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We study the importance of baryonic physics on predictions of the matter power spectrum as it is relevant for forthcoming weak lensing surveys. We quantify the impact of baryonic physics using a set of three cosmological numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Douglas H. Rudd , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We present a full forward-modeled $w$CDM analysis of the KiDS-1000 weak lensing maps using graph-convolutional neural networks (GCNN). Utilizing the $\texttt{CosmoGrid}$, a novel massive simulation suite spanning six different cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Aurel Schneider , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

We introduce a novel method for reconstructing the projected matter distributions of galaxy clusters with weak-lensing (WL) data based on convolutional neural network (CNN). Training datasets are generated with ray-tracing through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Sungwook E. Hong , Sangnam Park , M. James Jee , Dongsu Bak , Sangjun Cha

Cosmological inference from weak lensing (WL) surveys is increasingly limited by uncertainties in baryonic physics, which suppress the non-linear matter power spectrum on small scales. Multi-probe analyses that incorporate complementary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Amy Wayland , David Alonso , Robert Reischke

Weak lensing maps contain information beyond two-point statistics on small scales. Much recent work has tried to extract this information through a range of different observables or via nonlinear transformations of the lensing field. Here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Arushi Gupta , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Daniel Hsu , Zoltán Haiman

We combine weak lensing, galaxy clustering, cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing, and their cross-correlations (so-called 6$\times$2pt) to constrain cosmology and baryonic feedback scenarios using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Vivian Miranda , Jaime Salcido , Ian McCarthy

(Abridged) The effect of baryonic feedback on the dark matter mass distribution is generally considered to be a nuisance to weak gravitational lensing. Measurements of cosmological parameters are affected as feedback alters the cosmic shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ludovic van Waerbeke , Massimo Viola , Catherine Heymans

We present a novel statistic to extract cosmological information in weak lensing data: the lensing minima. We also investigate the effect of baryons on the cosmological constraints from peak and minimum counts. Using the \texttt{MassiveNuS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 William R. Coulton , Jia Liu , Ian G. McCarthy , Ken Osato

We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional dark matter (DM) halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhiwei Min , Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , Liang Xiao , Jie Jiang , Donglin Wu , Qiufan Lin , Yang Wang , Shuai Liu , Zhixin Chen , Xiangru Li , Jinqu Zhang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We present cosmological parameter measurements from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS) using galaxy-mass and galaxy-galaxy power spectra in the multipole range $\ell=250\sim2000$. We measure galaxy-galaxy power spectra from two lens bins centered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Mijin Yoon , M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson , Samuel Schmidt , David Wittman , Ami Choi

Modern cosmological surveys probe the Universe deep into the nonlinear regime, where massive neutrinos suppress cosmic structure. Traditional cosmological analyses, which use the 2-point correlation function to extract information, are no…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Malika Golshan , Adrian E. Bayer

We propose a light-weight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate the cosmological parameters from simulated 3-dimensional dark matter distributions with high accuracy. The training set is based on 465 realizations of a cubic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Shuyang Pan , Miaoxin Liu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Zhigang Li , Haitao Miao , Xiao-Dong Li

The scattering transform is a wavelet-based statistic capable of capturing non-Gaussian features in weak lensing (WL) convergence maps and has been proven to tighten cosmological parameter constraints by accessing information beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Mariia Marinichenko , Marcel P. van Daalen , Elena Sellentin , Jeger C. Broxterman , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Precision cosmology benefits from extracting maximal information from cosmic structures, motivating the use of higher-order statistics (HOS) at small spatial scales. However, predicting how baryonic processes modify matter statistics at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Alan Junzhe Zhou , Marco Gatti , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Scott Dodelson , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Upcoming surveys such as \LSST{} and \Euclid{} will significantly improve the power of weak lensing as a cosmological probe. To maximise the information that can be extracted from these surveys, it is important to explore novel statistics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Christopher T. Davies , Marius Cautun , Benjamin Giblin , Baojiu Li , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Yan-Chuan Cai

There is currently a discrepancy in the measured value of the amplitude of matter clustering, parameterised using $\sigma_8$, inferred from galaxy weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background data, which could be an indication of new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Thomas D. Kitching , Licia Verde , Alan F. Heavens , Raul Jimenez

We constrain cosmology and baryonic feedback scenarios with a joint analysis of weak lensing, galaxy clustering, cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing, and their cross-correlations (so-called 6$\times$2) using data from the Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Jiachuan Xu , Tim Eifler , Vivian Miranda , Xiao Fang , Evan Saraivanov , Elisabeth Krause , Hung-Jin Huang , Karim Benabed , Kunhao Zhong

Feedback processes from baryons are expected to strongly affect weak-lensing observables of current and future cosmological surveys. In this paper we present a new parametrisation of halo profiles based on gas, stellar, and dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-02 Aurel Schneider , Romain Teyssier , Joachim Stadel , Nora Elisa Chisari , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

One of the most pernicious theoretical systematics facing upcoming gravitational lensing surveys is the uncertainty introduced by the effects of baryons on the power spectrum of the convergence field. One method that has been proposed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrew R. Zentner , Elisabetta Semboloni , Scott Dodelson , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Andrew P. Hearin

Baryonic effects such as AGN feedback can significantly impact the matter clustering, are harder to model from first principles, and emerge as a severe limiting factor in weak lensing cosmology. To tackle this issue, we propose a generic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Shuren Zhou , Pengjie Zhang