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The $\beta$-skeleton is a mathematical method to construct graphs from a set of points that has been widely applied in the areas of image analysis, machine learning, visual perception, and pattern recognition. In this work, we apply the…

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In this study, we investigate the potential of mark-weighted angular correlation functions (MACFs), which integrate $\beta$-cosmic-web classification with angular correlation function analysis to improve cosmological constraints. Using SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Fenfen Yin , Liang Xiao , Wenying Du , Zhujun Jiang , Zhiwei Min , Jaime Forero-Romero , Jiacheng Ding , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

Large-scale structure (LSS) surveys will increasingly provide stringent constraints on our cosmological models. Recently, the density-marked correlation function (MCF) has been introduced, offering an easily computable density-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 L. M. Lai , J. C. Ding , X. L. Luo , Y. Z. Yang , Z. H. Wang , K. S. Liu , G. F. Liu , X. Wang , Y. Zheng , Z. Y. Li , L. Zhang , X. D. Li

We used the mark weighted correlation functions (MCFs), $W(s)$, to study the large scale structure of the Universe. We studied five types of MCFs with the weighting scheme $\rho^\alpha$, where $\rho$ is the local density, and $\alpha$ is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Yizhao Yang , Haitao Miao , Qinglin Ma , Miaoxin Liu , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Yuanzhu Huang , Limin Lai , Qiyue Qian , Yi Zheng , Xiao-Dong Li

Extracting the non-Gaussian information of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) is vital in unlocking the full potential of the rich datasets from the upcoming stage-IV galaxy surveys. Galaxy skew spectra serve as efficient…

We investigate the cosmological implications of studying galaxy clustering using a tomographic approach applied to the final BOSS DR12 galaxy sample, including both auto- and cross-correlation functions between redshift shells. We model the…

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 whether neighbor-density-weighted marked correlation functions (MCFs) can extract cosmological information beyond the standard redshift-space two-point correlation function (2PCF). Using the Kun suite of 129 $w_0w_a$CDM$+\sum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Xu Xiao , Xiao-Dong Li , Yiqi Huang , Le Zhang

We present a clustering analysis of the BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxy sample, combining measurements of the galaxy two-point correlation function and density-split clustering down to a scale of $1\,h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$. Our theoretical framework is…

The detection and characterization of filamentary structures in the cosmic web allows cosmologists to constrain parameters that dictates the evolution of the Universe. While many filament estimators have been proposed, they generally lack…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Larry Wasserman

We constrain the linear and quadratic bias parameters from the configuration dependence of the three-point correlation function (3PCF) in both redshift and projected space, utilizing measurements of spectroscopic galaxies in the Sloan…

We present the first application of the weighted skew-spectra to analyze non-Gaussian information in galaxy survey data. Using the tree-level galaxy skew-spectra together with the one-loop power spectrum multipoles, we analyze the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shu-Fan Chen , Priyesh Chakraborty , Cora Dvorkin

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) is a formalism that allows us to predict the clustering of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure in the mildly non-linear regime in an accurate and reliable way. After validating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Guido D'Amico , Jérôme Gleyzes , Nickolas Kokron , Dida Markovic , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang , Florian Beutler , Héctor Gil-Marín

For the first time, we develop a simulation-based model for the Minkowski functionals (MFs) of large-scale structure, which allows us to extract the full information available from the MFs (including both the Gaussian and non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Wei Liu , Enrique Paillas , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Georgios Valogiannis , Wenjuan Fang

We study the clustering properties of the recently compiled SDSS cluster catalog using the two point correlation function in redshift space. We divide the total SDSS sample into two richness subsamples, roughly corresponding to Abell $R\ge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis

In this paper, we propose a new method to use the strong lensing data sets to constrain a cosmological model. By taking the ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Nannan Wang , Lixin Xu

Precise cosmic web classification of observed galaxies in massive spectroscopic surveys can be either highly uncertain or computationally expensive. As an alternative, we explore a fast Machine Learning-based approach to infer the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 John F. Suárez-Pérez , Yeimy Camargo , Xiao-Dong Li , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

We present a public suite of weak lensing mock data, extending the Scinet Light Cone Simulations (SLICS) to simulate cross-correlation analyses with different cosmological probes. These mocks include KiDS-450- and LSST-like lensing data,…

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 (SDSS) and Millennium Simulation (MS) we investigate the alignment between galaxies and large-scale structure. For this purpose we develop two new statistical tools, namely the alignment correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Faltenbacher , Cheng Li , Simon D. M. White , Y. P. Jing , Shude Mao , Jie Wang
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