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We study various correlation functions (two and three point functions) in a large $N$ matrix model of six commuting matrices with a numerical Monte Carlo algorithm. This is equivalent to a model of a gas of particles in six dimensions with…

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Building on previous developments of a harmonic decomposition framework for computing the three-point correlation function (3PCF) of projected scalar fields over the sky, this work investigates how much cosmological information is contained…

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We establish a practical method for the joint analysis of anisotropic galaxy two- and three-point correlation functions (2PCF and 3PCF) on the basis of the decomposition formalism of the 3PCF using tri-polar spherical harmonics. We perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Naonori S. Sugiyama , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler , Hee-Jong Seo

Covariance matrix estimation is a persistent challenge for cosmology, often requiring a large number of synthetic mock catalogues. The off-diagonal components of the covariance matrix also make it difficult to show representative error bars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Sihan Yuan , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We present models for the three-point correlation function (3PCF) of both dark matter and galaxies. We show that models based on the halo model can reasonably match the dark matter 3PCF obtained from high-resolution $N$-body simulations. On…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu Wang , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , YaoQuan Chu

Measurements of the redshift-space galaxy clustering have been a prolific source of cosmological information in recent years. Accurate covariance estimates are an essential step for the validation of galaxy clustering models of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jan Niklas Grieb , Ariel G. Sánchez , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

The shapes of galaxy N-point correlation functions can be used as standard rulers to constrain the distance-redshift relationship and thence the expansion rate of the Universe. The cosmological density fields traced by late-time galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Lado Samushia , Zachary Slepian , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Traditional galaxy-galaxy lensing is a well-established method of probing the statistical properties of the Universe's matter and galaxy distribution. However, this measure does not carry all the statistical information, provided the matter…

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Nonlinear cosmological fields like galaxy density and lensing convergence can be approximately related to Gaussian fields via analytic point transforms. The lognormal transform (LN) has been widely used and is a simple example of a function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kunhao Zhong , Gary Bernstein , Supranta S. Boruah , Bhuvnesh Jain , Sanjit Kobla

Covariance matrix estimation concerns the problem of estimating the covariance matrix from a collection of samples, which is of extreme importance in many applications. Classical results have shown that $O(n)$ samples are sufficient to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wei Cui , Xu Zhang , Yulong Liu

We develop a methodology to use the redshift dependence of the galaxy 2-point correlation function (2pCF) across the line-of-sight, $\xi(r_{\bot})$, as a probe of cosmological parameters. The positions of galaxies in comoving Cartesian…

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Weak lensing has become a powerful tool for probing the matter distribution in the Universe and constraining cosmological parameters. This paper aims to explore the fast mock generation pipeline to obtain the covariance matrix of the…

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We analyze Gaussian analytic functions (GAFs) defined as power series with coefficients modeled by discrete stationary Gaussian processes, utilizing their spectral measures. We revisit some limit theorems for random analytic functions and…

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Likelihood fitting to two-point clustering statistics made from galaxy surveys usually assumes a multivariate normal distribution for the measurements, with justification based on the central limit theorem given the large number of…

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We constrain the linear and quadratic bias parameters from the configuration dependence of the three-point correlation function (3PCF) in both redshift and projected space, utilizing measurements of spectroscopic galaxies in the Sloan…

We present a new algorithm to rapidly compute the two-point (2PCF), three-point (3PCF) and n-point (n-PCF) correlation functions in roughly O(N log N) time for N particles, instead of O(N^n) as required by brute force approaches. The…

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We measure the 3PCF of 300 halo catalogs from the Minerva simulations covering a total volume of $~1000 h^{-3} \mathrm{Gpc}^3$. Each 3PCF measurement includes all possible triangular configurations with sides between 20 and…

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In a detailed analysis of the three point correlation function (3PCF) for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey we have accurately measured the 3PCF for galaxies of different luminosity. The 3PCF amplitudes [$\Qsu$ or $\Qrpu$] of the galaxies…

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Ongoing and future spectroscopic galaxy surveys will cover unprecedented volumes with a number of objects large enough to effectively probe clustering anisotropies through higher-order statistics. In this work, we present a novel and…

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We study the properties of galaxy cluster 2-point correlation function covariance matrices estimated using the linear-construction (LC) method, which is computationally up to 20 times faster than the standard sample-covariance method. Our…

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