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Obtaining tight constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a key step in discriminating between different models for cosmic inflation. The constraining power from large-scale structure (LSS) measurements is expected to overtake that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 James Morawetz , Enrique Paillas , Will J. Percival

Novel summary statistics beyond the standard 2-point correlation function (2PCF) are necessary to capture the full astrophysical and cosmological information from the small-scale (r < 30Mpc/h) galaxy clustering. However, the analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Sihan Yuan , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Tom Abel

The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 M. Regamey , D. Eckert , R. Seppi , W. Hartley , K. Umetsu , S. Tam , D. Gerolymatou

We present the first simulation-based inference (SBI) of cosmological parameters from field-level analysis of galaxy clustering. Standard galaxy clustering analyses rely on analyzing summary statistics, such as the power spectrum, $P_\ell$,…

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

In the standard (classic) approach, galaxy clustering measurements from spectroscopic surveys are compressed into baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift space distortions measurements, which in turn can be compared to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Samuel Brieden , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

We present halo model predictions for the expected angular clustering and associated errors from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric galaxy sample. These results are used to constrain halo model parameters under the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryan Scranton

We explore strategies to extract cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, galaxy clustering, cluster number counts and cluster weak lensing. We utilize the CosmoLike software to simulate results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler

We investigate the cosmological implications of studying galaxy clustering using a tomographic approach applied to the final BOSS DR12 galaxy sample, including both auto- and cross-correlation functions between redshift shells. We model the…

In two recent papers, we developed a powerful technique to link the distribution of galaxies to that of dark matter haloes by considering halo occupation numbers as function of galaxy luminosity and type. In this paper we use these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Frank C. van den Bosch , YaoQuan Chu

A generic prediction of hierarchical clustering models is that the mass function of dark haloes in dense regions in the Universe should be top-heavy. We provide a novel test of this prediction using a sample of galaxies drawn from the Sloan…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ummi Abbas , Ravi K. Sheth

We present a galaxy catalog simulator which turns N-body simulations with subhalos into multiband photometric mocks. The simulator assigns galaxy properties to each subhalo to reproduce the observed cluster galaxy halo occupation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jeeseon Song , Joseph J. Mohr , Wayne A. Barkhouse , Michael S. Warren , Cody Rude

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 present high-fidelity cosmology results from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing ($\Delta\!\Sigma$) and projected galaxy clustering ($w_{\rm p}$) measured from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Year-1 (HSC-Y1) data and…

Accurate modelling of redshift-space distortions (RSD) in galaxy clustering is essential for extracting cosmological information from current and forthcoming large-scale structure surveys. While perturbation theory is reliable on large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Cheng-Zong Ruan , Baojiu Li , Carlton M. Baugh , Sownak Bose , Alexander Eggemeier , David F. Mota

We perform a reanalysis of the BOSS CMASS DR12 galaxy dataset using a simulation-based emulator for the Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) coefficients. Moving beyond our previous works, which laid the foundation for the first galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Georgios Valogiannis , Sihan Yuan , Cora Dvorkin

The mass function of cluster-size halos and their redshift distribution are computed for 12 distinct accelerating cosmological scenarios and confronted to the predictions of the conventional flat $\Lambda$CDM model. The comparison with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis , J. A. S. Lima

Clustering high-dimensional spatiotemporal data using an unsupervised approach is a challenging problem for many data-driven applications. Existing state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised clustering use different similarity and distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Omar Faruque , Francis Ndikum Nji , Mostafa Cham , Rohan Mandar Salvi , Xue Zheng , Jianwu Wang

Accurate modelling of redshift-space distortions (RSD) is challenging in the non-linear regime for two-point statistics e.g. the two-point correlation function (2PCF). We take a different perspective to split the galaxy density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Enrique Paillas , Yan-Chuan Cai , Nelson Padilla , Ariel Sánchez