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We revisit the topic of invisible neutrino decay in the precision cosmological context, via a first-principles approach to understanding the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure phenomenology of such a non-standard physics…

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With the advent of next-generation surveys, constraints on cosmological parameters are anticipated to become more stringent, particularly for the total neutrino mass. This study forecasts such constraints utilizing galaxy clusters from the…

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We generalise the SuperEasy linear response method, originally developed to describe massive neutrinos in cosmological $N$-body simulations, to any hot dark matter (HDM) species with arbitrary momentum distributions. The method uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Giovanni Pierobon , Markus R. Mosbech , Amol Upadhye , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

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

Cosmology is poised to measure the neutrino mass sum $M_\nu$ and has identified several smaller-scale observables sensitive to neutrinos, necessitating accurate predictions of neutrino clustering over a wide range of length scales. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Amol Upadhye , Juliana Kwan , Ian G. McCarthy , Jaime Salcido , Kelly R. Moran , Earl Lawrence , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

The quest for the neutrino mass is a central goal in contemporary cosmology, subject to intense scrutiny, and among different large-scale structure tracers the Lyman-Alpha forest is re-emerging as a unique tool to probe the neutrino mass at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-23 Graziano Rossi

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

With the rapid advance of wide-field surveys it is increasingly important to perform combined cosmological probe analyses. We present a new pipeline for simulation-based multi-probe analyses, which combines tomographic large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Alexander Reeves , Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle

We introduce an extension of the evolution mapping framework to cosmological models that include massive neutrinos. The original evolution mapping framework exploits a degeneracy in the linear matter power spectrum when expressed in ${\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 A. Pezzotta , A. Eggemeier , G. Gambardella , L. Finkbeiner , A. G. Sánchez , B. Camacho Quevedo , M. Crocce , N. Lee , G. Parimbelli , R. Scoccimarro

Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Niall Jeffrey , Jia Liu , Jean-Luc Starck , Ken Osato , Tim Schrabback

Quintessential inflation provides a unified description of the early and late accelerated phases of the Universe, linking the inflationary epoch to the present-day dark energy-dominated era through a single scalar degree of freedom. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jamerson Rodrigues , Gabriel Rodrigues , Felipe B. M. dos Santos , Simony Santos da Costa , Jailson Alcaniz

We examine the importance of baryonic feedback effects on the matter power spectrum on small scales, and the implications for the precise measurement of neutrino masses through gravitational weak lensing. Planned large galaxy surveys such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Aravind Natarajan , Andrew R. Zentner , Nicholas Battaglia , Hy Trac

Current measurements of the large-scale structure of galaxies are able to place an $\sim 0.5 ~ \rm eV$ upper limit on the absolute mass scale of neutrinos. An order-of-magnitude improvement in raw sensitivity, together with an insensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. B. Abdalla , S. Rawlings

Cosmology plays a fundamental role to determine the neutrino mass, therefore also to determine its mass hierarchy, since the massive neutrino contributes to the total matter density in the Universe at the background and perturbation levels,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-19 Lixin Xu

Cosmological neutrinos strongly affect the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe, i.e. galaxies and galaxy clusters. We use large box-size full hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the non-linear effects that massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-16 Federico Marulli , Carmelita Carbone , Matteo Viel , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

We present a novel approach to derive constraints on neutrino masses from cosmological data, while taking into account our ignorance of the neutrino mass ordering. We derive constraints from a combination of current and future cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-02 Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Olga Mena , Katherine Freese

This paper presents a systematic and accurate treatment of the evolution of cosmological perturbations in self-interacting dark matter models, for particles which decoupled from the primordial plasma while relativistic. We provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Rafael Yunis , Carlos R. Argüelles , Claudia G. Scóccola , Diana López Nacir , Gastón Giordano

We investigate the impact of massive neutrinos on the distribution of matter in the semi-non-linear regime (0.1<k<0.6 h/Mpc). We present a suite of large-scale N-body simulations quantifying the scale dependent suppression of the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-30 Shankar Agarwal , Hume A. Feldman

The covariance matrix of the matter power spectrum is a key element of the statistical analysis of galaxy clustering data. Independent realisations of observational measurements can be used to sample the covariance, nevertheless statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 Linda Blot , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Luca Amendola , Thomas D. Kitching

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