada , Martin White

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) offers a novel avenue to observe and characterize our universe. LIM data of CO spectral lines are becoming available, such as those obtained by the CO Mapping Array Project (COMAP). COMAP data can be used to…

CMB lensing tomography, or the cross-correlation between CMB lensing maps and large-scale structure tracers over a well-defined redshift range, has the potential to map the amplitude and growth of structure over cosmic time, provide some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-25 Alex Krolewski , Simone Ferraro , Edward F. Schlafly , Martin White

Line intensity mapping (LIM) experiments probing the nearby universe can expect a considerable amount of cosmic infrared background (CIB) contiuum emission coming from near and far-infrared galaxies. For the purpose of using the LIM data to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Zilu Zhou , Abhishek S. Maniyar , Anthony R. Pullen

Line intensity mapping is rapidly gaining prominence as a tool to understand galaxy evolution and cosmology at high redshift. However, the standard power spectrum analysis for these surveys suffers from a tight degeneracy between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Patrick C. Breysse

HI intensity mapping data traces the large-scale structure matter distribution using the integrated emission of neutral hydrogen gas (HI). The cross-correlation of the intensity maps with optical galaxy surveys can mitigate foreground and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 L. Wolz , S. G. Murray , C. Blake , J. S. Wyithe

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) of emission from star-forming galaxies can be used to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as far back as the epoch of reionization. This provides a standard cosmic ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 José Luis Bernal , Patrick C. Breysse , Ely D. Kovetz

The growth rate of large-scale structure provides a powerful consistency test of the standard cosmological model and a probe of possible deviations from general relativity. We use a Fisher analysis to forecast constraints on the growth rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-02 Jan-Albert Viljoen , José Fonseca , Roy Maartens

The power spectrum of galaxy clusters is an important probe of the cosmological model. In this paper we determine the optimal weighting scheme for maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio for such measurements. We find a closed form analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Robert E. Smith , Laura Marian

We examine the improvements in constraints on the linear growth factor G and its derivative f=d ln G / dln a that are available from the combination of a large-scale galaxy redshift survey with a weak gravitational lensing survey of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gary M. Bernstein , Yan-Chuan Cai

Strong lensing systems, expected to be abundantly discovered by next-generation surveys, offer a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy evolution. The connection between galaxy structure and cosmology through distance ratios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Shuaibo Geng , Margherita Grespan , Hareesh Thuruthipilly , Sreekanth Harikumar , Agnieszka Pollo , Marek Biesiada

Eigenmode analysis is one of the most promising methods of analyzing large data sets in ongoing and near-future galaxy surveys. In such analyses, a fast evaluation of the correlation matrix in arbitrary cosmological models is crucial. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takahiko Matsubara , Alexander S. Szalay , Adrian C. Pope

Weak lensing of galaxies by large scale structure can potentially measure cosmological quantities as accurately as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). However, the relation between observables and fundamental parameters is more complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

We present a quantitative model of Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission throughout cosmic history and determine the prospects for intensity mapping of spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha signal. Since i) our model assumes at z>6 the minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anthony Pullen , Olivier Dore , Jamie Bock

Next-generation spectroscopic surveys such as the MegaMapper, MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST), MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE), and Wide Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) are foreseen to increase the number of galaxy/quasar redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 William d'Assignies D. , Cheng Zhao , Jiaxi Yu , Jean-Paul Kneib

The on-going X-ray all-sky survey with the eROSITA instrument will yield large galaxy cluster samples, which will bring strong constraints on cosmological parameters. In particular, the survey holds great promise to investigate the tension…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-11 Dominique Eckert , Alexis Finoguenov , Vittorio Ghirardini , Sebastian Grandis , Florian Kaefer , Jeremy S. Sanders , Miriam Ramos-Ceja

Measurements of weak gravitational lensing using the cosmic microwave background and the shapes of galaxies have refined our understanding of the late-time history of the Universe. While optical surveys have been the primary source for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Alba Kalaja , Ian Harrison , William R Coulton