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We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing measurements from BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulation method combined with a halo occupation distribution model. Our emulators are constructed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenhao Gao , Zhenjie Liu , Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Jun Zhang , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

In the absence of a theory of everything, modern physicists need to rely on other predictive tools and turned to Effective Field Theories (EFTs) in a number of fields, including but not limited to statistical mechanics, condensed matter,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 Victor Pozsgay

We have developed a precise dictionary between the spectrum of primordial density fluctuations and the parameters of the effective field theory (EFT) of inflation that determine the primordial power spectrum (PPS). At lowest order the EFT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-15 Amel Durakovic

We compute the two-loop effective field theory (EFT) power spectrum of dark matter density fluctuations in $\Lambda$CDM using the recently proposed COBRA method (Bakx. et al, 2025). With COBRA, we are able to evaluate the two-loop matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Thomas Bakx , Henrique Rubira , Nora Elisa Chisari , Zvonimir Vlah

We provide a perturbative effective field theory (EFT) description for anisotropic (redshift-space) correlations between the Lyman alpha forest and a generic biased tracer of matter, which could be represented by quasars, high-redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov

Cosmological inferences typically rely on explicit expressions for the likelihood and covariance of the data vector, which normally consists of a set of summary statistics. However, in the case of nonlinear large-scale structure, exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Beatriz Tucci , Fabian Schmidt

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting cosmological information from galaxy surveys deep into the non-linear regime. Despite its great promise, its application is limited by the computational cost of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Gemma Zhang , Chirag Modi , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We present a new approach for modelling galaxy/halo bias that utilizes the full non-linear information contained in the moments of the matter density field, which we derive using a set of numerical simulations. Although our method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jennifer E. Pollack , Robert E. Smith , Cristiano Porciani

We present the first cosmological constraints from analyzing higher-order galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. We use ${\rm S{\scriptsize IM}BIG}$, a forward modeling framework for galaxy clustering analyses that employs simulation-based…

We constrain dark energy and modified gravity within the effective field theory of dark energy framework using the full-shape BOSS galaxy power spectrum, combined with Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and recent baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Petter Taule , Marco Marinucci , Giorgia Biselli , Massimo Pietroni , Filippo Vernizzi

Upcoming imaging surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will enable high signal-to-noise measurements of galaxy clustering. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) is a widely used framework to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 P. Cataldi , V. Cristiani , F. Rodriguez , A. Taverna , M. C. Artale , B. Levine , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

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

Effective field theories (EFT) are commonly used to parameterize effects of BSM physics in vector boson scattering (VBS). For Wilson coefficients which are large enough to produce presently observable effects, the validity range of the EFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Jannis Lang , Stefan Liebler , Heiko Schäfer-Siebert , Dieter Zeppenfeld

The main goal of this work, the second in a three-paper series, is to test the impact of a methodological improvement in measuring the magnification bias signal on a sample of submillimeter galaxies and its implications for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Marcos M. Cueli , Joaquín González-Nuevo , Laura Bonavera , Andrea Lapi , David Crespo , José Manuel Casas

Our ability to extract cosmological information from galaxy surveys is limited by uncertainties in the galaxy-dark matter halo relationship for a given galaxy population, which are governed by the intricacies of galaxy formation. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Mahlet Shiferaw , Nickolas Kokron , Risa H. Wechsler

We provide a compact and unified treatment of power spectrum observables for the effective field theory (EFT) of inflation with the complete set of operators that lead to second-order equations of motion in metric perturbations in both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Hayato Motohashi , Wayne Hu

We update cosmological constraints on two decaying dark matter models in light of BOSS-DR12 data analyzed under the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structures (EFTofLSS) formalism, together with Planck, Pantheon and other BOSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-10 Théo Simon , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Peizhi Du , Vivian Poulin , Yuhsin Tsai

We present an efficient and accurate pipeline for the analysis of the redshift-space galaxy bispectrum multipoles at one-loop order in effective field theory (EFT). We provide a systematic theory derivation based on power counting, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Thomas Bakx , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Zvonimir Vlah

We consider the shape of the posterior distribution to be used when fitting cosmological models to power spectra measured from galaxy surveys. At very large scales, Gaussian posterior distributions in the power do not approximate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-25 Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Will J. Percival , Lado Samushia