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We introduce a new estimator of the peculiar velocity of a galaxy or group of galaxies from redshift and distance estimates. This estimator results in peculiar velocity estimates which are statistically unbiased and that have errors that…

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A class of improved estimators is proposed for N-point correlation functions of galaxy clustering, and for discrete spatial random processes in general. In the limit of weak clustering, the variance of the unbiased estimator converges to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 István Szapudi , Alexander S. Szalay

Developing accurate analysis techniques to combine various probes of cosmology is essential to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters and to check for inconsistencies in our model of the Universe. In this paper we develop a joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Peter Schneider , Klaus Honscheid

We introduce the coverage correlation coefficient, a novel nonparametric measure of statistical association designed to quantifies the extent to which two random variables have a joint distribution concentrated on a singular subset with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-18 Xuzhi Yang , Mona Azadkia , Tengyao Wang

Non-Gaussian statistics of late-time cosmological fields contain information beyond that captured in the power spectrum. Here we focus on one such example: the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Leander Thiele , J. Colin Hill , Kendrick M. Smith

In this study, we aim to develop a new methodology to estimate the cross-correlation function and uncertainties and apply it to the analysis of magnification bias in galaxy surveys. We adopt a new methodological framework that uses a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 J. González-Nuevo , L. Bonavera , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , J. M. Casas

The two-point correlation function of the galaxy distribution is a key cosmological observable that allows us to constrain the dynamical and geometrical state of our Universe. To measure the correlation function we need to know both the…

The information extracted from large galaxy surveys with the likes of DES, DESI, Euclid, LSST, SKA, and WFIRST will be greatly enhanced if the resultant galaxy catalogues can be cross-correlated with one another. Predicting the nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-15 Philip Bull

There are so many models in the literature that it is difficult for practitioners to decide which combinations are likely to be effective for a new task. This paper attempts to address this question by capturing relationships among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Kenneth Church

In order to quantify the error budget in the measured probability distribution functions of cell densities, the two-point statistics of cosmic densities in concentric spheres is investigated. Bias functions are introduced as the ratio of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau , Christophe Pichon

Weak gravitational lensing has become a common tool to constrain the cosmological model. The majority of the methods to derive constraints on cosmological parameters use second-order statistics of the cosmic shear. Despite their success,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sandrine Pires , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck

Next-generation cosmological surveys will observe larger cosmic volumes than ever before, enabling us to access information on the primordial Universe, as well as on relativistic effects. We consider forthcoming 21cm intensity mapping…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Jan-Albert Viljoen , José Fonseca , Roy Maartens

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

The one-point probability distribution function (pdf) of the large-scale density field is an important tool to follow the evolution of cosmological structures. In this paper we present a new model for this pdf for all regimes and all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Valageas , Dipak Munshi

The dependence of galaxy clustering on local density provides an effective method for extracting non-Gaussian information from galaxy surveys. The two-point correlation function (2PCF) provides a complete statistical description of a…

Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by weak gravitational lensing. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Thomas Flöss , William R. Coulton , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Denoising diffusions are state-of-the-art generative models exhibiting remarkable empirical performance. They work by diffusing the data distribution into a Gaussian distribution and then learning to reverse this noising process to obtain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Joe Benton , Yuyang Shi , Valentin De Bortoli , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

Zero-inflated continuous data ubiquitously appear in many fields, in which lots of exactly zero-valued data are observed while others distribute continuously. Due to the mixed structure of discreteness and continuity in its distribution,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-28 Keita Hamamoto

The ability to obtain reliable point estimates of model parameters is of crucial importance in many fields of physics. This is often a difficult task given that the observed data can have a very high number of dimensions. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Janis Fluri , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

The large under-dense regions in the cosmological matter density field, known as cosmic voids, are powerful probes of cosmology but their potential is currently under-exploited. Observationally, voids are identified within the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Andrés N. Salcedo , Alice Pisani , Nico Hamaus