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Facing the advent of the next generation cosmological surveys we present a method to forecast knowledge gain on cosmological models. We propose this as a well defined and general tool to quantify the performance of different experiments in…

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A recently proposed Asymptotically Safe cosmology provides an elegant mechanism towards understanding the nature of dark energy and its associated cosmic coincidence problem. The underlying idea is that the accelerated expansion of the…

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We perform multi-plane ray-tracing using the GLAMER gravitational lensing code within high-resolution light-cones extracted from the CoDECS simulations: a suite of cosmological runs featuring a coupling between Dark Energy and Cold Dark…

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The success of present and future cosmological studies is tied to the ability to detect discrepancies in complex data sets within the framework of a cosmological model. Tensions caused by the presence of unknown systematic effects need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu

Current and upcoming cosmological surveys will produce unprecedented amounts of high-dimensional data, which require complex high-fidelity forward simulations to accurately model both physical processes and systematic effects which describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

A logarithmic transform of the convergence field improves `the information content', ie., the overall precision associated with the measurement of the amplitude of the convergence power spectrum by improving the covariance matrix…

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Weak gravitational lensing surveys measure the distortion of the image of distant sources due to the deflections of light rays by the fluctuations of the gravitational potential along the line of sight. Since they probe the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

By comparing the dynamical and lensing masses of early-type lens galaxies, one can constrain both the cosmological parameters and the density profiles of galaxies. We explore the constraining power on cosmological parameters and the effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Yun Chen , Ran Li , Yiping Shu , Xiaoyue Cao

We present a method to implement the idea of Jain & Taylor to constrain cosmological parameters with weak gravitational lensing. Photometric redshift information on foreground galaxies is used to produce templates of the mass structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. Bernstein , B. Jain

We present a Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach to infer the cosmic matter density field, and the lensing and the matter power spectra, from cosmic shear data. This method uses a physical model of cosmic structure formation to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Daniel Mortlock , Guilhem Lavaux

One of the most powerful cosmological datasets when it comes to constraining neutrino masses is represented by galaxy power spectrum measurements, $P_{gg}(k)$. The constraining power of $P_{gg}(k)$ is however severely limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Elena Giusarma , Sunny Vagnozzi , Shirley Ho , Simone Ferraro , Katherine Freese , Rocky Kamen-Rubio , Kam-Biu Luk

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been applied to cosmological fields -- weak lensing mass maps and galaxy maps. However, cosmological maps differ in several ways from the vast majority of images that CNNs have been tested…

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We constrain the scalar field dark energy model with an inverse power-law potential, i.e., $V(\phi)\propto {\phi}^{-\alpha}$ ($\alpha>0$), from a set of recent cosmological observations by compiling an updated sample of Hubble parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-10 Yun Chen , Chao-Qiang Geng , Shuo Cao , Yu-Mei Huang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Cosmological large-scale structure analyses based on two-point correlation functions often assume a Gaussian likelihood function with a fixed covariance matrix. We study the impact on cosmological parameter estimation of ignoring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 Darsh Kodwani , David Alonso , Pedro Ferreira

We investigate the potential of weak gravitational lensing maps to differentiate between distinct cosmological models, considering cosmic variance due to a limited map extension and the presence of noise. We introduce a measure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Guimarães

Ridges in galaxy density fields measured by photometric surveys are 2D projections of filaments in the cosmic web, and so should lens light from background galaxies. We report on a detection of this effect in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Mehraveh Nikjoo , Joe Zuntz , Ben Moews

We present a comparative study of the accuracy and precision of correlation function methods and full-field inference in cosmological data analysis. To do so, we examine a Bayesian hierarchical model that predicts log-normal fields and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 Florent Leclercq , Alan Heavens

Conventional approaches to cosmology inference from galaxy redshift surveys are based on n-point functions, which are under rigorous perturbative control on sufficiently large scales. Here, we present an alternative approach, which employs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabian Schmidt , Franz Elsner , Jens Jasche , Nhat Minh Nguyen , Guilhem Lavaux

Context: Weak gravitational lensing is a key cosmological probe for current and future large-scale surveys. While power spectra are commonly used for analyses, they fail to capture non-Gaussian information from nonlinear structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Vilasini Tinnaneri Sreekanth , Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Codis