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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

Peaks in two-dimensional weak lensing (WL) maps contain significant cosmological information, complementary to the WL power spectrum. This has recently been demonstrated using N-body simulations which neglect baryonic effects. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiuyuan Yang , Jan M. Kratochvil , Kevin Huffenberger , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

(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

Upcoming Stage-IV surveys will deliver measurements of distribution of matter with unprecedented precision, demanding highly accurate theoretical models for cosmological parameter inference. A major source of modeling uncertainty lies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Pranjal R. S. , Shivam Pandey , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Elisabeth Krause , Klaus Dolag

It has been claimed that the standard model of cosmology (LCDM) cannot easily account for a number of observations on relatively small scales, motivating extensions to the standard model. Here we introduce a new suite of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Sam G. Stafford , Shaun T. Brown , Ian G. McCarthy , Andreea S. Font , Andrew Robertson , Robert Poole-Mckenzie

Robust modeling of non-linear scales is critical for accurate cosmological inference in Stage IV surveys. For weak lensing analyses in particular, a key challenge arises from the incomplete understanding of how non-gravitational processes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Pranjal R. S. , Elisabeth Krause , Klaus Dolag , Karim Benabed , Tim Eifler , Emma Ayçoberry , Yohan Dubois

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

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

Baryonic feedback is a leading contaminant in studying dark matter and cosmology using cosmic shear. This has meant omitting much of the data during cosmological inference, or forward-modeling the spatial distribution of gas around dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Calvin Leung , Josh Borrow , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Shion Andrew , Kai-Feng Chen , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller

In this study, we investigate how the baryonic effects vary with scale and local density environment mainly by utilizing a novel statistic, the environment-dependent wavelet power spectrum (env-WPS). With four state-of-the-art cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Yun Wang , Ping He

Understanding the impact of baryonic feedback on the small-scale ($k \gtrsim 1\,h\,$Mpc$^{-1}$) matter power spectrum is a key astrophysical challenge, and essential for interpreting data from upcoming weak-lensing surveys, which require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Kritti Sharma , Elisabeth Krause , Vikram Ravi , Robert Reischke , Pranjal R. S. , Liam Connor

Upcoming weak-lensing surveys will probe the matter distribution at a few percent level on nonlinear scales ($k>1\,{\rm h\,Mpc}^{-1}$) where baryonic feedback from galaxy formation modifies the clustering of matter. Using the IllustrisTNG…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kyle Miller , Surhud More , Bhuvnesh Jain

Weak lensing surveys that can potentially place strong constraints on dark energy parameters can only do so if the source redshift means and error distributions are very well known. We investigate prospects for controlling errors in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hu Zhan , Lloyd Knox

Baryonic feedback alters the matter distribution on small and intermediate scales, posing a challenge for precision cosmology. The new, component-wise baryonification (BFC) approach provides a self-consistent framework to model feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Michael Kovač , Andrina Nicola , Jozef Bucko , Aurel Schneider , Robert Reischke , Sambit K. Giri , Romain Teyssier , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

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

We develop an extension of \textit{the Halo Model} that describes analytically the corrections to the matter power spectrum due to the physics of baryons. We extend these corrections to the weak-lensing shear angular power spectrum. Within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Irshad Mohammed , Davide Martizzi , Romain Teyssier , Adam Amara

We estimate the degree to which the baryon density, $\Omega_{b}$, can be determined from the galaxy power spectrum measured from large scale galaxy redshift surveys, and in particular, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A high baryon density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David M. Goldberg , Michael A. Strauss

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

Modern weak-lensing observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to baryonic feedback processes which are still poorly understood. So far, this challenge has been faced either by imposing scale-cuts in the data or by modelling baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Aurel Schneider , Sambit K. Giri , Stefania Amodeo , Alexandre Refregier

As weak lensing surveys are becoming deeper and cover larger areas, information will be available on small angular scales down to the arcmin level. To extract this extra information, accurate modelling of baryonic effects is necessary. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman