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Precision measurements of the large scale structure of the Universe require large numbers of high fidelity mock catalogs to accurately assess, and account for, the presence of systematic effects. We introduce and test a scheme for…

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We present cosmological constraints for the flat $\Lambda$CDM model, including the sum of neutrino masses, by performing a multi-probe analysis of a total of 13 tomographic auto- and cross-angular power spectra. This is achieved by…

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Standard cosmological perturbation theory (SPT) for the Large Scale Structure (LSS) of the Universe fails at small scales (UV) due to strong nonlinearities and to multistreaming effects. In Pietroni et al. 2011 a new framework was proposed…

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From a combination of probes including the cosmic microwave background (WMAP7+SPT), Hubble constant (HST), baryon acoustic oscillations (SDSS+2dFGRS), and supernova distances (Union2), we have explored the extent to which the constraints on…

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Relativistic and free-streaming particles like neutrinos leave imprints in large scale structures (LSS), providing probes of the effective number of neutrino species $N_{\rm eff}$. In this paper, we use the Fisher formalism to forecast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yanlong Shi , Chen Heinrich , Olivier Doré

Reconstructing the initial density field of the Universe from the late-time matter distribution is a nontrivial task with implications for understanding structure formation in cosmology, offering insights into early Universe conditions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Koichiro Nakashima , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Kenji Hasegawa

The high precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Planck survey yielded tight constraints on cosmological parameters and the statistics of the density fluctuations at the time of recombination. This provides the…

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The anisotropic galaxy clustering of large scale structure observed by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 11 is analyzed to probe the sum of neutrino mass in the small $m_\nu < 1eV$ limit in which the early broadband…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Minji Oh , Yong-Seon Song

We provide constraints on the accuracy with which the neutrino mass fraction, $f_{\nu}$, can be estimated when exploiting measurements of redshift-space distortions, describing in particular how the error on neutrino mass depends on three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Fernanda Petracca , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti , Carmelita Carbone , Raul E. Angulo

One of the main unsolved problems of cosmology is how to maximize the extraction of information from nonlinear data. If the data are nonlinear the usual approach is to employ a sequence of statistics (N-point statistics, counting statistics…

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We demonstrate the impact on forecasted neutrino mass constraints of extending galaxy clustering and CMB lensing predictions from linear to next-to-leading-order power spectra. The redshift-space 1-loop power spectrum model we adopt…

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Simulating the evolution of the local universe is important for studying galaxies and the intergalactic medium in a way free of cosmic variance. Here we present a method to reconstruct the initial linear density field from an input…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , W. P. Lin

Cosmological emulators of observables such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectra and matter power spectra commonly use training data sampled from a Latin hypercube. This method often incurs high computational costs by covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Nygaard , Emil Brinch Holm , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

Temperature anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are affected by the late Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (lISW) effect caused by any time-variation of the gravitational potential on linear scales. Dark energy is not the only source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julien Lesgourgues , Wessel Valkenburg , Enrique Gaztanaga

We use the galaxy angular power spectrum at $z\sim0.5-1.2$ from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Legacy Survey Wide fields (CFHTLS-Wide) to constrain separately the total neutrino mass $\sum{m_\nu}$ and the effective number of neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jun-Qing Xia , Benjamin R. Granett , Matteo Viel , Simeon Bird , Luigi Guzzo , Martin G. Haehnelt , Jean Coupon , Henry Joy McCracken , Yannick Mellier

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

There is a renewed interest in constraining the sum of the masses of the three neutrino flavours by using cosmological measurements. Solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments have confirmed neutrino oscillations, implying that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oystein Elgaroy , Ofer Lahav

The recent release of high-precision cosmological data, particularly the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements from ACT and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from DESI, has opened a new landscape for probing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Lu Feng , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Investigating the cosmological implication of the fact that neutrino has finite mass is of importance for fundamental physics. In particular, massive neutrino affects the formation of the large-scale structure (LSS) of the universe, and,…

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