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We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

We investigate the constraint ability of the gravitational wave (GW) as the standard siren on the cosmological parameters by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector: the Einstein Telescope. We simulate the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang

We develop a field-level posterior for cosmological data by marginalizing over initial conditions and noise in a general forward model. While our focus is on large-scale structure data, the results generalize to any weakly non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Massimo Pietroni , Fabian Schmidt

This paper presents a systematic literature review focusing on the application of machine learning techniques for deriving observational constraints in cosmology. The goal is to evaluate and synthesize existing research to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Luis Rojas , Sebastián Espinoza , Esteban González , Carlos Maldonado , Fei Luo

(Abridged) Combining cosmic shear power spectra and cluster counts is powerful to improve cosmological parameter constraints and/or test inherent systematics. However they probe the same cosmic mass density field, if the two are drawn from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Masahiro Takada , Sarah Bridle

We forecast the future constraints on scale-dependent parametrizations of galaxy bias and their impact on the estimate of cosmological parameters from the power spectrum of galaxies measured in a spectroscopic redshift survey. For the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 L. Amendola , E. Menegoni , C. Di Porto , M. Corsi , E. Branchini

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. The advent of panoramic cameras on 4m class telescope has led to a first generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henk Hoekstra

We study the ability of future CMB anisotropy experiments and redshift surveys to constrain a thirteen-dimensional parameterization of the adiabatic cold dark matter model. Each alone is unable to determine all parameters to high accuracy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

Strong lensing has developed into an important astrophysical tool for probing both cosmology and galaxies (their structure, formation, and evolution). Using the gravitational lensing theory and cluster mass distribution model, we try to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shuo Cao , Yu Pan , Marek Biesiada , Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Zong-Hong Zhu

Accurate estimation of the Hubble constant, and other cosmological parameters, from distances measured by cosmic gravitational wave sirens requires sufficient allowance for the dark energy evolution. We demonstrate how model independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo , Benjamin L'Huillier , Eric V. Linder

We introduce an exact Bayesian approach to search for non-Gaussianity of local type in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. Using simulated CMB temperature maps, the newly developed technique is compared against the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

In the gravitational-wave analysis of pulsar-timing-array datasets, parameter estimation is usually performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to explore posterior probability densities. We introduce an alternative procedure that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Michele Vallisneri , Marco Crisostomi , Aaron D. Johnson , Patrick M. Meyers

In tomographic weak lensing surveys, the presence of nulling properties reveals symmetries inherent in the data, which rely solely on the geometrical properties of the Universe. Ensuring its validity thus provides us with constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 David Touzeau , Francis Bernardeau , Karim Benabed , Sandrine Codis

The power spectrum is widely used in astronomy, to analyze temporal or spatial structure. In cosmology, it is used to quantify large-scale structure (LSS) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This is because the power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-19 Mark C. Neyrinck

The estimation of cosmological parameters from a given data set requires a construction of a likelihood function which, in general, has a complicated functional form. We adopt a Gaussian copula and constructed a copula likelihood function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-28 Masanori Sato , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

By introducing Crossing functions and hyper-parameters I show that the Bayesian interpretation of the Crossing Statistics [1] can be used trivially for the purpose of model selection among cosmological models. In this approach to falsify a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-24 Arman Shafieloo

Owing to the mass-sheet degeneracy, cosmic shear maps do not probe directly the Fourier modes of the underlying mass distribution on scales comparable to the survey size and larger. To assess the corresponding effect on attainable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julien Carron , István Szapudi

This paper studies the problem of estimating the covariance of a collection of vectors using only highly compressed measurements of each vector. An estimator based on back-projections of these compressive samples is proposed and analyzed. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-16 Martin Azizyan , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Aarti Singh

Strong gravitational lensing along with the distance sum rule method can constrain both cosmological parameters as well as density profiles of galaxies without assuming any fiducial cosmological model. To constrain galaxy parameters and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Darshan Kumar , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan , Amitabha Mukherjee , Nisha Rani

Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields and encodes valuable information on distances and growth rates at intermediate redshifts into the lensed power spectra. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kendrick M. Smith , Wayne Hu , Manoj Kaplinghat