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Future or ongoing galaxy redshift surveys can put stringent constraints on neutrinos masses via the high-precision measurements of galaxy power spectrum, when combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) information. In this paper we…

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We present new cosmological constraints in a set of motivated extensions of the $\Lambda$CDM model using the polarization and gravitational lensing measurements from the South Pole Telescope and the Planck CMB temperature observations at…

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Cosmologies with Light Massive Relics (LiMRs) as a subdominant component of the dark sector are well-motivated from a particle physics perspective, and can also have implications for the $\sigma_8$ tension between early and late time probes…

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Using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey, we use ratios of small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements around the same lens sample to constrain source redshift uncertainties, intrinsic alignments and other nuisance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 C. Sánchez , J. Prat , G. Zacharegkas , S. Pandey , E. Baxter , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , E. Krause , P. Lemos , Y. Park , M. Raveri , J. Sanchez , M. A. Troxel , A. Amon , X. Fang , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , A. Porredon , L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Chen , A. Choi , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , E. Di Valentino , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , B. Jain , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

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We computed the power spectrum of weak cosmic shear in models with non-Gaussian primordial density fluctuations. Cosmological initial conditions deviating from Gaussianity have recently attracted much attention in the literature, especially…

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The current cosmological dark sector (dark matter plus dark energy) is challenging our comprehension about the physical processes taking place in the Universe. Recently, some authors tried to falsify the basic underlying assumptions of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. C. Busti , J. A. S. Lima

Upcoming surveys will map the growth of large-scale structure with unprecented precision, improving our understanding of the dark sector of the Universe. Unfortunately, much of the cosmological information is encoded by the small scales,…

In the cold dark matter (CDM) picture of structure formation, galaxy mass distributions are predicted to have a considerable amount of structure on small scales. Strong gravitational lensing has proven to be a useful tool for studying this…

We present the first cosmology results from large-scale structure in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) spanning 5000 deg$^2$. We perform an analysis combining three two-point correlation functions (3$\times$2pt): (i) cosmic shear using 100…

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We present current and future constraints on equations of state for dark sector perturbations. The equations of state considered are those corresponding to a generalized scalar field model and time-diffeomorphism invariant $L(g)$ theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 Richard A. Battye , Adam Moss , Jonathan A. Pearson

Different cosmological probes, such as primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, CMB lensing, and cosmic shear, are sensitive to the primordial power spectrum (PPS) over different ranges of wavenumbers. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Ryo Terasawa , Masahiro Takada , Sunao Sugiyama , Toshiki Kurita

Uncertainties in predicting the nonlinear clustering of matter are among the most serious theoretical systematics facing the upcoming wide-field weak gravitational lensing surveys. We estimate the accuracy with which the matter power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Dragan Huterer , Masahiro Takada

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of ~450deg$^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). For a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with a prior on $H_0$ that encompasses…

I review the current status of combing weak gravitational lensing with depth information from redshifts as a direct probe of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. In particular I highlight: (1) The first maximum likelihood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andy Taylor

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

It is usually assumed that the ellipticity power spectrum measured in weak lensing observations can be expressed as an integral over the underlying matter power spectrum. This is true at second order in the gravitational potential. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Elisabeth Krause , Christopher M. Hirata