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Following the discovery of the CMB, the hot big-bang model has become the standard cosmological model. In this theory, small primordial fluctuations are subsequently amplified by gravity to form the large-scale structure seen today.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Licia Verde

Theoretical uncertainties on non-linear scales are among the main obstacles to exploit the sensitivity of forthcoming galaxy and hydrogen surveys like Euclid or the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Here, we devise a new method to model the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Tim Sprenger , Maria Archidiacono , Thejs Brinckmann , Sébastien Clesse , Julien Lesgourgues

The current accelerated expansion of the Universe remains ones of the most intriguing topics in modern cosmology, driving the search for innovative statistical techniques. Recent advancements in machine learning have significantly enhanced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 José de Jesús Velázquez , Luis A. Escamilla , Purba Mukherjee , J. Alberto Vázquez

We present the Gaussian process density sampler (GPDS), an exchangeable generative model for use in nonparametric Bayesian density estimation. Samples drawn from the GPDS are consistent with exact, independent samples from a distribution…

Computation · Statistics 2009-12-25 Ryan Prescott Adams , Iain Murray , David J. C. MacKay

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

Magnetic fields have been observed in galaxies, clusters of galaxies and probably in superclusters. While mechanisms exist to generate these in the late universe, it is possible that magnetic fields have existed since very early times. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-07 Iain A. Brown

The paper deals with multivariate Gaussian random fields defined over generalized product spaces that involve the hypertorus. The assumption of Gaussianity implies the finite dimensional distributions to be completely specified by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-23 François Bachoc , Ana Peron , Emilio Porcu

Building upon the recent pioneering work by Mazenko and by Das and Mazenko, we develop a microscopic, non-equilibrium, statistical field theory for initially correlated canonical ensembles of classical microscopic particles obeying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-08 Matthias Bartelmann , Felix Fabis , Daniel Berg , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Celia Viermann

In this paper we will consider the problem of the numerical simulation of non-Gaussian, scalar random fields with a prescribed correlation structure provided either by a theoretical model or computed on a set of observational data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roberto Vio , Paola Andreani , Willem Wamsteker

In this paper, we show how the structure of the landscape potential of the primordial Universe may be probed through the properties of the primordial density perturbations responsible for the origin of the cosmic microwave background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Xingang Chen , Gonzalo A. Palma , Walter Riquelme , Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld , Spyros Sypsas

We study a family of parametric statistical models based on gamma distributions, which do give realistic descriptions for other stochastic porous media. Gamma distributions contain as a special case the exponential distributions, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. T. J. Dodson

Two recent papers have claimed detection of non-Gaussian features in the COBE DMR sky maps of the cosmic microwave background. We confirm these results, but argue that Gaussianity is still not convincingly ruled out. Since a score of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin C. Bromley , Max Tegmark

The curse of dimensionality is a common phenomenon which affects analysis of datasets characterized by large numbers of variables associated with each point. Problematic scenarios of this type frequently arise in classification algorithms…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Benjamin Thirey , Randal Hickman

Disordered many-particle hyperuniform systems are exotic amorphous states of matter that lie between crystals and liquids. Hyperuniform systems have attracted recent attention because they are endowed with novel transport and optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Zheng Ma , Salvatore Torquato

Modeling the extragalactic astroparticle skies involves reconstructing the 3D distribution of the most extreme sources in the Universe. Full-sky tomographic surveys at near-infrared wavelengths have already enabled the astroparticle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Biteau , S. Marafico , Y. Kerfis , O. Deligny

We propose a new method for extracting the non-Gaussian signatures on the isotemperature statistics in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky, which is induced by the gravitational lensing due to the intervening large-scale structure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masahiro Takada

A generator of spatio-temporal pseudo-random Gaussian fields that satisfy the "proportionality of scales" property (Tsyroulnikov, 2001) is presented. The generator is based on a third-order in time stochastic differential equation with a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-05-15 Michael Tsyrulnikov , Dmitry Gayfulin

In this work we study the properties of the mass density field in the non-Gaussian world models simulated by Grossi et al. 2007. In particular we focus on the one-point density probability distribution function of the mass density field in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 M. Grossi , E. Branchini , K. Dolag , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini

In the conference presentation we have reviewed the theory of non-Gaussian geometrical measures for the 3D Cosmic Web of the matter distribution in the Universe and 2D sky data, such as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps that was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dmitri Pogosyan , Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon

The velocity distributions of stellar tracers in general exhibit weak non-Gaussianity encoding information on the orbital composition of a galaxy and the underlying potential. The standard solution for measuring non-Gaussianity involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Jason L. Sanders , N. Wyn Evans