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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…

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We revisit the impact of early dark energy (EDE) on galaxy clustering using BOSS galaxy power spectra, analyzed using the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale structure (LSS), and anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Tristan L. Smith , Vivian Poulin , José Luis Bernal , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski , Riccardo Murgia

While Bayesian inference techniques are standard in cosmological analyses, it is common to interpret resulting parameter constraints with a frequentist intuition. This intuition can fail, for example, when marginalizing high-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Dylan Britt , Daniel Gruen , Oliver Friedrich

Using cosmological $N$-body simulations and the void probability function (VPF), we investigate the statistical properties of voids within a wide range of initially Gaussian models for the origin of large-scale structure. We pay particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Blane Little , David H. Weinberg

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 M. Kosiba , N. Cerardi , M. Pierre , F. Lanusse , C. Garrel , N. Werner , M. Shalak

We present a comprehensive study of galaxy intrinsic alignment (IA) as a probe of parity-violating primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG). Within the effective field theory (EFT) framework, we show that the parity-odd IA power spectrum is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Toshiki Kurita , Drew Jamieson , Eiichiro Komatsu , Fabian Schmidt

We study the nonlinear evolution of matter overdensities using the spherical collapse model in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories beyond Horndeski, employing the effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy approach. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Toshiki Takadera , Takashi Hiramatsu , Tsutomu Kobayashi

In the context of the effective field theory of dark energy (EFT) we perform agnostic explorations of Horndeski gravity. We choose two parametrizations for the free EFT functions, namely a power law and a dark energy density-like behaviour…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Noemi Frusciante , Simone Peirone , Santiago Casas , Nelson A. Lima

We present the model-independent studies of non attractor inflation in the context of effective field theory (EFT) of inflation. Within the EFT approach two independent branches of non-attractor inflation solutions are discovered in which a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-06 Mohammad Akhshik , Hassan Firouzjahi , Sadra Jazayeri

In this work we investigate the generation of mock halo catalogues based on perturbation theory and nonlinear stochastic biasing with the novel PATCHY-code. In particular, we use Augmented Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (ALPT) to generate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Gustavo Yepes , Francisco Prada

We present updated constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) dark matter from the high-redshift Lyman-$\alpha$ forest data from MIKE/HIRES experiments. Our analysis leverages an effective field theory (EFT) description…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sokratis Trifinopoulos

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity via its scale-dependent imprint on galaxy clustering requires knowledge of the bias parameter $b_{\phi}$, which is exactly degenerate with $f^{\rm{loc}}_{\rm{NL}}$ at leading order. To break this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Anne Moore , Lucia A. Perez , Elisabeth Krause

Recent developments of Perturbation Theory (PT), specifically the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) and its equivalents, have proven powerful in analyzing galaxy clustering statistics such as the galaxy power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Joseph Tomlinson , Donghui Jeong

We study the modelling of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) for the eBOSS DR16 Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs). Motivated by previous theoretical and observational studies, we consider different physical effects that can change how ELGs…

Bayesian procedures designed to quantify truncation errors in perturbative calculations of quantum chromodynamics observables are adapted to expansions in effective field theory (EFT). In the Bayesian approach, such truncation errors are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-12 R. J. Furnstahl , N. Klco , D. R. Phillips , S. Wesolowski

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and galaxy clustering is a promising route to measuring the amplitude of matter clustering and testing modified gravity theories of cosmic acceleration. Halo occupation distribution (HOD)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Joseph E. McEwen , David H. Weinberg

Most of the upcoming cosmological information will come from analyzing the clustering of the Large Scale Structures (LSS) of the universe through LSS or CMB observations. It is therefore essential to be able to understand their behavior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Tomohiro Fujita , Valentin Mauerhofer , Leonardo Senatore , Zvonimir Vlah , Raul Angulo

There are several wide field galaxy and cluster surveys planned for the nearest future, e.g. BOSS, WFMOS, ADEPT, Hetdex, SPT, eROSITA. In the simplest approach one would analyze these independently, thus neglecting the extra information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-09 Gert Huetsi , Ofer Lahav

We present cosmological parameter measurements from the effective field theory-based full-shape analysis of the power spectrum of emission line galaxies (ELGs). First, we perform extensive tests on simulations and determine appropriate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-02 Mikhail M. Ivanov

We provide a comparison between the matter bispectrum derived with different flavours of perturbation theory at next-to-leading order and measurements from an unprecedentedly large suite of $N$-body simulations. We use the $\chi^2$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Davit Alkhanishvili , Cristiano Porciani , Emiliano Sefusatti , Matteo Biagetti , Andrei Lazanu , Andrea Oddo , Victoria Yankelevich