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Weak gravitational lensing is one of the key probes of cosmology. Cosmic shear surveys aimed at measuring the distribution of matter in the universe are currently being carried out (Pan-STARRS) or planned for the coming decade (DES, LSST,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Alberto Vallinotto

An improved estimator for the amplitude fnl of local-type non-Gaussianity from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is discussed. The standard estimator is constructed to be optimal in the zero-signal (i.e., Gaussian) limit.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tristan L. Smith , Daniel Grin , Marc Kamionkowski

We present an analysis of the constraints on the amplitude of primordial non-Gaussianity of local type described by the dimensionless parameter $f_{\rm NL}$. These constraints are set by the auto-correlation functions (ACFs) of two large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-11 Jun-Qing Xia , Anna Bonaldi , Carlo Baccigalupi , Gianfranco De Zotti , Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel

We investigate the statistical power of higher-order statistics and cross-correlation statistics to constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity from the imaging surveys. In particular, we consider the local-type primordial non- Gaussianity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Ichihiko Hashimoto , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiko Matsubara , Toshiya Namikawa , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We investigate expected constraints on equilateral-type primordial non-Gaussianities from future/ongoing imaging surveys, making use of the fact that they enhance the halo/galaxy bispectrum on large scales. As model parameters to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Ichihiko Hashimoto , Shuntaro Mizuno , Shuichiro Yokoyama

This paper explores a novel application of spherical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect primordial non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a key probe of inflationary dynamics. While effective, traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Jorik Melsen , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present cosmological parameter constraints based on a joint modeling of galaxy-lensing cross correlations and galaxy clustering measurements in the SDSS, marginalizing over small-scale modeling uncertainties using mock galaxy catalogs,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Sukhdeep Singh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Uroš Seljak , Sergio Rodríguez-Torres , Anže Slosar

We investigate optimization strategies to measure primordial non-Gaussianity with future spectroscopic surveys. We forecast measurements coming from the 3D galaxy power spectrum and compute constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Alvise Raccanelli , Olivier Dore , Neal Dalal

Line-of-sight distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), including gravitational lensing, cosmic birefringence, and patchy screening, encode crucial cosmological information. While quadratic estimators (QE) have been excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Omar Darwish

A measurement of the sum of neutrino masses is one of the main applications of upcoming measurements of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This measurement can be confounded by modelling uncertainties related to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Fiona McCarthy , Simon Foreman , Alexander van Engelen

We forecast future constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ with a photometric galaxy survey by Euclid, a continuum galaxy survey by Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and their combination. We derive a general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Daisuke Yamauchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Masamune Oguri

We demonstrate a new method to constrain gravity on the largest cosmological scales by combining measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and the galaxy velocity field. $E_G$ is a statistic, constructed from a gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-09 Anthony R. Pullen , Shadab Alam , Siyu He , Shirley Ho

Our view of the last-scattering surface in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is obscured by secondary anisotropies, sourced by scattering, extragalactic emission and gravitational processes between recombination and observation. Whilst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 William Coulton , Alexander Miranthis , Anthony Challinor

Tighter constraints on measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity will allow the differentiation of inflationary scenarios. The cosmic microwave background bispectrum-the standard method of measuring the local non-Gaussianity-is limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 Zahra Gomes , Stefano Camera , Matt J. Jarvis , Catherine Hale , José Fonseca

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 data. We constrain the lensing amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 L. F. Secco , S. Samuroff , E. Krause , B. Jain , J. Blazek , M. Raveri , A. Campos , A. Amon , A. Chen , C. Doux , A. Choi , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , C. Chang , J. DeRose , J. Myles , A. Ferté , P. Lemos , D. Huterer , J. Prat , M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , A. R. Liddle , T. Kacprzak , X. Fang , C. Sánchez , S. Pandey , S. Dodelson , P. Chintalapati , K. Hoffmann , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , J. P. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , M. Elidaiana , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , J. Muir , J. Mccullough , A. Navarro Alsina , Y. Omori , Y. Park , A. Porredon , R. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. S. Sheldon , T. Shin , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

With the advent of a new generation of cosmological experiments that will provide high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and galaxies in the large-scale structure, it is pertinent to examine the potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-27 Shu-Fan Chen , Hayden Lee , Cora Dvorkin

We present forecast results for constraining the primordial non-Gaussianity from photometric surveys through a large-scale enhancement of the galaxy clustering amplitude. In photometric surveys, the distribution of observed galaxies at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Tomohiro Okamura , Atsushi Taruya

Extragalactic foregrounds are known to generate significant biases in temperature-based CMB lensing reconstruction. Several techniques, which include ``source hardening'' and ``shear-only estimators'' have been proposed to mitigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Noah Sailer , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

We present a novel approach to estimate the value of primordial non-Gaussianity ($f_{\rm NL}$) parameter directly from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps using a convolutional neural network (CNN). While traditional methods rely on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Chandan G. Nagarajappa , Yin-Zhe Ma

We study the correlations of the shear signal between triplets of sources in the Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) to probe cosmological parameters via the matter bispectrum. In contrast to previous studies, we adopted a…