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The characteristic signatures of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure (LSS), if fully captured, can be used to put a stringent constraint on their mass sum, $M_{\nu}$. Previous work utilizing N-body simulations has shown the Minkowski…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Wei Liu , Aoxiang Jiang , Wenjuan Fang

In this work, we propose a powerful probe of neutrino effects on the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, i.e., Minkowski functionals (MFs). The morphology of LSS can be fully described by four MFs. This tool, with strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Yu Liu , Yu Yu , Hao-Ran Yu , Pengjie Zhang

The presence of massive neutrinos affects structure formation, leaving imprints on large-scale structure observables such as the weak lensing field. The common lensing analyses with two-point statistics are insensitive to the large amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gabriela A. Marques , Jia Liu , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Zoltán Haiman , Armando Bernui , Camila P. Novaes

Strong degeneracy exists between some modified gravity (MG) models and massive neutrinos because the enhanced structure growth produced by modified gravity can be suppressed due to the free-streaming massive neutrinos. Previous works showed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Wei Liu , Liang Wu , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Marco Baldi , Georgios Valogiannis , Wenjuan Fang

The morphological properties of large scale structure of the Universe can be fully described by four Minkowski functionals (MFs), which provide important complementary information to other statistical observables such as the widely used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Wenjuan Fang , Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao

The non-zero mass of neutrinos suppresses the growth of cosmic structure on small scales. Since the level of suppression depends on the sum of the masses of the three active neutrino species, the evolution of large-scale structure is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Jia Liu , Simeon Bird , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , J. Colin Hill , Zoltán Haiman , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Andrea Petri , David N. Spergel

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small, non-linear, scales. It is thus often proposed that using statistics beyond the power spectrum can tighten constraints on the neutrino mass by extracting additional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-16 Adrian E. Bayer , Arka Banerjee , Uros Seljak

Exploiting the Persistent Homology technique and its complementary representations, we examine the footprint of summed neutrino mass ($M_{\nu}$) in the various density fields simulated by the publicly available Quijote suite. The evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 M. H. Jalali Kanafi , S. Ansarifard , S. M. S. Movahed

We explore the effect of massive neutrinos on the weak lensing shear bispectrum using the Cosmological Massive Neutrino Simulations. We find that the primary effect of massive neutrinos is to suppress the amplitude of the bispectrum with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 William R. Coulton , Jia Liu , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Vanessa Böhm , David N. Spergel

Light but massive cosmological neutrinos do not cluster significantly on small scales, due to their high thermal velocities. With finite masses, cosmological neutrinos become part of the total matter field and contribute to its smoothing.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Zhichao Zeng , Shek Yeung , Ming-Chung Chu

The high precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Planck survey yielded tight constraints on cosmological parameters and the statistics of the density fluctuations at the time of recombination. This provides the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon

The presence of massive neutrinos has a characteristic impact on the growth of large scale structures such as galaxy clusters. We forecast on the capability of the number count and power spectrum measured from the ongoing and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-30 Daisy S. Y. Mak , Elena Pierpaoli

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of structure below their free-streaming scale and leave an imprint on large-scale structure. Measuring this imprint allows us to constrain the sum of neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, a key parameter in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 ChangHoon Hahn , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Emanuele Castorina , Roman Scoccimarro

Cosmological data probe massive neutrinos via their effects on the geometry of the Universe and the growth of structure, both of which are degenerate with the late-time expansion history. We clarify the nature of these degeneracies and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Marilena Loverde , Zachary J. Weiner

Temperature anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are affected by the late Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (lISW) effect caused by any time-variation of the gravitational potential on linear scales. Dark energy is not the only source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julien Lesgourgues , Wessel Valkenburg , Enrique Gaztanaga

The main effect of massive neutrinos on the large-scale structure consists in a few percent suppression of matter perturbations on all scales below their free-streaming scale. Such effect is of particular importance as it allows to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Rossana Ruggeri , Emanuele Castorina , Carmelita Carbone , Emiliano Sefusatti

The total mass of neutrinos can be constrained in a number of ways using galaxy redshift surveys. Massive neutrinos modify the expansion rate of the Universe, which can be measured using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) or the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Aoife Boyle , Eiichiro Komatsu

In the incoming years, cosmological surveys aim at measuring the sum of neutrino masses $\Sigma m_\nu$, complementing the determination of their mass ordering from laboratory experiments. In order to assess the full potential of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Davide Racco , Pierre Zhang , Henry Zheng

Massive neutrinos are expected to influence the formation of the large-scale structure of the Universe, depending on the value of their total mass, $\Sigma m_\nu$. In particular Planck data indicate that a non-zero $\Sigma m_\nu$ may help…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mauro Roncarelli , Carmelita Carbone , Lauro Moscardini

Using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations with cold dark matter, baryons, and neutrinos, we present a detailed study of the effect of massive neutrinos on the 1-D and 3-D flux power spectra of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest. The…

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