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The large scale structure of the universe is a complex web of clusters, filaments, and voids. Its properties are informed by galaxy redshift surveys and measurements of peculiar velocities. Wiener Filter reconstructions recover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Helene M. Courtois , Daniel Pomarede , R. Brent Tully , Yehuda Hoffman , Denis Courtois

The Reverse Zeldovich Approximation (RZA) is a reconstruction method which allows to estimate the cosmic displacement field from galaxy peculiar velocity data and to constrain initial conditions for cosmological simulations of the Local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Timur Doumler , Helene Courtois , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman

Bayesian model selection methods provide a self-consistent probabilistic framework to test the validity of competing scenarios given a set of data. We present a case study application to strong gravitational lens parametric models. Our goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 Irène Balmès , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti

Gravitational waves (GWs) passing through the Earth cause a correlated pattern of time-dependent deflections of the apparent position of astronomical sources. We build upon standard lensing reconstruction techniques to develop a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Alvin Leluc , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

The peculiar motion of the host galaxies introduces bias in estimating cosmological parameters from supernova data. The coherent component of the peculiar motion is usually corrected for using velocity field reconstruction based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ujjwal Upadhyay , Tarun Deep Saini , Shiv K. Sethi

The analysis of whole-sky galaxy surveys commonly suffers from the problems of shot-noise and incomplete sky coverage (e.g. at the Zone of Avoidance). The orthogonal set of spherical harmonics is utilized here to expand the observed galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 O. Lahav , K. B. Fisher , Y. Hoffman , C. A. Scharf , S. Zaroubi

We present a Bayesian framework that enhances the identification of strongly lensed gravitational waves (GWs) by incorporating informative positional priors from the Euclid galaxy lens catalog. The core of our method introduces a two-step…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Tonghua Liu , Kai Liao

A statistical method for reconstructing large scale structure behind the Zone of Avoidance is presented. It also corrects for shot-noise and for redshift distortion in galaxy surveys. The galaxy distribution is expanded in an orthogonal set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

The dark sirens method combines gravitational waves and catalogs of galaxies to constrain the cosmological expansion history, merger rates and mass distributions of compact objects, and the laws of gravity. However, the incompleteness of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker , Wolfgang Enzi

Lagrangian reconstruction of large-scale peculiar velocity fields can be strongly affected by observational biases. We develop a thorough analysis of these systematic effects by relying on specially selected mock catalogues. For the purpose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lavaux , R. Mohayaee , S. Colombi , R. B. Tully , F. Bernardeau , J. Silk

We present extensive tests of the Fast Action Method (FAM) for recovering the past orbits of mass tracers in an expanding universe from their redshift-space coordinates at the present epoch. The tests focus on the reconstruction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enzo Branchini , Amiram Eldar , Adi Nusser

The accurate reconstruction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps and the measurement of its power spectrum are crucial for studying the early universe. In this paper, we implement a convolutional neural network to apply the Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Belén Costanza , Claudia G. Scóccola , Matías Zaldarriaga

I describe a new Bayesian based algorithm to infer the full three dimensional velocity field from observed distances and spectroscopic galaxy catalogues. In addition to the velocity field itself, the algorithm reconstructs true distances,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 G. Lavaux

We characterize the peculiar velocity field of the local large-scale structure reconstructed from the $2M++$ survey, by treating it as a fluid, extracting the divergence via different approximations over a range pf averaged scales. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Erick Pastén , Sebastián Gálvez , Víctor Cárdenas

We present a new Unbiased Minimal Variance (UMV) estimator for the purpose of reconstructing the large--scale structure of the universe from noisy, sparse and incomplete data. Similar to the Wiener Filter (WF), the UMV estimator is derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Saleem Zaroubi

We present a refined deep-learning-based method to reconstruct the three-dimensional dark matter density, gravitational potential, and peculiar velocity fields in the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA), a region near the galactic plane with limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Alexandra Dupuy , Donghui Jeong , Sungwook E. Hong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim , Hélène M. Courtois

In the context of a Hubble tension problem that is growing in its statistical significance, we reconsider the effectiveness of non-parametric reconstruction techniques which are independent of prescriptive cosmological models. By taking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-11 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

The study of turbulent flows calls for measurements with high resolution both in space and in time. We propose a new approach to reconstruct High-Temporal-High-Spatial resolution velocity fields by combining two sources of information that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-10 Linh Van Nguyen , Jean-Philippe Laval , Pierre Chainais

We generate constrained realizations (CRs) of the density and peculiar velocity fields within $200 \; h^{-1} \, \mathrm{Mpc}$ from the final release of the Two-Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey (2MRS) $-$ the densest all-sky redshift survey to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Robert Lilow , Adi Nusser

We present a hybrid method for reconstructing the primordial density from late-time halos and galaxies. Our approach involves two steps: (1) apply standard Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) reconstruction to recover the large-scale features…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Liam Parker , Adrian E. Bayer , Uros Seljak