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The small-scale linear information in galaxy samples typically lost during non-linear growth can be restored to a certain level by the density field reconstruction, which has been demonstrated for improving the precision of the baryon…

We present constraints on local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), parametrized through $f^{\rm loc}_{\rm NL}$, using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 14 quasar sample. We measure…

We present a Bayesian technique based on a maximum entropy method to reconstruct the dark energy equation of state $w(z)$ in a non--parametric way. This MaxEnt technique allows to incorporate relevant prior information while adjusting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Zunckel , R. Trotta

The large scale structure of the universe is reconstructed by means of the Wiener filter and constrained realizations of Gaussian fields. The density field constructed from optically selected galaxies (Hudson \cite{Hudson}) has been sampled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Hoffman

We place new constraints on the primordial local non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL using recent Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy and galaxy clustering data. We model the galaxy power spectrum according to the halo model, accounting for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Francesco De Bernardis , Paolo Serra , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

We derive a method to reconstruct Gaussian signals from linear measurements with Gaussian noise. This new algorithm is intended for applications in astrophysics and other sciences. The starting point of our considerations is the principle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 Niels Oppermann , Georg Robbers , Torsten A. Ensslin

What are the fundamental limitations of reconstructing the properties of dark energy, given cosmological observations in the quasilinear regime in a range of redshifts, to be as precise as required? The aim of this paper is to address this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Cornelius Rampf , Eleonora Villa , Luca Amendola

We study Newtonian cosmological perturbation theory from a field theoretical point of view. We derive a path integral representation for the cosmological evolution of stochastic fluctuations. Our main result is the closed form of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Keisuke Izumi , Jiro Soda

Recent cosmological observations have achieved high-precision measurements of the Universe's expansion history, prompting the use of nonparametric methods such as Gaussian processes (GP) regression. We apply GP regression for reconstructing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jia-yan Jiang , Kang Jiao , Tong-Jie Zhang

The current accelerated expansion of the Universe remains ones of the most intriguing topics in modern cosmology, driving the search for innovative statistical techniques. Recent advancements in machine learning have significantly enhanced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 José de Jesús Velázquez , Luis A. Escamilla , Purba Mukherjee , J. Alberto Vázquez

Galaxy surveys are crucial for studying large-scale structure (LSS) and cosmology, yet they face limitations--imaging surveys provide extensive sky coverage but suffer from photo-$z$ uncertainties, while spectroscopic surveys yield precise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wenying Du , Xiaolin Luo , Zhujun Jiang , Xu Xiao , Qiufan Lin , Xin Wang , Yang Wang , Fenfen Yin , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We investigate the Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) as a tool for the study of Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in Large Scale Structure (LSS), and compare its performance with that achievable via a joint analysis with power spectrum and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Matteo Peron , Gabriel Jung , Michele Liguori , Massimo Pietroni

Despite the potential of neural scene representations to effectively compress 3D scalar fields at high reconstruction quality, the computational complexity of the training and data reconstruction step using scene representation networks…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Sebastian Weiss , Philipp Hermüller , Rüdiger Westermann

Aims: The aim of this work is to study the application of the artificial neural networks guided by the autoencoder architecture as a method for precise reconstruction of the neutron star equation of state, using their observable parameters:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger

Modeling of strong gravitational lenses is a necessity for further applications in astrophysics and cosmology. Especially with the large number of detections in current and upcoming surveys such as the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-30 S. Schuldt , R. Cañameras , Y. Shu , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm that infers the three-dimensional large-scale matter distribution from the weak gravitational lensing effects measured in the image shapes of galaxies. The algorithm is designed to also work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vanessa Böhm , Stefan Hilbert , Maksim Greiner , Torsten A. Enßlin

We study the ability of future weak lensing (WL) surveys to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type. We use a large ensemble of simulated WL maps with survey specifications relevant to Euclid and LSST. The simulations assume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Stefan Hilbert , Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Vincent Desjacques

Modeling strong gravitational lenses in order to quantify the distortions in the images of background sources and to reconstruct the mass density in the foreground lenses has been a difficult computational challenge. As the quality of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Alexandre Adam , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh , Max Welling

We contrasted the performance of deep neural networks - Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Graph Neural Network (GNN) - to current state of the art energy regression methods in a finely 3D-segmented calorimeter simulated by GEANT4. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 N. Akchurin , C. Cowden , J. Damgov , A. Hussain , S. Kunori

We propose a non-parametric method of smoothing supernova data over redshift using a Gaussian kernel in order to reconstruct important cosmological quantities including H(z) and w(z) in a model independent manner. This method is shown to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Arman Shafieloo , Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky