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We investigate the question of how tightly we can constrain the cosmological parameters by using the ``cosmic inversion'' method in which we directly reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, $P(k)$, from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Noriyuki Kogo , Misao Sasaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The covariance matrices of power-spectrum (P(k)) measurements from galaxy surveys are difficult to compute theoretically. The current best practice is to estimate covariance matrices by computing a sample covariance of a large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 David W. Pearson , Lado Samushia

In this paper un-binned statistical tools for analyzing the cosmic ray energy spectrum are developed and illustrated with a simulated data set. The methods are designed to extract accurate and precise model parameter estimators in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-21 J. D. Hague , B. R. Becker , M. S. Gold , J. A. J. Matthews

We present a novel method to compress galaxy clustering three-point statistics and apply it to redshift space galaxy bispectrum monopole measurements from BOSS DR12 CMASS data considering a $k$-space range of $0.03-0.12\,h/\mathrm{Mpc}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Davide Gualdi , Héctor Gil-Marín , Marc Manera , Benjamin Joachimi , Ofer Lahav

We study the angular power spectrum of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs in tomographic redshift and distance bins as a probe of late-time cosmology, focusing specifically on next-generation ground-based interferometers in combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Alessandro Pedrotti , Michele Mancarella , Julien Bel , Davide Gerosa

We derive expressions for the survey-window convolved galaxy power spectrum in real space for a full sky and deep redshift survey, but taking into account the geometrical lightcone effect. We investigate the impact of using the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Daniel Pryer , Robert E. Smith , Robin Booth , Chris Blake , Alexander Eggemeier , Jon Loveday

We present numerical measurements of the power spectrum response function of the gravitational growth of cosmic structures, defined as the functional derivative of the nonlinear spectrum with respect to the linear counterpart, based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Takahiro Nishimichi , Francis Bernardeau , Atsushi Taruya

The apparent anisotropies of the galaxy clustering in observable redshift space provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales via the Alcock--Paczynski effect and redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Yong-Seon Song , Atsushi Taruya , Akira Oka

The next generation of galaxy surveys has the potential to substantially deepen our understanding of the Universe. This potential hinges on our ability to rigorously address systematic uncertainties. Until now, diagnosing systematic effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Tristan Hoellinger , Florent Leclercq

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

We consider the shape of the posterior distribution to be used when fitting cosmological models to power spectra measured from galaxy surveys. At very large scales, Gaussian posterior distributions in the power do not approximate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-25 Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Will J. Percival , Lado Samushia

In many fields including cosmology, statistical inference often relies on Gaussian likelihoods whose covariance matrices are estimated from a finite number of simulations. This finite-sample estimation introduces noise into the covariance,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Sunao Sugiyama , Minsu Park

The recent WMAP data represents a milestone in cosmology and helps constrain cosmological parameters with unprecedented accuracy. In this work we combine the WMAP data with previous CMB anisotropy measurements at smaller angular scales to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. J. Odman

We assess the performance of a perturbation theory inspired method for inferring cosmological parameters from the joint measurements of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing ($\Delta\Sigma$) and the projected galaxy clustering ($w_{\rm p}$). To do…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Sunao Sugiyama , Masahiro Takada , Yosuke Kobayashi , Hironao Miyatake , Masato Shirasaki , Takahiro Nishimichi , Youngsoo Park

We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Geometric constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

We consider coupled dark energy (CDE) cosmologies, where dark matter particles feel a force stronger than gravity, due to the fifth force mediated by a scalar field which plays the role of dark energy. We perform for the first time a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-13 Lisa W. K. Goh , Adrià Gómez-Valent , Valeria Pettorino , Martin Kilbinger

We present neural networks to generate redshift-space galaxy power spectrum multipoles for multiple tracer and redshift bins simultaneously given a set of input cosmology and galaxy bias parameters. This emulator utilizes a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Joseph Adamo , Grace Gibbins , Anne Moore , Tim Eifler

Accurate predictions for the non-linear matter power spectrum are needed to confront theory with observations in current and near future weak lensing and galaxy clustering surveys. We propose a computationally cheap method to create an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hans Winther , Santiago Casas , Marco Baldi , Kazuya Koyama , Baojiu Li , Lucas Lombriser , Gong-Bo Zhao

We constrain dark energy and modified gravity within the effective field theory of dark energy framework using the full-shape BOSS galaxy power spectrum, combined with Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and recent baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Petter Taule , Marco Marinucci , Giorgia Biselli , Massimo Pietroni , Filippo Vernizzi

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) with galaxy clustering is one of the most promising routes to determining the amplitude of matter clustering at low redshifts. We show that extending clustering+GGL analyses from the linear…