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Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

CMB lensing is a promising, novel way to measure galaxy cluster masses that can be used, e.g., for mass calibration in galaxy cluster counts analyses. Understanding the statistics of the galaxy cluster mass observable obtained with such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Íñigo Zubeldia , Anthony Challinor

(Abridged) This is the first of a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmological parameters and X-ray scaling relations using observations of the growth of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. Our data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adam Mantz , Steven W. Allen , David Rapetti , Harald Ebeling

We explore the degrees of freedom required to jointly fit projected and redshift-space clustering of galaxies selected in three bins of stellar mass from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (SDSS MGS) using a subhalo abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Joseph DeRose , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

A precise determination of the mass function is an important tool to verify cosmological predictions of the $\Lambda$CDM model and to infer more precisely the better model describing the evolution of the Universe. Galaxy clusters have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Ahmad Mehrabi , Francesco Pace , Mohammad Malekjani , Antonino Del Popolo

Observations of the cosmic 21-cm power spectrum (PS) are starting to enable precision Bayesian inference of galaxy properties and physical cosmology, during the first billion years of our Universe. Here we investigate the impact of common…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 David Prelogović , Andrei Mesinger

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quantification. The combination of Simulation-Based inference…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Gourav Khullar , Brian Nord , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Jason Poh , Fei Xu

We analyze the public DESI full-shape clustering data using simulation-based priors (SBPs). Our priors are obtained by fitting normalizing flows to the distribution of EFT parameters measured from field-level simulations, themselves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Simulation-based inference (SBI) is rapidly establishing itself as a standard machine learning technique for analyzing data in cosmological surveys. Despite continual improvements to the quality of density estimation by learned models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-03 Pablo Lemos , Miles Cranmer , Muntazir Abidi , ChangHoon Hahn , Michael Eickenberg , Elena Massara , David Yallup , Shirley Ho

We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

Forward models of the galaxy density field enable simulation based inference as well as field level inference of galaxy clustering. However, these analysis techniques require forward models that are both computationally fast and robust to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Julia Stadler , Fabian Schmidt , Martin Reinecke

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) is a formalism that allows us to predict the clustering of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure in the mildly non-linear regime in an accurate and reliable way. After validating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Guido D'Amico , Jérôme Gleyzes , Nickolas Kokron , Dida Markovic , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang , Florian Beutler , Héctor Gil-Marín

In addition to the intrinsic clustering of galaxies themselves, the spatial distribution of galaxies observed in surveys is modulated by the presence of weak lensing due to matter in the foreground. This effect, known as magnification bias,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Lukas Wenzl , Shi-Fan Chen , Rachel Bean

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

Interpreting the small-scale clustering of galaxies with halo models can elucidate the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos. Unfortunately, the modelling is typically not sufficiently accurate for ruling out models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Manodeep Sinha , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , Roman Scoccimarro , Jennifer A. Piscionere , Benjamin D. Wibking

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, $\Delta\!\Sigma(R)$, and projected correlation function, $w_\mathrm{p}(R)$, measured from the first-year HSC (HSC-Y1) data and SDSS…

We explore full-shape analysis with simulation-based priors, which is the simplest approach to galaxy clustering data analysis that combines effective field theory (EFT) on large scales and numerical simulations on small scales. The core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Andrej Obuljen , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Michael W. Toomey

Forthcoming large galaxy cluster surveys will yield tight constraints on cosmological models. It has been shown that in an idealized survey, containing > 10,000 clusters, statistical errors on dark energy and other cosmological parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joshua D. Younger , Zoltan Haiman , Greg L. Bryan , Sheng Wang

In recent years, the availability of large, complete cluster samples has enabled numerous cosmological parameter inference analyses using cluster number counts. These have provided constraints on the cosmic matter density $\Omega_m$ and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 P. S. Corasaniti , M. Sereno , S. Ettori

Galaxy clusters, the pinnacle of structure formation in our universe, are a powerful cosmological probe. Several approaches have been proposed to express cluster number counts, but all these methods rely on empirical explicit scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Nicolas Cerardi , Marguerite Pierre , François Lanusse , Xavier Corap