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We present optimal Bayesian field-level cosmological constraints from nonlinear tracers of the large-scale structure, specifically the amplitude $\sigma_8$ of linear matter fluctuations inferred from rest-frame simulated dark matter halos…

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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

Extracting accurate cosmological information from galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions on non-linear scales ($\lesssim 10 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$) requires cosmological simulations. Additionally, one has to marginalise over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Johannes U. Lange , Frank C. van den Bosch , Andrew R. Zentner , Kuan Wang , Andrew P. Hearin , Hong Guo

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, $\Delta\!\Sigma(R)$, and projected correlation function, $w_\mathrm{p}(R)$, measured from the first-year HSC (HSC-Y1) data and SDSS…

Using the N-body simulations of the AEMULUS Project, we construct an emulator for the non-linear clustering of galaxies in real and redshift space. We construct our model of galaxy bias using the halo occupation framework, accounting for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose , Yao-Yuan Mao , Thomas McClintock , Sean McLaughlin , Eduardo Rozo , Risa H. Wechsler

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quantification. The combination of Simulation-Based inference…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Gourav Khullar , Brian Nord , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Jason Poh , Fei Xu

We propose that observations of super-massive galaxies contain cosmological constraining power similar to conventional cluster cosmology, and we provide promising indications that the associated systematic errors are comparably easier to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Enia Xhakaj , Alexie Leauthaud , Johannes Lange , Elisabeth Krause , Andrew Hearin , Song Huang , Risa H. Wechsler , Sven Heydenreich

Current constraints on models of galaxy evolution rely on morphometric catalogs extracted from multi-band photometric surveys. However, these catalogs are altered by selection effects that are difficult to model, that correlate in non…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Sébastien Carassou , Valérie de Lapparent , Emmanuel Bertin , Damien Le Borgne

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…

In this work, we present a scalable approach for inferring the dark energy equation-of-state parameter ($w$) from a population of strong gravitational lens images using Simulation-Based Inference (SBI). Strong gravitational lensing offers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Sreevani Jarugula , Brian Nord , Abhijith Gandrakota , Aleksandra Ćiprijanović

We present a maximum-likelihood analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing effects in galaxy clusters and in the field. The aim is to determine the accuracy and robustness of constraints that can be obtained on galaxy halo properties in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marceau Limousin , Jean Paul Kneib , Priyamvada Natarajan

Combining galaxy clustering information from regions of different environmental densities can help break cosmological parameter degeneracies and access non-Gaussian information from the density field that is not readily captured by the…

We present cosmological constraints from weak lensing with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year (Y1) data, using a simulation-based inference (SBI) method. % We explore the performance of a set of higher-order statistics (HOS)…

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 reanalyse the anisotropic galaxy clustering measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), demonstrating that using the full shape information provides cosmological constraints that are comparable to other…

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

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

Simulation-based inference (SBI) allows fast Bayesian inference for simulators encoding implicit likelihoods. However, some explicit likelihoods cannot be easily reformulated as simulators, hindering their integration into combined analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Guillermo Franco Abellán , Noemi Anau Montel , Oleg Savchenko , Christoph Weniger

Spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid are mapping the spatial distribution of millions of galaxies, with Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) serving as the dominant tracer in the redshift range…

We use giga-particle N-body simulations to study galaxy cluster populations in Hubble Volumes of LCDM (Omega_m=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7) and tCDM (Omega_m=1) world models. Mapping past light-cones of locations in the computational space, we…