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Modern cosmological inference increasingly relies on differentiable models to enable efficient, gradient-based parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification. Here, we present a novel approach for predicting the abundance of dark…

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We perform a joint analysis of the abundance, the clustering and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies measured from Data Release 11 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS III-BOSS) in our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Rachel Mandelbaum , Masahiro Takada , David Spergel , Joel Brownstein , Donald P. Schneider

Accurate modeling of small-scale redshift-space clustering is crucial for full shape RSD analyses, where satellite galaxies contribute to 1-halo terms and Finger-of-God distortions. We investigate halo reconstruction based on the cylinder…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ryuichiro Hada , Teppei Okumura

We illustrate how recently improved low-redshift cosmological measurements can tighten constraints on neutrino properties. In particular we examine the impact of the assumed cosmological model on the constraints. We first consider the new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Beth A. Reid , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez , Olga Mena

The standard cosmological model, now strongly constrained by direct observation at early epochs, is very successful in describing the structure of the evolved universe on large and intermediate scales. Unfortunately, serious contradictions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey Mashchenko , H. M. P. Couchman , James Wadsley

The scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxy properties are of fundamental importance in the context black hole-host galaxy co-evolution throughout cosmic time. In this work, we use a novel algorithm that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Dalya Baron , Brice Ménard

Using the weak gravitational lensing data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC survey), we study the potential of different stellar mass estimates in tracing halo mass. We consider galaxies with $\log…

We derive robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) using the clustering of 800,000 photometric quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range $0.5<z<3.5$. These measurements rely on the novel technique of {\it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Boris Leistedt , Hiranya V. Peiris , Nina Roth

Predicting the spatial distribution of objects as a function of cosmology is an essential ingredient for the exploitation of future galaxy surveys. In this paper we show that a specially-designed suite of gravity-only simulations together…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 S. Contreras , R. E. Angulo , M. Zennaro , G. Aricó , M. Pellejero-Ibañez

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions from which the particular galaxy distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Matthew T. Scoggins , Matthew Ho , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Drew Jamieson , Ludvig Doeser , Greg L. Bryan

We present the results of analysis of constraints on cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone and in combination with galaxy cluster baryon fraction assuming inflation--generated adiabatic scalar fluctuations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Douspis , A. Blanchard , R. Sadat , J. G. Bartlett , M. Le Dour

We assess the accuracy with which future galaxy surveys can measure cosmological parameters by deriving a handy approximation that we validate numerically. We find that galaxy surveys are quite complementary to future Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark

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

Context. As recently demonstrated, high-z submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) are the perfect background sample for tracing the mass density profiles of galaxies and clusters (baryonic and dark matter) and their time-evolution through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , M. M. Cueli , T. Ronconi , M. Migliaccio , L. Dunne , A. Lapi , S. J. Maddox , M. Negrello

The 3D distribution of galaxies encodes detailed cosmological information on the expansion and growth history of the Universe. We present the first cosmological constraints that exploit non-Gaussian cosmological information on non-linear…

We use weak gravitational lensing to measure mean mass profiles around Locally Brightest Galaxies (LBGs). These are selected from the SDSS/DR7 spectroscopic and photometric catalogues to be brighter than any neighbour projected within 1.0…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-15 Wenting Wang , Simon White , Rachel Mandelbaum , Bruno Henriques , Michael E. Anderson , Jiaxin Han

In this paper, we study the cosmological constraints from the measurements of Hubble parameters---$H(z)$ data. Here, we consider two kinds of $H(z)$ data: the direct $H_0$ probe from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of Cepheid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-31 Wei Zheng , Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , You-Ping Wan , Si-Yu Li , Mingzhe Li

Despite the Milky Way's proximity to us, our knowledge of its dark matter halo is fairly limited, and there is still considerable uncertainty in its halo mass. Many past techniques have been limited by assumptions such as the Galaxy being…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Elaheh Hayati , Peter Behroozi , Ekta Patel

This is the third of a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmological parameters and X-ray scaling relations using observations of the growth of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. Our data set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 David Rapetti , Steven W. Allen , Adam Mantz , Harald Ebeling