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We argue that the lensing power spectrum of astrometric shift (lensing shift power spectrum) is a powerful tool of the clustering property of dark matter on subgalactic scales. First we give the formalism to probe the nature of dark matter…

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We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

The matter fluctuation parameter $\sigma_8$ is, by model construction, degenerate with the growth index $\gamma$. Here, we study the effect on the cosmological parameter constraints by treating each independently from one another,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Ziad Sakr

Tensions between cosmic microwave background observations and the growth of the large-scale structure inferred from late-time probes pose a serious challenge to the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. State-of-the-art data from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Stefano Camera , Matteo Martinelli , Daniele Bertacca

We derive constraints on the matter density \Om and the amplitude of matter clustering \sig8 from measurements of large scale weak lensing (projected separation R=5-30\hmpc) by clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaxBCG catalog. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Ying Zu , David H. Weinberg , Eduardo Rozo , Erin S. Sheldon , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker

There is a tension between measurements of the amplitude of the power spectrum of density perturbations inferred using the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and directly measured by Large-Scale Structure (LSS) on smaller scales. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Richard A. Battye , Tom Charnock , Adam Moss

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies. With the…

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We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

Line intensity mapping (LIM) proposes to efficiently observe distant faint galaxies and map the matter density field at high redshift. Building upon the formalism in the companion paper, we first highlight the degeneracies between cosmology…

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Since the publication of the results of the Planck satellite mission in 2013, the local and early universes have been considered to be in tension in respect of the determination of amplitude of the matter density spatial fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-30 G. Hurier , P. Singh , C. Hernández-Monteagudo

Neutrinos and dark matter (DM) are two of the least understood components of the Universe, yet both play crucial roles in cosmic evolution. Clues about their fundamental properties may emerge from discrepancies in cosmological measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Lei Zu , William Giarè , Chi Zhang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Sebastian Trojanowski

Beyond-$\Lambda$CDM models have been proposed to address various shortcomings of the standard cosmological model, such as the ``Hubble tension.'' These models often have an impact on the discrepancy in the amplitude of matter clustering,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Igor de O. C. Pedreira , Micol Benetti , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Leila L. Graef , Laura Herold

We devise an optimal method to measure the temporal power spectrum of the lensing and intrinsic fluctuations of multiply-imaged strongly lensed quasar light curves, along with the associated time delays. The method is based on a Monte-Carlo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Mansour Karami , Niayesh Afshordi , Jesús Zavala

We constrain interacting dark matter and dark energy (IDMDE) models using a 450-degree-square cosmic shear data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) and the angular power spectra from Planck's latest cosmic microwave background measurements.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-27 Rui An , Chang Feng , Bin Wang

The existence of galaxy intrinsic clustering severely hampers the weak lensing reconstruction from cosmic magnification. In paper I \citep{Yang2011}, we proposed a minimal variance estimator to overcome this problem. By utilizing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Xinjuan Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yu Yu

We quantify the accuracy with which the cosmological parameters characterizing the energy density of matter (\Omega_m), the amplitude of the power spectrum of matter fluctuations (\sigma_8), the energy density of neutrinos (\Omega_{\nu})…

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

We use the observed abundance and clustering of galaxies from the 2dFGRS to determine the matter density Omega_m and the linear amplitude of mass fluctuations sigma_8. We use a method based on the conditional luminosity function, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank C. van den Bosch , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang

In the context of a spatially flat $\Lambda(t)$CDM cosmology, we investigate interacting dark energy (IDE) scenarios characterized by phenomenological interaction terms proportional to the Hubble expansion rate and the dark energy density.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 A. A. Escobal , H. A. P. Macedo , J. F. Jesus , R. C. Nunes , J. A. S. Lima

The recent tension in the value of the cosmological parameter $S_8 \equiv \sigma_8(\Omega_M/0.3)^{1/2}$, which represents the amplitude of the matter density fluctuations of the universe, has not been resolved. In this work, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Erwin T. Lau , Ákos Bogdán , Daisuke Nagai , Nico Cappelluti , Masato Shirasaki