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We present a general relativistic description of galaxy clustering in a FLRW universe. The observed redshift and position of galaxies are affected by the matter fluctuations and the gravity waves between the source galaxies and the…

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We explore the effects of incorporating redshift uncertainty into measurements of galaxy clustering and cross-correlations of galaxy positions and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps. We use a simple Gaussian model for a redshift…

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Redshift-space clustering distortions provide one of the most powerful probes to test the gravity theory on the largest cosmological scales. We perform a systematic validation study of the state-of-the-art statistical methods currently used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Rigoberto A. Casas-Miranda

The clustering pattern in high redshift HI maps is expected to be anisotropic due to two distinct reasons, the Alcock-Paczynski effect and the peculiar velocities, both of which are sensitive to the cosmological parameters. The signal is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sk. Saiyad Ali , Somnath Bharadwaj , Biswajit Pandey

Determining accurate redshift distributions for very large samples of objects has become increasingly important in cosmology. We investigate the impact of extending cross-correlation based redshift distribution recovery methods to include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Samuel Schmidt , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Christopher Morrison , Cameron McBride

We demonstrate that observations lacking reliable redshift information, such as photometric and radio continuum surveys, can produce robust measurements of cosmological parameters when empowered by clustering-based redshift estimation. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Ely D. Kovetz , Alvise Raccanelli , Mubdi Rahman

We develop a clustering-based redshift estimation approach for CMB lensing tomography, focusing on the kernel function of the lensing galaxies. Within a linear galaxy bias framework, we derive estimators for this kernel from two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Shun Arai , John A. Peacock , Hironao Miyatake , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

We determine the accuracy of galaxy redshift distributions as estimated from photometric redshift probability distributions $p(z)$. Our method utilises measurements of the angular cross-correlation between photometric galaxies and an…

The apparent anisotropies of galaxy clustering and 21-cm mapping in redshift space offer a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales through the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Kyungjin Ahn , Feng Shi

We investigate the potential and accuracy of clustering-based redshift estimation using the method proposed by M\'enard et al. (2013). This technique enables the inference of redshift distributions from measurements of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Samuel J. Schmidt , Christopher B. Morrison

Although redshift-space distortions only affect inferred distances and not angles, they still distort the projected angular clustering of galaxy samples selected using redshift dependent quantities. From an Eulerian view-point, this effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Kelly Nock , Will J. Percival , Ashley J. Ross

We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

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A new method for analyzing point patterns produced by the evolution of gravitational clustering is presented. The method is taken from the study of molecular liquids, where it has been introduced for making a statistical description of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Valdarnini

Our observations of the Universe are fundamentally anisotropic, with data from galaxies separated transverse to the line of sight coming from the same epoch while that from galaxies separated parallel to the line of sight coming from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Eric V. Linder , MinJi Oh , Teppei Okumura , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Yong-Seon Song

Measuring the evolution in the clustering of galaxies over a large redshift range is a challenging problem. For a two-dimensional galaxy catalog, however, we can measure the galaxy-galaxy angular correlation function which provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert J. Brunner , Andrew J. Connolly , Alex S. Szalay

Weak lensing is a potentially robust and model-independent cosmological probe, but its accuracy is dependent on knowledge of the redshift distribution of the source galaxies used. The most robust way to determine the redshift distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mustapha Ishak , Christopher M. Hirata

Large ongoing and upcoming galaxy cluster surveys in the optical, X-ray and millimetric wavelengths will provide rich samples of galaxy clusters at unprecedented depths. One key observable for constraining cosmological models is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Patrick Valageas , Nicolas Clerc

We critically assess the impact of significant dipole and large-scale anisotropies on galaxy clustering signals, with a focus on radio continuum surveys. Our study reveals that these anisotropies -- resulting from intrinsic cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-15 Prabhakar Tiwari

In recent years the possibility of measuring the temporal change of radial and transverse position of sources in the sky in real time have become conceivable thanks to the thoroughly improved technique applied to new astrometric and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Claudia Quercellini , Luca Amendola , Amedeo Balbi , Paolo Cabella , Miguel Quartin