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We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S Samuroff , MA Troxel , SL Bridle , J Zuntz , N MacCrann , E Krause , T Eifler , D Kirk

We propose a new framework for the analysis of current and future cosmological surveys, which combines perturbative methods (PT) on large scales with conditional simulation-based implicit inference (SBI) on small scales. This enables…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Chirag Modi , Oliver H. E. Philcox

The parameter $f_{\textrm{NL}}$ measures the local non-Gaussianity in the primordial energy fluctuations of the Universe, with any deviation from $f_{\textrm{NL}}=0$ providing key constraints on inflationary models. Galaxy clustering is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Lucia A. Perez , Shy Genel , Elisabeth Krause , Rachel S. Somerville

Cosmological $N$-body simulations of the dark matter component of the universe typically use initial conditions with a fixed power spectrum and random phases of the density field, leading to structure consistent with the local distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Maxwell L. Hutt , Harry Desmond , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

We measured the harmonic-space power spectrum of galaxy clustering auto-correlation from the Evolutionary Map of the Universe Pilot Survey 1 data (EMU PS1) and its cross-correlation with the lensing convergence map of cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 K. Tanidis , J. Asorey , C. S. Saraf , C. L. Hale , B. Bahr-Kalus , D. Parkinson , S. Camera , R. P. Norris , A. M. Hopkins , M. Bilicki , N. Gupta

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new estimator that extracts the lensing dipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 S. Raghunathan , S. Patil , E. Baxter , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , T. M. Crawford , G. P. Holder , T. McClintock , C. L. Reichardt , T. N. Varga , N. Whitehorn , P. A. R. Ade , S. Allam , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , S. Avila , J. S. Avva , D. Bacon , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , F. Bianchini , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , M. Costanzi , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , C. Feng , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Gallicchio , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , A. Gilbert , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jeltema , M. Carrasco Kind , L. Knox , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , D. Li , M. Lima , A. Lowitz , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , J. Montgomery , C. Corbett Moran , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , A. A. Plazas , C. Pryke , D. Rapetti , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Carnero Rosell , E. Rozo , J. E. Ruhl , E. S. Rykoff , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , J. T. Sayre , V. Scarpine , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. De Vicente , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , G. Wang , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , Y. Zhang

We present high signal-to-noise galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements of the BOSS CMASS sample using 250 square degrees of weak lensing data from CFHTLenS and CS82. We compare this signal with predictions from mock catalogs trained to match…

Cosmic shear, galaxy clustering, and the abundance of massive halos each probe the large-scale structure of the Universe in complementary ways. We present cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of the three probes, building on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 S. Bocquet , S. Grandis , E. Krause , C. To , L. E. Bleem , M. Klein , J. J. Mohr , T. Schrabback , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. J. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , H. -Y. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. W. Allen , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , J. E. Austermann , M. Bayliss , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , M. Brodwin , D. Brooks , L. Bryant , D. L. Burke , R. E. A. Canning , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , T-L. Chou , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , M. Costanzi , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. Everett , A. Farahi , B. Flaugher , A. M. Flores , B. Floyd , J. Gallicchio , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , N. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , N. W. Halverson , S. R. Hinton , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , D. J. James , F. Kéruzoré , G. Khullar , K. Kim , L. Knox , R. Kraft , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , S. Lee , D. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , A. Lowitz , G. Mahler , A. Mantz , J. L. Marshall , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , J. Mena-Fernández , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , J. Montgomery , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Padin , P. Paschos , S. Patil , A. A. Plazas Malagón , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. Roberson , A. K. Romer , C. Romero , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , L. Salvati , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , A. Sarkar , A. Saro , K. K. Schaffer , K. Sharon , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , M. Smith , T. Somboonpanyakul , M. Sommer , B. Stalder , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , V. Strazzullo , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. von der Linden , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. Young , J. A. Zebrowski , H. Zohren , DES Collaboration , SPT Collaboration

Several recent studies have shown how to properly calculate the observed clustering of galaxies in a relativistic context, and uncovered corrections to the Newtonian calculation that become significant on scales near the horizon. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt , Christopher M. Hirata

We report on the cosmological parameters derived from observations with the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI), covering 40 square degrees and the multipole range 300 < l < 3500. The angular scales probed by the CBI correspond to structures…

We perform the first direct cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference from the combination of galaxy luminosity functions and colours using a simulation based inference approach. Using the Synthesizer code we simulate the dust…

We investigate the clustering properties and close neighbour counts for galaxies with different types of bulges and stellar masses. We select samples of "classical" and "pseudo" bulges, as well as "bulge-less" disk galaxies, based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-15 Lan Wang , Lixin Wang , Cheng Li , Jian Hu , Houjun Mo , Huiyuan Wang

A precise determination of the mass function is an important tool to verify cosmological predictions of the $\Lambda$CDM model and to infer more precisely the better model describing the evolution of the Universe. Galaxy clusters have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Ahmad Mehrabi , Francesco Pace , Mohammad Malekjani , Antonino Del Popolo

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We investigate the abundance, small-scale clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). To this end, we present new measurements of the redshift and stellar mass dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Johannes U. Lange , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Wentao Luo , Frank C. van den Bosch

We quantify galaxy correlations using two distinct three-dimensional samples from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): the Bright Galaxy Sample (BGS) and the Luminous Red Galaxy Sample (LRGS).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Francesco Sylos Labini , Tibor Antal

Current efforts in observational cosmology are focused on characterizing the mass-energy content of the Universe. We present results from a geometric test based on strong lensing in galaxy clusters. Based on Hubble Space Telescope images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Eric Jullo , Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib , Anson d'Aloisio , Marceau Limousin , Johan Richard , Carlo Schimd

We present a framework that for the first time allows Bayesian model comparison to be performed for field-level inference of cosmological models. We achieve this by taking a simulation-based inference (SBI) approach using neural likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 A. Spurio Mancini , K. Lin , J. D. McEwen

We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Britta Zieser , Matthias Bartelmann

The joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-shear cross-correlations (galaxy-galaxy lensing) in imaging surveys constitutes one of the main avenues to obtain cosmological information. Analyses from Stage III surveys have assumed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Shivam Pandey , Carles Sánchez , Bhuvnesh Jain , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration